It seems to be a "glass wall" between those magnificent musical instruments and the people, like myself, that loves pipe organ music and would engage in any reasonable endeavour to listen the music and support the instruments, the Churches and/or the music Halls. It is becoming easier to assist to a rocket launch than listen to a good organ performance. Both of the events above can be watched in video, but the physical presence is a completely different experience, because of the raw energy which isn't perceived by ear or eyes, but from being physically there. Hope the things returns to normal soon. Thank you for the great presentation.
Simon Bell at Tewksbury at 06:44 stands out for me: the sound, the interpretation, the (fiery) delivery, working so well with the acoustic, the experience as a whole, and the lasting impression. But all good!
Ah - I see from Wikipedia that Simon twice won prizes at Peter Hurford's extraordinary International Organ Festival at St Alban's Cathedral. Wonderful!
In the time of pandemic digital systems, like Zoom, are in use. It is a fabulous presentation of a wellknown piece written by J.S.Bach. A great performance, thank you. Frankfurt,Main, Germany
Absolutely fantastic! Superb playing, brilliant editing and great views of the organs and the Cathedrals too! I know some of the venues and have heard many more of these Organs on the radio and I always try to envisage what the inside of the Cathedral must be like from the sound generated and the echo - now I know!! And great to see so many (relatively) young organists - the future of this genre of music is in safe hands. Definitely worth a donation. Thank you.
Perfectly said Deborah. My message would have been the same. I have had the pleasure and honour to see some of these amazing cathedrals myself. Salisbury being the latest of which is very impressive 💝
Deborah, I've been to many of these cathedrals but sadly on weekdays when on holiday so the organs have been silent!! I made a piligrimage once to the church of St Ouen in Rouen to hear it's magnificant Cavaille-Coll organ but sadly the church was locked while there was an organ congress in progress. However from the outside I could still hear that wonderful organ as somebody was playing the first movement of Widor's 6th Symphony!! I probably wouldn't have heard that if the church had been open for visitors!!
Incredible sonic experience. Bravo to all that participated. I used to live in Chelmsford in the 1950s's and was happy to see that they incliuded the new organ.
Just beautiful. Thank you. Kudos to all the organists, organized this and whomever engineered this. Correcting the pitches on all these organs and blending the sounds seemingly seamlessly is no mean feat.
I never comment on anything. Until now. Tremendous. Truly tremendous. Goosebumps and hairs stood up on back of neck! And that through a tiny iPhone speaker. Thank yoo
Well well! I am delighted to see that some younger lads and girls decided to become organists. And some of them even implement their own variations in the piece. To me that means, it is still a lot of life in the cathedral and orchestral music and a long future is seen from here. Keep up the good work and spread the word everywhere! Good luck!
Thank God for these wonderful people who play these marvellous instruments. Since it wasn’t only cathedrals I was hoping to see Selby Abbey featured, one of the Greater Churches.
Thank you SO much to everyone who has made a donation so far - we've nearly reached £5,000 with 200 individuals generously making a gift. Every donation makes such a difference and we are truly blown away by everyone's support.
Some electronic wizardry going on here, to field all the contributions at the same pitch(!) (Needless-to-say, the fleeting appearance from the Isle of Man was the lynch-pin of the whole presentation.)
A list of organs and their pitches (440? 432? Other?) would be interesting. The editors of the video will have such a list. But maybe it's not for us, mere mortals.
@@iamTheSnark It's no surprise that the instruments would be at different pitches, considering the different ages at which they would have been built/rebuilt and the different temperatures in the buildings. On the Isle of Man, for instance, the heating in the winter is minimal on Sundays and totally absent during the week, and as pitch depends very markedly on temperature (the colder the flatter, and vice versa) the list you mention - whilst interesting - would be meaningless, as it would be only a snapshot of the pitch on the day and the time at which the recording was made.
@@Offshoreorganbuilder The organ at Lichfield Cathedral certainly isn't at concert pitch. Mind you a very brief appearance at 4:51 is all we get of it.
