Catalina Vicens - Medieval Portative Organ / Rondeau - C. Cooman, 2014

[@xris9593]

Impressively tight timing between bellows work and right hand (how do you get such long phrases!!) and such joy in the playing, it's like you are singing everything (well, you are!). Unusual delicate effects I've never heard anyone else get out of any portative. Utterly lovely.

[@RodericSpode]

That would be perfect for my tiny cathedral.

[@saharatul]

Just get a harmonium, more convenient

[@RodericSpode]

@@saharatul Or a bigger cathedral.

[@richardharrold9736]

​@@saharatul except harmoniums all sound utterly awful.

[@johnsheehan7348]

This week I have seen two instruments I've never seen before, and this is the third - and I want EACH ONE!! Santa, please take note.

[@anatborodin5907]

What are the others?

[@matador1111]

dont leave us hanging.. please tell us wat the first two instruments were

[@johnsheehan7348]

@Gennady Golovkin The first was I believe called a cucurbit, a long flute-like instrument with a sound like a gentle bagpipe, only without the drone. The other - don't know the name, but a stringed instrument, bowed but with a keyboard for fingering - perhaps six strings? Capable of great virtuosity and wonderful sound.

[@anatborodin5907]

@@johnsheehan7348 i just bought a cucurbit online. I don't know how long delivery will take. Have you heard the duduk? It is amazing

[@johnsheehan7348]

@@anatborodin5907 Actually heard it - I am living in Amman, Jordan and not long ago there was a concert at which that and an Oud were played with some other instruments. Armenian evening

[@suzannederringer1607]

My ST. CECILIA Statue (Patroness of Music - I'm a Soprano) is carrying a Portative Organ. But I never heard one until now. How beautifully she plays it! What a haunting soft sound!

[@cmennenger]

Such big sound from a small package. The instruments of the medieval period produced such a wide variety of sound. Nothing simple or primitive about it. Thanks for sharing her skills and the organ as well.

[@bruceherrera4727]

Love how she believes the song, she tells the story and enjoys it.

[@WoodymC]

@PLEASENINTENDONT

[@HamsterPants522]

@Daniel Del Valle You're acting more arrogant than anyone else here.

[@HamsterPants522]

@Daniel Del Valle Life is a subjective experience. Everyone is ignorant of most things, and everyone has their own perspectives on everything. I'm not telling you that you can't speak your mind, but I think you've chosen a very superficial position. It doesn't matter how people judge music. Music is not important beyond personal preference.

[@HamsterPants522]

@Daniel Del Valle You seem to misunderstand me. What I'm telling you isn't a lesson, and I have no reason to care about your education or supposed qualifications on the study of music. What I'm attempting to explain is that there's absolutely no reason to expect anyone to believe that your opinion on the matter of music is important, and that is because all value is subjective.

[@ttwiligh7]

@Daniel Del Valle Didn't your degrees teach you how to behave in internet? Your language for mocking people is quite disgraceful. Why so angrily agitated all the time and overreacting to little things? "He just wanted teach a little kid a lesson." Yeah, right. There is absolutely nothing wrong about it. I rather found something ill in your comments. Nobody cares about you resume because it's not very helpful here. Not even educational. It's also very childish that you making the issue like American vs Something else.. where individual differences count more. (I don't agree on bashing European like that either ) I'm Japanese living in the United States, but it doesn't matter I'm American or not, what I say in more important than who I am (and how many degrees I have.. sigh...) Yeah, you are worse than a little kid here. You need a serious lesson. A person who got REAL education never acts like you do.

[@sco7642]

There's nothing cooler than watching someone play an instrument and really get into the emotion of the music.

[@monsterjazzlicks]

One of the most powerful and accurate statements I have ever heard regarding the connection between the performer and listener! 👍

[@DanaTheLateBloomingFruitLoop]

Amazingly played! The full use of the bellows really adds so much! If it sounds so wonderful now, I can't even imagine what it will be like when it's all grown up.

[@ronm3245]

Hearing an instrument like this helps me to understand how "modal" music was once such a big thing.

[@edwardhanson3664]

One of the classic troubadour instruments. There is a replica displayed at Musee du Quercorb in Puivert, France.

[@leechowning2712]

It would be a fun one to try and recreate. Not for the faint of heart.

[@ninarochette1671]

Making a note to stop there for an afternoon. Thanks!

[@artgoat]

The breath dynamics make all the difference. It makes it so much more organic and expressive than a pipe organ. I love the little thump when the air valve closes, too. It's almost percussion.

