This historic organ was burnt to the ground. Listen to it now
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2024
- 😊 Donate: www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted...
ben.maton@hotmail.co.uk.
Thank you!
PATREON: patreon.com/BenMaton?...
😎 Follow me on Instagram: salisburyor...
Today’s Church
St Thomas the Martyr, Bristol BS1 6JG
Yes Please,Ben, to a longer concert from this church! What a waste of a nice Organ if it cannot be played regularly!
YES! I would love to see a longer recital at St. Thomas the Martyr. Beautiful playing, as always. TY!
The little fugue in G minor was one of the first baroque pieces I ever had a good listen to. My childhood best friend, a pianist, played it for me on his piano when we were about 15 years old. Now, 54 years later, baroque is my favorite, and Bach, of course the king of baroque. Hearing the little fugue always takes me back to my youth and the quiet joy of friendship.
It makes me sad that an organ can be burned, vandalised and used to store Tupperware. I am amazed that it still can create such beautiful sounds. I think the pork and pickle really fired up your playing! Love your work.
The roof above the organ in our church fell down on the organ twice causing some damage but the main damage came from builders fixing the roof. There was also a small electrical fire by the console but luckily nothing was damaged. It seems that so many organs fall to the fate of fire and/or vandalism.
Thank you Ben for investing your time to show us all this beautiful organs and historic churches.
Please give us a longer concert at St Thomas....beautiful music again today. Thank you & Blessings.
Its good to know that this church is being used by Romanian Orthodox Catholics. The organ has a beautiful sound.
This organ deserves to be heard more. Please bring us a complete recital. Thank you as always for your excellent work.
Thank you, Ben, for your thoughtful comments and wonderful playing ability as demonstrated today.
Yes, please do a complete recital on this organ. Thank you for all of your music. Be blessed, as you bless others
It’s early Monday morning here in Minnesota. A new day. A new week. I generally start them with your latest, Ben. Today was special. An ancient redundant church in a vibrant location. It was especially moving. As you played the Zimmer, I wasn’t hearing just the voice of the organ, I was hearing the voice of the building. A voice that was both pleading and demanding. It said, “I’m still here. Hear me roar! Hear me comment on the world about me.” Relevance in sight and sound. My week now begins again with inspiration and insight fueled by your explorations. Many sincere thanks.
A profoundly rich and gorgeous song from this Firebird.
It's sad that so many people are not going to church and these beautiful Cathedrals are silent.
yes my friend but one needs to hear the deeper message that the young can be trained to hear the spirituality of their culture, throw in a few vikings Herward the wake and a nasty history from 1066
and watch the young take it up
This is one of the best organs (if not the best organ) that you have played on. Yes, a longer video on this organ would be nice.
Well.. if Anna Lapwood can play Hans Zimmer I’m sure you can Ben. I’m not sure what part of this wonderful video was more emotional for me, you bringing this wonderful organ to my attention, the fugue, I really don’t know. All I can say is you brought me to tears. For a grown man, that’s hard to admit. But there’s so much to love in this video, particularly the care and attention you give to making it a complete story. And yes, I’d love a longer recital. Thank you Ben.
What a sweet young men and so informed...in music and literature. You give soul to all these amazing instruments you have shared with us! Cheers!
Thank you :)
Ben, please do a longer recital at St. Thomas the Martyr. The organ has a beautiful sound to it when you play it.
Lovely rendition of the Zimmer piece. This building warrants an audience. What character
Thank you , Ben, for the wonderful music and history lesson! Please play a longer recital on this organ.
Yes, please do a longer concert from the same Bristol church. The acoustics were lovely, especially with the Bach piece.
Love these videos, they are so relaxing, a great way to spend a rainy Sunday or any Sunday
The acoustics, fabulous, the Bach, sublime, as you'd expect, your playing and your ability to draw us into your wonderful world of organs and music and pork sandwiches, unrivalled! Thank you Ben.... And, yes, of course, a longer concert with this splendid organ....
Please do a longer piece on this organ! Baroque please.
Dear Ben- the acoustic in that church is absolutely epic and sublime and the organ seems to be well up to the job ...please please do a much longer selection of music form this space... and add the modern touch...its another dynamic..why dont you organise an actual concert there... you might be surprised when we all turn up.....😊😊
👏👏👏 thank you Ben, beautiful Zimmer piece when played by you on this organ which is a true survivor.
