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There is an overwhelming case for the construction of a free and instantaneous teleporter to St Sulpice on Sundays :) .

 

Indeed!

 

Where else would you find something like this?

 

Dimanche 15 octobre 2006 (Sunday, 15 October 2006) - 28ème dimanche du Temps ordinaire

 

10h 30 Messe Solennelle - Organiste : Daniel Roth

Messe célébrée à la mémoire de Charles S. Barker (1804-1879), facteur d'orgues, inventeur du levier pneumatique et de la traction électrique pour l'orgue.

Prélude (10h 15) : Prélude et Fugue en mi bémol, C. Saint-Saëns

Offertoire : Offertoire en la majeur, G. Schmitt

Communion : Cantabile, C. Franck

Audition : André Pagenel

Fantaisie et Fugue en sol mineur, J.S. Bach

Scherzo en mi majeur, E. Gigout

3ème Choral, C. Franck

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Indeed!

 

Where else would you find something like this?

 

Dimanche 15 octobre 2006 (Sunday, 15 October 2006) - 28ème dimanche du Temps ordinaire

 

10h 30 Messe Solennelle - Organiste : Daniel Roth

Messe célébrée à la mémoire de Charles S. Barker (1804-1879), facteur d'orgues, inventeur du levier pneumatique et de la traction électrique pour l'orgue.

Prélude (10h 15) : Prélude et Fugue en mi bémol, C. Saint-Saëns

Offertoire : Offertoire en la majeur, G. Schmitt

Communion : Cantabile, C. Franck

Audition : André Pagenel

Fantaisie et Fugue en sol mineur, J.S. Bach

Scherzo en mi majeur, E. Gigout

3ème Choral, C. Franck

 

I recently went to hear:

 

Dimanche 20 Janvier 2008 (Sunday, 20 January 2008) - Deuxième dimanche du Temps Ordinaire, Solennité de Saint-Sulpice

10h 30 Messe Solennelle - Organiste : Daniel Roth

Prélude (10h 15) : Marcia (3ème Symphonie), Ch.M.Widor

Offertoire : Allegro cantabile (5ème Symphonie), Widor

Communion : Adagio (3ème Symphonie), Widor

Postlude : Final (6ème Symphonie), Widor

Audition : Choral (7ème Symphonie), Widor

Intermezzo (6ème Symphonie)

 

It would have been worth the trip just for the Choral - but all this in one service! :):rolleyes: Widor on Widor's organ.... :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

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Not the sound Bach had in mind, I am sure, but who cares? The performance of the Fantasia is as near perfection in terms of tempo and expression as I have yet heard.

One Johann Friedrich Agricola, a student of Bach and one of the authors of his master's Necrologue, in 1757 reports the following from a visit at the Trost organ, Altenburg:

 

"In a certain organ, I heard the lieblich Gedackt, the Vugara, the Quintadena and the Hohlflöte, all of 8 feet, together without any other voice, which was of a beautiful and strange effect."

 

Agricola here lists the entire Oberwerk 8-foot foundations of the Trost organ, except the Geigenprinzipal.

 

Of course, this doesn't prove anything. Except that colouristic listening and colourful registration wasn't unheard of back around 1750.

 

Best,

Friedrich

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...colouristic listening and colourful registration wasn't unheard of back around 1750.

Just so - and indeed I have pointed this out several times in the past, as has Pierre. It would be very interesting to know whether Bach subscribed to this fashion. I like to think he did, but who knows? But even if he did, mixing the 8' stops on a Trost and mixing the fonds on a Cavaillé-Coll and are two very different sounds and that was really what I meant when I stated that it wasn't the sound Bach had in mind. Nevertheless it works musically on that organ and that is the main thing.

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A couple more from me:

 

Firstly, as has been posted elsewhere on this messageboard, the Demessieux "Te Deum" forms part of this year's Proms. For anyone who has never heard the piece, here is a sound recording (from Cologne Cathedral, 1980, played by Josef Zimmermann) and some pictures of the cathedral as well:

 

 

Next up, probably the oldest footage on YouTube? This video contains a short clip of Louis Vierne playing the organ of Notre Dame, Paris where he was organist for 37 years. The clip was made in 1934 as part of a newsreel in French:

 

 

Pity about the sound quality on that 1934 clip but probably the best that was available back then.

 

Dave

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A couple more from me:

 

Firstly, as has been posted elsewhere on this messageboard, the Demessieux "Te Deum" forms part of this year's Proms. For anyone who has never heard the piece, here is a sound recording (from Cologne Cathedral, 1980, played by Josef Zimmermann) and some pictures of the cathedral as well:

 

 

Next up, probably the oldest footage on YouTube? This video contains a short clip of Louis Vierne playing the organ of Notre Dame, Paris where he was organist for 37 years. The clip was made in 1934 as part of a newsreel in French:

 

 

Pity about the sound quality on that 1934 clip but probably the best that was available back then.

 

Dave

 

I include this purely as a curiosity:

 

 

Where is everyone tonight, anyway?

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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7mDxKSrNdxw

 

 

this is the 'new' organ in the 'new' auditorium in Santa Cruz, Tenerife. It has a write up in the current ISO magazine. I had a tour round it recently and it is absolutely stunning. Seeing the En-chamades emerge through the wall is a bit surreal, but quite something!

for more info see

http://www.orguesblancafort.com/

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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7mDxKSrNdxw

this is the 'new' organ in the 'new' auditorium in Santa Cruz, Tenerife. It has a write up in the current ISO magazine. I had a tour round it recently and it is absolutely stunning. Seeing the En-chamades emerge through the wall is a bit surreal, but quite something!

for more info see

http://www.orguesblancafort.com/

Even though I admire innovation, perhaps this is taking it a bit far! :lol:

JC

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Sadly he is obviously quite proficient technically, just seriously lacking in musicianship and good taste ... :lol:

 

Would I be uncharitable if I suggested that he improvised on this because he's unable to play the real thing?

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I see it another way, at least he had the guts to have it put on U Tube knowing it would come in for a lot of flak, and WHAT IF Vierne or Widor was around today, they would probably applaud the poor man :lol: And the American public probably like that sort of thing, and it would probably would get plenty of air time on Classic FM

regards

Peter

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Aren't we being a bit unkind? After all he makes it clear in his biography that he's not an organist. He's a 'Fusician'.

:blink:

 

Weren't they on Dr Who the other week?

 

AJJ

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