🎵 Organ Recital from Arundel Cathedral | Richard McVeigh Organ Music

[@oaktadopbok665]

In my opinion, your playing, commentary, pedalwork, audio and video quality, and yes, even page-turning and stop-pulling are the lofty standards against which all future pipe organ videos will be judged. You are amazing, good sir!

[@denniscarlson1262]

I've listened to this complete program twice: once a year ago, and again just now. I can't get over--don't want to get over--how beautiful it all is musically and technically.

[@diannemills5594]

Thank you again. Listened this evenong 8 October 2022 and one of my favourite recitals. Blessings.

[@danielmakepeace1647]

Barber is hauntingly beautiful.

[@rogernichols1124]

The Vierne is endlessly satisfying to listen to. Thanks so much!

[@gugutkaG]

Impressive cathedral, excellent concert. Thank you from Croatia

[@lawrenceelliott350]

WOW!! (I keep saying that.) What a great program, incredibly well played, great organ, magnificent acoustic, perfect production qualities. I love watching and listening, it really brings the music to life. Thanks.

[@dudleydiehl6850]

I totally understand the relief you feel being able to play this. Being away from playing a pipe organ at all for almost 2 years, I miss it terribly. While being a pianist for a small local Unity church meets their real need through our virtual services, it does not fulfill the need I have to express so boldly and beautifully as I had done for almost 30 years. Meanwhile the Cathedral would be wise to have you step in and play more often for the protection of their instrument! Meanwhile a weekly series could be subscribed to as an additional source of funds for their ministries. Lastly THANK YOU for sharing your talents with all of the world during the pandemic.

[@diannemills5594]

Have just finished listening to this recital. Don't know how I hadn't found it before. Absolutely loved it. Thank you so much.

[@Sunshine-111]

Loved the last Vierne piece... haven’t heard it in years! Thank you ❤️😊

[@archbishoppatrick8544]

looks like you were dancing during the intro piece! Magic feet going with steam pouring off those fingers on the manuals... Wow!!

[@claudesteen1793]

Thank you so much! Your concert was top rate!! A great pleasure to watch and listen!

[@robertetherington614]

Thank you for giving us this nice treat The audio was fantastic so clear

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

Merci beaucoup for this. I think I now understand when I would wander into churches while the organist was playing and their reactions. It must be a lonely profession. But what a beautiful instrument, with beautiful sounds.

[@Highinsight7]

not ONLY a GREAT player... but a handsome smooth talker as well...

[@daviddaly9232]

A fantastic recital Richard .Thank you!!!!

[@paulddarlington3199]

A fine, fine instrument played by an equally fine organist. The lush strings are as warm and consoling in lower octaves as they are clear in their brilliant highest reaches. It's embarrassing to admit the Barber Adagio brought tears of satisfaction. Thank you Mr McVeigh for sharing the sounds of this organ in those acoustics, and for sharing your wonderful talent! I don't think I'd ever attempt the Bach with such runs on pedal. Wow. I felt like panting after the last chord decayed. Wow again.

[@marcdeleeuw2761]

Fabulous! I wish I once could play this beautiful organ...

[@daviddaly9232]

This was magnificent....Thank you Richard!

[@twood3270]

Great rendition of the Vierne piece! Damn, I liked the way you really seemed to "get into" the playing of that music. Thanks for allowing me (and others) to enjoy it.

[@henkvandervelden9563]

Hee Richard this is a Beautiful Organ !thanks Greetings Henk!

[@katydickson5547]

WOW!!!!! Superb recital. So enjoyed listening to it. 💖💖👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💝💝💝👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@kiieep381]

I have not heard Barber for a few years. You played Adagio for Strings so beautifully and with such expression here Richard. Thank you‼️

[@stephenchal]

I have only become aware of your website (via Piotr Grabowski's Hauptwerk link). Although based in NZ I have links with West Sussex as my father was born in Pulborough (or Cootham) in 1888 and his early life was spent working in Arundel Castle before he eventually emigrated in the 1920s. I have been fortunate in my visits to Arundel to have had access to the Cathedral organ and found it to be a fine instrument. I enjoyed your concert and can empathise with how low the temperatures can get!

[@chrismartin3188]

Great to hear it being played again. Thanks. Have lived in France for nearly 20yrs and miss the beautiful instrument and acoustics of Arundel

[@Mr05241948]

Beautifully executed on a wonderful pipe organ

[@mudgebauer]

The Vierne was just so exciting! I love this piece and you really did a great job as always. thanks.

[@charlesdavis7087]

Delicious. Well throughout Mendelssohn. Thanks for sharing music that you like.

[@richardduffy7926]

Richard, you make it look and sound so easy. Wow, that pedal work in the Bach fugue was flawless. A fantastic performance as usual.

[@johnnicholson8442]

FANTASTIC RECITAL! Also an amazing Hill organ. And it seemed to have fared very well despite recent lack of 'exercise'!

