The 1728 Trost Organ in Waltershausen, Germany | Bálint Karosi | Demonstration of Stops

[@danielnerad6671]

1:24 Hauptwerk 10:51 Oberwerk 16:12 Brustwerk 21:09 Pedal

[@JeffWindoloski]

23:12 ... the concert crowd pleaser!

[@bowlerrollercoaster]

@@JeffWindoloski uhh ok

[@ExAnimoPortugal]

Organ builder: how many 8 foot stops would you like? Congregation: YES

[@andreacosta74]

The true, quintessential “Thuringian [Bach] sound”

[@JeffWindoloski]

Amen, amen and amen =)

[@gaborpatajeno1501]

Szuper orgona, kiváló bemutató, továbbá tehetséges orgonista! Remek :)

[@hardmuscl4life]

One of my favorite instruments... i especially enjoy the spinning stars of the Zimbelstern

[@bkarosi]

I have to fo back to demonstrate the Zimbelsterns

[@hardmuscl4life]

@@bkarosi Dr. Karosi, I would certainly enjoy listening to you play that magnificent instrument again. Your skills as musician, teacher and tour guide are formidable. More importantly though, you seem a sweet, kind human being...the world needs more people like you. Many thanks, Peace, George

[@noiselesspatient]

I spend many hours playing the Hauptwerk sample set of this incredible instrument. How wonderful to hear such a detailed and warm-hearted demonstration. Must be amazing 'in the flesh'. Thank you 🙏

[@noiselesspatient]

Flöte douce 4' ♥️

[@levanzau]

@@noiselesspatient Also my favorite stop :)

[@chadstaten5586]

I’ve been wanting this sample set myself for a long time! In the end, I settled on the Huß-Schnitger because I felt a need to play even older literature convincingly, and because of a personal connection with that organ, and because the Trost was more money on a tight budget. But I still want this one. 😊 www.organartmedia.com/en/heinrich-gottfried-trost

[@levanzau]

@@chadstaten5586 Im thinking of getting a schnitger Set, because I know a few original schnitger organs also. Do you would recommend the Hus Schnitger Sample Set? How realistic is it?

[@chadstaten5586]

@@levanzau It’s completely realistic! I have no difficulty imagining I’m playing the real organ. I was just playing it about an hour ago. I really like it.

[@stephenkolarac5305]

Your talent and musicianship shines through your wonderful tour of this magnificent organ! Your personality is very engaging as well! Thank you.😊

[@rolandjohannes]

Amazing!! Thanks so much! (I can't help but think what would have happened, had the forefathers of the "Orgelbewegung" not taken the North-German baroque organ as "the" ideal, but rather also considered the Thuringian (and South Garman) styles as well.... Just listen to all those 8' stops!!!! So romantic *huge smile*

[@charlessiegler6303]

Definitely a grand organ with great stops, and includes the 32’ Posaunen Bass in the pedal, and a zimbelstern. Can’t wait for the demo

[@agogobell28]

Rewatching this for the first time in a while, and I’m only now taking in the incredible variety of colours one can get out of this instrument. Practically every single stop sounds unique and different from all the others, and practically every possible combination of stops seems to produce a new, fascinatingly characterful colour. Now if only new instruments were built along these lines more often….

[@lyudmila2882]

Thanks for the fascinating demo. The pedals by themselves were particularly interesting. You must have to be dragged away from this beast! More addictive than KZbin-- provided you can do all that.

[@nicolincaracolin4889]

Definitely one of my biggest goals is to do what this man can do. It is truly admirable that someone gets to know the organ so well, currently I am more interested in this instrument and its great powerful world. good luck and see you in the future of the organ.

[@gerhardrohne2361]

first we see the town, the market, the place of the church in there, the interior, the placement and size of the organ in this church and only then the spieltisch. this all is prerequisite to understand the importance, task and quality of any organ anywhere. Now you start to operate meaningfull with your musicsheets, stops, fingers, feet and mouth: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben...

[@jacoboVE_Cultura]

¡WOW! Balint, que gran maestro, de exquisita educación, ¡ bellisimo ! órgano barroco de Waltershausen. ⚘💖⚘👍

[@jofido]

Thank you Balint for demonstrating this wonderful organ. A great up close look at the instrument and the Church surrounds. The video, audio and editing is very well done. We have all heard this organ for many years with a variety of virtuosos. You are the latest maestro.

