THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL ORGAN - PREPARING FOR THE PROMS - JONATHAN SCOTT

[@andrewgreenwood8554]

You can’t imagine how much pleasure these videos and concerts have brought me this year, having been banned from travelling whilst on chemo. I feel as if I have been around Europe despite everything.

[@chrisfinlay3274]

hope your recovery is going well

[@andrewgreenwood8554]

@@chrisfinlay3274 Thanks Chris. it is.

[@mariadesa1434]

And with God's help, you will soon be completely fine and can go back to your normal life to do whatever you want!

[@briandusell961]

This proves that the Scott Brothers never sleep. Probably after catching a brief nap during the train ride home, Jonathan changed the oil in his car, weeded the garden, transcribed “La Mer” and then went to sleep. Congratulations and all best wishes for your Proms concert! You two are incredible!!

[@angelah2083]

The Hall itself really does vibrate when the organ is in full flight - it’s amazing!

[@debsg2024]

It's going to be a beautiful concert. How lucky are those who can be there to watch it live. I wish you an excellent concert. 🙏👋🙌

[@alisonhouston6326]

Looking forward to seeing Jonathan live at the Proms next Saturday ❤

[@miriamcaraquitena]

Congratulations on Jonathan's upcoming performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London. He seems very excited, especially about playing it again after 25 years. Wagner sounds incredible in rehearsal, it is a spectacular place and organ, and the organist is unbeatable. Good luck for that day and may you have a lot of fun!! Thanks for sharing with your followers!❤💖

[@g.k.failla9389]

I have the BBC3 app, have marked my calendar, and will set a clock ( big time difference), and am ready to enjoy this. From Chicago, U.S.A.

[@Bailey2006a]

I’m in New York and am doing the exact same thing,,,super excited!

[@lauras6762]

Which BBC app? I’m from the US as well would like to watch if possible. I typed BBC 3 but didn’t see it come up.

[@g.k.failla9389]

@lauras6762 I have a Samsung Android phone, so I found the app on Google Play. My app is for BBC3 radio. From Chicago, U.S.A.

[@Andrew.Prince]

Well the rehearsals paid off Jonathan. Just returning from the FANTASTIC concert. I will have to listen to BBC sounds to hear if that accoustic 64 ft could be heard.

[@Andrew.Prince]

Only down side, it that I bought the concert booklet to read later and left it on a table at Pret😢

[@beatrixpluhar8520]

😊 So amazing ✨❤️👍✌️Absolutely wonderful music and organ 🤍🌹💐🥂🍰🍫🎼🎹🎵🎶🌍🇬🇧 Joyful music & Congratulations 🏙️🎇🎉

[@leeheywood-r9u]

Tom...you are so entertaining and incisive in these clips. You and your brother are a great team. Thanks for posting. Not doing too bad for two Manchester lads. 😊

[@annemcgirt5296]

Once again, you amaze us with another magnificent musical adventure!! From the splendor and grandeur of the Royal Albert Hall to that delicate little London Bridge beauty! Thanks!!

[@carolpredeth9866]

Ooooh, it's getting closer!! I love the RAH & in particular the organ of the RAH. It is my favourite organ & I am so sad that I can't make it to your Prom. I will most definitely be there in spirit though & I will be listening live. I never tire of listening to that magnificent instrument, particularly when Jonathan is playing it!! I watched the Halle Prom the other day - that was quite emotional. No prizes for guessing why that one appealed to me!!! Thanks for the London vlog. I'm counting down the days!! xx

[@stevehunter8473]

I can't wait for this, I have my tickets.

[@deborah85728]

You are so lucky , enjoy every minute of it for all of us in distance countries , who can’t be there 🥲🇿🇦

[@andrewkessinger5966]

That organ probably gets played in the middle of the night more than any other organ in the world.

[@fluteteatime]

and wake up the whole city for the new year😆

[@MrAsBBB]

All my Christmas has come at once. This was so much fun. Looks like you both enjoyed this. You need to do a super thanks

[@Andrew.Prince]

Booked my ticket several weeks ago. Hope I have a good seat, but with that organ I suspect it will not matter where I sit. Programme looks great.