[@TurtleFL]

Very interesting what Richard said about the organ having to be turned on and played every so often. Cars are this way, too, as apparently many machines are. It seems to point to some inbuilt law in the universe that is an artifact of a living Being having created it; even machines have to be treated as if they are alive and need to be exercised, and not neglected or left unloved.

[@petertambling8237]

I hope you will play my late Son’s Trumpet Tune soon. Christopher Tambling holds the Record for being the youngest to play his own Organ Music in the Albert Hall London aged two days into his fourteenth year before a full House when he was at Christ Hospital School in 1972, at the Nat West Schools Festival.

[@petertambling8237]

His Publisher is J BUTZ VERLAG BONN.

[@janemazzola4454]

WOW! My first time to hear this performance. Your opening Bach "warm up for instrument & master" was superb! Without the "master's touch" the beautifully constructed instrument still will not "sing". Necessary duo!

[@beautyinsound]

I’m so glad you enjoyed this 😊

[@stuarthope3178]

Thanks for this. I love the Vierne! It's the single reason I started to learn the organ all those years ago!

[@oliverfrancis1851]

The Vierne is exquisite

[@christopherweaver9109]

Thoroughly enjoyed this. Thank you.

[@willg1604]

Very nice. Good articulation. Very clear and precise. Thank you!!

[@dawidspangenberg4699]

Beautifully played, as always. Very nice accoustics.

[@andrewjkm1]

Who on earth gives a thumbs down - 14 of them - to a video like this?

[@daveflanagan5723]

Magnificent sound!

[@timfees3233]

Beautiful renditions all! When I first took pipe organ lessons my teacher had me learn the Mendelssohn Sonata No. 1, second movement Adagio in Ab Major. I loved hearing you play it! I shall dig out the music for it.

[@rogerwilcock4572]

Listening with delight to the Hill, Arundel recital. Thank you Richard! Wasn’t intending to go ‘live’ but have been watching your posts re Hauptwerk due to a desire to replace our old Viscount Domus at another RC church in the diocese - St Thomas of Canterbury, Hastings ( great acoustic, too). Have spoken with Viscount about the Physis modelling and their new instruments. We have no money of course, other than some concert fundraising. But now I want my own Rotterdam! You’ve spoilt me. Hope for some conversation on the subject. Many, many thanks

[@tomparsons6177]

This is superb way out west here in Texas 👏😅😇😎

[@richardduffy7926]

Excuse me, but I must comment again. Your playing of the Barber Adagio was so very gorgeous and moving.

[@fluteharmonique8]

Very well recorded and played.

[@robertramsay5963]

Thanks for posting this, and please, don't let those spiders get a hold on and in those decorated pipes in the future. Keep them blown clean on a regular basis. A great acoustic indeed. And thank you for playing some pieces that aren't often heard at recitals. And finally, thank you for not ending with Widor's toccata from the 5th symphony. Thanks for posting a link to the organ specs: a Suabe Flute on the choir!!! That's a new one to me.

[@jerrymartin79]

This is such a wonderful gift - a fantastic recital, on a fantastic organ: some day you will have to teach us how you make such PERFECT recordings! (I know... trade secret at this time... ;) )

[@monaandersen2123]

The Holy Spirit is in your body Thank you Jesus Christ Messias Soly deo gloria All in Jesu namn Amen

[@scottnyc6572]

New subscriber here.I enjoyed this time listening to your excellent exercising performance on such a beautiful sounding organ.Thanks again

[@beautyinsound]

Great to have you onboard 😊

[@organtim7024]

BWV 532 🤤

[@markaustin4370]

Great playing!. The pedal division is so clear and precise. My only gripe is the upperwork on the manuals blurs the melodic line in this acoustic. Sort of mixture fog hiding the 8' line

[@markaustin4370]

The swell and Choir foundations are really lovely. Love the swell reeds... Very father Willis. Maybe it's the great mixture that' spoils the stew. All five octaves of the great sound exactly the same in pitch. Would love to hear you play the Barber on the 1937 Skinner at my home church in Southern California

[@scottdunavent]

I wish organists would study the technique and choices of stops that Diane Bish chose - how her choices engaged the listener to a degree that simply is not existent with most organists today

[@OneWayDesigns]

I thoroughly enjoy your channel! I have one request would you please give a rendition of "Festive Trumpet Tune"- David German? That is one of my favorite pieces. I know you'd definitely do an amazing job with that piece. Many blessings from Anderson SC, USA!!

[@beautyinsound]

Don't know this one.... is there a score available online?

[@OneWayDesigns]

@@beautyinsound yes it is. Its on Musecsore.com. Its a very bright piece, wonderful for a Sunday service or a wedding.

[@chet146]

👑🔥

[@TurtleFL]

I used to live in a Maryland county named Anne Arundel. I wonder if the cathedral and town there in England are named for the same Anne or her family.

