🎹 CAEN is the largest Cavaillé-Coll available for Hauptwerk (Demonstration)

[@jerrymartin79]

Superb demonstration of what is arguably the best Hauptwerk sample set - I think this is a must for students, enthusiasts and professionals alike. The ability to realize the registrations the French masters intended (and figure out how to use all the ventils) brings a new dynamic to the music.

[@keplergso8369]

I got it in Hauptwerk set, sound is wonderful, especially for Franck, Vierne, Widor or Dupré. I've played on real Cavaillé-Coll's, I got back the feelings of the sound when I was a real organist and young ! I had a dream : the sample of the Saint-Ouen Cavaillé-Coll, from Rouen !! For Bach, I love the Friesach organ. I've owned Hauptwerk for three weeks, a short time ago, so for the moment I use only these two intruments, but I find it is sufficient. I am a piano teacher. Jacques, from France.

[@James1623]

Fantastic demonstration Richard! You’re an extremely talented musician and an absolute Joy to listen too and watch! This is probably the best simulated organ I’ve ever heard I definitely could have imagined myself being somewhere like Saint Sulpice ❤️

[@JMcdon1627]

I absolutely love this organ, the Messiaen, and the great performance by the organist. My interest in the organ began in 1963 when I first heard an 8 ft. Trompette begin the hymn, God of Our Fathers, and later, Dr. Richard Peek played this Messiaen piece when he recorded his one and only album at The Covenant Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, NC. Thank you.

[@leylinegoddess]

i am entranced by the cameras with your foot work totally fascinating. thanks.

[@peterbrand7131]

Can’t get enough of this/you Richard.

[@trevororme4646]

Brilliant demonstration and playing as always, Richard. You NEVER cease to amaze me. Love the way you superimpose (?) your own manuals and hands onto the Virtual Console. Ingenious. God bless the ventils too. Best wishes as always. Trevor x

[@kenmerola4797]

Again, another thoroughly enjoyable evening listening to you demonstrate this amazing instrument (and Hauptwerk)! Greetings from Toronto, Canada.

[@petebaron-krieger4659]

Certainly a great presentation....sorry missed live chat & performance. Really appreciate all that you do Richard....such a gift & blessing 💖 Thank you!!

[@robertmartin5494]

Thank You Again for sharing your talents, knowledge, including your wife's work. In these videos. Bravo. Thank You.

[@user-xj4ce5gv8w]

Die Wahrnehmung (meine) erzeugt bei mir beim Hören jeden Registers oder deren Zusammenklänge (oder deren Unterordnung unter einen Cantus Firmus) sofort ein erweitertes Wahrnehmungsbewusstsein über den eigenen Körper hinaus...zum Kirchenraumkörper hin, zur natürlichen Aussenwelt, den Himmel ect. dazu einnehmend ect. Dann fühle ich mich g a n z . Dank an alle wunderbaren Organisten....Irmhild.

[@user-zz8ds8or3k]

Thanks Richard, after hearing this one can only hope for more (if not ALL !!) of the many Cavaillé-Coll masterpieces to become available for Hauptwerk

[@NancyGerst]

This is a lovely, wonderful demonstration. Thank you so much.

[@WilbertBerendsen]

A really Excellent demonstration! With all the snippets of the literatures I've grown to love. Also a great tribute to the excellent musical quality of this instrument in Caen. Great for almost any musical style!

[@noiselesspatient]

As much as I love the noise and kaleidoscopic colour of Dudelange, this remains my favourite large non-British symphonic organ on Hauptwerk. Utterly ravishing, especially through decent headphones, and thanks for having enough RAM and understanding of the aesthetic not to thin out the foundations: every harmonic counts with Cavaillé-Coll! Thanks for this lovely demo (esp the Duruflés) 🙏🏻

[@terryr.sublimeorganmusic]

Great introduction to the stops. I'll use this as a tutorial to help me understand my new organ. It doesn't have all the voices but has a Cavaille-Coll setting. The registrations you showed will help me combine mine. Especially enjoyed the mini Veni Creator and the Messiaen and the bits of other French pieces. 🎹🎶

[@gianni2119]

My favourite set!