[@DJDevvin]

The only videos I have seen are this one and Hans Andre Stamm on this organ.

[@jimmythetrumpet3632]

I've seen his performance of the Bach Passacaglia on this organ and it's brilliant!

[@farahmohammed1963]

Oh, what an excellent video!!💕 Thank you for showing us the gloriousness of this instrument! Everything about this video is beautifully done: from the interior shots of the church (that staircase!!💕) & closeups of the pipes, to your lengthy musical improvisations...we really get to experience the history and magic of this sacred space! Thank you Balint...Your videos NEVER disappoint!!🌺😊🎶

[@Orgelix]

Farzlschmöcker du 😬

[@richardnott57]

What a beautiful town! And as for this glorious instrument, just incredible. Thank you Balint for sharing this with us.

[@KravchenkoAudioPerth]

One of my all time favourite instruments to listen to. I have over a dozen recordings on it. And it is so interesting to have the tour. I watched as the action became heavier and heavier. Not an easy instrument to play with the pedal to the metal! But enjoyable to learn and listen. Thanks for making this video. I have learned a lot about an instrument that I knew well in the academic sense.Now I can put a sonic signature to every stop listed in the specifications. Some of them are world class. Oh, and I lika the Reeds! Wish you added in a few labial 16's would have been a real shake and bake moment:)

[@daanmollema6366]

The site of the legendary Stamm-Bach recordings.

[@Narayan_1996]

Blessed are the hands of those who can play a Pipe Organ, the instrument made to praise the Lord... I wish I could have this blessing too... I've never seen one in my life... P.S: I lost the heart you gave for this comment, I am sorry, I edited it and it vanished... can you give it back...? 🥺

[@Narayan_1996]

@- Du bist so sanft, danke dafür, mein Bruder / meine Schwester ♥ Frohes Neues Jahr to you too, und Ja, ich liebe die Deutsche sprache, but I do can't speak it, yet. Hallo aus Brasilien O/

[@user-74652]

I've watched those performances by Hans André Stamm on this organ. It's great to get a proper tour of it.

[@michaelnancyamsden7410]

Love you stop tour's. Love flutes.

[@rogerlewis3787]

Thank you Balint for this demonstration. What a wonderful organ, and organ case and the church itself. All a delight to see and hear.

[@glockengambe]

How nice that you were here! I've already borrowed the key for a few hours. ^^ By the way, I interpret this Geigenprincipal above the keyboards as a replacement for a solo violin at the musique. It speaks directly into the room and can also be easily heard by singers on the gallery. Also fascinating: this Vagarr is nothing more than an flute amabile, well over 100 years before this stop became the general standard, Trost must have been a true visionary! All best for next year!

[@oliverfrancis1851]

Brilliant- so interesting that the church is structured somewhat like a theatre - the organ is amazing too

[@grahamcasey9188]

Wow....you play the organ like magic

[@darylstreet5749]

One of the most beautiful organs I've ever seen

[@Quintade8]

I'm really looking forward to the presentation of this great organ!

[@eM_Wu]

Christ, such a beautiful sound!

[@abnorc8798]

I didn't know that there's a breakdown & demonstration of this organ on the internet! Thanks for the video. I can't imagine the work that went into designing and building this.

[@peteacher52]

Thank you, Maestro, for another fine demonstration. You play phrases of decent length so we can better appreciate the subtelties of each voice and their combinations.

[@mikitaraby]

23:14 what composition?

[@AlessandroSistiMusic]

He's improvising based on a common pattern in baroque music (it's a sequence)

[@billstewartbill]

I love your use of gapped registrations, as they add so much character particularly to quieter solo lines. Oh, they save wind! The bellows pumpers must've loved that. Seriously, I never did believe the people who claimed that gapped registrations are not authentic in baroque playing. After all, who could resist them?

[@chrisrose6200]

A fabulous sounding instrument. An absolute delight to hear the sound in any stop combinations.

[@taviyo]

Just beautiful. Thanks to you and everyone who supported you to learn how to play so beautifully.

[@dr.anahid]

It is and remains my absolute favourite organ. Thanks for the great presentation of its possibilities. I am so happy that I can play on it.

