🎵 Thalben-Ball's ELEGY sounds AMAZING on this Cavaillé-Coll! (Sées Cathedral)

[@beautyinsound]

*Finally..... a REAL Cavaillé-Coll!! Do you agree with me that this Elegy by George Thalben-Ball sounds amazing on it?*

[@kiieep381]

YES!! Thank you.

[@jerrymartin79]

Beautiful! Thank you for upload thing this - in this season of CC frenzy it is wonderful to hear the real thing. What a treat!!

[@aBachwardsfellow]

Wonderful! Thank you for this! As good as Hauptwerk is, it's nevertheless nice to hear the actual acoustics - there IS a difference (at least to my ears). For those interested: www.musiqueorguequebec.ca/orgues/france/seesnd.html

[@donaldstanfield8862]

Some sounds of heaven, on earth, thank you!

[@tedphillips2501]

Nice playing. Please wear red socks.

[@vulgivagu]

This wonderful piece of organ music very nearly was lost. It was an improvisation played at the end of evensong at The Temple Church in the Strand, London, during the war years. Fortunately the BBC were recording the service and preserved it for posterity.

[@federicoprice2687]

One of my favourites Thank you George Thalben-Ball, and Ben Maton.

[@angiebarrett8780]

Probably one of the most beautiful organ pieces I’ve heard. Richard’s artistry…..Sublime

[@albertpeckham8708]

It is amazing to me that each Cavaille-Colle organ is unique! He was a true genius!

[@dalegrider716]

One of the most beautiful ELEGIES to ever come from the pen of Thalben-Ball. Thanks for your wonderful recording. xo

[@denisnicholson2528]

God, what a sound. From the warm all-embracing strings to the roar of the reeds. Great job as always!

[@lordenoch0]

That sound, that beautiful, heavenly sound.

[@winstonpetersen3110]

Richard you are a master in the craft. Blessing to you. Bravo

[@tedwilliams7021]

That was absolutely amazing! I’ve had the distinct pleasure of playing several Cavaille-Coll organs in my life, from college until 10 years ago. I’m stupefied by the sound and always moves me to tears. If only we had him alive today - I cannot even wrap my mind around what sort of instrument he’d build.

[@rogernichols1124]

What a glorious sound! Thalben-Ball's Elegy is so quintessentially English sounding: head held high in adversity and so eloquent. Words end. This begins.

[@pannegoleyn9734]

Not the first piece that comes to mind when the name Cavaillé-Coll is mentioned, but wow! The sound is phenomenal (as one might expect!) Brings a whole different dimension to the music

[@Greenawise]

Beautiful music, rendered so damn beautifully..

[@lee1984yate]

Beautiful, Richard, as always. I also rather lke how the pedal flues shake the camera!

[@sandrafogarty1073]

Beautiful piece of music. Fabulous sound at 3:27, wow!

[@gudge8]

Wow, beautifully played! one of my favourite pieces of music ...perfect articulation, speed, registration..and the Cavaille Col lends itself to this piece totally I think...thanks for sharing that with us 👍

[@davidbrookes9430]

Beautifully played on a lovely organ.

[@Rollinglenn]

Now THAT is the sound I LOVE!!! Those strings are magnificent!

[@richardgerman]

George Thalben Ball a very famous musician and organist,a lovely Elegy.He was the man who made Ernest Lough.Good stuff.

[@myke49]

Monsieur CC really knew how to design smallish organs with brilliant pipework and superb sounds. This one is no exception. Thank-you. Mike in Oz

[@michaeltester5187]

What a fabulous musician you are.

[@anitalundgren8642]

Thank you Richard for creating BIS and Caroline for your ardent support. I have learned so much from watching your performances, and have fallen in love with this Thalben-Ball Elegy. I am working on it and hope to perform it some time this coming fall season.

[@katydickson5547]

WOW!!! I loved that piece. It sounded fantastic. Thank you Richard - it really came alive.