Despite all the adversities, this organ has an amazing sound. It has a brightness you do not hear too often. Thank you for bringing it to us. And thank you to Hans Zimmer for allowing you to play his First Step.
Yes, please, Mr. Ben Maton, what a pleasure it would be for us, your lisners if you could have a chance to perform an entire concert with the organ. Be blessed Ben.
Love your visit to St. Thomas. Would enjoy hearing more of this historic organ
On the thought of a longer concert in Bristol, some wonderful Christian people are connected to this city like George Whitfield, John and Charles Wesley prolific hymnwriters and Hannah More and George Muller. Some inspiration for some wonderful hymnsong.
I love the Bach, stunning organ❤
MISS The BEARD it suited you so well! Thanks for playing Handel!
What a beautiful sound this organ has. Ben's squeeze to the organ space was well worth it. Interesting story about the church, too
This organ has a beautiful sound and the acoustics in the church are fantastic! I would love to hear more.
Excellent! I'd certainly like to hear more in this beautiful Church.
When you said you were going to play a modern work I thought we were going to hear splendid composition by Ben Maton.
Nah! He's too modest to sink that low... which is probably a shame.
The Zimmer piece is wonderfully mysterious, and i enjoyed hearing you play it. Please perform a longer recital--- i'd be thrilled with a whole recital of Handel! 🥺 Please?
Thank you, Ben, for another lovely video... and I vote "yes" for a longer recital. 😃
Precioso reportaje Ben con el nos trasladas a esta preciosa iglesia dedicada a Santo Tomás, bien restaurada y utilizada con buen criterio ecuménico por la Iglesia Ortodoxa Rumana para sus actos litúrgicos también para eventos culturales creo que es un acierto, veo este edificio con cierto aire arquitectónico clasicista con aires de arquitectura renacentista, las piezas elegidas para este magnífico órgano clásico de precioso sonido y aires de grandeza, gracias Ben por tu sensibilidad por el arte sonoro del emperador de los instrumentos. Un abrazo virtual para tí y los seguidores de tu canal desde el éste del Reino de España.😊❤
After all the misfortunes this church has had ... a little more love from us all could help it heal and also give it some well needed publicity ! So yes please, Ben !
Amazing, your songs went through my ears, straight to my soul. Definitely a concert would be wonderful. Thanks Ben!
Lovely sound to that organ!
I would love to hear more of this organ with you at the console. I’ve followed you for quite a long time and I am in awe of you as an organist and an obviously committed Christian and lovely guy.
I have to say you look younger and more handsome without the beard.
You also used to look nice when you were wearing a white shirt and tie.
A recital would just be fabsolutely antastic! Thank you so much for your channel.
Wonderful church, organ and choice of music! Yes, please, a longer concert on this instrument. Thanks for all you do, Ben.
"Wind on my face" ... how nice!
That's not what Baldrick said.
Yes, yes, yes!
I love watching Ben’s weekly TH-cam videos and listening to the wonderful music he creates on the ancient organs in the beautiful old churches and chapels which he visits 🎹🎶🛐🥳
Yes, yes to the longer concert.
Thank you
I enjoyed hearing the sort of sound that Handel might have heard. To me, it's a connection to the time in which some of my traceable ancestors lived.
Equally important is the experience of new music: though what I most often listen to is 400 years old or more, some new writings offer an "AHA!" moment. Your choice in the last piece you played is one such case in point. Without knowing the story behind it, and only having heard it played by two other musicians (you can guess at least one of them), I come away from listening to your rendition feeling that you have contributed something of equal value. Your delicate and sensitive approach is as powerful as hearing the same piece played on a massive instrument--yet different and utterly legitimate in its difference. Great work, much appreciated.
Hey!
Ben I've been watching your videos for more than a year now and this episode in particular was the most inspiring one.
Please know that you're doing a really great job by making these video films, by showing us around village churches and their history which holds such an impeccable beauty & charm within its walls, to now showing the beauty of Bristol.
I really want you to show us the churches🏛️ and pipe organs🎹 which are beyond British Isles 😊
Would love to sometime !!!
Yes, dear Ben Maton, could we please have more music from the organ that was baptized by fire and rose from the dead and was reborn? I think it sounds wonderful.