@@ds1868 I have heard that one of the organs (perhaps Lichfield?) was so far off standard pitch, it could not be corrected, which is why is makes such a brief appearance. (By the way, I don't think we have 'concert pitch' any more, just 'standard pitch' - A440.)
What a fantastic idea! And what a great piece of technology, communication and logistics as well as musicianship. Inspirational stuff. Does it cover all of the British Cathedrals?
That was lovely. A good number of Harrisons's instruments blasting away, but good to hear the rebuilds at Canterbury and Salisbury. York minster, I'd heard, are economising and bought there little chiffer from ebay with an option for pedal to follow when funds allow. Also good to have maestro Briggs demonstrating that three manuals are a match for any four manual brit efforts. Excellent effort all round. Cathedral choirs are safe for now, except Sheffield, where the chapter are desperate for diversity and a new choir to equal Kings, Cambridge!
Actually York Minster is refurbishing its organ (I went there last year and they used that positive plus a Viscount inside the choir). They were expecting to end during Summer 2020 in pre-covid era, no surprise they have delayed that.
@Westron Wynde The main organ in St John The Divine is a four manual with over 8,000 pipes. It's being cleaned due to a fire and smoke damage last year. The instrument here is an electronic.
Quite the interesting! Hoped for an increase in tempo somewhere in the fugue however... but there were several flashes of bravura and dash along the way! [Ok, add David Briggs in at the end on a non-Brit organ, I get it, Lol.] But-- (spoiler alert) final ending as Picardy D MAJ.?? -- Sorry: NON, NOT, Nada, nix, Nyet, nein, nope, No-no No-go. I don't care if it's the de'rigeur fashion!!
BRAVO! This was a masterful performance and a masterful editing job. I have one question: Was pitch editing software used to remove any tuning inconsistencies? If not, then this demonstrates the marvelous skills of those who build and maintain these wonderful instruments.
Errr, I think some of the ladies in the video will be miffed that you only thought there was one woman featured.. At a cursory glance I thought I spotted at least 4! Namely Rachel Mahon - Coventry, Elizabeth Stratford - Arundel, Tansy Castledine - Peterborough and Katherine Dienes-Williams - Guildford. I wonder why more women are not attracted to playing the organ? I know there are some great players in Europe that give recital regularly.
@@stripey1960 Sadly, expect they're elbowed out of the way, with the collaboration of the overwhelmingly male members of cathedral music. Or perhaps (tongue firmly in cheek) they don't like heights.
@@gillchatfield3231 That is indeed a very good point! Katherine must have a very good head for heights to cope with the ascent to the crows nest at Guildford Cathedral to get to the console there. It isn't quite as bad at Norwich where she used to be. Hilary Norris who occasionally plays recitals at Hereford Cathedral copes effortlessly with the almost perpendicular climb to the console there. Health and Safety could easily close down Cathedral music if they got wise to the dangers encountered by organists, who take it all in their stride, as it were.
@@ds1868 In that case you should apply only for a post as a sub-organist, and then you can work at ground level as we saw here at York Minster with the organist wearing the mask-and how wisely too, given the dangers of close contact in such a confined space. Yes, I can understand what you mean about Bury St. Edmunds where ascending to the organ loft is like climbing half way up a mountain. The organist needs a mask there too, an oxygen mask. I can remember the first recital I heard at Bury St. Edmunds and Sherpa Tenzing was turning the pages. The organist played his own arrangement of "Stairway to the Stars".
Bravo and again bravo.......but isn’t there a bit of a snafu at the 10.00 Change over?? 2:00 and 8:00 Mmmmm? And not sure I liked the big pedal solo!!!!!! Else a magnificent video and congrats to all.
(Retired organ builder here!). All the organs are amazingly at the same pitch. Are the great cathedral organs obviously missing from the compilation the ones not tuned precisely to concert pitch?
Through the “magic” of digital signal processing, it’s possible to adjust the pitch of the recordings separately from the tempo. Although I can’t tell if that was done here or not. That was also possible using frequency mixing techniques in the olden analogue days (still is, of course), but was not widely done - more of a novelty by those who had radio engineering/ham background.