[@johannczyronsilvallana8600]

I never heard this piece before on REAL Cavaillé-Coll Organ it very sweet and clever to hear for

[@JaneDoe-ci3gj]

A very soothing piece! Lovely, and Caroline there by your side as always❣

[@johnellis3244]

You play beautifully - amazing really

[@diannemills5594]

Thank you Richard. Beautiful to listen to. Greetings from New Zealand.

[@youtube_user]

Thank you for posting. I just got the score, playing it on a smaller, historic romantic Organ. Even there it sounds amazing. I enjoy listening and watching your registration. Wonderful!

[@arthurrobson2002]

Love this organ I played it about ten years ago. Well done. Thanks

[@tariqelageli6552]

Thalben-Ball's Elegy is a very beautiful piece, it's one of my favorite on the trumpet. I enjoy playing it with the organ, the trumpet has the main melody.

[@iangarden1898]

Beautiful piece ... beautifully played!

[@Mikey84]

It sounds absolutely beautiful!

[@richardhoover4471]

Absolutely breathtaking, Richard!🎶🎹🎶

[@avyrium_8114]

Great piece, great organ, great organist as usual ! Thank you 👍

[@tikhonbogomolets2740]

Ahhh, the Elegy sounds really Elegiac on the CC - Just sooo ravishing. The late Stephen Bicknell was onto something with his article about the Four Fonds(Montre, Flute Harmonique, Bourdon, and Gambe/or Violoncelle). Throw in the Keraulophone with those Fonds and you get just such a lovely...What can one call it? Thats eargasm territory...

[@terenceocallaghan5639]

Absolutely brilliant Richard 👍many thanks for sharing but sorry I was unable to join the live performance 🖐🖐most inspiring.piece of music which was very calming to listen to this evening amid all the concerns if the 3rd wave 🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@hummingbird9221]

Exquisite as always! Thank you.

[@beautyinsound]

It’s a really magical piece of music, and one of England’s best for the organ 🥰

[@RalphLooij]

A real organ 😮 No Hauptwerk Hacks here, Richard. A very fine rendition of this Elegy, thanks for sharing!

[@beautyinsound]

Thanks Ralph! Thanks for your message as well - I'll be following it up soon 😊

[@calvinrichardjoness]

One of my favourite elegy Richard.. CAVAILLE-COLL made it so special ♥️

[@beautyinsound]

Mine too, along with the Elegy by John Ireland: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqXOpXaVa6qApas

[@calvinrichardjoness]

@@beautyinsound yes Richard listened to it already :) Hauntingly beautiful 😄

[@nigelthomas7960]

Richard - another amazing performance - your registrations and timing is just perfect!! haha - have to slightly disagree re the "sainted Coll"..... Thalben-Ball needs that big fat "grumpy" ("Churchillian" even!) english diapason to make it work for me. The GTB Elegy somehow needs that "doleur"!! haha - brilliant performance nonetheless and amazing to hear it like this. Loving your videos. I spent 3/4 years as GTB Organ Scholar at St Michael's Cornhill so used to play this "en homage" from time to time.....whilst I love your performance, it's nice to also be able to say that sometimes some sounds only "we" can do in our little island organs :-). Love it nonetheless!

[@ubertuba]

It does sound amazing. Unexpectedly so. Also loved the photos at the end. Always thought of you as more of a Cornet man than a Cornetto man...

[@dianadcosta3]

Beautifully played Richard. Hard work but heavenly sounds.

[@mattleach958]

Beautiful. Even with my cheap headphones the crescendo rocked my soul.

[@timdaugherty5921]

Absolutely stunning!!!!! Listening this in my new car with 12 speakers !!

[@beautyinsound]

Wooooo!! How's it sound, and what's the car??

[@Pardek]

😀 I too listened to this in my car during charging (Tesla Model 3) and it sounded terrific. As always, good work Richard. Greetings from Worms/Germany

[@timdaugherty5921]

@@beautyinsound Toyota RAV4!! Has 12 speakers and organ blows it away!!