[@edwardhanson3664]

It IS a pipe organ, just a small one.

[@johnigoe1705]

And there is no "breath" here... the dynamics are only slighly controlled by the bellows. As in all PIPE ORGANs, the pipe is either on or off. The "percussion" you hear is not a valve, but rather a deliberate feature of the pipe's mouth. It is called "chiff"

[@sneadh1]

Like a bagpipe, it has drone pipe(s). The Irish bagpipe has a bellows like this, not a mouthpiece.

[@artgoat]

@@johnigoe1705 Listen more carefully with better speakers or headphones. She dynamically goes from soft to loud for emphasis, which you can't do on a pipe organ at all, because the air box is supplied at a constant pressure. The little thump I'm referring to is the air valve closing when she puts pressure on the bellows, not the "chuff" at the start of each note. Again, you need good speakers to hear it. A cell phone is worthless.

[@benwinter2420]

@@sneadh1 Like the banjo drone string

[@AndromedaCripps]

God I cannot get enough of this piece, this performance, this instrument!!!! I have been a lover of the portative organ for years, but this piece just makes the instrument SING!!! Beautiful!!!

[@user-cw5ks1rm2b]

I was surprised,because I saw the small oggan first time . I am 72 years old and live in Japan. First time. Thank you "you cube", give me present such music & picture. 小林憲一郎　2019/12/26

[@jacobpruzon6260]

Awesome!

[@cycloptical26]

OMG, I'm smitten and on a multitude of levels!

[@iuva2]

this is the Platypus of music instruments. I love it

[@kennys9644]

This was one of the most beautiful and moving things I have ever heard in my life

[@jonliinason3]

What a beautiful performance, such brilliant artistry, thank You Catalina!

[@earthlightsmusic2743]

She plays much as a fiddler or harper might play, really flowing with the music. Well done.

[@Stefkicksass]

I've seen this instrument before, being played by angels in renaissance era paintings. But I always assumed it was a fake joke instrument thought up by imaginative painters.

[@fnersch3367]

Angels are portrayed playing all kinds of instruments, all of which I knew of and are very real. The little organetto was always a mystery as they went extinct and disappeared suddenly and not to be seen until early music revival in the 1960s. Today a dutch maker will make you one for 4-10K. These are complex instruments and require great skill & time to build. I know first hand as I have built several pipe organs myself.

[@gabrieldefreitascoelhocarr9556]

This values 4-10k, are in Euro or in Dolar?

[@frien_d]

Why fake? Positive organs are the most ancient instruments around after percussions: we can trace them back to 200+ b.c.

[@fnersch3367]

@@gabrieldefreitascoelhocarr9556 -Euros, as they are made in Europe.

[@gabrieldefreitascoelhocarr9556]

@@fnersch3367 so in my country currency it would cost about 40k without taxes

[@user-gu9co4li9l]

Catalina, your performance renders the ineffable into something clearly effable. With closed eyes and an epiphanous smile, you breathe the song out with the bellows, articulating the notes with the keyboard. You and the organ become the music of the gods. Thank you❣ 😎 😎 {Certified old curmudgeon}

[@clavecinvicens]

Thank you!!

[@florian8599]

It's like providing the audio to a medieval portrait of Saint Cecilia playing the portative...

[@JeffersonMartinSynfluent]

Interesting that she can set a drone in the tonic sounding almost like a reedless harmonium.

[@TurtleFL]

She did that with a capo that held down the D.

[@thustra07]

Watching you play is a beautiful experience. If I were deaf you’d have my full attention.

[@samuelecallegari6117]

A band that used it both in studio and live shows was Jethro Tull.

[@CarlosVargas-cn7rx]

And wow, they really knew how to use it!!!

[@jamiestewart4831]

Also Shirley Collins, Dolly Collins - Barbara Allen from True Loves Knot

[@VaggelisTs]

What a pleasure of the soul to hear this organ.. I love it

[@YoloLollipops]

A song played perfectly can never compare to a song played with full emotion and devotion. While the former can please your ears, the latter can touch your very soul.

[@robynlynnellebaker3378]

How amazingly cool is this?? Just stunning! And I love the joy with which she’s playing. 💕

[@sophiamoe9286]

It has the delicateness, timbre, suppleness, and the quality of a soprano voice!!!!! It sounds feminine!!!!!

[@kevsongsandarrangements]

Yo man let’s bring this instrument back into modern life. Such a cool instrument!

