peter ellis Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Found a couple of American organists having a field day with Nicaea......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handsoff Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 I did enjoy those - thank you. I have an organist's surplice but the chap in the first clip surely needs the equivalent jacket for his suit - what a stretch to the music desk. I did like his last verse harmonisation but have always loved a good meaty final verse alternative. It sems to have lost favour in this country. The turntable and lowering the console into a pit made me roar - a bit too much like a crematorium for some maybe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S_L Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 2 hours ago, handsoff said: I did enjoy those - thank you. I have an organist's surplice but the chap in the first clip surely needs the equivalent jacket for his suit - what a stretch to the music desk. I did like his last verse harmonisation but have always loved a good meaty final verse alternative. It sems to have lost favour in this country. The turntable and lowering the console into a pit made me roar - a bit too much like a crematorium for some maybe... And in E flat too - much more satisfactory than in D - but I thought the re-harmonisation in the first clip was awful and anything but uplifting. Yes, there was a phase of organists providing an alternative harmony for a last verse but it was so often, like the first clip, so badly done that it fell out of favour. And some tunes don't need it because of their strong harmonic sense. In his edition of English Hymnal Vaughan Williams relegated the tune to, what he called his, 'Chamber of Horrors - where is appears in E. I'm not sure I agree about it deserving that accolade! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter ellis Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 Apologies if this channel had been posted before - it is currently the organ channel presented in my feed by the mysterious algorithm. This player is all about the unknown composers - my jury is out as to whether some of them should remain unknown but Hugo Kaun seems worthy of further exploration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S_L Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 Hugo Kaun is an interesting man and quite a prolific composer. Born in Germany he emigrated to the US where he had a successful career, eventually, settling back in his home country. He was much in demand as a teacher but produced three symphonies, three piano concerti (although he refused to allow the first to be published), quite an amount of chamber music including four string quartets and four operas, one of which was premiered by the Dresden opera company. His 'Five 'cello pieces' Op. 124 have some difficult moments in them and bear some similarities to the 'cello works of Franz Schmidt, of whom, of course, he was a contemporary. Some of his music is available via IMSLP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterdoughty Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 Here's a pleasing example of an organist taking a chance and populating the programme with several heavy hitters of the organ repertoire all at once. I rather enjoyed this recital for that respect of the audience's capacity in itself (and noted with interest, and a grin, the view of the very capacious and heavy-looking leather sofa in the loft towards the end). I've never heard the instrument in person, mind, so I've no sense of how this would sound in the building but it's good through headphones! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
innate Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 10 hours ago, peterdoughty said: This is a tremendous recital beautifully captured with multi-camera video. The Rieger organ sounds beautiful and entirely appropriate for all the repertoire from Bach to Reubke under the musical hands, feet and ears of Richard Moore who registers everything with imagination and authority. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveHarries Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 Following the recent post about the passing of the Finnish organist & composer Kalevi Kiviniemi - https://mander-organs-forum.invisionzone.com/topic/5083-kalevi-kiviniemi-rip/ - here are a couple of videos featuring him. Firstly an arrangement, presumably by Kiviniemi, of "Zug zum Münster" (Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral) from Richard Wagner's opera "Lohengrin". This clip is played on the Grönlund organ (2007, III+P/ 55) of the Sibelius Hall, Lahti, Finland and I very much like the effect given by the stop changes at 1:34 and again at 1:54. The Xylaphone (specification: http://www.gronlunds-orgelbyggeri.se/instrument/sibelius-talo/) goes well with this piece too at 3:13 which makes me wonder how the chimes or tubular bells of the Royal Albert Hall organ would sound in lieu for that bit. In my imagination the tubular bells would perhaps be better. Next up is Kviniemi's "Toccata" on the main organ (one of three in the building) of Turku Cathedral (Veikko Virtanen Oy, 1979-1980; IV+P / 78). The organ has its own website which is at https://www.turkuorgan.fi/en/; the specification, under the "Organ" tab, shows that the swell and pedal sections both contain 7-rank Mixtures. [b]Note:[/b] The clip does not appear here in the usual way that the one above does: embedding / playbaack on other websites has been disabled at the YouTube end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ki95-UbTeo Another one from Turku but this time a fantasia, by Kiviniemi (I presume) on the well-known tune "When Johnny". The shots of the ship hanging from the cieling of the cathedral seem quite appropriate given that "When Johnny" is a tune with maritime origins. A pity I never got to hear KK play live: may he rest in peace (or should that be "rest in piece"?) Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwhodges Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 The only solo recording of the old Willis/Harrison organ in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford (apart from mine in the British Sound Archive, which even I cannot access) which I have been unable to get a copy of has popped up in the Archive of Recorded Organ Music on YouTube. Played by Paul Morgan while organ scholar there. Carillon - Herbert Murrill Larghetto in F sharp minor - S.S. Wesley Fugue in E flat ("St. Anne") - J.S. Bach Sadly, the transcription has a lot of wow, and the end of the Wesley is missing. (My recordings in the British Sound Archive are of Paul rehearsing for this release, and also some hymn accompaniments he recorded for a missionary to use in his church....) Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwhodges Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 I have processed the above to remove the wow, and made decent fades in and out. Just that makes it a lot more listenable. Note that there is effectively no bass - there is nothing below 50 Hz. https://cassland.org/sounds/Christ Church, Oxford old organ (Paul Morgan)/ Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Choir Man Posted September 20 Share Posted September 20 Released this week: John Challender's transcription of The Planets recorded at Salisbury. Good quality audio equipment a must. The cathedral chorister's contribution to Neptune is magical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveHarries Posted Tuesday at 21:30 Share Posted Tuesday at 21:30 In Bristol Cathedral the final hymn of the 10am Eucharist on Sunday 22nd September was no. 383 (Jesu, Lover Of My Soul) to Joseph Parry's tune "Aberystwyth". The voluntary at the end was by Stanford but the use of that hymn did make me think of the toccata on "Aberystwyth" by David Bednall (b. 1979, Choral Director of Clifton RC Cathedral, Bristol). For anybody who has never heard Bednall's toccata on "Aberystwyth" here it is played by Stephen Moore on the organ of Llandaff Cathedral. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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