heva
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Barry - thank you so much for this - it is fascinating!
Would it be in order (assuming that I can actually do it) to 'capture' the occasional image, please?
You are so lucky!!
Right-mouse click etc. will do it (don't know if Barry allows it).
Hopefully all images are kept - would make a nice movie when the organ is finished!
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William Bolcom's Gospel Preludes (or whatever they are called). I had forgotten about these (mercifully) but a mention by another poster caused me to reach for the air freshener.
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when I was a student I rather disliked all music between Machaut and Bartok. But that was when I was a composition major.
:angry: Not so very much left to like back then ...
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William Bolcom's Gospel Preludes are my number 1 avoidable pieces (for now) - had to learn one for Erfurt. Ridiculous waste of ink ...
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Who publishes the earlier version? Or are they both through Durand - must one specify which version one is after?
Rgds
MJF
The early version was also from Durand, funny though that the newer one doesn't mention corrections/changes. If you're interested let me know, I could post the notes ....
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I think he came to dislike the main theme - in an interview about the piece he said 'it doesn't matter how good the sauce is if the meat is poor' or words to that effect...
Maybe in his wisdom he was right. But he didn't like the Requiem much either - the story goes that Dupré rescued the manuscript from being thrown in the fireplace.
Personally I like the (revised) Toccata a lot.
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I have two versions of the Suite, an old one and the 'current' one, they indeed differ in the ending of the toccata.
But if you're interested in Duruflé's revisions, check out the Scherzo, of which I also have two versions:
The 'old' version (probably somewhere around 1929) differs a lot from the current, in notes (especially the last 'fast' part) and registration. Duruflé should have forbidden the use of this old version as Susan Landale taught me (she knew Mme Duruflé well), but I like it.
BTW Frederic Blanc insists on using the latest versions of all works, me pointing him to possible interest in different version in concert or on disc didn't change his mind - 'please, only use the latest version' (just wondering what 150 years will do with that, 'Authentic Duruflé' on period instruments ....)
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As my brother suggest, the Hungarians can be quite scary, and this young man is good....very, very good!
I agree:
Read about Jenö Jandó - the Hungarian pianist who recorded/records for Naxos.
Look at his repertoire, and try to think that he plays it all (and hów!) from memory .....
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Seems I have to correct my Vierne Symph.1 score ....
He is the complete artiste, a one-of-a-kind marvel who transforms his instrument from a dead mass of keys and pedals into a living, breathing life form of amazing sights and sounds. He cannot be understood or appreciated by words on a page. To see him is to believe in miracles. To hear him is to know magic. You must see and hear this defining genius of the 21st century of art.In 1937 Vierne died at the console, now he gets butchered at it ...
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Even if you don't sing in Breda then the church is still worth a visit: miss it at your peril!!!
If you're going/coming to Breda let me know - I live there ;-)
John Scott quite likes the Flentrop organ - but it'll probably not be available as there's much going on in the church.
Our Cathedral church (just a few hundred metres on the other side of the marketplace) could be an option, unfortunately the great organ is way too small and in a bad state (working on that ....), but we also have a small Hill organ though
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Just wondering if <the banned stoplistwriter> has finished typing the stoplist for the pimped up übergrossgreathauptgrandorgue manual ;-)
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For my money (not much actually!) the most gorgeous consoles I have seen in recent years seem to be coming from Hungary. Low-level, ampitheatre stop layouts in really snazzy contemporary designs with natural waxed finish. As for some of the contemporary organ-cases, they are just BEEEEUDIFUL.
Links are welcome !
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Can anyone suggest suitable venues at which a concert (of sacred music) under the above conditions would be viable, please?
Organs/venues enough, that's for sure, but it may be a bit short time to get things organised. Maybe you can send more detailed info by a PM?