[@orgelhase]

@@Pardek Did the music not drain the battery? 😁

[@Pardek]

@@orgelhase ;-) You're right. Lucky me, that I was at the supercharger that moment :-P Richard with his channel is the main reason, that I'm strongly considering buying a hauptwerk-console of my own.

[@knightsbenny5764]

thank you richard and caroline realy nice gtb piece

[@alunnoll3059]

Absolutely beautiful - Thanks Richard.

[@StoreeDenson]

The acoustics of Sees Cathedral is glorious just like most gothic cathedrals in France. So a real pipe organ always and forever be great in any type of organ music. Also if you can do a tier list on which hauptwerk pipe organ is better that will be nice.

[@joeberta368]

Yes just beautiful.

[@maestrohectorolivera83]

Bravo ! Fantastic !

[@chatulacartusiana17]

😍😍😍😍😍😍 Thank you so much!💖

[@gerrygorman]

Brilliant as always! Love those fiery pedal reeds in the crescendo 😃.

[@nickmaguire5104]

It does sound amazing!

[@nathanparker1879]

My favourite part is when Richard plays full organ and then the 16’ reeds shake the camera.

[@nathanparker1879]

Fantastic playing Richard! 😃

[@beautyinsound]

That allows you to 'see' how amazing it sounded in the organ loft! 😁

[@orgelhase]

It is amazing how they can copy Hauptwerk Organs in the real world. Even the detuning of the reeds was a perfect match to the digital original 😂😂

[@beautyinsound]

haha!! 👍

[@JaneDoe-ci3gj]

Good one!😂👍

[@aBachwardsfellow]

LOL ! very good!

[@orgelhase]

@@beautyinsound Who knows what progress they are going to make with these „pipe“ organs. Maybe in a distant future digital organs will become completely obsolete? 🤔😀

[@brucewilliams8714]

You're just a naughty boy!

[@CJCappella]

Stunning!

[@Gordon1Yes]

Nice touch on the ivories!

[@stephenarnold6359]

Yeah, not bad organ, fairly decent playing... Really, though, absolutely bloody marvellous and perfect!

[@beautyinsound]

😃😃

[@dnbeckmann]

Brilliant!

[@davidfletcher8558]

Richard - Splendid job - Sounds fab and no electronic gadgets to help out there which just goes to show how skilled and gifted you are. I'm guessing this was a pre Hugo/covid record ?

[@beautyinsound]

This was recorded long before both COVID and Hugo. It was when I played a recital here in 2018 - a really wonderful experience :)

[@jv04jm]

Awesome! You had to work for that one! No sequencer cheats! Nice "quint" at the end there! ;)

[@beautyinsound]

Indeed! I’ve keep those pink post-it notes on my score for posterity, so whenever I play the piece on the channel you’ll know what they are now. Playing an organ like this is a very involved experience. It’s like driving an old classic car compared with driving a brand new one - both nice experiences but very different ones at that!

[@poplarboydavid]

I enjoyed that! 🙂

[@Chuck-Pat]

So lovely to see Caroline upon the bench at the conclusion…. What flavor of ice cream 🍨 is her / yours favorite ?

[@richardsedding8444]

Well done Richard, especially the registration changes, not easy on French organs I recall! Oh for 8 thumb pistons per manual! Lovely tempo suiting the rich acoustic, oh what beautiful strings. How did you manage to get to Sees, when was this?.

[@beautyinsound]

Thanks. It was a recital that I gave in 2018. There are a couple of other performances on my channel from Sees as well - Mendelssohn's 4th Organ Sonata and Saint-Saens's Fantasie in E flat. It's a lovely place, and not too far to go from England :)

[@photonatjag]

I love this piece and recently purchased the music to learn for funerals. I have a question, which may not be a straightforward answer. I notice you play fully legato throughout, even at the end of marked phrases (eg left hand end of 2nd line). Unless at the end of a major section. I used to do this, but was reminded (at age 49) to take note of the phrases, ie short gap between notes. Is there a reason you don't make the phrases more obvious. As I say, probably not a straightforward answer.