[@OneLSBHymnaWeek]

Sounds amazing. Need to add this to my Hauptwerk setup.

[@michaelhuss3851]

What a joy to listen to and what an organ! I have an idea about the Vox Humana: In a description of the organ I read that the Vox Humana is permanently coupled to the Hohlflöte of the Oberwerk. So maybe one has to pull both stops? And about the Flöte Travers: I think it's actually a harmonic flute like Cavaillé-Coll's Flute harmonique. That would explain why it sounds more like a 4' but is mentioned as 8' because it has the length of an 8'.

[@kevinklingner3098]

What a wonderfully instrument. It must be such a pleasure and delight to play an organ as young that has such beautiful melodic and regal and harmonic tone is the blend in like silk and butter. The sound is so silky smooth and mesmerising beautifull. It almost put you in a dream state because of the beauty of the harmony and melody .

[@derckvanschuylenburch1325]

Great sound tour! You describe the pedal board as being "Radiating". It seems to me you might have meant to say "Concave" ???

[@asheland_numismatics]

Splendid as ALWAYS!

[@MGSBESTProductions]

I was the 1000th like on this video!! It sounds amazing!!

[@geraldcahill5534]

I love Mr Karosi's demonstrations of these organs. Can someone identify the peace that he is using to demonstrate the organ In this video. Also I would like to know if there is Hauptwerk or GrandOrgue sampleset for this organ? Hope to meet Mr K. Someday when he's near New York, or New Jersey!

[@bkarosi]

Hi Gerald, I am based in New York

[@marc-andremarquis2928]

What an amazing sounding instrument ! 😍👍 Thank you for the also amazing demo !

[@dabuya]

Thank you for demonstrating that beautiful instrument!

[@PatrickBateman191]

Thank you Thank you Thank you for this beautiful video. Some peace in this insane world.

[@joseroldan5685]

Maravilla. Wonderful

[@jozsefmakai9194]

Köszönöm Szépen!

[@JeffWindoloski]

The 32' Pousanenbass is superb! Let's swap some of the 8' flutes out for a full ensemble of reeds =)

[@stanleyraynald6675]

Amazing and wonderful instrument.

[@glockengambe]

Flaut travers 4 are Gamba pipes which does overblow, Flaute douce 4 is doubled: one rank stopped, the other open.

[@alma2491]

Amazing!

[@LUCKYWE]

아...정말 멋지다!!! Good sound!! Beautiful instrument!!!!

[@MitchBoucherComposer]

Great performances, Balint! A question: Do you plan to present one of these videos on the great Hildebrandt organ at St. Wenzel, Naumburg?

[@charlessiegler6303]

@Mitch Boucher-Composer: That’s a great recommendation. I would really like to see him demo the Hildebrandt organ as well 👍

[@MitchBoucherComposer]

@@charlessiegler6303 Me too! It's probably my favorite organ in existence. Bach himself played (and approved it!) way back in the 1740's. Balint would work wonders on the instrument, I think.

[@bkarosi]

I am working on it... not easy

[@MitchBoucherComposer]

@@bkarosi I understand it's not easy--there's no rush! Take your time.

[@thebog11]

Vagarr. Weird name. Definitely not a Fugara, sounds more like a flute to me. According to one source, the Unda Maris on this organ is a double mouthed stop with one mouth tuned to celeste with the other. What is sometimes called a Ludwigtone today.

[@AntoniusTertius]

Divine Musical Beauty!

[@andrewketchum960]

Love those drawknobs!

[@agogobell28]

That Flöte travers on the OW sounds like it’s 4’, although maybe I’m mistaken.

[@agogobell28]

Also the Vagarr sounds like it’s 8’ instead of 4’.

[@bkarosi]

@agogobell28 The Vagar is at 8', 4' was an editing mistake but the Travers Flöte is indeed at 8’. It is just deceiving because it is so rich in the first harmonic

[@agogobell28]

Wow, that’s fascinating. It’s almost a harmonic flute in that respect.

[@Zardman7]

@@agogobell28 Flauto Traversos are hard to voice because of that, in fact, many are harmonic as well

[@thunderhands3274]

Your sounds are brilliant as usual.

[@simonkawasaki4229]

Amazing organ and location.