[@jv04jm]

This was absolutely stunning from start to finish! The beauty contained in this "box of whistles" is almost surreal! Bravo!!! And I see you picked very appropriate and "sweet" socks! :p

[@beautyinsound]

It's really stunning isn't it? There are some really super Hauptwerk samples out there.... stay tuned for more demonstrations in the near future :)

[@bastouneuroatypicmusic6885]

So much beauty...

[@canticus7068]

Very marvellous demonstration! Thank you, Richard!

[@MortenMalvik_Composer]

Lovely demonstration! Marvellous sound! Lurker here, seen many of your vids but forgot to subscribe! There, done! Really appreciate your effort, you are a true artist!

[@fburton8]

Re the Messiaen piece... it's a good thing organs don't run out of breath!

[@peterallison5021]

I loved this a lot. I went on to listen to a recording a friend made a couple of years ago of this organ, of Cesar Franck in SACD

[@orgue3461]

Thanks Richard for this super demo! You give enough time for each stop/combination to sink in. I've loved the sound of the Caen C-C for years, & your demo enables me to hear C-C's astonishingly beautiful voices in such great detail. Very grateful

[@beautyinsound]

Glad you enjoyed it Nic!

[@alunnoll3059]

Thank you fantastic demo. Much appreciated

[@keplergso8369]

You know what ? I dream about the sample of the Cavaillé-Coll of Saint-Ouen in Rouen !!! Without any extra stops. Jacques, from France.

[@beautyinsound]

Wouldn't that be marvellous?! :D

[@keplergso8369]

@@beautyinsound I should sell my car to buy the sample. I talked about my car cause I don't have parents nor kids ! lol

[@Doeff8]

Thank you so very much for demonstrating this organ! This demonstration will become the standard demo on youtube for this organ, without any doubt. Of course I hit the paypal link! Would love to buy a CD with your performances of Messiaen.

[@beautyinsound]

Koen, I have a 'live' recording of me playing at York Minster (UK) and I also plan to record it on this Caen Hauptwerk organ in December, but let's see! :)

[@deckiers2531]

I love these Hauptwerk demos, Cavaillé-Coll has to be my favourite. I see you don’t prescribe to Aristide’s philosophy of having the great on the bottom manual 😊. Love the socks!

[@wprz]

Very nice demo! Superb sound!

[@tensorprodukt]

That beginning of "tu es petra" sounded Sexy :-D

[@keplergso8369]

I own this sample, it is marvellous to play Franck, Vierne 😜... I made already some videos on KZbin, even to play Bach.

[@FredMellink55]

Well, there is one larger Cavaille-Coll organ available for Hauptwerk: Aristide "1,2" which is a combination of this Caen sample-set, CC ND Metz plus the demo sample set of Dom Bedos. This mix simulates the big and famous Covallie- Coll organ of Abbaye St. Ouen in Rouen.

[@dougstorace321]

There is also the Grand Symphonic Cavaille-Coll extension set, which utilizes Caen, Metz, Dom Bedos AND the Rotterdam Marcussen. The GSCC also features an expressive Positif.

[@wouterattheorgan]

I must say having played this set alot, its a very good set for franck

[@bluefunkybassman]

Amazing, Richard!!!

[@josephbrandtner7713]

BRAVO!

[@georgemurphy2579]

They must have used the 32' C. Bombarde from a different application. This organ does not possess this stop. Sterling performance!

[@dougstorace321]

Or one was created for this sample set through digital pitch shifting.

[@benediktwoll]

Well done! Is it the Original Caen-Reverb? Do you use some extra IR? Thanks for an answer!

[@musicisitall]

beauty in sound and in your eyes :P

[@beautyinsound]

Don't make me blush..... ;)

[@alisabirula5039]

Dear Richard, thank you very much for such precise demonstration of the organ and of course beautiful playing. I was wondering... what was the piece you were playing after Franck, at 10:05?

[@paulhair6600]

Você poderia falar e demonstrar o Órgão da Escola de Música Pítea. É o Órgão que mais tenho usado das amostras do Grabowsky. Eu acho muito completo, meu preferido junto com o Friesach

[@carrington2158]

Richard could I commision you to set up a Hauptwerk system for me, as you will know exactly what is required to create a Cathedral sound. Regards Peter

[@henryharesdene4164]

Have you bought ALL the Hauptwerk sound sets?? (a retorical question) - but it's a jolly good way to present this excellet product!!

