I've always loved the sound of a pipe organ, in my opinion, it's the best musical instrument in the world. Comments I often hear, even from people I assume should know better, reveal a staggering ignorance about pipe organs. With the steady demise of church congregations, pipe organs will be used less & maintenance will become impractical other than in large Cathedrals. I started learning piano at 5 but never liked the sound, I find it boring & cold, though I admit it has its place, just not as a solo instrument. This may be a very controversial opinion but I also believe only a true naturally born musical person will understand that. I DO NOT ACCEPT that anyone can be trained to be musical, you're either born with or without the natural musical talent, you can learn to play an instrument very well (far better than me) or sing, but without the natural ingredient, to me there is something missing. I can't explain it better. If you are a true musician, it is from nature NOT nurture.
How lovely to have this recording; I can totally understand why it is so special to you. I wish I could have had a recording of my Great Aunt playing the piano as she was a Professor of Music and taught me music from a young age. I do, however, have a copy of a piece of music she composed while very young which I’m trying to learn.
Hi Maria, thanks so much for your comments. I wish I had more such recordings, I have a lot of cassette tapes to go through. It's so much easier these days with mobile phones, people are spoilt now.
Although it is not in the current Hymnal in use at the church where I was organist, I was invited to choose one of the Hymns on my lady service before leaving Town.(Bath). I chose Deep Harmony and they printed the words especially.
Great, here an even greater version played on the largest organ in the world in Atlanta Georgia USA: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WpIoS_mi8Xk.html&start_radio=1&rv=7hCR3rZAkxI
Pray for Wales. The land of song and revival. 2 Chronicles 7:14 King James Version "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."
Beautifully done, and the last verse was thrilling. I wish I was a better musician and could improvise a reharm, but I am happy to appreciate those that have the skill to pull it off.
"Would the person from Australia please explain why you clicked dislike. " Im not the Australian person, and I understand youtube disabled the "dislike" button some time ago- it no longer registers, at least to the public on the video stats. Trolls love downvoting videos for no reason at all, better to just disable it anyway. The issue I hear with a lot of organ videos of large instruments, is the sheer amount of sound level and wide dynamic distorts on the recordings we hear after it's processed by youtube and then played over whatever system we might have at our end. It becomes a mountain of deep bass rumbling noise made even worse with reverb from the large space. I have an AM/FM stereo amplifier connected to my tower computer and it plays on two large home type wall speakers, so it's decent quality stereo surround sound you expect from a home stereo system, as opposed to a couple of ear buds plugged into an iPhone or a 1/2" speaker on a laptop! When you add it all up, you have the original recording equipment making a recording of whatever quality it's configured for, then it gets uploaded to youtube which "processes" the file to make it a lot smaller (reducing quality etc again in the process to make it play faster/better and reduce bandwidth) and then the viewer is watching the video streamed in over their device and it's speaker(s) which these days is more often than not a cell phone or a laptop than an actual tower desktop computer and stereo system as I have, so all those steps definitely degrade the audio and video quality. The organist here in youtube Frantisek Beer does fantastic recordings of hymns from the Slovak JKS book on the tracker organs he plays services on, and at least one electric action 3m organ by Rieger, and they ALWAYS sound great, a kid in Gyomore Hungary, a TINY town which has a huge ornate church built in the 1700s has a one manual Frank Strahmer tracker organ from the 1860s, his recordings with congregation always sound good too let me see if I can post a link to an example or two.
Mr Beer always does an introduction prelude, so a little bit in he does the hymn and the people begin singing. I don't hear what I decribed above as a rumbling mountain of bass, there's plenty of bass in this but it's clear, you can clearly hear the words, the trebles are not eardrum scratching either. Somewhere I have the specs on the organ which was built by Tattinger Ferene, but I don't remember offhand, it's a good sized organ, the recording was done in the Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DqWfWGDIWJo.html Here's another one, from a very old small tracker organ in St. Nikolai, Uebigau Germany that had pipes melted down during wwII but it was restored a few years ago as I remember; There's some deep bass but it doesnt sound distorted or like a rumbling mountain of sound; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OPEklKYk578.html The kid in Gyomore plays the 1860s tracker during services, here he plays Charpentier: Te deum, the trumpet stop is really good, clear, doesnt scratch the eardrums off, I don't know what was used to record but it was recorded right next to the organ case where the old hand pump lever slot can be seen; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ry9nj33GRXM.html His story translated; www-magyarkurir-hu.translate.goog/hazai/ifju-tehetseg-gyomorei-templom-kantora?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=nui
The point you are referring to in the tune the melody moves into the tenor. The US version puts the melody in the soprano all the way through. Salisbury is still one of my favorite sample sets after all these years!
@@Goodchappy I know, however the melody in a hymn occasionally is found in a voice which is not the soprano which is what many believe to be the case with this tune. That's why in most US hymnals the melodic line is transposed to the soprano from the tenor instead of the repeated note, although the repeated note does appear in small print to show the original in The Hymnal 1982. I'm not disputing how the tune was originally written, just commenting on where the melody existed in the original tune in that passage.
l live in the heartland of welsh baptist/Methodist chapels in the south wales valleys and it will all be gone within the next ten years. i grew up in this and its going but the song i hope will continue
I remember the upload including the congregational singing too! It was such a pity they removed it from YT. Is there a copy anywhere of this hymn including congregational singing? Been searching it already for years...
EXCELLENT!! Loved the interlude indeed. This became one of my favourite hymn tunes when I first heard it ever a little over a year ago (2022) and I learned it in an amazing hurry to be able to play it as I loved it so much as it employs the changes that I love and have always used. Wonderful hymn tune!
I went to the Isle of Man on my honeymoon. A men’s Welch choir was staying at the same hotel-they were there for a music festival. The average age of the members was about 85 I think they said.-that were all so happy to meet us! They sang together at the pub every night. It’s a favorite memory ❤
I love the Clayhall organ. I've played is a few times over the years. It's amazing the variety of sound you can get out of a 7 rank (+ Melotone) organ. The acoustic is perhaps the best stop on the organ.
Hi Fraser, nice of you to pay my humble channel a visit 😚. Clayhall is 34.6 miles away from me by car according to Google. When I first heard that Compton, I imagined it was a huge instrument in a town hall somewhere, it's quite a little gem.
Im from Cape Town in South Africa. This is my favourite hymn in the hymnbook of the Dutch Reformed Church. In Afrikaans the hymn is translated "O God so groot in Heerlikheid." "O God so great in Glory" Its totally different lyrics in Afrikaans than English!!!
