2021 Noack Organ - Cathedral of St. Paul - Birmingham, Alabama

[@richardcoiner699]

The excerpt he plays at 42:00 using the Vox sounds so somber, yet absolutely beautiful at the same time!

[@MicksFlics]

Beautiful church, absolutely gorgeous instrument, great acoustic & really marvelous & wonderful demo. Thank you Bruce and Brent. Really enjoy these organ tour demos. Bruce, you are a really wonderful and very talented organist! Bravo!

[@DrpanProductions]

Props to the Organ Media Foundation for showing off organs by builders who you don't get to hear about very often in the organ world. Noak organs sound gorgeous

[@PhillipSchlueter]

Wow! A wonderful room, lucky for Fritz! The organ sounds fabulous.

[@markaustin4370]

Finally an organ with Multiple stops that are just plain pretty and singing! There is a lot in this instrument that reminds me of late 19th Century American organbuilding which was highly influenced by the French builders. So versatile with the tasteful eclectic extras

[@Durufle68]

I LOVE Noack instruments!! I can imagine playing for hours and never getting tired of this.

[@petenielsen6683]

As a trombonist when I hear the words "16 foot trombone" I cannot help but think what a long reach to 7th position that would be! 🤣

[@fd9987]

What do you think when you hear “32 foot bombard?”

[@williammitchell1864]

@@fd9987 Pete Nielsen was joking ok

[@fd9987]

@@williammitchell1864 I was joking too.

[@Apriluser]

😅

[@bonnybarfriendly8926]

All jokes aside;doesn't anyone have an interesting comment about this beautiful instrument recently the cover story in the TAO...

[@happyhome41]

My home town - had no idea. Need to look into the programs and visit. Thank you.

[@michaelmeyer7426]

What an amazing and beguiling instrument! Congrats to Noack and to the parish!

[@earlwgreen]

Wow! This organ takes me back to my Paris organ tour in 1999. I love this instrument!

[@BruceLudwick]

Thanks so much, Brent! This was a blast. The audio is excellent and very faithful, although interestingly the mics REALLY like the chamade (vs how we perceive it downstairs). Beautiful work as always. PS sorry about that ONE NOTE in the oboe for Franck!

[@richardcoiner699]

I've been suffering from withdrawals while the Notre Dame Organ has been out getting cleaned. This filled that void minus 16ft chamades. Thank you! 😊

[@michelabboud2495]

Congratulations I would love to hear JS BACH BWV 543 like Albert Schweitzer played it years ago this particular piece is ideal to demonstrate this lovely organ thank you and bless you .

[@friendsofthegreatmissionary]

Absolutely love those Swell strings! An excellent and vivid "next layer" to the gentle Choir celeste with the Unda/Viola.

[@csheff1014]

Brent, thank you so much for traveling to Alabama. I play @ FUMC Northport, right across the river from Christ Episcopal, which you published the vid of last week. We have some wonderful instruments/installations in AL. I’ve played the old Möller at St. Paul’s, and I’m glad to see such a fine replacement. Thank you, once again! I hope to see more vids of Tuscaloosa and Birmingham ❤

[@karenjones782]

Absolutely wonderful xxx

[@califdad4]

I was in Birmingham years ago but visited the big Episcopal church in downtown Birmingham, interesting downtown there

[@buttersrow426]

Fantastic instruments built by fantastic people!

[@matthieubazile3350]

What an amazing organ! The Church made a great decision going with Noack. Everything is well voiced and I really like the mostly French, but still reasonably eclectic voicing.

[@jrzzrj]

Beautiful presentation (as always). Too bad we couldn't get a clear view of the beautiful sanctuary 30:33 +...That would be a plus to this and your other videos!

[@EElgar1857]

The first comment! This is a superb organ, by one of the finest builders we have. I would love to hear it in person, if that's ever possible. Also, a beautiful, complete demonstration!😁

[@geneostenkamp1967]

Absolutely wonderful organ and playing!

[@dragonpullman23]

There is another new Noack organ at St. Peter's on Capitol Hill is Washington DC.

[@PhillipSchlueter]

Again WOW!

[@johnanderson3700]

I played a Noack once in Mass. a huge instrument; their work was excellent then (over 50 yrs. ago: was thrilled just to spend an hour or so with it; glad to see they are still making fine instruments.

[@SingerGeneLeonard]

I like this organ❤

[@brianvoss9857]

Kudos Brent - always delightful, I truly appreciate seeing your videography and audio technical skills improve with each video. Keep up the good work!

[@davef.2329]

Thanks for bringing us this one Brent, and to Bruce as well, for the nice demo. A beautiful, well-organized job they did on the installation, and it sounds great. Honestly, that installation has a genuine old-school quality look of true craftsmanship.

[@garygreen7552]

Marvelous visit to a great organ. Note: I could not access Noack or the specifications of the organ from the links.

[@jlind00]

awesome walkthrough, thank you!

[@samuelhaas6742]

It would have been so nice to hear this organ playing pieces from each era Ren, Bar, Class,Rom,20thcen, AvantGarde, modern ...anyhow thanks for the demonstration.I trust that organ builders keep the accoustics of the building in mind when chosing voices.

[@timdaugherty5921]

handsome organist!!!!

[@jennfierkrueger8302]

What is the name of the piece playing during the chamber tour?

[@BruceLudwick]

Cesar Franck Chorale Nr. 1 in E, then it's the Guilain Cromorne en Taille from the Suite on the 4th Tone.

[@praestant8]

It's curious why musicians feel the need to chase after very specific schools of organ design that they already know and forwardly admit don't work in totality in their space, congratulate themselves on achieving it in some part, and then go on to a litany of concessions that implicitly deviate from the original aesthetic because they were either afraid it was too much, there wasn't room, or there wasn't funds. To the astute that should hint that perhaps their heart's desire for an instrument from specific school was not the most artistic or realistic choice. At least it's not an unexpressive meantone Germanic recreation with subsemitones that won't meet a broad spectrum of musical needs.

[@agogobell28]

Wowwwww. What a phenomenal organ…. shame it’s in Alabama.

[@BruceLudwick]

Au contraire, how WONDERFUL it's in Alabama!

[@lkrupp215]

Too bad we never get to actually hear the instrument in these Organ Media videos, just stop demonstrations.

[@rowanlidbury]

Over complicated. An instrument that's trying to be something it's not.