Beautiful organ, beautiful church. What more could we want.
Your music is a Sunday ritual for me.
I like the beard.
I also like the beard. My late husband wore his for 52 years, varying from the Sean Connery look to Saint Nicholas in December.
It's a shame such a fine organ is not more readily usable and available.
Talented organists are probably in short supply.
Great video from St. Thomas Bristol. YES the organ bared it's soul with the lovely music you played so beautifully. Thank you.
My weekly treat that I so look forward to and today was an absolute delight to visit the city of pubs and churches. The pieces you played Ben were as always a tonic to the soul. Thank you!
Lovely 😊 video again Ben loved the st Thomas organ and I hope you can go again and thank you for sharing your story’s about the church’s you visit you always make it so special bless you
How truly lovely. Such a grand old instrument. And to start with the Bach fugue. I'm afraid my poor old hands have become much too arthritic but my mind and my heart plays on with your performance. A blessing for you.
You have been transformed, physically & spiritually !! very handsome ..
Yes. Please do a longer concert. Thank you so much!
Many fugues by other composers sound good despite being fugues. Fugues by Bach sound good because they are fugues. His "Little" fugue in G Minor is one of the greatest fugues of all time. This was a beautiful performance of that masterpiece. The whole program today was full of soul; celestial harmonies.
That organ sounds beautiful, and what an acoustic!
The Hans Zimmer was amazing… I wonder who came first - Zimmer or Glass?
I do hear great similarities in sparseness, aura and melody between this composition and some of the earlier Glass pieces from the 70s and 80s.
Anyway, a beautiful rendition of a beautiful organ piece - thank you Ben.
What a fantastic sound Ben. A recital would be fantastic. Yes please!❤
What a beautiful sound this organ has. And yes of course to more music from this church. And so nice that it is still used by the Romanian community as a working church.
What lovely church and organ. Very enjoyable music. Thank you
Loving the history that you obviously spend time researching for these videos.
And, yes, please, a longer recital. And as someone else requested, some baroque, please, and thanks.
Ben, thank you again for a great video. The sound from this organ is indeed wonderful. The base notes listening with headphones gave me goose bumps. Yes please play his organ again. I need to keep my beard as it's winter here in the south of Oz. David.
Yes to a longer recital. Stunning.
thank you for taking your pathway We are gifted by your energy.
The Lord must love music as beautiful as this to be played in these churches I think heaven is full of these wonderful and beautiful compassions man of which were written for his glory these are short and a longer playing time would be great but it’s the free time to listen to them if longer
Oh my goodness, Ben! Bach, Handel and Zimmer! Well done, my friend! 👍👍 (what sunshine? not here!)
I remember working on the Bristol Cathedral organ way back in the eighties. That's worth a visit if you can pull it off Ben.
Hello, Ben. Wonderful to see you smile again 😉 In answer to your question, yes, please; longer concert at this church would be greatly appreciated. The sound of the organ was beautiful.
Thank you. And I am looking forward to your playing a longer recital at St Thomas the Martyr :)
Yes!! would enjoy a longer concert from this church, St. Thomas the Martyr. The sampling you offer here makes me eager to hear more. Thank you!
Ben,
I do enjoy your playing,and have watched many of your videos-I am from London,and am a church-going Christian,and know a lot of Organists !!
I am aware that you seem to enjoy doing this,and it’s nice to see you gaining permission to enter and play at the various churches,that you do !!
One of your finest programmes to date that I have had the privilege of watching. Thank you very much - in the bright winter sunlight (more like an English mild summer's day!) of South Africa your deep insight and love of the organ shone through even more brightly.
My husband and I really enjoyed this episode. Are you planning a concert there? I would love to listen to one from this church. You can tell just from this video that the acoustics are amazing. It would be so lovely to have the locals and visitors come and enjoy this church. Thank you for taking some of us to places we will likely never visit. (From Chicagoland)
Lovely acoustics. Wow. The fugue sounds absolutely beautiful. 💜
Just beautiful! As a trained singer, I know "Where'er You Walk" like my name! Also, the Fugue in g Minor by J.S. Bach is one I played many times over the years.
Thank you, Ben, for sharing your mastery of, and love for music!