[@tonymurphy7610]

I had to pop off to the Beeb for the proms [Dublin, no player : ( ]. I'll listen to this after dinner. If you like Caen, you should consider St Omer. It's far more subtle (not as brash, or loud in the reeds), but has enough old pipes to do justice to the earlier French organ masses. Not as good for later 20th century stuff, but still very beautiful. (It still rocks with Mulet!). Another one to SERIOUSLY consider is Armley. Once you have used it, it's hard to leave. The sounds are just SO nice. The surround can be weird, until you use 3 sets of speakers. Then all makes sense! (hint: assign Echo to Gt. Most of the uses of the Echo are with Ch/Sw. hint ii: all the 8's on the echo work with the undulant. Amazingly well!!)

[@tonymurphy7610]

P.s. The RAH organ sounded incredibly well earlier.......

[@tonymurphy7610]

PPs Did you revert to the French order of manuals halfway through the Recit reeds??????????

[@jean-marcpipet6801]

La démonstration est superbe mais il ne s’agit pas du grand Cavaille-Coll de St Etienne de Caen. On entend ici un orgue néo-classique aux sonorités aiguës et certains jeux ont même été ajoutés, ils n’existent pas sur l’orgue de St Etienne. Je salue quand même la performance de l’organiste.

[@thomaswalters4365]

Great demo, but I noticed that the Positif 16' Basson was left out.

[@keplergso8369]

One question : how do you proceed to make a video in the same time you play ? First you film yourself when playing, then you convert your MIDI file in audio file, and finally you make a editing with the audio file and the video ? Jacques, from France.

[@charlieterry5357]

Amazing sound this organ makes, when Caen was blown to smithereens by both sides, when the Allies landed back in France after D Day!

[@intestellarknight]

what is the piece played at 15:40 ? i love this sound !

[@FrancescoDamianiBach]

Very beautiful organ and music examples. For non-experts (like me) of the romantic organ repertoire, it would be great to know the names of all music excerpts played. Thanks!

[@beautyinsound]

Glad you enjoyed it Francesco :)

[@jakeallinson]

Are the pedal reeds all discrete ranks, i.e. the 8' is a separate rank to the 16' (and to the 32' at St Ouen for example)?

[@kruimel66]

Marvelous demonstration of course...but why do you not use the original manual divisions? GO on lower, and POS on middle...

[@beautyinsound]

I sometimes do. Depends what repertoire I’m playing.

[@kruimel66]

@@beautyinsound Now I understand why you need more manuals.......🙂. Well, Caen is still my favourite sampleset,, and I noticed some nice combinations to try myself...thkss a lot!

[@tubamaxima187]

Excellent demonstration. I have this sample set and wanted to ask some questions about settings, etc. Is there a way to concact Richard McVeigh ? I also have a 200+ stop custom made Hauptwerk Cavaille-Coll. I need some recommendations.

[@RudiKeersemaker]

Yeah, in the description is his email address

[@FatherToddBoyce]

Richard, thank you so much for this video! I have a question - by way of comparison with the MDA Notre-Dame de-Metz Cavaille-Coll. I find that with the Metz Cavaille-Coll there's a large delay or latency between pressing the key/pedal and the sound coming forth - no matter what the latency settings in my computer and in HW. For whatever reason, I don't have this problem with my other MDA sample sets. Does the Caen sample set have that problem? If not, I'm interested in switching. Again, thank you for this demonstration!! Todd+

[@deckiers2531]

I don’t have any delay on my version of the Caen.

[@jsbe1429]

There is a serious keyboard setting error. The positive, in the Cavaillé Coll with three manuals, is the second keyboard, the one in the middle. The Great Organ is the first keyboard and the Recit is the third at the top. You have to respect the settings of the original organ, this detail is very important. Thank you!