[@mickleadbeater8488]

Well done guys - amazing !!! Mickey - Wood organs 👌👌👏👏😊😊

[@marionilla]

Я давно пыталась представить себе это место в котором Вы будете давать концерт , но моего воображения было недостаточно , а вы взяли и показали этот роскошный концертный зал . Мне было очень интересно это увидеть , спасибо ❤ !!!

[@renataanna9732]

Waiting for the Tannhäuser Overture on this powerful organ ( I'll catch the concert on BBC3). And in the meantime we 'll meet again in Germany. Eine gute Flugreise. Kom gut nach Recklinghausen an. Lovely greetings to you Jonathan and Tom.

[@vaughanlewis9556]

I'm looking forward to attending this concert in person.

[@stepps511]

Wow, what an instrument! Of course, it takes a very professional organist to handle this one, and Jonathan you do it proud. 25 years since you first played at the Royal Albert Hall...that's quite a career, and you are going strong! Thank you, thank you, Tom, for bringing us these terrific videos and for sharing your stunning talents.

[@janetsimmons5264]

WOW! Love the Royal Albert Hall. Especially the organ. When it makes your feet vibrate. 😊 pull all the stops out.😊 please. Amazing. Be careful the notes don't get stuck. Thank you. Love Janet xx

[@andrewnellestyn5978]

One of my most memorable experiences whilst attending Imperial Collage was its proximity to The Royal Albert Hall. The Proms, the concerts (classical and pop) and a host other varied events were truly earth shatteringly magnificent. Combine this with the museums of natural history, technology, the Mormon tabernacle, the organ and ballet schools and Hyde Park, all but a stone’s throw away, and let’s not forget Knightsbridge and Kensington Palace, and you’re in an unparalleled universe! And to hear the majestic powerful organ resonate! It’s surreal!

[@mariadesa1434]

It will certainly be an incredible and unforgettable concert on this immense organ! I'll try to watch it on the BBC. Thank you both for the beautiful video! ❤❤

[@gminor680]

Incredibly excited, as a friend has got a couple of tickets. It will be my first time at the hall and I cannot think of a better concert to "break the fast".

[@Offshoreorganbuilder]

Brilliant!

[@ElisabethRaff]

Amazing behind the scenes video! Brilliant! 🤩 Incredible night shift! 🎶

[@AndrewLuckett22]

I’ve bought my ticket and looking forward to the concert especially the Ives

[@melaniamonicacraciun9900]

Lovely indeed, keep up be strong & never stop believe in, music is our salvation friends ❤🎉❤

[@klemensbrumann3952]

Die großen Prospekt Pfeifen sind wahre ofenrohre. Eine gewaltige Orgel, die über sehr viele Klangfarben verfügt Vielen Dank für dieses interessante Video 😀😀👍👍👍

[@peternaryd_operasinger]

Absolutely great!❤️

[@jamesvanian5524]

Truly magnificent. Thanks Jonathan and Tom. James.

[@JosephDitta]

Poor Tom looks ready to drop by the end! Best of luck, Fratelli Scott!

[@terryr.sublimeorganmusic]

Love the opening of this video, intense & classy. So much history & amazing sounds! Thanks for the tour. 😍 Excuse me, Tom, I think you're in my seat. 😁 What a fantastic program to shake the room!! 💥🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹💥 And a little baby organ, too. 🎹❤️❤️🎶

[@vestastreeb657]

What a sound! Fantastic. Thanks for sharing this. 😊❤️

[@CDB8939]

We went to see Olivier Latry play in 2019. The building shook. We look forward to hearing Jonathan play, this time with an audience in the hall, it was empty last time during covid

[@michaeltreadwell777]

BRILLIANT ! I'd LOVE to have a go on the Royal Albert Hall Organ - on my bucket list, but I fear it will never happen as I'm almost 70 and time is running out ! Take care 🙂

[@prairiecollectors]

What a great video - thanks for sharing.

