I wish I'd chosen to click on this thread yesterday when I had the USB stick with several mp3s of some organs around here! This is a nice idea.
I have one clip to hand which is the superb J. W. Walker and Sons organ in our Town Hall (the organ is celebrating it's 20th birthday this year so it's starting to sound quite well "settled in"
). This is still my favourite instrument (in this city anyway) and I've had the immense pleasure of performing on it many times over the years, mostly in solo recitals but also occasionally with the city's Symphony Orchestra and numerous choirs. The instrument has been beautifully voiced (although possibly a little on the loud side for this particular auditorium but that's never bothered me because it's nice being able to drown out a Symphony Orchestra from time to time
)
This is one of the few recordings of me that I'm still relatively pleased with
(despite a few unfortunate slips). I was privileged to have been able to devote a whole recital to Jehan Alain on the 60th anniversary of his death
(I have regrettably been unable to do so on the same scale this year for the 70th) and when it came to doing
Litanies, I chose to (for reasons that still escape me) close the score and perform from memory (I may have felt as though I wanted no distractions or something
).
Anyway, for what it's worth, mp3 is attached below.
And for info on the organ including history, specs and photos:
http://www.ohta.org.au/organs/organs/AdelaideTH.html
(The first error is the address which should read "
King William st" !)
[technical info for anyone interested: I didn't have my lovely Zoom H4 back then because it didn't exist, so this would have been done with two PZMs (which I doctored with higher voltage input for a better frequency response) going to a Sony DAT. All moot anyway since it's now been compressed to mp3!!]