[@beautyinsound]

It’s not an error - it’s completely intentional. Here in England the Positif is on the bottom manual, GO on the middle and Recit on the top. It was entirely my choice to have the manuals set up on this way, and the great thing about Hauptwerk is that people can choose how they arrange their manuals. Infact, on Organs such as Notre Dame in Paris, organists can switch the keyboards around. Thanks for your comment 😊

[@jsbe1429]

BEAUTY in SOUND So it's true, a person can do what he wants, and this is one of the nice opportunities of HAUPTWERK. But, in my opinion, it is also important to respect to the maximum, the arrangement of the original organs. We take as an example: if I were, in the future, to do a concert on an original Cavaille Coll, and they are all set so, apart from the option not used by anyone , in truth, at Notre Dame, it would be important to try so. And then, playing so makes you better understand the music written for these instruments by Franck, Widor, Vierne makes it more familiar is similar to how she was thought If she also does musical education, I think it is important to respect this. It's a shame not to, given his skill in the performances of the various music schools Greetings!

[@mmaybrown]

Just a quick question. What is the piece at 3:08? Wonderful music and playing

[@beautyinsound]

I can’t remember whether it was made up or whether it was improvised. There is a combination of short pieces and improvisations in this video, but the pieces are well-known french ditties.

[@fburton8]

May I ask what the piece at 23:15 is? It's a lovely tune. A bit of of the Trompette line reminds me of the theme in Mercury from Holst's Planet Suite.

[@beautyinsound]

It's Duruflé's 'Prélude sur l'Introit de l'Épiphanie' :)

[@fburton8]

@@beautyinsound Thank you, Richard!

[@ivansantrizos8483]

Is there a recording somewhere of just the 8' Montre? I'd like to compare this with Diapason stops of other styles of organs

[@beautyinsound]

Do you mean like at 30:07? I don't know of any commercial recordings of this stop being used by itself - I think that would be a very rare thing...

[@lucase.garcia8026]

I have friesach and with the happy bell in the back ringing. With that I'm really fine ... if I put Caen in my pc it would surely explode.

[@urbanviii5103]

If this is from a living room, how is it that we see your hands playing what looks like a Cavaillé-Coll?

[@danw1955]

movie magic! (i.e. frame within a frame).😁

[@woolfy7824]

please, what's the piece on minute 24-25 called and what composer , when you try the Gambe on the Grand Orgue?

[@beautyinsound]

It’s the opening of Dupre’s Noel Variations. I chose it because he specifically asks for a Gambe in the score 😊

[@woolfy7824]

@@beautyinsound Thank you so much !

[@orgue3461]

@@beautyinsound Such a distinctive voice of C-C (amongst many) - top choice

[@joelwilli5365]

Could you make a short Demonstration of the perspectives from the latest update?

[@beautyinsound]

I do indeed, along with a recital. I haven't done a recital on Caen since mid-last year (well, I did the Messiaen), so it's about time I did another one!

[@joelwilli5365]

@@beautyinsound Great news! Thank you for your respond.

[@mudgebauer]

Im not too interested in the demos of the various stops. I prefer to just see and hear the music, so I skipped over everything and went to the music at the end. thanks .

[@WilbertBerendsen]

I very much like the individual stop demonstrations. They show the sheer quality of Cavaillé-Coll's organ voicing (and of the sampleset recording!) and Richard demonstrates each stop with a perfectly suitable musical snippet :)

[@bowlerrollercoaster]

Now Nancy is the largest

[@beautyinsound]

True..... somewhat. Nancy isn't entirely CC - it's a mongrel of an organ in the sense that it's now comprised of various organ builders. It still retains the very CC sound because of its reeds (Bombarde and Pedale, largely). I suppose this title is still true because Caen is still the largest entirely Cavaille-Coll available. Which one do you prefer, by the way?

[@bowlerrollercoaster]

@@beautyinsound I don't own either but from what I've heard, Nancy has more realistic reverb. I can't afford to get a Hauptwerk organ that is why. But I like the Notre Dame de Metz organ by Milan Digital Audio. I wish I could actually play a A. Cavaille-Coll Organ someday. I know you have played at Sees Cathedral. My favorite Cavaille-Coll Organs I've heard are Saint-Sulpice, Saint Ouen Abbey Church, and Saint Sernin. I have never been to France, but It would be a dream for me as an organist.

[@bowlerrollercoaster]

@@beautyinsound Even Saint-Sulpice is not entirely built by Aristide Cavaille-Coll. It was first built by Francois-Henri Clicquot I think.