[@gerhardflink5599]

👏👏👏👏👏wow,, was für eine Orgel 😊

[@AlbSchwob]

I am completely blown away. I would love to hear this organ live, played by Jonathan of course. And together with the HM Royal Marines Band. Yes, one can still have dreams.

[@user-pw3tr1xg2x]

Listened in on Radio 3. A well thought out Programme, Encore and Excellent Performance !

[@AndrewLumsden]

And I'm looking forward to it too! I'll see you there, even if you won't see me on this occasion!! 😂🎹🎶

[@brettowen7174]

Really looking forward to what will be a wonderful performance! Thank you.

[@timwainwright2999]

Just listened to the Organ Prom. Brilliant choice of music showing off the amazing versatility of the instrument and skill of the organist! Loved the encore - Nessun Dorma (transcribed by Mr Scott) which just worked so well! From the applause, sounds like the audience loved it too!

[@BarneyLeith]

Wonderful. Thank you so much! I love the Scott brothers' videos!

[@ChangesOneTim]

Glad the train service to and from Euston appeared to be behaving itself! Very best of luck for Saturday. Hope to attend your recital on the amazing Hereford Cathedral machine soon.

[@user-pw3tr1xg2x]

What a nice Vlog. Interesting to learn more about the Royal Albert Hall instrument and also hear of the Bank Station public instrument too ! Thank you both for uploading this .

[@Andrew.Prince]

Think it's London Bridge station?

[@user-pw3tr1xg2x]

You are quite right Andrew. Thank you for the correction !​@@Andrew.Prince

[@Andrew.Prince]

@@user-pw3tr1xg2x no problem, just that I have seen it played live by another youtuber.

[@vladkoval6574]

I am a pianist from Ukraine. I have a dream to play the organ like you. I am following your work and want to thank you for the effort you put into your organ transcriptions. I think you managed to convey perfectly author’s ideas in your transcriptions as well as in your performances. Most of all I like the way you perform “Night on Bald Mountain” by Modest Mussorgsky. And I also want to thank you for all the music videos that I watched and listened to, and for the fact that you put in everything very carefully.

[@macronencer]

This meant so much to me! I played organ many years ago at school (did grade 4 there). I've also been to the RAH many times, particularly to see film music performed as that's an interest of mine. But this tour of the organ was such an nice experience. Thank you so much, and I hope you enjoy your prom concert :)

[@patriciaoudart1508]

❤ Amazing sound and variation abilities thanks!

[@AndrewLumsden]

🎹🎶💯👍👏 Congratulations. Terrific Prom this morning, as ever, Jonathan. So much better too that you were able to introduce the pieces yourself as opposed to the BBC anouncer you had to deal with for your concert during covid, who clearly hadn't a clue about what she was talking about!!

[@prawn4527]

That’s such an insane organ , must be so fun to play

[@pamelawest324]

Many congratulations. It was a great concert and the first time I have really heard this organ properly .

[@anjasalentijn145]

Hallo!! Marvelous I enjoyed it so much!! Thanks B B❤❤ WITH LOVE from the Netherlands .

[@VivKBee]

I have tickets for myself and my sister-in-law. The last time I heard this organ live was just after the rebuild @2004 in the San Saen's organ symphony.

[@janetlindley4465]

Thank you for this wonderful tour. I can only imagine how magnificent the whole concert was. 😊

[@melaniejose1972]

I'm so excited, I'm counting sleeps!

[@MrAsBBB]

I would be a kid in a sweet shop😊

[@brettowen7174]

Our school 3 manual organ by Cooper Gill & Tompkins has a magnificent 16 ft Ophicleide, really beefs up the pedal section with a 32 open wood to lend foundation. The school is St John's College, Johannesburg.

[@MaryPerry-v4y]

Thank you for this tour, and for a wonderful concert.

[@AmgineIX]

I’m coming!!! Edit: I am begging for Widor’s toccata as an encore or else I demand a refund 😂

[@alistaircox3867]

I have just bought my ticket and will be sitting up in the East Choir only years away from the organ and you. I am so excited and can hardly wait. I hope you will have time to sleep between now and then.