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Some 200 LP's, 300 MC's, 2000 CD's,
and 'some' MP3/RealMedia's
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A very difficult one, but I could live with this (dutch namingconvention for a change):
hoofdwerk:
bourdon 16
prestant 8
roerfluit 8
salicionaal 8
octaaf 4
fluit 4
cornet IV
trompet 8
zwelwerk:
diapason 8
holpijp 8
gamba 8
voix celeste 8
fluit harm. 4
nasard 2 2/3
piccolo 2
progressio II-V
trompet harm. 8
hobo 8
pedaal:
contrabas 16
bourdon 16 (tr. hoofdwerk)
open bas 8 (tr. prestant 8)
violon 8 (tr. salicionaal 8)
bazuin 16
trompet 8 (tr. hoofdwerk)
I+I 4
II+II 16
I+II 16/8/4
P+I
P+II
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If I had a Civil Partnership ceremony, I think I would want to process out to Boellman's Toccata from the Suite Gothique. But no-one loves an organist. I will be a single manual for ever
A "Civil Partnership ceremony" - is that what it's called in English these days?
Maybe "Où s'en vont ces gays bergers - Daquin" is appropriate on some of them.
This is joke, ok?
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And how about the Toccata by Marcel Lanquetuit?
I like that one - anyone heard the David M. Patrick recording at Blackburn (Priory)?
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Andrew Fletcher's review in the latest Organists' review of the new Latry Franck CD from Deutche Gramophon (for some reason titled 'IN SPIRITUM') is nothing short of extatic! Has anyone heard it yet - if so is it worth buying?
AJJ
Hmm: Franck (not complete!), DG, Latry, NDdP - seems like the recipe for something spectacular (though I find the Messiaen somewhat 'cold').
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I agree with MM.
60 years of "reform" has convinced us all tracker action
and slider-chests are required to perform a credible
interpretation of the baroque repertoire.
No one will discuss this today, even me.
But this goes the other way too. I'm convinced Reger, among others,
needs TP or EP with Registerkanzelle (Groves that
feed stops, not notes).
And of course an action must be good first, whatever
its kind. There are good and not-that-good trackers,
while Willis, Sauer, Walcker, Link, Kerkhoff, Dalstein&Haerpfer (+others)
pneumatic actions are known to be excellent and reliable...
Best wishes,
Pierre
I agree much with Pierre, maybe adding that a 'good' action gives 'the right feel'.
I've played a lot of tracker actions that just don't 'respond' - yes, you feel mechanical action, but the speech of the pipes is not 'in sync' with th feel in the hands (sorry for maybe being a bit fuzzy).
On the other hand, my unreliable tubular pneumatic organ, dóes give that feel (which I also remember from a Anneessens pneumatic) - the way the pipes speak corresponds to the (action)feeling in the hands - which makes it quite agreeable to play on (even do it's unreliable and the console proportions stink).
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I don't expect you'll get to hear or see the Cavaille-Coll at the Concertegebouw in Haarlem, but it's quite good.
Listen to the very first recording of it, after being restored, Jos van der Kooij 'improvising'
Note: only the middle track is recent (the intro isn't Haarlem at all I think)
For pcnd5584: there is a organrecital in the Concertgebouw in Haarlem next sunday (familiyconcert, Dukas - L'apprenti sourcier with Van der Kooij at the ACC)
BTW. Ofcourse you're welcome in Breda (though there's nothing going this weekend), but unfortunately I'm not able to show you around if wanted (busy doing too many things in too little time, again -)
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Ah, but isn't that a lot to do with all the historical instruments you have? Historical instruments are exempted from my grumpiness!
Sure, but 'historism' seems the way to go here - so these 'historic implementations' are now recreated in (the few) new instruments: unpractical stopknoblocations, unergonomic sit-position, stupidly high pedal sharpnotes, "setzer? never heard that word ..."
But as I said above - we are só flexible.
(Mind you: the 'poldermodel' surely didn't made it into organbuilding ;-))
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I haven't been able to sleep and I'm in a mean mood, so I thought I'd inflict you all with a good old grump.
In another thread Tubular Pneumatic [et seq] ... There, I feel better for that! Views, boquets and brickbats awaited.
Dear, oh dear, I wish I could discuss one standard over another: here in the Netherlands nearly every organ has its own 'consolestandard' (e.g. can someone explain to me for what purpose mechanical operated stopknops above the musicdesk mostly go the heaviest?)
But,as always, we organists are flexible ...
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