[@MrRexquando]

I've listen to this dozens of times and each time it takes me somewhere and I can't explain it. Crazy

[@plutarchvonpluto6439]

That's the kind of music I want to hear in a fantasy game!

[@arjantjeee]

Listen to final fantasy crystal chronicles OST music. They use this instrument and many more other medieval instruments

[@996TwinTurbo911]

I hope she uploads more medieval music on this portative organ, I love it.

[@clavecinvicens]

996TwinTurbo911 I will very soon!

[@aidancampbell78]

What a beautiful sound and a beautiful woman playing.

[@VinnieSutra]

I've never seen one, but very cool indeed. Wonderfully played.

[@marshallartz395]

The composition by Carson Cooman, “Rondeau” *from* “Tres Novas Cantigas” *(2014),* is extraordinarily evocative and beautiful, and obviously superbly well played by Catalina Vicens. Really transporting music. 😎🎹

[@Hunter-xv7kz]

St. Cecilia, pray for us!

[@darb.musica]

I've never seen this instrument before, amazing! great performance too!

[@alexstorr3357]

What an interesting sound, I really enjoyed your performance! Thank you

[@gatozarin]

I watched Catalina in Funchal (Madeira, Portugal). Amazing experience

[@kwagner49]

What a fascinating video. The drone note adds elements of bagpipes.

[@MaggieD0123]

Immaculate performance. Its amazing what this music does when I close my eyes. Thank you!

[@enriquerojas7186]

Qué hermosa música y que hermosa mujer, además de un gran sentimiento. Felicidades!.

[@enriquerojas7186]

Gracias por compartir tu talento, saludos desde la Ciudad de México.

[@nicolascruzat6881]

My mind, going, traveling in the time to the days in who i is searching the pace for my spirit in my castle. 🇨🇱❤️🇪🇦🇯🇪🇵🇹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇲🇫

[@ANDREWB7360]

absolutely fantastic instrument .ever seen one before . well played

[@smguy7]

Seduced! - by both the music and the performance!

[@lamegoldfish6736]

I love unusual musical instruments. ❤

[@soarornor]

Check this out. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aXmzZZqgf9Jnq7M Taken at the Musical Instrument Museum in Arizona.

[@sultanvoices]

Incredible performance and sound. I’ve never heard anything quite like this as an acoustic instrument. Imagine a collaborative performance or recording with Sarah Davachi.

[@uapuat]

Such a wonderful musician. And what a beautiful tone out of that instrument.

[@copperleaves]

A delightful composition played with great sensitivity.❤️

[@verobarrionuevo]

I didn't know this instrument even exist! Amazing. And she looks so happy playing it

[@johnallen7854]

Awesome music, awesome lady!

[@user-tn4nr5hm6u]

It's your enthusiasm as well as the " chiffy-ness" of this organ that gets me.

[@kimc3024]

Fascinating instrument! Never saw or heard one before. I'm into massive Gothic cathedral pipe organs, but this is really cool!

[@Michael_______]

I could listen to you play all day

[@holp]

On the really old organs, there used to be two men in the back of the organ taking turns stepping on an air mechanism that send air through the organ. They had to time themselves perfectly to make sure there was airflow that never stopped.

[@anthonydeville5976]

Vic Wat bellows, are what they’re called

[@holp]

@@anthonydeville5976 haha, ty

[@antarcticaresearchprogram8349]

Amazing, thanks for introducing me to this cool instrument. I always loved the organ.

[@billwillson890]

Never had I heard a portative played like this!

[@friedrichkertoja]

Amasing instrument indeed. Thank's for the video

[@manueldriggs7099]

I can't listen to this beautiful piece once. I end up listening to this over and over at least ten times. So much happens. It never sounds the same. This peace is so beautiful! I close my eyes and it's like I am transported to another world. Sometimes I can't help it but weep at the beauty I am hearing.

[@clavecinvicens]

Manuel Driggs thank you so much!

[@stephendickinson]

Wonderfull little organ, lovely music and beautifull playing - thankyou for posting

[@tm502010]

What a lovely performance. A truly extraordinary instrument!

[@capjoartist1200]

Very beautiful and romantic music ❤❤❤❤

[@justmusic822]

Thanks, Ms Vicens, for sharing this interesting en beautiful instrument, as well as the music. Much appreciated!

[@hyrdrogenalpha]

Such passion!