[@andrewblack5911]

Tickets already booked! +1 for your transcription of the Saint-Saëns "Organ Symphony" Finale as the encore 🙏🤞 Pretty please 😉

[@sibylleacatos]

Magnifique bravo bravo .

[@mattsmithlon]

Thank you for playing our Pipeup organ at London Bridge! Good to see you in London!

[@srfurley]

Until Saturday a week ago I had never heard the similar size organ in the Whitgift Centre, Croydon played, but that day there was a young boy playing it. Have any others been installed in London?

[@TonyDeConcini]

I love the RAH Organ. I was lucky enough to buy a copy of the RAH Virtual VST library that was produced and distributed for retail sale. It's limited - I mean there was NO way they could sample the whole thing. But it was sampled during COVID months, with great care to cover a wide wide range of the stops from sweet and quite to roaringly powerful. I can't wait to get my set up finished so I can plug into that and play with it on three manuals with my short limited pedal board. But what an incredible instrument. 9,999 pipes - always made me wonder WHY they didn't just add ONE more pipe for a nice round 10K!! Seems simple enough. LOL!! Anyway another great demonstration of an incredible instrument and one I sincerely appreciate. Thanks gents for sharing this cool video - once again. CHEERY BYE!!

[@gregbushman319]

Thank you for the GREAT tour!!

[@calolson9572]

Just got my copy of the Sometime Organist - SO looking forward to playing out of it!!!

[@Gwinnettrailfan]

You’re doing Proms?! You have been incredible pianists and organist! I always admired your work! Greetings from USA! 🇺🇸

[@JakePurches-Base2music]

I played the RAH organ myself. Its seems limitless.

[@Halley-qs4qr]

The dynamic compression in this video is brutal!

[@amangogna68]

Fantastic !

[@willortiz3547]

I do hope that you will record this BBC Proms concert for those of us who do not reside in England. I have heard some amazing orchestral pieces played at the Proms in Royal Albert Hall. I would love to hear the 1812 Overture and the Piece by Wagner that you have planned for the concert performance. I loved this video and hope you will thrill us all with your concert performance. Best of Luck!! Will Ortiz

[@epincion]

BBC generally own all rights

[@christarbard4958]

Like all Proms it will be available on BBC Sounds

[@gstanley75]

Such talent and such an organ. I hope there is a recording or rebroadcast beyond BBC3 so us Yanks have an opportunity to listen to your performance.

[@marionilla]

Я все размышляла над этим черно - белым кадром в вашем видео . Я думала об этом на прогулке , в церкви , за чаем ...Все понятно конечно же !!! И эта тема волновала меня уже давно ! Именно то что происходит сейчас интересно многим .

[@der_Allsehende_Seher]

HRM KING CHARLES III should confer Knighthood on Tom and Jonathan Scott!

[@Ryan.C.Hallengren]

To those who would dare to drag me to Royal Albert Hall. Forget about it. I will end up dragging you. Cream helped make my introduction in 2005- at precisely the same moment I was graduating from college in Michigan.

[@2Sheds30619]

So sad I can't attend this Prom. Unfortunately I'll be up in Scotland!

[@irkibby]

I'll be there. Even more excited now. Will there be bells during the last section of the 1812 Overture?

[@ianstevenson9844]

See you at the concert.

[@rosieclarkson4064]

I volunteer at Leicester Cathedral. Huge organ. Built by Harrison and Harrison of Durham from earlier pipework. On maximum throttle would make your ears bleed. Monsters of Rock, eat your heart out!

[@tizianoferenc4630]

Beautiful video. Ps: If you don't upload Ad nos, I'll come look for you!!

[@classy8888]

Oh this demo is amazing! What an instrument! Oh to be in London for this concert! It's no wonder Anna Lapwood goes crazy over this organ! Don't view this on your little phone - give it due credit and play through your big PC speakers and a big monitor. Can't wait for the concert!

[@epincion]

From an organists point of view the organ has a major flaw and that is of terrible acoustics from the bench. Its incredible to me that in the 2003-4 rebuild (which cost a couple of million) no mobile console was added so that the organist can be down on the floor with the orchestra and concert piano. The placement of the only console means that a lot of the sound goes out over the head of the organist.

