🎵 Duruflé 'Choral varié sur Veni Creator' from NANCY |

[@beautyinsound]

👋🎙️ *Thank you everyone for your wonderful comments so far (I've passed them on to Hugo!). I should point out that I recorded this piece on 16th May prior to a week's holiday, and the organ has since received significant updates and tweaks. Infact, I'm testing all of Piotr's updates and we'll be working hard to achieve the best version possible prior to its release on 29th May!* *I've played this organ a lot, and I LOVE it!*

[@robertmartin5494]

Please Richard don't blame the updates on the instrument.This is Joyfully Beautify Performance.Thank You.

[@sebsmith5286]

That final chord progression is just staggering. Beautiful performance!

[@caroline.balfour]

Thank you Piotr Grabowski for letting BiS showcase your Nancy sample set! It was an honour.

[@bobbyhendley3084]

I never tire of this masterwork! So extremely beautifully done by you two dear and precious people. And such an excellent sample set to showcase it.

[@michaelthielen848]

This is the best performance of the piece I‘ve ever heard. Many thanks for that!

[@beautyinsound]

That’s very kind - than you!

[@robertglass481]

Inspiring

[@robertmartin3864]

Thank You for exposure óf your child to the Classics SMART PARENTING!

[@Railfan6675]

Such a beautiful voice, well done!

[@jean-luclouchard4666]

Absolument magnifique, Un très grand Merci Le petit enfant est trop mignon, futur organiste sans doute comme son papa Bien à vous Très belle Pentecôte.

[@tomparsons6177]

Watching again and again!! Baby Hugo. So sweet and safe. The holy “organ” family. Caroline is just perfectly tuned and Richard well played the Nancy

[@mateuszwarkusz4066]

This is absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!! Both in performance and presentation! The Three of yours are absolutely BEAUTIFUL people! Thank you for this piece!

[@tomasalfaro2011]

Beautiful! Thanks, Richard (almost crying!)

[@ngdn8749]

can't stop to listen, so beautifull, thank you!

[@matthiaswynants4857]

Beautiful Richard! I love your playing and your wife has a gifted voice, I enjoyed this performance and I think so does the little one :) God bless

[@dominiquedantand2195]

I'm very curious because I know very well this organ. I had the chance to play here recitals and offices. I was assistant of the former organist Pierre Cortellezzi. I don't know how Piotr managed the bright acoustic of the church. Johann Vexo is a good friend too.

[@mattrixedman]

Simply the microphones are high in the air in front of the speaking pipes and are placed high 2 other points in the cathedral. Your seated position at the organ is no where near that close to the pipes and therefore the sound you hear is "bending" around corners therefore dulling down and such - i might not have explained properly or know the exact position of the console but you know what i mean! Also the sampleset is eq'd to get a uniform sound.

[@dominiquedantand2195]

@@mattrixedman I know that.

[@ubertuba]

The variations really make sense when interspersed with verses of the chorale sung so beautifully. Such a great way to present this work (and the sample set). Well done all.

[@robertmartin5494]

Wanted to say ,"Wonderful.' thanks to all three of you.

[@joeberta368]

Love the little kiss on the head. - Wonderful - thanks Richard and Caroline

[@jerrymartin79]

Naaarncy!!! Oh I simply cannot wait for this! (I will be airborne at 'livetime' - but will be downloading this during flight connection to listen on my way home! So excited!!!!!!)

[@tomparsons6177]

Cool! Have a great flight. Upgrade to first class unless you’re flying private corporate jet. BiS jet. YES!!

[@orgelhase]

@@tomparsons6177 BiS Class!!! :-)))

[@jerrymartin79]

This was absolutely spectacular. What a treat for our first taste of this magnificent new organ set. Wonderful performance, superb singing, and very much looking forward hearing more from this new cavaille coll in the garage!!

[@richardsedding8444]

Nancy sounded beautiful, and your playing was brilliant, Richard, with Hugo strapped in!! Super singing Caroline.

[@terryr.sublimeorganmusic]

I've never posted a comment before a performance but it's been a long year waiting for this. So glad it's finally here!! 🎹🎶

[@caroline.balfour]

I hope you enjoyed this year’s performance as much as last year’s!

[@terryr.sublimeorganmusic]

@@caroline.balfour I did. Thank you so much. Have relistened several times, your voice is beautiful. As someone else commented, French music on a French organ, outstanding to my ears. Thanks for sharing. ❤❤🎹🎶❤ (almost forgot Hugo!)

[@marymouse6244]

This was wonderful to listen to: the Nancy organ, Richard's excellent playing (with baby Hugo nestled against his chest, already well used to hearing wonderful music!) and Caroline's beautiful singing. The video editing added to the whole experience. Thank you!