@snowwhitehair All the instruments here are tuned to A440 so there is no need for any artificial 'adjustments' as the other poster suggests. If you listen carefully to the Lichfield organ at 4:51 this is not at A440 but the segment is very short. All the other important instruments not taking part (and some are not in cathedrals) for a variety of reasons did not agree to take part.
@@ds1868 Thanks for clarifying. The other poster gave an interesting technical reply but I rather had my doubts especially as I noticed that the Lichfield organ was not at quite the same pitch as the others.
Wow! Ich habe bestimmt 50 verschiedene Versionen der 565. Alle sind irgendwie schön, nur gefallen mir die langsam, kraftvoll gespielten Interpretationen etwas besser. ...
impressive , apart from the people that did it in vertical video, who should frankly be made to retake their bits ! You can't mix vertical and horizontal in one video it looks terrible.
No, of course they can't. Don't be silly. If you don't like it just go and look out your score and pencil in an accidental. It was probably there to begin with any way. And if it wasn't it should have been.
Lots of gorgeous organ work - thank you so much for sharing! I have only one serious complaint. WTH, David Briggs?? Aside from the unnecessary added frenetic grace notes and trills, he ended on a freaking D MAJOR! :-/ I'm sorry, end the majestic Toccata and Fugue in D Minor on a bloody major chord?? That just destroyed my enjoyment. I don't care how internationally-acclaimed he is - that was stupid.
I don't think you really need to take this interpretation so seriously. It was after all a bit of fun for a good cause. I'm surprised you didn't focus your criticism on the fact that the instrument used here is an electronic, the main organ currently being cleaned and restored due to smoke damage. Still, for an electronic, it did sound rather good.
@ds1868 Thanks, but while we're sharing opinions, I don't think you need to tell other people how to react to videos. I said it was gorgeous. But to me, the enjoyment of the entire piece and the contributions of all the other organists was blown out of the water by that last chord. That's how it was for me. That was my experience, which I related in the comment. I've heard plenty of "interpretations" of this piece. Ending this with a major chord isn't an interpretation - it's a bastardization. It was annoying. It wasn't intellectual ("Gee, he played that last chord major... That's not right, so I'm gonna dislike the video"), it was a purely emotional reaction. I shared that reaction.
A tour of these beautiful places and instruments would be a fabulous post-pandemic trip!!
Absolutely!
Surely that should be possible: extra income for the Trust possibly?
Yes please!🙌🏾😄
I'm in!!
It seems to be a "glass wall" between those magnificent musical instruments and the people, like myself, that loves pipe organ music and would engage in any reasonable endeavour to listen the music and support the instruments, the Churches and/or the music Halls.
It is becoming easier to assist to a rocket launch than listen to a good organ performance.
Both of the events above can be watched in video, but the physical presence is a completely different experience, because of the raw energy which isn't perceived by ear or eyes, but from being physically there.
Hope the things returns to normal soon. Thank you for the great presentation.
There's no substitute for the sound of a pipe organ and the sensation of air being moved!! :)
Simon Bell at Tewksbury at 06:44 stands out for me: the sound, the interpretation, the (fiery) delivery, working so well with the acoustic, the experience as a whole, and the lasting impression.
But all good!
Ah - I see from Wikipedia that Simon twice won prizes at Peter Hurford's extraordinary International Organ Festival at St Alban's Cathedral. Wonderful!
@John Bladen I totally agree with you. Some of recordings were not so good, but this one is outstanding.
@@CONSTANTINS Also agree that is a very good recording and clearly an impressive instrument, the history of the Milton organ stretching back to 1631.
Yes but he also got the best part to play :-)
Lovely to see heels being used and 'Novello' scores on the music desks....
A masterclass in Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor by so many talented organised and superb instruments.Bravo!
In the time of pandemic digital systems, like Zoom, are in use. It is a fabulous presentation of a wellknown piece written by J.S.Bach. A great performance, thank you.
Frankfurt,Main, Germany
Fun to see different organists/arrangers' interpretations of Bach all mushed into one video/piece.
