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    The Most Perfect Organ Ever Made

    in General discussion

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    It doesn't have to be big, flashy, loud, have the first or biggest or weirdest anything, it just has to be THE FINEST musical instrument ever, one you could never conceivably get bored with.  It might have two stops, it might have 200.  Lists please!

     

    I suggest this because I have just renewed my acquantaince after a long pause with the Metzler at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford.  It is just sumptously good.  Check it out on NPOR at once.  The construction of it is as perfect as I have ever seen; lovely keyboards, excellent wind, reeds very solidly stayed (unmoveable actually - probably why it never goes out of tune).  So good, in fact, that lateron I'll post some sound clips of it.

     

    Any other contestants?

     

    The FINEST musical instrument would be (for me) the one that inspires the most to create music with.

     

    For me that would be NotreDame de Paris in the hands of Pierre Cochereau first half 1970's.

    Rah London

    in The Organ

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    Could those who are familiar with the RAH advise on a good place to listen to the organ?

    Planning to hear John Scott there in Octobre and not familiar which such large halls (haven't got them in Holland ;-))

    Soprano And Organ - Repertoire?

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    Stretching a point perhaps, but the "O Salutaris Hostia" from Saint-Seans mass for 4 voices is a beautiful movement written for chorus sopranos & altos with organ accompaniment.

     

    This little known mass is a gem. I have the Worcester/Hunt recording on LP but no longer own a record deck so can't listen to it!

     

    It used to be available here: 

    http://plenum.free.fr/worcester

    but no longer is.

    Since Pierre Lauwers "reported" the link, maybe he can help?

    The Finest Five Organs In The World?

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    The true Franck organ?

     

    You can answer that after two manners:

     

    1)-Franck wrote for St-Clotilde, Cavaillé-Coll. That's it.

     

    Pierre

     

    Franck knew the other organs in Paris like St.Sulpice and the Trocadero well. Are you sure that he wouldn't want one of them (possibly he wrote his organmusic with those instruments in mind)?

    And he wa s dutch (just kidding ...)

    Introduce Yourself

    in General discussion

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    Hennie Vaatstra, organ studies with Arie J. Keijzer (Rotterdams Conservatorium 1987-1993), Wilhelm Precker (Cologne, 1993-1996) and Bram Beekman (Soloist Diploma Cum Laude Brabants Conservatorium 1996-1998), some masterclassing with Susan Landale in 2003. Active as recitalist in and around the Netherlands as solist/continuoplayer, offical organist of the R.C. Cathedral in Breda and full-time employed as a UNIX/Linux expert.

    What Is The Point Of Exact Restoration?

    in The Organ

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    Even the Averbode Loret has been scrapped, a giant organ that left nothing to be desired next to Alkmaar or St-Maximin du Var. It was the best (an opinion, not an assessment) belgian organ by far.

     

    It's still (entirely) there, isn't it? So it can be restored, I mean, if we're able to restore old instruments like the small Alkmaar organ - we surely must be able to bring to live the Averbode one?

    Lesser-known Town Hall Organs

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    What?

     

    Haarlem has TWO civic instruments.....St.Bavo and the Concertegebouw, and they're not just any old organ are they?

     

    How about we swap ten of ours for two of yours?

    :(

     

    MM

     

    Ok, you name Haarlem, but that's about all, isn't it (and for me Haarlem Bavo is 'hors concours' - for me the of the Netherlands) ? Civic organs with a sole 'concert' purpose are hard to find in Holland, there nearly all churchorgans (the ones in ConcertHalls in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Eindhoven, Enschede aren't that fervently used or advertised).

     

    And yes, I would like to swap ten of our 18th century II/P/18 we-have-enough-of-those kind of organs for two IV/P/60+ 32' foot Victorian "Town Hall" organs .

    =|:-)

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