2013 Casavant Organ, First Presbyterian Church, Kirkwood, Missouri

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  • Brent Johnson talks with Bill Stein about the 2013 Casavant organ at First Presbyterian Church in Kirkwood, Missouri.
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  • @billraty14
    @billraty14 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank-you Brent for pointing out the 29:15 Electric pull-down key action. Thoughtful touches by Casavant with the easy access to key action in the wind chest, as well as connectors to allow windchests to be quickly disconnected for maintenance!

  • @pierrelauwers8719
    @pierrelauwers8719 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    The voicing of this instrument is an achievement in that there are truly "romantic" stops here, paired with bold, not shrill mixtures. As far as a video can tell, it is a quite beautifull organ.

  • @mariovanasse9816
    @mariovanasse9816 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Great video it's special for me ( I install this instrument) Say hello to all . Great job Bill

  • @raymondtaylor2152
    @raymondtaylor2152 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Magnificent organ and that was a beautiful piece Bill played near the end of the video, Trumpet Tune. Thanks for sharing your video.

  • @robertramsay5963
    @robertramsay5963 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Why are flute celestes so rare? They are so beautiful, glad to hear you have one.

  • @agogobell28
    @agogobell28 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    What a wonderful big modern organ. I love the tonal structure and the voicing.

  • @ksbear2
    @ksbear2 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I attended two concerts there in 2014 during the NPM convention. Loved the instrument and the room.

  • @markgustus6172
    @markgustus6172 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That is one gorgeous instrument. The high quality of the design and build delivers a stunning tonal result. Thanks, Brent and Bill!

  • @louisglen1653
    @louisglen1653 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A great sounding organ. It is also so nice the old organ was donated! Practical Christianity!

  • @OrganNLou
    @OrganNLou 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I have never been a big fan of Casavant however, this instrument sounds wonderful! Warm, reverberant room as well. IMPRESSED!

    • @djmotise
      @djmotise 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Casavant is amazing.

    • @danielponder690
      @danielponder690 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Check out Broadway Baptist in Ft Worth, you'll be very impressed I'm sure!

  • @michaelmiller1215
    @michaelmiller1215 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A magnificent instrument

  • @jv04jm
    @jv04jm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What a stunning instrument!

  • @jimshaw899
    @jimshaw899 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If we can't have a new Cavaille-Coll, nor a new Aeolian Skinner, thank heaven for Casavant-Freres. I just viewed this, and all the way up to the CD exposition, I kept thinking, "This organ needs to be recorded with French organ literature."
    Indeed, so it is. I need a copy of that CD.
    Compliments to all of the donations it must have taken to acquire this organ. And to whomever chose Casavant to build it.

  • @Jm4steam
    @Jm4steam 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wonderful instrument!!

  • @Organgrinder1010
    @Organgrinder1010 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Pleased to find a Septiéme, a stop I find very useful and quite inexpensive to include! Also the divisional nameplates appear to be cancels, another useful feature.

  • @accousticdecay
    @accousticdecay ปีที่แล้ว

    Casavant has always built impressive instruments, in both tonal design and build quality. I was privileged to have played an authoritative, 1967 Phelps design IV/75 Casavant that had many similarities, but some remarkable differences. The great trompette was very loud, and had a number of renegade pipes that refused to stay in tune, and a 16' pedal posaune that shook the building. It was a thrill to play. And God bless y'all for donating your old Wicks organ to a tsunami-ravaged country far away.

  • @martinwright4125
    @martinwright4125 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    really love this sound. really nice round sounds, but very capable of a rumble. tight!

  • @sonopro1
    @sonopro1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Made in Québec !!! Chez-nous

  • @phyzygy
    @phyzygy 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Impressive build quality even inside where few will ever see. Played my first Casavant over 50 years ago at Baldwin-Wallace and loved it. Many similar design features remain on this instrument. Have played a couple others that were not so great since Casavant built to specification many styles, some very Wicks/Moeller-like which I found uninspiring. This instrument, however is one to envy. Too bad the audio recording had automatic compression on, so the full effect was distorted on a good sound system playback especially on releases, swelling unnaturally. Very much enjoyed it overall, though. Thanks for this.

  • @harmonicoutreach
    @harmonicoutreach 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    that vox humana is just sublime

  • @Mr05241948
    @Mr05241948 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Would love to hear this organ full out

  • @peterwarner358
    @peterwarner358 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Maybe one pallet is for the white note and the other is for the Black note (eg: Middle C natural versus middle C Sharp) or like the Theorde (correct my spelling here if I blew it) the two pallet system may be a Casavant Specialty).

  • @camilloflaim8933
    @camilloflaim8933 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Here from UE; i know the organs of Casavant from some years( because Isabelle Demers). I have seen one new with 4 keyboards away Casavant

  • @ABruckner8
    @ABruckner8 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why isn't that Theorbe stop listed as a mixture, Theorbe II? (I suppose one would then have to figure 6 2/5, 4 4/7). If the Pedal Organ were as flexible as the Positif, I suppose they could've listed both ranks as separate stops: Grande Tierce 6 2/5, Grande Septieme 4 4/7.

  • @praestant8
    @praestant8 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    French names but not necessarily French sounds. Double pallets are always on regardless of stops and are to prevent bass under winding. It would not be unusual for reed basses to be on the smaller separate pallet for stability.

