J. S. Bach: The Complete Organ Works No. 10 | Staunton, Virginia | Taylor & Boody Op. 24&34 BWV 548

[@KravchenkoAudioPerth]

Listening and enjoying as always Balint. Mark

[@joscallinet6260]

​@ Balint Karosi: TRIPLE HOME RUNS for your, 1) superb playing, 2) videography and, 3) first-rate sound-recording quality. I greatly enjoy your videos; you're truly an ambassador of the organ and its music. What a beautiful instrument Taylor and Boody Op. 24 is!

[@bkarosi]

Thank you!

[@joscallinet6260]

@@bkarosi You're welcome!

[@HollywddanWannabeSJ]

I was just looking yesterday to see if you recorded the Wedge and sad to see you hadn't. Yet here it is today. Thanks for reading my mind. Greatly appreciated.

[@majathomi3021]

Wie schon mehrmals ist es zufällig, dass ich wunderbares "Spiel" hören darf. Ich danke Ihnen herzlich Herr Karosi und wünsche Ihnen eine gesegnete Adventszeit aus Luzern

[@keidong4675]

The stop information is interesting.

[@joseguerra9967]

Fantastic¡¡¡ Congratulations Mr Karosi. 👍👍👌👌👏👏

[@Vikingvideos50]

Beautiful

[@hansbeestman7460]

Mooi klink als orgel in melk Oostenrijk ik hoor mooi tempo genieten Dank Hans uit Nederland Zwolle

[@majathomi3021]

Dieses kraftvolle majestätische Präludium war die Krone 👑

[@ianbrowne8871]

A fabulous recital and the Prelude and Fugue in E Minor was a triumph of the first order. I chiefly know this from the Peter Hurford recordings of the 1980s which were broadcast on the BBC over forty years ago. It is always good to heard a new interpretation and it was interesting to see that in the Prelude and Fugue you did not switch registration or manuals. He switched to the RP for the manual passages and returned to the HW when the pedal line returned. The advantage being you would hear sound from different architectural units of the intrument. The advantage of your performance was the continuity and when "The Wedge" fugue gets up steam there is a sense of majesty in the performance. I realised there are two rather one instruments being put through their paces. Was the Lutheran organ designed by a left-handed organist? It became clear that the stops for the Great or HW were on the left - you never find that in England! I was interested in you selective user of the Pedal 8' reed with the 16' Subbass in many of the pieces. It certainly added clarity to the bass line without overwhelming it. All too often organs have not had the luxury of independent pedal organs or a 16' reed. When an 8' Swell reed is coupled down it does not quite work and underlines the lack of a 16' if used as a climax. Your use of the 8' Trommet with either the Subbass or the 16' reed gave a good demonstration of how to do it. If there was one jarring sound it was the cymbelstern - i usually like them tinkling away, Is there something odd about its construction ? It seems to have a jangle of bells and I am not sure if it had a mechanism with a rotating wheel. I was just a bit surprised when the rest of the two instruments are beautifully made and voiced. I found it added confusion and was an aural interferance. I know neither building is vast in scale but all too often i see on KZbin instruments which seem to be bloated. These two organs sounded well and fitted into their buildings and resisted temptations! This point was clearly made in your playing of the choir organ at the RC Cathedral in Richmond? in which you showed how a well designed two manual organ can fill a large space. When it became possible to build larger and larger organs in 19thC England The Sutton Brothers who were musical members of the Cambridge Camden Society, lamented the installation of 'music mills' and the changing of registration with every verse of a psalm. The organs of Smith, Harris and Byfield which resembled much of the organ philosophy found here, were being ripped out and replaced by larger instruments houses in poorly sited chambers or occupying multiple sites in ancient cathedrals. Henry Wills did exactly this in St Pauls Cathedral in London in the 1870s but he also build a mobile organ called the 'Willis on Wheels' which is frequently mistaken for the big beast! ‘Willis-on-Wheels’ Willis 1881; Mander 1970 Great Organ Open Diapason 8' Lieblich Gedact 8' Principal 4' Fifteenth 2' Mixture II 19,22 (new1970) Swell Organ Open Diapason 8' Gemshorn 4' Cornopean 8' Pedal Organ Bourdon 16 Swell to Great Swell to Pedal Great to Pedal Mechanical key and stop action

[@jean-mariedemoulin5371]

Merci !

[@TheErkan196]

awesome very good !!!

[@dalecarr6361]

Nice treatment of the metrical ambiguity of the beginning of 'Ein' feste Burg' BWV720!

[@xavieramaya8388]

BWV 548 supremo 👏

[@paulbombardier8722]

So cool. As usual you are a pleasure and a joy to listen to and watch. Also, thanks for putting up the registrations that you use. I am curious about one thing, in the information from the builder the instrument has two manuals, but what we see in the video, there are quite obviously three. Was there a major expansion of the instrument sine it was built?

[@paulbombardier8722]

@@jelmarvanderwal7368 a rude and ignorant thing to write. If you go to the builder’s website, as I said, it is very obviously a two manual, with a stop list for a two manual and pedal instrument. Perhaps you are too ignorant to do such a thing. Such a shame.

[@bkarosi]

Hi Paul, there are two organs in this video, Taylor & Boody Op. 24 with 2 manuals and Op. 34 with 3. www.taylorandboody.com/opus_pages/opus_34/organ_photo_gallery.html

[@paulbombardier8722]

@@bkarosi `thank you! Hence the confusion. In any case, they are both magnificent instruments very well laced. Thank you for clearing this up.

[@pierluigidinardodimaio3708]

what is the intro ?

[@hcsabi]

Nagyon szép! Az a folyamatos csengettyű az In Dulci Jubilo alatt nem volt túl szerencsés ;)

[@bkarosi]

Pedig a karácsonyi hangulatot akartam idézni 😞

[@hcsabi]

@@bkarosi Kedves Bálint, köszönöm a megtisztelő reakciót. Nem úgy értettem, hogy rossz lenne, csak én még Gergely Feri bácsi és Lehotka Gábor felvételein nőttem fel, és az Ő lemezeik szolgáltatták a karácsonyesték alaphangját. Amit ott megszoktam, azt szeretem visszahallani. Emiatt nem tartottam csak szerencsésnek. Ettől függetlenül nagy élvezettel hallgatom orgonajátékát! ;) Köszönöm és további jó egészséget kívánok ezen lélekemelő hangszer műveléséhez!

[@bkarosi]

@@hcsabi Én egy évig tanultam a Lehotkánál a zeneakadémián, és jártam a Ferencesekhez Feri bácsit hallgatni vasárnaponként. Mai napig emlékszem az improvizáciòira

[@hcsabi]

@@bkarosi Igen, valóban kiemelkedő alakjai voltak a magyarországi "átkos" időszak orgonazenei életének. kzbin.info/www/bejne/imPJgKOEr6qJd9U

[@HollywddanWannabeSJ]

@@bkarosi Szén papalagni paprikas napeszdem ágasigate varodi.

[@rowanlidbury]

It's almost too good. I found it a bit clinical. You can play "note-4-note", (the purists will go nuts over this), but you need to make any performance your own. This is a tad robotic.

[@bertspeggly4428]

Such a dry acoustic for such a large space! Doesn't help the organ at all!