Organ matters - Organs matter!

Let's go to Italy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpLnq-HaNPM

This organ dates 1913, and has fully pneumatic action. It still has the traditionnal
Ripieno, but on one slide. You cannot miss it in this video, where it coexists
with the late romantic foundation work.

Specifications, pictures and others videos:
http://www.arteorganisticanelmonferrato.it/giarole.htm

The organ is 100 years old this year, and it should get international recognition.

Quite interesting !!!

I often wondered about some similarities of the early british organ
and the italian one (through Burgundy ?).
But I wait upon the next posts.

Best wishes,
Pierre

At least viewed from the continent, this is a summit of the 20th century:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR1WOtJxuFU

Best wishes,
Peter

Played on the Sauer organ (pneumatic action) of the Bremer Dom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmLLCB25heI

"The old organ had some BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL sounds to it. It was soooooooo romantic sounding. It was very important to me that all those sounds would be kept and enhanced by some additions to the organ to make it a bigger sound, and able to play just about anything. "
(Quote)

Though one can understand this as common sense, in the real world, the long history of the organ
demonstrated this never works. "kept old stops" never sound like they were in a rebuilt organ.

Best wishes,
Pierre

Surprisingly good, this 2004 Schantz in Arizona:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDIrrvfTTys&feature=share

Could be a Milestone !

Best wishes,
Pierre

Another milestone is certainly the 1905 Gebrüder Link organ in Giengen an der Brenz (DE),
with full pneumatic action. Here a 36 minutes long video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlX7YwEAYlY&feature=plcp

Best wishes,
Pierre

Rather impressive indeed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2cyvIpknyc&feature=share

Best wishes,

Ihr Peter

Thanks, but those threads do not teach us anymore about the future of the organ.
The french Forum I wrote about is this one:

http://organographia.cultureforum.net/

Best wishes,
Pierre

We just learned that this precious organ:

http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=D00288

...Is to be moved towards Britanny (France), after "having be bought by a parisian organist".
Though this may be good news, both for the heritage preservation and for the diversity of the continental
instrumental palette (in which the british organs are by far too rare still), we, on the french forum,
are nonetheless anxious, because there have been cases where such organs were re-erected by
non-professional people, with damages as a result, or stocked under unsuited conditions.
So we need to know a maximum about it in order that our members (among whom at least two dozens
in Britanny) can keep an eye on the matter !
Does anyone know who is involved, where the organ is to be placed, by who, etc ?

Best wishes,
Pierre

See the Specifications here:

http://www.klais.de/m.php?tx=177

.....And compare it with this one:

http://www.casparini.0nyx.com/Casparini/egcasp2.htm

A short video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp1-9JTQqDc

Best wishes,
Pierre

Zella Mehlis ! Here is another typical thuringian baroque organ, built by a dedicate Rommel,
which provides us with a sophisticated Bach-sound:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqyJiQmtcX0

Info and Specifications here:

http://www.evangelische-kirche-zella-mehlis.de/home/Kirche%20Zella%20St.%20Blasii.html

An interesting discussion could follow this: Howells played on the Ladegast organ
of Merseburg Cathedral - the "Liszt-organ"-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJTDnGP5YHI&feature=relmfu

Best wishes,
Pierre

A new video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akUyqTIw-u0

Thanks, Mr Dewar !

Pierre

Quote from: AnOrganCornucopia on April 28, 2012, 12:04:42 AM
If you can't get into the organ, how on earth are you supposed to tune it?  :o

There are no reed stops in this organ.

Best wishes,
Pierre

Yes, these are the correct ones. As often, the videos have been edited since their
first loading.

Absolutely georgous:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFq6w3Welt

(Link towards the NPOR page under the video)

Best wishes,
Pierre

Welcome, Mr Dewar ! I appreciate highly the videos you posted recently on Youtube,
both the playing and the historical interest of the instruments, the romantic ones as well as
the baroque ones.
This one here is rather special. Built "cheaply", with those wooden facade pipes....And the absence
of any access into the organ -which is probably a main reason for its unaltered state-.
But what for a "cheapo"!!!!!

http://www.instrument-und-kontext.de/ik-orgel/sueddt/maihingen_text.php

Of course, that sentence was a provocative one, MM. Like some of yours maybe ?

A little rehersal with an original 1737 organ without too many tierces ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbI3Uww6HHs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=2sfQSrISI-o

The Specifications is interesting, with five 8' foundation flue stops on the first manual,
plus a celeste on the Rückpositiv. Typically baroque !
And no, this one is not a Trost. And even not in Thuringia:

http://www.instrument-und-kontext.de/ik-orgel/sueddt/maihingen_disposition.php

Best wishes,
Pierre

I think we might probably have understood that you do not like Trost organs, dear MM.
It is your right !
But this kind of sound was not really Trost's experiment, as there are many others organs in Thuringia
that share precisely this style -by the way, did you notice the last one above was not a Trost ?-
So you like Bach's music, but not the organs he heard and played 99% of his life's time.
It is certainly not a problem, but it should be held in mind !
(Perhaps Bach would have liked Wurlitzers after all, who knows ?)

Best wishes,
Pierre