What a wonderful reminder of our rich heritage, all those talented people
What a wealth of Pipe Organists and Pipe Organs... saved the video....thank you so much for putting together and for posting...
To have so many instruments in tune with each other is amazing!
8:55. Best way I’ve heard that part played. Best part of the song
Agreed! Richard Cook is really in a league of his own here
Just beautiful! Thank you all.
This made my night. Honorable mention of Brecon for their no nonsense approach.
Yes. Anonymous, ghostly, hanging...
En fantastisk flot oplevelse af skøn orgelmusik og så spillet på så mange orgler over hele landet. Fantastisk flot......
The sheer power delivery By Simon Bell at Tewkesbury Abbey is just pure sound and why the pipe organ exists for over 2000 years ever since in Greece.
Agreed the Milton Organ at Tewkesbury is superb. It's history goes back to 1631, and miraculously survived the English Civil War.
@@ds1868 That's remarkable.
Absolutely fantastic! Superb playing, brilliant editing and great views of the organs and the Cathedrals too! I know some of the venues and have heard many more of these Organs on the radio and I always try to envisage what the inside of the Cathedral must be like from the sound generated and the echo - now I know!! And great to see so many (relatively) young organists - the future of this genre of music is in safe hands. Definitely worth a donation. Thank you.
Perfectly said Deborah. My message would have been the same. I have had the pleasure and honour to see some of these amazing cathedrals myself. Salisbury being the latest of which is very impressive 💝
Deborah, I've been to many of these cathedrals but sadly on weekdays when on holiday so the organs have been silent!! I made a piligrimage once to the church of St Ouen in Rouen to hear it's magnificant Cavaille-Coll organ but sadly the church was locked while there was an organ congress in progress. However from the outside I could still hear that wonderful organ as somebody was playing the first movement of Widor's 6th Symphony!! I probably wouldn't have heard that if the church had been open for visitors!!
Incredible sonic experience. Bravo to all that participated. I used to live in Chelmsford in the 1950s's and was happy to see that they incliuded the new organ.
Just beautiful. Thank you. Kudos to all the organists, organized this and whomever engineered this. Correcting the pitches on all these organs and blending the sounds seemingly seamlessly is no mean feat.
Great to see the Newcastle instrument up and running again!
Genuinely got teared up at that. Goosebumps all round.
thank you to all the organists, camera and sound handlers. What a wonderful gathering of music from those many sacred places!
I never comment on anything. Until now. Tremendous. Truly tremendous. Goosebumps and hairs stood up on back of neck! And that through a tiny iPhone speaker. Thank yoo
What a great way to compare and contrast various organs and cathedral sonic environments. Some exquisite instruments!
Wow, that was an extravaganza. And all in tune 👍🏼 thank you.
Brilliant idea and fabulous music. Great to see and hear all the different instruments; highly enjoyable.
Dear Lord, what a wonder-filled video!!! Let's do this more often.
Absolutely stunning is all you can say about that performance
A truly unique and fresh way of presenting this old work horse. Very interesting
Fabulous and well worth supporting - good to see Marko Sever playing at St Albans
Well well! I am delighted to see that some younger lads and girls decided to become organists. And some of them even implement their own variations in the piece. To me that means, it is still a lot of life in the cathedral and orchestral music and a long future is seen from here.
Keep up the good work and spread the word everywhere! Good luck!
Absolutely wonderful! What a treat and happy to donate. I hope you stream more!
I loved Tewkesbury Abbey the best. My sister and I were married here and she had this piece of music to walk out as a married woman!
fascinating mix of voices and (to soem extent) tempi...
Very interesting and also amusing ! And the différents ways of playing Bach...
Thank God for these wonderful people who play these marvellous instruments. Since it wasn’t only cathedrals I was hoping to see Selby Abbey featured, one of the Greater Churches.
It's like questions and answers. It was brilliant!
What a fantastic video!
Just brilliant! What a good cause, dig deep everyone!!!!! And, the award for the best bench bouncing goes to.........
Awesome 🎉
WOW. AMAZING! Such talent and sounds!
