Just now coming across this - While I often mention Blackburn Cathedral being my favorite organ, this has taken its place, surprisingly with the softest stops in the divine (literally) auxiliary division - I am astonished how beautiful this Rieger Organ is! Thank you!
I can only imagine a Cardinal drapped in his glorious cappa magna entering the church accompanied by the glorious sound of this organ then proceding to the throne for the pontifical high mass. what a picture, all created by the voice of these pipes
Thank you for this wonderful, inspiring and friendly tour. And thank you also for allowing us to hear all of the reverb - I wish everyone who posted videos in large acoustics took similar care. Every single stop sounds beautiful! But for me (lapsed organist returning to it) it’s a lovely exploration of registration too. And I smiled at the sounds and the wonderful chef-related descriptions (salt and pepper) of the effect of adding stops. Totally joyous, all of it!
Fascinating explanation. When you're demonstrating the flute stops,I keep thinking you're going to play English Country Garden! Thanks for making and sharing with us - hugely appreciated, Fraser!
What an Organ and an upload! Thanks, you Fraser I'm not going to be to technical in my comments because I'm a trained String player but all I'm going to say is thank you for bringing this organ to us, Best Wishes to you and you wife and thank you again. Stay safe!
It's easy to spot a man in love! What a beautiful instrument. Exquisitely subtle voicing and eminently playable. Would kill to get my hands on this one.
Magnificent instrument. Must go over to listen to this machine when we are allowed to travel. Love Frazer's expression, Christmas comes early. Can't wait for the improvements. Look forwart to future videos.
What a stunning instrument. Thank you for this. Sounds incredible. Fantastic recording too. I am a man obsessed with the Rieger sound. This made my day ☺️
Have you ever played any of the surviving Arp Schnitger organs? These instruments were, in part, the inspiration for the Orgelbewegung movement of the 20th century. Like most reforms, it started out with some great ideas, e.g., tracker action, slider windchests, low wind pressure, classic voicing, and unenclosed pipes, but then developed a bad case of "one true way" and eventually died from its own excesses.
What a wonderful instrument! I love those chimes and bells. My church's organ has some, though the stop is very... sparatic (it doesn't play all of the notes) those have to be some of my favorite sounds on an organ. The ability to emerse one in the music is strong when you use them!
I can understand you perfectly in english. In the past we have a employee in our company from Scotland. He speaks a dialect i don't understand. You speak a very clearly english.
Fine demonstration indeed. As for the sound recording: great also, but I would like it recorded at a greater distance from the organ, to get more of the "spaciousness" one gets by doing so.
If you have time for a bit of fun, I suspect that you could make a wonderful interpretation of 'Peter and the Wolf' on this organ. I can hear Granddad already!
It is rather late by now, and i found myself almost falling asleep to the calming sounds of you playing the double swellable clarinet. Magnificant, truely worthy of a recording on its own. Maby a "Einschlafsmusik Improvisation" for the next time? If you ask me, it could be at least 2h long. It would truely help me fall asleep. Greetings from Bonn
The Vox Humana stop sounds more like a Crumhorn than the Crumhorn stop. But I have to say this organ is amazing, and a great example of a later German Baroque/romantic mix. I worked as a assembler for Casavant for some time, and have seem some amazing organs. This organ easily is one of the best I have heard.
9:33 I can reach that low D with my voice, albeit with very little volume, and I'm just a measly baritone. Formerly tenor II in my youth. Impressive organ nonetheless, one of the finest I've heard on RU-vid. But I do hope that one day you will encounter an organ so awesome in the low end that it will put even Russian octavists and Davie504 bass guitarist to shame :))
Love it, diese dreamy Register liebe ich so sehr, aber die hat nur meine Unterrichtsorgel ein bisschen und meine Übungsorgel(n) sind in der Hinsicht spärlich ausgestattet...
they aren't the only spanish trumpets outside of Spain. Look it up, here in my hometown there's the Chapel of Gaverland that houses a Spanish organ from the early 18th century. And it still has all of its original pipework including real Spanish Trumpets (2x8, 4 and 2 foot). One of the oldest unaltered mechanical organs you'll find in Belgium.
There's one detail I have to clarify. There are several "spanish" tumpets of baroque style outside of Spain, they're right here in Portugal. I know this because I play an organ that has them, dated early 18th century. We imported a lot of organ knowledge from our spanish brothers, including their "trompeteria" If you'ld said "these are the only baroque spanish trumpets outside of the iberian península", yould be correct.
So true, I have seen the most beautiful organs with "Trompeteria" in Portugal, although in very different state of maintenance depending on the place! Portugal is a places with a huge heritage of baroque organs! Unfortunately I can't attach pictures here...
One of my fav 32' reeds in the business! So full of fundamental and power, yet not "buzzy." Maybe it's the placement in the space, giving the pipes "room" to bounce around, cutting off the edge. Whatever it is, I love it!
I loved the Spanish trumpets. To be fair, they might better be called "Iberian Trumpets" or something similar because these magnificent trumpets also live on Portuguese organs. This fact you might at some time mention as a talking point.
Quite pleasant to see some eclecticism making it’s way into German Organs, I wouldn’t want to see America be the only country to have all of the Warm Symphonic Municipal Organs!
What a wonderful, versatile instrument! I recently played a "Nimrod" transcription at the end of a Service, and I am now desperately missing those strings and flutes and swell capabilities, which could have been most useful for that piece. (Fraser, could you please play it on that instrument for us?)
About the Spanish trumpets vs chamades: I assume these are reproductions of the Spanish style of voicing, not the actual pipes from some lost 18th C. instrument? Would like to know the differences between the Spanish trumpets and the chamades. I doubt there'd be any instruments with them side by side for aural comparison (or atop one another in this case!)
@@FraserGartshore Thanks for the clarification. E Power Biggs' "Historic Organs of Spain" bent my ear when I was 12. Had a HUGE impact on my perception of music. Still love um, aggressive reeds (and this instrument delivers!)...then again, I am a trombonist! (Chicago-freelance)
@@FraserGartshore Clever idea! Have been listening to a splendid recording of Pincemaille on the Marienstatt instrument - wonderful French rep + peerless impro...
You could just play around with the settings for a bit to get the effect - I’m not sure exactly how far apart they are. Or you could wait until the organ in Marienstatt is sampled for HW - maybe it will happen!
switching to german for this. Mein Onkel ist Kantor in einer großen Kirche in NRW, ich schreibe nicht genau welche. Vielleicht könnte ich Kontakt herstellen, dass du ein Video machen kannst von der tollen Orgel dort. (4/85 ;) ) Ich würde mich freuen!