[@cambridgeport90]

I heard a concerto by Poulonc once where the organist played a 32 stop. It was so bassy and full-sounding. Hard to describe, but this organ sounds more beautiful than the one in that recording, TBH. Also, does anyone else just love his accent?

[@charlessiegler6303]

Where did you find that video?

[@dkbvi]

Great introducion - thank you very much!

[@jntl.9636]

듣기좋아요. 마음이 차분해지는..☺😇😊😇😊😇

[@samuellourenco1050]

That organ is very famous, at least to me.

[@timothyclark5571]

What is the name of the piece of music that was playing during the intro?

[@bkarosi]

Karosi Ouverture

[@timothyclark5571]

@@bkarosi is there sheet music for this?

[@muhomor1685]

24:30 could you name me this piece?(if it is not your improvisation)

[@R4c_444]

Precisa de preparo físico para este órgão?

[@oludotunjohnshowemimo434]

Would it have been one of the organs that Bach have played

[@marcelobrunorodrigues7630]

Hi, Balint. Some years ago I read an article that asked if this would be "an ideal organ for Bach". Can you tell me better your impressions of this instrument? My private pupil Antonio has a sampleset of this instrument and we remarked a special peculiarity on the Flöte travers or the Vagarr from the 3rd manual, I don't remember well, mostly at is sound emission specially if playing long notes.

[@ryankennedy3109]

I'm curious Balint's opinion on this. I've always gotten the sense that Bach enjoyed playing extremely old fashioned (and out of fashion) music on extremely advanced (galant, in other words) organs. Is it possible that Bach, notwithstanding his musical conservatism, got unreasonably excited, like many of us, when his organs made strange and alluring sounds, even if he wasn't prepared to jump into new compositional fashions?

[@fabioanchieri8333]

---> Congratulations for the great demonstration !!! A question which title has the first song you hear at the beginning of the video. ---> Complimenti per la bella dimostrazione !!! Una domanda che titolo ha il primo brano che si sente all'inizio del video

[@robertramsay5963]

German organs of that vintage wouldn't have had Barker levers. Is it quite heavy to play when coupled?

[@vanessafaranelli4778]

Amazing

[@arielguarino5698]

wonderful !!!!

[@cornwalldragon4617]

I enjoyed your demonstration of this masterpiece! Did you ever figure out the issue with the Vox Humana?

[@ruscharles]

gosh he's got a really lovely haircut in this one

[@ruscharles]

seems like he might have not had permission TO PLAY THIS ORGAN ! keeps looking back - pretty fun, I've def been there!!

[@amenophis_factorem]

How did you get access to play this organ?

[@amenophis_factorem]

Never mind, I played this organ last week😏😏😏

[@nathanparker1879]

I thought most of those stops where just Ventils but it looks like there all speaking for the most part!

[@aaroncameron1494]

What was that piece you played as an intro

[@bkarosi]

I improvised it

[@aaroncameron1494]

I wish you would write that into piece

[@y11971alex]

I wonder if Bach ever played the 1367 Halberstadt organ. I hear it has a 32’ principal which apparently Bach liked.

[@Zardman7]

The Halberstadt medieval organ was basically a new instrument in Bach’s day I think. (Someone correct me if I’m wrong)

[@nikitabrilliantov6996]

What is the pedal solo?

[@julielueck1352]

If I go to Waltershausen in the future, can I play it??

[@bkarosi]

YEs, there is a fee to play the organ though

[@julielueck1352]

@@bkarosi Thank you, Balint!

[@wallk03]

What is the deepest note this instrument can play?

[@orgue3461]

About 16Hz

[@cfulek335]

Cooollllll

[@AllMusicEtc]

I think Hauptwerk means Great, Oberwerk means Swell and Brustwerk means Choir.

[@bachtehude2437]

I believe in order for the Vox Humana to sound, one must first draw the Hohlflote 8

[@xavieramaya8388]

The organ works Andre stamm full

[@Charles-Reardon]

26:04 tutti

[@aaroncameron1494]

I thought hautbois was a french stop

[@山口耕司-p7p]

この教会💒のオルガニストですか？

[@aaroncameron1494]

I hate when you improvise because you play such beautiful music that I cant buy the sheet music for.

[@Oboedamore100]

You could play so much better without the shoes on!!!!! You can feel and control the pedals best in your stockings!!!

[@Zardman7]

This organ has a very heavy pedal