[@TurtleFL]

Seems I have that a bit backwards. Anne Arundel was named for the place; her family were the Howards.

[@ds1868]

@@TurtleFL Named after Anne Arundell an ancient family from Cornwall England. Nothing to do with Arundel Cathedral and town in Sussex. More on Anne Arundell here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Arundell

[@capnclawhammer3024]

Sounds like our furnace plenum when it heats up...

[@lawrenceelliott350]

You referred to Arundel as a catholic cathedral. Did you mean Roman Catholic? I'm Anglo-Catholic so the distinction is important. Thanks. I love the organ, the program, and the commentary. Brilliant!

[@beautyinsound]

Roman Catholic. It’s a very Catholic town, and if you read up on the Duke of Norfolk (who’s seat is is in Arundel) you’ll see why.

[@woofaki5550]

Amazing aside from the shoes...

[@organbuilder272]

That Cannon is so rarely heard. Nice job - interesting weaving of the theme. Well done!! The Adagio, more use of Celestes.... Still beautiful. You are alone, the building can not bring disease. An empty building can not spread 19 either. The ban on playing is the result of hysterical people who have the power to say NO instead of thinking logically.

[@perrykendall6801]

It

[@willg1604]

I am wondering which edition of the Mendellsohn you are playing from?? Just curious to know? Thank you.

[@wouterattheorgan]

isnt this a reupload?

[@peterlewis8313]

Yes

[@rubenbotter]

Ey Wouter!

[@monaandersen2123]

Jesus say: come to me l will give you piease soli deo Gloria

[@socialite1283]

To be honest I've struggled with this performance of the Vierne Nr1 Finale. Sorry I can't give unreserved complements on this. Certainly a technically polished and well executed performance; but possibly a registration issue (to my ears anyway) - the sound seemed somewhat fat in tone and "thick", as if 16' and 8' were all competing against each other, and there were moments where pulse (not beat) stopped being so compelling (but can't always be helped without page turning assistance). That's how it seemed to my cloth ears anyway. Is that how you intended it to be? To me this glorious finale to Nr 1 seems to call out for rhythmic and melodic flamboyance of execution, with the strong melodic part always clearly heard cleanly above the constant pulsating sonic "effect" of the other parts that isn't so fast that the rhythmic shape of the melodic phrases can't be enjoyed - especially the exciting melodic pedal parts. What are your views on this? I'd be interested in hearing another version of this lovely piece by you done with clearer registration (less dominated by 16' on the keyboards), (very) slightly slower, and with utter flamboyance. Sorry but I think if you do it like that you'll utterly wow everyone who hears it and make Vierne very happy. :) Always seems to me that there is a lot in common between the music of French organ composers like Vierne and the music of the master JS Bach. Both need the bar-lines played, not just allowed to pass by. :)

[@tobysherring1369]

Please upload your recording and I'll happily compare them based on your critique.

[@socialite1283]

@@tobysherring1369 What recording? When I was playing in public none of us were recording our weekly performances.

[@tobysherring1369]

@@socialite1283 next time you play it, please record and upload. I'd love to hear it, as you sound like a real expert.

[@socialite1283]

@@tobysherring1369 I'm no expert. I do know what sounds musical with the French romantic and German baroque organ traditions, and Anglican tradition choral. I don't intend to upload any performance recordings - my playing days are long behind me. I do, however, have tertiary training and qualifications in Audio Engineering and Music Production and have done lighting and live audio for musical and regular theater.

[@monaandersen2123]

I am a solid g🎉round to built up your life on say Jesus Christ Messias in the Holy Spirit in Jesus blood and living wateer. Solie deo gloria All in Jesu namn Amen

[@NakedMuso]

Love the barber, but would rather keep the camera on yourself - completely missed that brilliant registration build.

[@koheikudo05oct89]

British church is needed in 🇯🇵

[@barryoakley8299]

The organ is a pipe organ and not electronic as you may have been led to believe.

[@beautyinsound]

Pardon?

[@henryharesdene4164]

Lots of REAL echo....

[@davidm2645]

Richard, please do me (and the organ) a huge favor...please remove the can of diet coke from console. I most enjoy your playing - good on you!

[@organbuilder272]

Is it really necessary to advertise how many peopl where in the cathedral. or that anything that was touched was wiped down. Focus on the orga and music. Drop this fascination with 19. it will be here for 2 more years... get on with life. Nice acoustics in this building, Organ could have been better picked up. Nice program as well. That is a husky organ. A lot of nice sound.

[@beautyinsound]

It was at the time, because Cathedrals here in the UK were closed at the time I recorded this video. The vast majority of people at the time were not able to leave their houses (even for work) so I was being open and transparent how I was allowed to play in a locked cathedral, and the precautions I took to ensure cleanliness. How would you suggest better picking up the organ? I used four Neumann KM184s; two place 'near' the pipes from the nave, and two placed about 12-feet behind to pick up the acoustic. What would you have done different? Best wishes, R.