Beautiful! Thanks again for this lovely musical pause in our busy world. 🇨🇦
Beyond beautiful. Thank you so
Well Ben. That was really wonderful. I loved every second. Even the racket of the city reminded me that I am happy I don’t have to listen to it very often. That church is lucky that it has been rescued. Maybe if you play there more frequently, someone will throw all that junk out. The music was perfect. I will take as much of it as you offer.
And I’m glad we have the old you back too!
Thanks for your wishes for summer. My younger son and my granddaughter are coming for supper. It’s 13 degrees so I doubt we will be eating outside.
Meanwhile, in NW Ohio, the prediction is for 7 days in a row of heat index readings of 105 F. (40.5 Celsius). Remind me to revise my will to include Ben and Friends of Friendless Churches.) 😓 😸
@@kesmarnI live in Regina on the Canadian prairies. I’m waiting for the predicted drought.
@@lizwilliams14 There's just no end to the weather tricks we're seeing of late. What's next here? I'm hoping it's "only" cicadas. (Although I confess to wanting to hear them just once, since I've read that they can reach 100 db!)
The Fugue by Bach was perfect for this organ. The bass notes! Beautiful piece.
Yes, please play a longer concert
For a transplanted instrument, that guy sounds really really really good in that space.
Thanks Ben, for showing us such a great church and beautiful organ. Shame the Goblins got at it and that it had to be rebuilt, but at least it's still playable. Nice to see the church is still being used for services, even if not by the Bristolians. At least the Romanians appreciate it. Enjoyed you choice of tunes, including the modern piece. That keyboard looks like it needs a good scrub. Yes, a return visit would be appreciated, with an extended episode, if possible.
The Bach fugue was stunning on this organ!
Beautiful. I’m amazed at the conservation of old churches throughout England. Of course there are none so old in the USA, but sadly, very few here have been preserved at all.
Beautiful sounding organ, you mentioned its a tracker, I'm in California and the oldest pipe organ on the west coast is in St Pauls Episcopal church in Sacramento CA. The previous organ blower blew up one early Sunday morning back about 1915 and they bought a 1870ish tracker out of Philadelphia and installed it in the church. Its also a very nice sounding pipe organ
The restoration of the organ at St Thomas the Martyr is celebrated by Where’er you walk from Handel’s opera Semele played by Ben, thankfully no longer looking like Rasputin. Today I heard another organ much admired by Handel with sharp keys white and other keys black, with a chimney flute stop, very different from Ben’s beloved open diapason.
Wonderful! I played that instrument in 1983 when it, and the church were in a bad way. I’m delighted to hear it in such good shape in your hands. I took on the displaced church choir in 1983 (renamed The St Thomas Singers) in their new home at Cotham Church where I was organ scholar. I wonder if they are still going! I enjoyed the Interstellar piece - it’s quite the thing at the moment.
Thanks
I’m so glad to see your handsome face again!!!
And, yes, I would love to hear more from this beautiful organ!
That is a beautifully played Bach Prelude, Ben! That organ does it justice. The sound of those pipes shimmers with a brilliance but oh so sweet! Thank you for taking me on such a wonderful journey of these historic churches and organs. Bless you!
Merci.
Longer concert please! Thank you so much for your work!
I am curious to know if this is really a tracker mechanism or whether that was a hangover from the burnt organ. It seems the action is very light or you have very strong fingers? All the best from Kwa Zulu Natal where heritage organs are neglected or destroyed by theft, or Managers who just don't care (the Durban City Hall Willis organ has most of its pipes stolen and has been silent since about 1994. The Pietermaritzburg organ is going or
has gone the same way. I cry over all these instruments that will never be heard again. The council says there is no money but billions are syphoned into pockets or spent on frivolous ego boosting items. Thank you for bringing me a little sanity.
You can see that its a tracker when Ben has the pedal stop linked to the keyboard. But I agree - it's wonderfully quiet, not clackety!
This organ has a very robust, beautiful “Voice” , I have a hearig deficit , sometimes I strain to catch every note you play on various organs in the countryside.. St Thomas Martyr’’s organ is a joy, so clear and strong. Ben, you mentioed the “Blitz’ and I thought the original had been fire bombed in the War. What sort of person sets fire to a church? Please come back sometime soon for a longer concert. The last piece you offered is lovely and mysterious , thank you. ❤
Yes! More of Ben is always welcome! I really miss the beard! Maybe it will make a comeback in the fall. 😊