[@joelwilli5638]

That was stuning! I‘m mean just wonderful, thank you very much! 😃 In my opinion it hasn‘t beaten Cean, but it is as much as I can say for now on the same level as Cean. Of course you can mix the different Position together how you like it. But Cean has f. e. A Unda maris or a 16‘ in the positiv.... But after all it‘s a realy beautiful sampel set, Piotr has made...., incredible!🤩 Will you make a Demonstration Video like from your other organs?🤩 Also a very huge compliment to you both, very well played and sung!😍 It would be so nice, to were Hugo, to listen so early on to such amazing music! I just love BIS! Just can say THANK YOU!

[@keithnightingale2656]

An absolutely beautiful family presentation....organ, organist, soloist and patiently sleeping baby :)

[@janemazzola4454]

What an ethereal experience of music brought to me this evening, by Richard, Caroline, & baby Hugo. A vision & sound representing the heavenly realm! Thank you!

[@michaelgarnett8166]

I’d love to see a video of you explaining your thoughts on registration and practice of this piece. I’m learning it currently and I always love to hear thoughts of my colleagues on how they approach a well known piece like this.

[@Chuck-Pat]

So this was Nancy ….A wonderful piece, organ and vocal, to enjoy on a quiet Saturday Afternoon….. kudos to you both !

[@katydickson5547]

I am looking forward to watching this and to hearing Caroline singing. Maurice Durufle is a composer that I have not heard of, so I am looking forward to hearing what his music sounds like.

[@wprz]

Great sound, great performance. Piotr Grabowski produces great organ samples! Each new organ keeps getting better!

[@potatobrah0019]

Absolutely beautiful.

[@dominiquedantand2195]

I decided to send a message to Piotr. He answered very quickly and send me a little demo of the organ with detuning feature. and do you know what ? I FEEL MUCH BETTER !!!!! Piotr is a very serious producer !!!

[@tonymurphy7610]

Dominique, is this what you mean: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXXQZISFZ654nq8

[@beautyinsound]

The organ featured in my video was still an early version - it has been tweaked significantly since I recorded this on 16th May. In fact Piotr has just given me another update which I’m currently loading to try before tonight’s Virtual Church 😊

[@dominiquedantand2195]

@@tonymurphy7610 My friend Johann playing Widor.... I also played this piece on this organ. Piotr send me this afternoon 3 recordings/3demos with significant sound improvements in the sample. It's much closer to the original.

[@tonymurphy7610]

@@dominiquedantand2195 The organ sounds quite different in that recording. The mixtures are less prominent and the pedal reeds are much louder. The second Bombard16 completely dominates the sound! (me like!!!). I can also see why the Recit has so much prominence in the building. It has the same upper un-obstructed position as St Sulpice, with the added benefit of the 16" towers cases either side of it funnelling the sound down the nave, without much bouncing off the side walls. I'm looking forward to the release of the set!

[@philipaggesen]

Dominique: Can you tell me more about how it got better. Should be maximizing the pipe detuning?

[@diannemills5594]

Just finished listening for second time. Beautiful. Thank you so much. Blessings.

[@tomparsons6177]

Listening to again and again. Amen

[@gavinward7959]

That was absolutely beautiful and thank you for your passion and work in showing this instrument. I'd love to know more about your recording setup as well :)

[@brucewilliams8714]

And I smiled right back at you, Caroline. Couldnt help it. A beautiful rendition all round. The one foot playing that 2-foot pedal passage was terrific.

[@patnbillreineking5447]

Loved listening for the mentioned echo... how quietly, sweetly both silence and music sound and resound; as you title it: beautiful sounds, both soft and loud, surrounding us.

[@TheMuteSwan]

FABULOUS!!! 👍 Lovely piece of music and song.

[@joelwilli5365]

Omg, cant wait for it! Beautiful sample set and a wonderful piece!!🤩🥳

[@MarcPiano]

Wonderful performance and beauriful sounding sample sett! Thank you!

[@lawrenceelliott350]

Thank you for this lovely music. Blessings on your family.

[@sueschmitt6294]

This is fabulous! And I've never seen anyone play the organ with a baby on his chest. How beautiful!

[@thays3649]

Beautiful.

[@ralphchou4719]

Looking forward to this. Thanks to Piotr Grabowski for making the sample set available and to Richard and Caroline for this performance.

[@NakedMuso]

Awesome, thank you both (& of course Piotr). If this sample set has already been 'tweaked' I can't imagine how good it must be now - what I just listened to was brilliant, to my doddery old ears anyway. A joy once again to hear Caroline sing. What a lucky little chappie to be nestled away amidst all this - simply must be a musical child in the making without doubt.