  • @robertlozen5565
    @robertlozen5565 ปีที่แล้ว

    Do you have a link to the sheet music you played for this piece? Very well done

  • @lnwbpa
    @lnwbpa 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I would love to hear the organist either improvise or play a piece of music that starts at the soft spectrum and builds to full organ. We heard one trumpet piece here, but I have no idea of the softer end (including pedal) or the more majestic sound of full organ in this space. Please consider this for each organ you visit.

    • @OrganMediaFoundation
      @OrganMediaFoundation  6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Unfortunately we didn't have a lot of time to record just the organ, and the organists are great to volunteer their time and skills, so we take what we can get. I think you would really enjoy what Jeremy David Tarrant does with the organ on his new album: www.organlive.com/aid/1867 ravencd.com/merchantmanager/product_info.php?products_id=250

  • @ryanfrederick3376
    @ryanfrederick3376 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is the Lau piece the one from his Wedding Suite?

  • @jerrybenton8087
    @jerrybenton8087 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sized and sounds much like a 1960's Casavant at Pioneer Memorial Church at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, MI.

  • @petermacander5039
    @petermacander5039 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    2-2/3' Quints often add little to the Great principal chorus.

  • @JohnBoyDeere
    @JohnBoyDeere 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Sounds like a Hauptwerk VPO candidate:)

  • @peterwarner358
    @peterwarner358 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Have you featured any Ruffatti Organs like Christ Cathedral in Anaheim/Garden Grove, CA

    • @StoreeDenson
      @StoreeDenson 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I hope he will but the organ electric and tuning work needs to be finished so the cathedral have a digital organ. He can do the Arboretum with the organ designed by Fredrick Swann.

  • @daanmollema6366
    @daanmollema6366 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where to find sheet music for the Trumpet Tune by Lau?

  • @williammitchell1864
    @williammitchell1864 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    What are the names of each and every stop on this organ?

    • @OrganMediaFoundation
      @OrganMediaFoundation  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      A specification of the organ can be found at www.kirkwoodpres.org/music/casavant-pipe-organ/

  • @ashdownnazarene
    @ashdownnazarene 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    What's the name of the first song you played

    • @danielponder690
      @danielponder690 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lobe Den Herrn - hymn tune, Praise to the Lord the Almighty

  • @charlesschumacher334
    @charlesschumacher334 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    What's with the volume bloom at the end of each demo?

    • @OrganMediaFoundation
      @OrganMediaFoundation  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's an unfortunate effect of them talking over the sound of the organ. There is a switch between two audio sources, one for the organ, and one for the voices.

    • @charlesschumacher334
      @charlesschumacher334 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you for your reply to my Question. I am a real fan of your videos. Some seem to be recorded at a higher level than others. This Casavant is a very complete organ with a versatile tone pallet. A great organ.

  • @67DUTCHMAN
    @67DUTCHMAN 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    REALLY, really Big Queen!

  • @mudog35
    @mudog35 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    what kind of piano is that ?

    • @christineroberts6759
      @christineroberts6759 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's not a piano it's an organ, a wind instrument. The piano is a string instrument.

    • @qwincyq6412
      @qwincyq6412 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@christineroberts6759 actually the piano is a percussion instrument

  • @Diapason16ft
    @Diapason16ft 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Auto level control is destroying the audio.

  • @dankurydotcom
    @dankurydotcom 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    phyzygy... regarding your post, there was no "automatic" compression on the recording. It is evident to me being an audio engineer of over 45 years that the swelling you hear at the end of most of the played examples of the various stops is simply the un-natural sounding result of the video editing. After watching many of Brent's videos, he does not wait for the room to finish reverberating, and so he makes a quick crossfade edit from the audio of his portable recorder out in the sanctuary.... to the recorder that is recording his voice and the organist's voice. I really wish he could wait for the room to finish, but that would take far more time, and therefore the content flow of the interview would be un-natural. Listen to Bill Stein in this recording that I made of the Metropolitan Orchestra of St. Louis featuring Bill Stein on the Casavant. th-cam.com/video/_EgeNniPWqo/w-d-xo.html

  • @PointyTailofSatan
    @PointyTailofSatan 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You must have asked for traditional key color. Reversed key color is a kind of Casavant tradition.

  • @massimilianolivolsi5500
    @massimilianolivolsi5500 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    metallic sound of the reeds...................

  • @AJ12-76
    @AJ12-76 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Actually if you add a 16’ Bourdon and the Septieme together and start at low C it sounds like touch-tone dialing lol

  • @allenplante4402
    @allenplante4402 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    They keep saying French,,,casavant is Canadian

    • @OrganMediaFoundation
      @OrganMediaFoundation  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Quebecois specifically. Their organs are often very French.

  • @normancascioppo1456
    @normancascioppo1456 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    the room sounds live. the 8 montre doesn't really sound French. Never been a big fan of Casavant.

  • @mrstevebournias
    @mrstevebournias 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    too much upperwork and not enuff foundations and color reeds

    • @djmotise
      @djmotise 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I hope you're not listening on your laptop or cellphone, or even cheap headphones.

    • @cromorno8749
      @cromorno8749 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I absolutely agree

  • @mrstevebournias
    @mrstevebournias 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    positif is too loud

    • @jeffwhite4227
      @jeffwhite4227 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You need to be in the room. They're right below the Postif so it sounds louder. It speaks well into the room.

  • @bachkirche
    @bachkirche 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This organ doesn’t have trackers. I’m outa here...

    • @praestant8
      @praestant8 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      bachkirche Luddite!