Wonderful!!
W-O-W, W-O-W, W-O-W!!! I liked the sound coming from Wakefield the BEST!
Really impressive and highly commendable performance by all the organists.
Brilliant, wonderful, uplifting at a time when needed the most. (Lincoln's was splendid)
Well put together & performed. Interesting to see all the different organs & beautiful church interiors.
amazing!!!
Bravo, bravo to one and all!!!
OMG! Such a maripois of great cathedral sounds. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Magnificent achievement.
Splendid achievement! Breathtaking! Thank you to everyone.
I said in my previous post organists around UK I should have said organists from Ireland and New York as well so sorry you all were marvellous.
@brian perry The organist in NYC at the end is David Briggs who is English.
I happen to know that both organists at both Dublin cathedrals are also English 😂 (and fantastic musicians all four)
That is amazing! So blessed by it!!
Phantastic !!!!
Not surprised Briggs is the last. He and Bish are my two favorite interpreters of Bach.
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Fantastic! 🤩
Marvelous!
Anyone else give out a genuine sigh of concern/pity ("Awwww") when the fugue started in York Minster??!! Bless!!
Delivered deftly by a masked crusader called Ben Morris. The mask, a time stamp for future generations.
In fairness, this part of the piece usually does start quietly(!)
Very cool! I'm not sure how exactly this was put together, but well planned and executed by all!
Should’ve had way more of the Liverpool metropolitan cathedral in the video with those amazing aucoustics
Could listen to this all night. And I struggle to type !
A very cheeky D major cameo from Mr D Briggs
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Some electronic wizardry going on here, to field all the contributions at the same pitch(!)
(Needless-to-say, the fleeting appearance from the Isle of Man was the lynch-pin of the whole presentation.)
A list of organs and their pitches (440? 432? Other?) would be interesting. The editors of the video will have such a list. But maybe it's not for us, mere mortals.
@@iamTheSnark It's no surprise that the instruments would be at different pitches, considering the different ages at which they would have been built/rebuilt and the different temperatures in the buildings.
On the Isle of Man, for instance, the heating in the winter is minimal on Sundays and totally absent during the week, and as pitch depends very markedly on temperature (the colder the flatter, and vice versa) the list you mention - whilst interesting - would be meaningless, as it would be only a snapshot of the pitch on the day and the time at which the recording was made.
@@Offshoreorganbuilder The organ at Lichfield Cathedral certainly isn't at concert pitch. Mind you a very brief appearance at 4:51 is all we get of it.
@@ds1868 I have heard that one of the organs (perhaps Lichfield?) was so far off standard pitch, it could not be corrected, which is why is makes such a brief appearance.
(By the way, I don't think we have 'concert pitch' any more, just 'standard pitch' - A440.)
@@Offshoreorganbuilder Yes standard A440. I think people use 'concert pitch' as a general term.
If this is the sounds of earth, how`s gonna be the sounds of Heaven like?
Awesome.
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Brilliant!
Fantástico!
What a fantastic idea! And what a great piece of technology, communication and logistics as well as musicianship. Inspirational stuff. Does it cover all of the British Cathedrals?
@The Passamezzo No quite a few are missing. Also missing is King's College Cambridge which is a chapel not a cathedral.
Punched the air and shouted 'Huzzah' at David Briggs's Tierce de Picardie!
That was lovely. A good number of Harrisons's instruments blasting away, but good to hear the rebuilds at Canterbury and Salisbury. York minster, I'd heard, are economising and bought there little chiffer from ebay with an option for pedal to follow when funds allow. Also good to have maestro Briggs demonstrating that three manuals are a match for any four manual brit efforts.
Excellent effort all round. Cathedral choirs are safe for now, except Sheffield, where the chapter are desperate for diversity and a new choir to equal Kings, Cambridge!
Also I think the NY Cathedral instrument is an electronic while they rebuild the fire damaged pipe organ. It sounds tremendous!!
Actually York Minster is refurbishing its organ (I went there last year and they used that positive plus a Viscount inside the choir). They were expecting to end during Summer 2020 in pre-covid era, no surprise they have delayed that.