[@beautyinsound]

It’s just my own interpretation - I like to keep those chords moving forwards without too much of a break between them.

[@photonatjag]

@@beautyinsound Thank you

[@JH109E]

Pedal octaves at the climax! Is that in the score? I do it!

[@abpakdeep]

Is this a tracker action organ? Could you please show the list of stops

[@beautyinsound]

It certain is! Here is some more information about the organ: www.musiqueorguequebec.ca/orgues/france/seesnd.html#Liste

[@abpakdeep]

Thanks

[@rensswart7248]

French organs often are more outspoken and less smooth and refined compared to English organs. In particular the reeds... And less perfectionisticly maintained... But as you demonstrated near the end, the appels d'anches are very clever on a tracker action organ.

[@rbk2745]

I never had the opportunity to play a real tracker organ. Are the keys heavy as a piano key or even heavier or not?

[@beautyinsound]

Modern electric organs (where the pipes are opened electronically) are about the same as a piano, but mechanical organs can get very heavy indeed when all the manuals are coupled together. Widor can be exhausting on some organs!

[@rbk2745]

@@beautyinsound Thank you for your answear. Someone told me it was diferent but i didn't know it was soooo diferent. 👍

[@qwincyq6412]

It can be quite physically exhausting, depending on the age and condition of the instrument. I once turned pages for a colleague playing in recital on a three manual Casavant tracker with rather long trackers and stickers. At the end of the last monumental movement with all manuals coupled together, his hands were literally shaking from the effort.

[@photonatjag]

Two manual tracker organ I play at a local church, is really heavy. Probably needs an overhaul to be fair, as it never used to be. It's hard work playing a hymn, forget Swell to Great.

[@rbk2745]

@@qwincyq6412 Thank you for the example. Now i have a good idea about it.👍

[@reapeageddon6859]

The sound is truly wonderful, and a testament to how carefully built the Cavaille-Coll organs are, but the piece seems to be played far too strictly for my taste - there is no real sense of emotion or longing, and it feels nearly robotic. I did love the little frown you made at hearing the out-of-tune trumpet reed at 2:30, and the stoplist was very wisely chosen - the piece sounded nearly heavenly.

[@brucewilliams8714]

This Elegy so perfectly fitted CC registrations it made me wonder if Thalben Ball ever played a CC. He'd have been moved by your version, I'm sure. It sounds richer than in Temple Church.

[@qwincyq6412]

So different hearing the great Thalben Ball on a french instrument

[@beautyinsound]

That's why I love playing English organ music on 'foreign' organs - it sounds so different! It's why I chose Rotterdam to record my Herbert Howells album :)

[@rmanzanog1]

The difference is valid only for Richard. Because we are listening the digital recording about what Richard played in a real organ, in the same way as Hauptwerk is a digital recording of a real organ.

[@beautyinsound]

This is exactly what I was getting at in my Real vs Hauptwerk video. I need to follow that up at some point... :)

[@aBachwardsfellow]

I can actually tell the difference -

[@davebarclay4429]

Sorry, this doesn't work for me. At 2:25 it was as if I'd accidentally taken a mouthful of vinegar. Maybe it's just what I'm used to but give me Hereford, Salisbury or, of course, the Temple any day.

[@julianmatthews5785]

Great performance of this beautiful piece! But honestly I have to say I really don't like your new titles and thumbnails and find them rather annoying.

[@beautyinsound]

How and why do they annoy you?

[@julianmatthews5785]

@@beautyinsound Don't get me wrong I love the videos, but I find all the punctuation, words in capitals and the emojis unnecessary. Also maybe you stats show that they are more popular but wouldn't it be harder to find the pieces if you don't put the composers name there? And when I say annoying I meant I just find them a bit silly. It's always hard saying you don't like something through text to someone you don't know because it always sounds more serious and angry than it is. I don't want to sound rude in the slightest, just that I preferred you titles from the last few months or so.