Liszt: the whole schmeer on Youtube!

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and well played, too!

Go to http://www.youtube.com/view_play_lis...8C5F9BFCDA3BD1.

[Corno Dolce]

Aloha acc,

Thank you dear sir for finding this link - The kid playing is really musical - What a treat!

Humbly,

CD

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Who is that? It takes him forever to play the B-A-C-H Fantasie/Fugue, but he manages to do a nice job with it. They even had to divide it into two parts.

Sure is a lot of hand stop-changing. Guess that's why they invented pistons.

It will take me a while to listen to all that.

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This brings up a question: My understanding is that in the "old" days, organists played with "registrants" who manipulated the stops. But I've seen a lot of footage of Daniel Roth playing the well-known monster, and I've never seen any evidence of registrants. I have seen them on other tapings.

At the same time, I've seen videos of some ancient European organs on which the stops knobs were so far away there was no way the organist could reach them.

If you have ever seen a picture of the current console at First Congregational of L.A., it has solid rows of pistons under every manual, of which there are five. Must take a while to set all of those, then there's the problem of remembering what they all do!!

In perusing the above, I don't really mean that the organists "played with" the registrants, but you know what I mean!!

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It takes him forever to play the B-A-C-H Fantasie/Fugue, but he manages to do a nice job with it. They even had to divide it into two parts.

The two parts will always be necessary, unless someone were to play it in less than 10 minutes, which would be very fast indeed.

But it is true that Sebastian is not after speed records; he even takes more time than Daniel Roth, who probably has the slowest versions in my CD collection.

My understanding is that in the "old" days, organists played with "registrants" who manipulated the stops. But I've seen a lot of footage of Daniel Roth playing the well-known monster, and I've never seen any evidence of registrants. I have seen them on other tapings.

In most of these Roth clips, he plays works from the French romantic school. That music has been taylored by the composers (Franck, Widor, Vierne) to those particular instruments in such a way that the organist can handle everything on his own, mainly using the spoons to introduce/retract mixtures and reeds from any given manual. This is not surprising, since those composers were organists themselves, and therefore had a first-hand practical knowledge of what is feasible and what is not. This is less true for Liszt.

At the same time, I've seen videos of some ancient European organs on which the stops knobs were so far away there was no way the organist could reach them.

You mean, something like here:

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That picture,acc, looks to me like the console of the superb Marcussen Organ in the Great St Laurence Church, Rotterdam (Rotterdam Cathedral). Am I right ?
rk

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Could have been, I guess — but this one actually is the Hinsz-organ of the Bovenkerk in Kampen.

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Well!well! How very similar it looks.

[mathetes1963]

Could have been, I guess — but this one actually is the Hinsz-organ of the Bovenkerk in Kampen.

Beautiful instrument, I have some of Daniel Chorzempa's Bach CD's he did there.