@@jonathankingston8001 Well I must agree. Strange to end with an electronic but it did sound impressive!
@Westron Wynde The main organ in St John The Divine is a four manual with over 8,000 pipes. It's being cleaned due to a fire and smoke damage last year. The instrument here is an electronic.
Quite the interesting! Hoped for an increase in tempo somewhere in the fugue however... but there were several flashes of bravura and dash along the way! [Ok, add David Briggs in at the end on a non-Brit organ, I get it, Lol.] But-- (spoiler alert)
final ending as Picardy D MAJ.?? -- Sorry: NON, NOT, Nada, nix, Nyet, nein, nope, No-no No-go.
I don't care if it's the de'rigeur fashion!!
2:58 This is the organ used for interstellar, and I'm pretty sure the organist is also the one who played this organ for interstellar
@Harm Prins Yes it is.
Liverpool Anglican for most massive bottom D 👍🏼
The whole thing takes on a new dimension when that low D sounds
Timestamp?
@@Charles-Reardon 1:36 :)
The St John the Divine organ isn't the main one, which is being renovated.
Of course, taking into account, the Resultant at "64".
Well done to the engineer! But I would have liked Wells and Chichester too!
Westminster Abbey also snubbed with a _Sorry, not this time_
BRAVO! This was a masterful performance and a masterful editing job. I have one question: Was pitch editing software used to remove any tuning inconsistencies? If not, then this demonstrates the marvelous skills of those who build and maintain these wonderful instruments.
Superb - but did the collected contributions from all the Scottish cathedrals actually surpass 2 nanoseconds? I lost count.
@2:58 Hey, is that Roger from the Interstellar score? :-D
3:36 9:33 my favorite parts! Beautiful!
Thanks from Canada for the thrilling, gorgeous tour of British cathedrals! (Why is there only one woman?)
Errr, I think some of the ladies in the video will be miffed that you only thought there was one woman featured.. At a cursory glance I thought I spotted at least 4! Namely Rachel Mahon - Coventry, Elizabeth Stratford - Arundel, Tansy Castledine - Peterborough and Katherine Dienes-Williams - Guildford. I wonder why more women are not attracted to playing the organ? I know there are some great players in Europe that give recital regularly.
@@stripey1960 Sadly, expect they're elbowed out of the way, with the collaboration of the overwhelmingly male members of cathedral music. Or perhaps (tongue firmly in cheek) they don't like heights.
@@gillchatfield3231 That is indeed a very good point! Katherine must have a very good head for heights to cope with the ascent to the crows nest at Guildford Cathedral to get to the console there. It isn't quite as bad at Norwich where she used to be. Hilary Norris who occasionally plays recitals at Hereford Cathedral copes effortlessly with the almost perpendicular climb to the console there. Health and Safety could easily close down Cathedral music if they got wise to the dangers encountered by organists, who take it all in their stride, as it were.
@@ZL54JK8 Have you tried Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk? That's not very easy either, but I confess I have a very bad head for heights.
@@ds1868 In that case you should apply only for a post as a sub-organist, and then you can work at ground level as we saw here at York Minster with the organist wearing the mask-and how wisely too, given the dangers of close contact in such a confined space. Yes, I can understand what you mean about Bury St. Edmunds where ascending to the organ loft is like climbing half way up a mountain. The organist needs a mask there too, an oxygen mask. I can remember the first recital I heard at Bury St. Edmunds and Sherpa Tenzing was turning the pages. The organist played his own arrangement of "Stairway to the Stars".
Wonderful playing. It would have been good to see each player given credit in each video.
Bravo and again bravo.......but isn’t there a bit of a snafu at the 10.00 Change over?? 2:00 and 8:00 Mmmmm? And not sure I liked the big pedal solo!!!!!! Else a magnificent video and congrats to all.
(Retired organ builder here!). All the organs are amazingly at the same pitch. Are the great cathedral organs obviously missing from the compilation the ones not tuned precisely to concert pitch?