[@AlessandroSistiMusic]

What a wonderful debut for this sample set! Thanks for the excellent playing, Richard-I can't say I've seen anyone play this with a baby tied to them before!-and for the lovely singing, Caroline. This set sounds clearer than I expected. I'm looking forward to seeing what others do with it once it becomes available. I think it's very likely I'll get this set instead of Caen when the time comes for me to get a larger French symphonic organ than Oloron-Sainte-Marie :)

[@D70-x4v]

Greetings from America! Beautiful Family! The opening of this piece was played for my wife's wedding March some 39 years ago. Other parts played throughout the ceremony. Brought back a lot of memories. Thank you! Loved it!

[@carolynclark1724]

Beautiful! One of my favorite periods in music besides Baroque. Caroline's voice is amazing. So proud of Hugo.

[@tbolofsson1522]

Absolutely wonderful! As usual superb organ playing and singing. And you are both blessed with such a wonderful little baby. Thank you very much for what you share, and Nancy sounds absolutely wonderful!!

[@iangarden1898]

... a splendid performance by all three and a great introduction to a fine sample set!

[@denisnicholson2528]

One of my favorite organ pieces. Great job Richard!

[@ianbrowne8871]

Beautifully performed and an ideal preparation for Whitsun! The organ sounded well and I was very impressed with the blending with the human voice. The chant was with an angelic quality. Seeing Hugo attached to Dad, reminded me of seeing a similarly clad father in the Anglican cathedral in Valetta, Malta when i turned around to exchange the peace. Given the huge number of Madonna and child statues in Malta, i could only say to the young father that he better watch out in case they set him on a pedestal and started to light candles before him!

[@lawrenceelliott350]

I love the music of Duruflé with it's crazy-wild improvisational and plainsong style and you capture it so brilliantly. It just seems to flow through you. Nancy is great; I have always loved the amazing French reeds (and how you box them up and make them growl!) and the amazing reverberation. Tonight's concert was short, and the one-composition wrapped it into a lovely gift. The Messiaen (which I loved) was the same effect. Thank you for both. BTW I heard Marie-Madeline Duruflé play the 5/105 E.M.Skinner/Mollër organ at National City Christian Church in Washington, DC, probably on her 1989 American Tour. She needed assistance getting to the console but when she sat down, she was all there. It was most poignant when she played Maurice's music.

[@barryoakley8299]

So beautiful and your little bundle of joy.

[@jeffharbin5767]

Beautiful job - all three of you!

[@tonymurphy7610]

Looking forward to this!

[@VoxAngelica8]

SUPER EXCITED!

[@jonathanp935]

French organ music on a french organ, I'm excited. Can't wait to hear it!

[@jayglenn3150]

So nice to hear Carolyn’s beautiful voice.

[@rogerlewis3787]

Sounded lovely. Will look forward to hearing more on the live concert

[@VincentdeRidder]

Beautiful!

[@peterlane6208]

WOW!!!!!! That was emotional!

[@decomanjoel]

Wow! The whole family is in the act! I can just see the top of Bruno's fuzzy little head.😇

[@voegelein1]

Dieses Video hat mich sehr berührt

[@arsartium]

A fantastic execution, and beautiful also singing (a really angelic voice!). On the sample-set, I expected better. Thank you!

[@sytzewiersma9731]

It seems to be very difficult to approach the real Cavaillé-Coll sound, but the work of Piotr is promising. Liked very much this performance. Thank you for that.

[@georgerobey9360]

Bravo!

[@stanheap_organist]

That is an amazing organ

[@shawnafleming5017]

What a beautiful way for a boy to grow up!

[@ianbrowne8871]

As for French organs - the Cliquot at Poitiers next??

[@R16KNK]

Love the socks! 😂😂

[@rogernightingale3679]

I'm very curious about Nancy so can't wait to hear it. I'm sure it's going to be fabulous. Will it compete well with Rotterdam?

[@messindemetz5774]

A next time you should try the Cavaillé-Coll organ at the Notre-Dame Church in Metz.😉

[@suzanneslade9071]

I was so disappointed when the first recording of this disappeared last year. Richard said it had to do with the liturgical calendar, but please leave this one up. I almost wore it out last time.

[@tomlessner]

Tom from the central part of the United States. State of Illinois, just south of Chicago. I along with 129 other members of the South Holland Master Chorale performed this work.

[@sathya999]

What does that have to do with this video?

[@tomlessner]

@@sathya999 I am saying that there is a vocal part to this work. Depending on which score you purchase, there is piano or organ accompaniment to it. I was able to sing along with it. My choir contains 130 voices and would have loved to have Mr. McVeigh accompanying us.

[@johnmangels5572]

@@tomlessner wow! 130 voices singing the unison chant must have been powerful!

[@mattyhaynes1]

PHWOAR!!!! That sounds superb! I'm going to have to buy that!! I wonder how much it'll be????????

[@JR15491]

So beautiful and the little one is getting quite an introduction to organ music! A little worried about his hearing, but the music is excellent.

