Louis Vierne: Carillon de Westminster

[@TheCaffeinatedOrganist]

Look at that room!!! Beautiful!!

[@Ludus57]

A marvellous performance that captured the mood and character if the great piece perfectly. Well done!

[@MrPeter3011]

herrliche Kirche....herrliche Orgel(n)....wunderbares Stück von Vierne.....

[@RalphLooij]

An excellent view: organist at the console, the organ front and the people in the church. Quite the unique view. Oh and very well played!

[@paulfasang8637]

Yeah, I wondered, what made this video so popular, and I also think, that it has much to do with the appearance. One can see everything and the church itself is beautiful as well..

[@kempedkemp]

Excellent performance! ❤❤❤💋 This place alone worth a visit to Hamburg! My brain loves this composition but my fingers absolutely abhor it. verabscheuen

[@paulmonard4857]

this triple view is effectively very rare and thus interesting . bravo to both organist and composer ...

[@RoDi01]

Nachdem ich Fraser Gartshore gerade live erlebt habe, habe ich zufällig dieses Video gefunden. Was für ein beeindruckender Klang! Umwerfender Sound, wahnsinnig toll gespielt, unverkennbar Vierne... Wenn ich Euch Profis sehe fühle ich mich immer recht klein danach... Danke für diese tolle Aufnahme!!

[@paulmonard4857]

Sehr schoen gespielt ...

[@ChrisDeltaEchoKilo]

Fantastic! Great tempo, loved it.

[@matthiaszmuda7090]

Mega klasse, Paul! Danke, dass Du dieses Stück hier teilst! 👏👏👏

[@janetlindley4465]

Beautifully played. Thank you for sharing 😀

[@EElgar1857]

So nice to hear Hamburg's OTHER great organ monument! BRAVO!

[@EElgar1857]

@richardharrold9736 I like Flentrop organs a lot, but I was referring to the great Arp Schnitger organ at the Jakobikirche!

[@EElgar1857]

@richardharrold9736 No! The pipes was removed from the organ, almost at the last minute, and saved! The organ has been rebuilt twice, the first time, in the 1950s (I think), with new mechanical action, new windchests, and a new case. That work gave the keyboards a very hard (stiff) action, but many great organists made recordings on it anyway! More recently, it has been lovingly restored (at enormous cost, I've heard), and is now magnificent in every way, including the action.

[@raphaelivanfernandez7994]

#GOOSEBUMPS

[@federicosavio]

Fantastic instrument. One of my favorites.

[@tom7601]

Marvelous!

[@ВладимирОкоренко]

Волшебная музыка органа 🍒 🍓 🍎 🍇

[@quinnriutta]

Is this church ship themed? the flotation devices are a unique decoration.

[@HenrikBergpianorganist]

It's just temporary, at least it didn't use to be there. The people of Hamburg are insanely proud of their harbour and love everything maritime!

[@kempedkemp]

For a local special occasion

[@johnny.3693]

Where is this ?

[@wizardofodds8239]

Organist Fasang, besides being an excellent organist in this video, must be very Tall. I suspect playing an organ with his height is not easy, but it doesn't cause any problems with his technique. What is the make and ranks of the organ; it's façade is beautiful.

[@paulfasang8637]

Thank you! I am not that tall, but to be honest, I used the wide angle camera to film this, and the picture is slightly distorted, what makes my arms and legs look longer than they are. From this main console I can play three separate organs at once: the main organ, built by Steinmeyer, not in the picture is the Marcussen organ, which is located right of the camera position and finally there is an auxiliary organ in the ceiling. For the carillon I eventually used all three organs.

[@a55b47]

@@paulfasang8637 You mention 3 organs, but I see a fourth, in the center of the picture. (Or is that the Marcussen?)

[@paulfasang8637]

@@a55b47 that organ, the so called Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach organ, is not playable from the main console. It es a rather small, but also very nice mechanical organ

[@kempedkemp]

@@paulfasang8637 I visited the fantastic web page . . . the place is an organist's paradise!

[@stthomasmore4811]

Germany always has the whackiest church building designs. Not much of a sacred feel, but makes a pretty interesting concert hall.

[@andreacosta74]

True, more similar to english “town halls”. I’m from Rome and I must confess you that I would gladly give up a few hundred square meters of frescoes in order to have a church with similar big and stunning instruments

[@stthomasmore4811]

@@andreacosta74 Can you imagine what the massive Cavaillé-Coll instrument planned for St. Peter's Basilica would have sounded like? Sadly, it never got built and life in Rome's largest church continued without fanfare.

[@andreacosta74]

@@stthomasmore4811 yes, I imagine it perfectly, but unfortunately it would be the least suitable place. San Pietro is a deserted, extraterritorial temple, which since 2001 can only be accessed partially and in a row following obligatory routes ... the same thing for the Cathedral of Rome which is S. Giovanni in Laterano. In reality there are many neo-Romanesque, neo-Renaissance, neo-Gothic churches built between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that would lend themselves to hosting large organs but unfortunately there is no interest and desire neither from the civil authorities nor from the ecclesiastical ones ...

[@josephlindquist506]

@@andreacosta74 That's because new large organs are so expensive. They co$t beaucoup dollar$$$$$.......

[@jamesprins9735]

Your comment together with your username got me my laugh for the day. Thanks :)

[@AstridDenhaene]

C est pas du carillon c est de l orgue je me suis faite arnaquer. Mais c est vraiment très jolie.

[@HenrikBergpianorganist]

The left hand plays the notes of the Westminster bells at the beginning, hence the name.

[@MartinSmithMFM]

@@HenrikBergpianorganist and throughout. In fact Vierne misunderstands organ builder Willis's musical notation!

[@TheJakeman789]

Seems like there’d be a delay with the console right there?

[@paulfasang8637]

Yeah, there is! It takes a while gonget used to…

[@brucetominello325]

We’ll played my only comment is that i could hear the trackers clacking in the softer passages at the beginning

[@christianlongobardi5438]

thats not a bad thing!

[@brucetominello325]

@@christianlongobardi5438 i guess we’ll have to agree to disagree on that one.

[@rossmorrow3013]

It’s a mechanical connection why would you be surprised to occasionally hear them?

[@bbbdco]

How could it be a mechanical organ, when the console is situated across the nave from the organ pipes? For it to be a mechanical instrument, the console has to be attached below the pipe work.

[@brucetominello325]

@@bbbdco that organ has two consoles, one attached below the pipe work and one across the nave. It’s just like the organs at St. Eustache and St. Clotilde in Paris. In some videos at St. Eustache when Ospital is playing at the remote console they cut to the gallery console and show the keys moving with no one at the console.

[@raulreyesortiz1732]

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