Through the “magic” of digital signal processing, it’s possible to adjust the pitch of the recordings separately from the tempo. Although I can’t tell if that was done here or not. That was also possible using frequency mixing techniques in the olden analogue days (still is, of course), but was not widely done - more of a novelty by those who had radio engineering/ham background.
@snowwhitehair All the instruments here are tuned to A440 so there is no need for any artificial 'adjustments' as the other poster suggests. If you listen carefully to the Lichfield organ at 4:51 this is not at A440 but the segment is very short. All the other important instruments not taking part (and some are not in cathedrals) for a variety of reasons did not agree to take part.
@@ds1868 Thanks for clarifying. The other poster gave an interesting technical reply but I rather had my doubts especially as I noticed that the Lichfield organ was not at quite the same pitch as the others.
Bravo les diapasons!
WOW, LIVERPOOL !!!
Amazingly done! But, the pickardy third doesn’t give me the goosebumps like the minor ending does.
Wow! Ich habe bestimmt 50 verschiedene Versionen der 565. Alle sind irgendwie schön, nur gefallen mir die langsam, kraftvoll gespielten Interpretationen etwas besser. ...
Spot the organ which is not at concert pitch . . . . but maybe they adjusted it a little. But, NO Durham!!!
Well if they had included Peterborough before the recent rebuild to concert pitch you really would have noticed the difference!
@@ds1868 True, but Lichfield is/was also at "old" pitch. There is a short section of a little more half a bar, and it does sound very odd.
@@grahamtaylor3671 Yes a very brief appearance at 4:51. The old pitch at Peterborough was even more marked though, and a challenge to sing with.
Which one was digital? 😉
Blackburn Cathedral
Was that Colm Carey in Dublin?
the organits awesome! the editon could be far better
French & Saunders
Ending with a Picardy third = not cool.
Such a wonderful idea all the great organists we have all around the UK slightly irritated about the last chord not being Dminor
Get with modern whitewashing of anything beautiful.
Not to mention at least one American organist.....namely me.☹
Very cool collaboration! But why, why, why the D major chord at the end?😬
impressive , apart from the people that did it in vertical video, who should frankly be made to retake their bits ! You can't mix vertical and horizontal in one video it looks terrible.
Can you do an edit with a grand final chord chorus? Without the third...
No, of course they can't. Don't be silly. If you don't like it just go and look out your score and pencil in an accidental. It was probably there to begin with any way. And if it wasn't it should have been.
@@ZL54JK8 They also didn't specify major third, so now we're left to assume that they just wanted a D with a fifth. Medieval Bach. lol
Lots of gorgeous organ work - thank you so much for sharing! I have only one serious complaint. WTH, David Briggs?? Aside from the unnecessary added frenetic grace notes and trills, he ended on a freaking D MAJOR! :-/ I'm sorry, end the majestic Toccata and Fugue in D Minor on a bloody major chord?? That just destroyed my enjoyment. I don't care how internationally-acclaimed he is - that was stupid.
I don't think you really need to take this interpretation so seriously. It was after all a bit of fun for a good cause. I'm surprised you didn't focus your criticism on the fact that the instrument used here is an electronic, the main organ currently being cleaned and restored due to smoke damage. Still, for an electronic, it did sound rather good.
@ds1868 Thanks, but while we're sharing opinions, I don't think you need to tell other people how to react to videos. I said it was gorgeous. But to me, the enjoyment of the entire piece and the contributions of all the other organists was blown out of the water by that last chord. That's how it was for me. That was my experience, which I related in the comment. I've heard plenty of "interpretations" of this piece. Ending this with a major chord isn't an interpretation - it's a bastardization. It was annoying. It wasn't intellectual ("Gee, he played that last chord major... That's not right, so I'm gonna dislike the video"), it was a purely emotional reaction. I shared that reaction.
@@marccygnus Bravo Marc!
Cameron Carpenter did it also some time ago. I think, no one should try to improve JSBach. What a bad joke …
Lichfield somewhat subliminal
I don't like that mutilation of D-minor by the Blackburn Cathedral piper at 1:28 - 1:34.