[@caroline.balfour]

Hi Jan, we have the volume turned down in the room when Hugo is there, and he has some ear defenders that we are getting him used to 😊

[@christianlongobardi5438]

A dislike??? 8 of them? How could anyone dislike this???

[@lucasmetzler]

😍♥️😍♥️😍♥️😍♥️😍 🇧🇷

[@trevororme4646]

WHERE IS NANCY? Where is She? We know you’re in there hiding To Gobble up a GIG or three Our fingers they do ache now To release your magic sounds To hear your sounds so glorious Echo Round & Round & round

[@beautyinsound]

Trust you!

[@monaandersen2123]

Darling l waiting always pray happy solei deo gloria

[@craigdavidson805]

HELLO ALL FROM VANCOUVER BC CANADA>

[@aaronzacharyreed6163]

I wish everyone here a powerful Pentecost!

[@fleurprivas7183]

Très bien jouer. Et le masque est obligatoire pour tout les deux..

[@trevororme4646]

So, so sorry (and sad) that I actually MISSED your Premier, Richard. That's obviously what morphine SULF ER 30MG RELEASE TABLETS DO to you first thing in the morning. I sat down here all ready to enjoy at 7am this morning, it's now 1:15pm and she who must be obeyed stated that only I could sit here, totally zonked out in a sitting position, totally oblivious of all and everything with a mug of cold tea in left hand and my iMAC mouse in the other like some 'woke' statuette! So, so sorry. You KNOW how much I love D's V C and have been waiting anxiously for its return/inclusion through BiS with you playing, and see what happens! The stupid GOAT nods off and misses the big moment! Thank heavens for replay. AMEN. AMEN. AMEN. Patric didn't evem wake me up either ... he and I need a serious chat! xxx

[@jeandupont433]

Merci pour l’anglais...Dommage Salutations

[@dominiquedantand2195]

I must say that I'm disappointed. I don't know if it comes from the settings or from the recording of the organ. The high level of the playing and the singing is not in question. This piece was masterly played in a very beautiful rendition with "alternatim" ..... and a lovely baby. I listened using very good Harman Kardon speakers with subwoofer. Stops sound clear, but too clear. It's not the acoustic and the sound of the organ and of the cathedral. The final variation was surprising.... where is the so powerfull swell of this organ ? where are the reeds stops of the Bombarde Keyboard ? and it's not the tutti of this organ. I'm very disappointed.

[@alanmartin2016]

Harmon Kardon are questionable when it comes to organ samplesets. I have eight channels at home consisting of 2 x Hedd Type 07, plus 6 x Neumann KH 80’s. The Hedds cope with 32 and 64ft pedals admirably, and a sub-woofer is not required . This sounded absolutely stunning. My neighbours thought the same….😉

[@dominiquedantand2195]

@@alanmartin2016 My others friends organists around Nancy listened too ... on various speakers. The opinion is the same : we don't recognize the organ.... and we know it very well.

[@tonymurphy7610]

I'd say a lot of what you are hearing and not hearing is down to the mix of the channels. If you heard the 2 rear-most channels in surround, it'd probably sound more like in the building. As for the swell and bombard, that should be adjustable from the voicing menu. I think it's a wait 'till release and then judge.

[@grahamtwist]

@@dominiquedantand2195 I find your comment really interesting. I do not know this organ very well, like you, but I have heard (admittedly recordings!) several Cavaille-Coll organs and I just did not think this one sounded like a Cavaille-Coll instrument! There is no denying that Grabowski has captured the acoustic of the church brilliantly . . . but I am not sure we are hearing the 'real' organ. Early on in the comments, someone remarked it sounded 'digital' i.e. too perfect. Hauptwerk is incredibly sophisticated. For me, the tuning as it sounded in this performance is just too perfect. It does not sound 'French' enough! I listened to St. Sernin and Caen afterwards and then this Hauptwerk recording of Nancy again. As you say, Dominique, it is not the high level of playing or singing in question - both of which were superb. But I likewise feel somewhat disappointed. The organ I heard is a fabulous instrument. But I would not have said it was an 1861 Cavaille-Coll! Richard remarked that Piotr is still making adjustments. I would suggest some detuning!

[@dominiquedantand2195]

@@tonymurphy7610 I'm also a Hauptwerk user, but it could help us to understand this problem if Richard would give some informations about the settings he used. I'm waiting on the next recital of course to listen to others stops and combinations of this organ.

[@WinrichNaujoks]

I'm sorry, but I find the sound of this sample set disappointingly weak.

[@beautyinsound]

This was an early version. Have a listen to my Guilmant Sonata 1 where the organ sounds much improved 👍

[@mungmungie]

Does this child have any chance of not becoming a musician? I don't think so!