[@ds1868]

@@epincion A mobile console positioned further away from the case would be useful. I suppose it all comes down to cost. As you say the rebuild of 2002-04 was expensive and was close to £3 million. Perhaps one day the RAH authorities may consider this.

[@tiagocorsograziottin3231]

👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

[@skin150263]

Fantastic, thanks for sharing. Am I right in thinking that, since the rebuild, this instrument just pips Liverpool Anglican Cathedral to be the largest in the country?

[@ds1868]

Hello, after the rebuild in 2002-04, the RAH organ was the largest organ by number of pipes in the UK, with either 9,997 or 9,999 pipes. The exact number of pipes is a bit of a mystery, as there are conflicting sources of information for the exact number. Some sources cite 9,999 pipes, others including the organ builder John Mander who rebuilt the organ cite 9,997 pipes. The number of pipes increased in the rebuild due to the addition of the IV rank quint mixture on the Great Secondary division. However, with new additions to the Liverpool Anglican cathedral since 2004, this is now the largest organ by number of pipes with 10,226 pipes. Hope that helps.

[@skin150263]

@@ds1868 Thanks for clearing that up for me.

[@Mark_Dyer1]

'Boys', you are amazing! I wonder how long that little publicly-available chamber-organ will last?

[@mattsmithlon]

Choir West Row 3 Tomorrow whoop whoop

[@scottmusic242]

Does Albert Hall utilize the Uniflex? If not, does a returning organist need to completely reset all of their registers/stops/pistons?

[@jackchapman5052]

There is another organ in southwark cathedral

[@marionilla]

У Вас , Джонатан , в начале видео такой грустный вид , что мне тоже грустно стало ...

[@Pious888]

❤

[@bobmcdermott9535]

Wish I had tickets. Will it be broadcast?

[@g.k.failla9389]

@@bobmcdermott9535 It will be broadcast on BBC3 radio. You can get the app as I did. Remember to account for any time difference between your location and London. This should be good. (I heard him play the St. Saens Organ Symphony with orchestra live on BBC3 a while back). From Chicago, U.S.A.

[@g.k.failla9389]

It will, as Johnathan says at the end. I have the BBC3 app and will listen to it live. (I will have to make sure to set a clock for the time difference l). From Chicago, U.S.A.

[@eirikhetland3272]

Also, what are those two sheets on the music stand at 1:45?

[@epincion]

Instructions to users of the organ

[@rsilman73]

I'm sure Anna Lapwood will lend a hand if needed 😂

[@epincion]

She might learn something from Jonathan

[@FALCON9151U]

Remember gentlemen sleep is for those who need it😂

[@rikeischen3548]

Just wondering: How many holes does it take to fill the Albert Hall?

[@B_MAD_24]

Come over to the boardwalk hall organ.

[@Tom-Lahaye]

This organ has a huge sound, but with the quieter stops on the swell being so distant from the console it must be difficult for you to register this organ well. I can imagine that you sometimes need tom sitting on the tribune to assess the sound and give feedback to you.

[@epincion]

I fully agree with you. A very great sum of money was spent rebuilding the instrument by Mander (now sadly now more) but what gobsmacked me was that a remote console was not put in. If the organist could sit on the floor of the concert hall in the same spot as the grand piano is placed when its needed then it would revolutionise the functionality to the organist

[@gminor680]

@@epincion Technically Mander Organs does still exist - or at least is reborn. However it is simply that a previous employee took over a well-respected and long-established local firm in Kent - F.H. Browne & Sons - and re-named it. Not trading on the name, of course!

[@ds1868]

@@gminor680 Yep it does still exist, in a revised form. John Mander is still about as Chairman of the new company.

[@markcooke729]

I would LOVE to be let loose on the RAH organ! A dangerous instrument in the hands of a megalomaniac, which I think most organists are secretly if they were honest! LOL

[@EElgar1857]

You meant to say "Pedal Flues", I'm sure.

[@LauraChilcott]

Why didn't you use percussions