[@PieroEm1977]

Magnífico , que arte tan hermoso ,.la Música Medieval es misteriosa hermosa , me encanta ♥️

[@mdt2688]

Grazie per un'attimo sono tornato indietro di secoli...

[@mvmarchiori]

I love music with drone bass. Hits me different somehow. Beautiful performance, thank you!

[@davestonehill6177]

I have never heard of this instrument before. But I like it. And she does a great job. Very enjoyable.

[@lukejohnston5566]

The variation in bellows pressure to vary the tembre of the instrument by forcing overtones... you'd think she was playing with multiple ranks of full pipes. Absolutely stunning mastery of such an esoteric (to the modern audience) instrument.

[@SafetySpooon]

Wonderful!! SO talented!!

[@antoniaprunes6262]

Hermosa música que me transporta a lejanías insospechadas de armonía a lo largo del tiempo.❤

[@alilo821]

I’m not sure what’s more gorgeous, the instrument or the musician playing it

[@cruisebumify]

Awesome! Never seen that instrument before.

[@sergios123456]

I totally adore you…..i wish you all the best from Italy…..take care and keep playing..❤️

[@magdahearne497]

I've never seen this intrument played before, I love the sound... thank you so much for sharing.... It reminds me of music/instruments from the game Crystal Chronicles 💖

[@yidneth]

What an amazing music instrument, It makes me want to dance and sing along

[@Jynx215]

Very interesting! There's a human-like quality to this instrument that's lost with a big machine like a church organ. Operating the bellows by hand allows for such expressiveness and intimacy, almost like it was breathing. Interesting to see the roots of the "king of instruments"

[@kingvandit8234]

what a lovely sound!

[@AstOak125]

Beautiful to listen to and watch

[@AL-ns1jm]

Beautiful

[@VeryBadTim]

Your passionate performance style is very inspiring!

[@kartax0728]

VeryBadTim deux ans aprem quelqu’un te réponds

[@TiqueO6]

This has everything I can want from an instrument and musician! To think I've missed out on this for 2 years is a sweet agony but then again I only recently heard the incredible group Mala Punica just recently. I think they might use this in combination with equally divine voices and other probably rarely seen or mastered Medieval instruments. I'm in instant devotee of Catalina's and will be purchasing as much of her music as possible in furtherance of music and in repayment for her/their great generosity here on youtube.

[@HBSuccess]

Your grasp of written English is spectacular for a two yr old. Oxford grad by age five?

[@TiqueO6]

Tioga Fretworks haha! Jealous? 😜

[@Geoplanetjane]

:-)

[@jansendimas]

Positive Vibes from Brazil!

[@dmswan3172]

What a cool instrument - great playing and I like the sound.

[@mrradman2986]

The sound feels like it transports you directly back in time. Wonderful!

[@TheScreamingFrog916]

Surprisingly expressive instrument, in her masterful hands. Thanks for sharing this kind of beautiful music with us. I have always loved drone instruments/music, and have listened to many types of drone instruments, but I have never heard this one before. It has a very special sound. Nice reverb in that room too.

[@ellisek22]

Oh my god! What a wonderful instrument and music! And how marvelous musician you are.. :) Uuu... I think i NEED to have organetto..

[@svetlanachmykhalova2765]

Che gioia...! Grazie mille!!!

[@marcodevries4481]

Beautiful and beautiful!

[@RosssRoyce]

So lovely! No one knows how the music in Ancient Rome sounded like and everyone will tell you that this sounds medieval, but I do know that it sounds like what we could hear in Ancient Rome!

[@vittoriosansone8387]

Che musica divina, sembra una pastorale natalizia !

[@guillermon.alamoteologiayr6680]

hermosa Catalina. Y la música también

[@veloopity]

what a beautiful sound

[@KakaoHickson]

Your performance is just stunning, I am very glad I discovered your channel and subscribed. Thank you a lot!

[@user-yk1li1tq4x]

Мне больше всего понравились искренние эмоции этой девушки, музыка затронула моё Русские сердце ❤😢 Это безупречно!

[@BeachJazzMusic]

That sounds awesome!

[@AntonioGarcia-ih9tg]

Something transcendental like art dance and music speak to the soul, as if our minds reside with sound time and space

[@jeanburk9539]

Very poetic!

[@raycope2086]

Astonishing! The pleasure that is still to be had from a small organ. : - )

[@andreashiller8563]

wonderful music.

[@MrRexquando]

That is so cool! Instantly mesmerized by the music and the instrument.