The 1828 Hesse Organ in Wahlwinkel, Thuringia, Germany | Demonstration & BWV 541a | Balint Karosi

The 1828 Hesse Organ in Wahlwinkel, Thuringia, Germany
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[@SorenxD123]

Why did you not use the principal 8 in the tutti demonstration? Balance in comparison with the Pedalwerk or?

[@bkarosi]

It is an editing mistake: the Principal was pulled instead of the Hohlflöte 8' at both places in the plenum registrations

[@ColinHarvey78]

Sorentius I was going to ask the same question! Many thanks Balint for the answer

[@earthlightsmusic2743]

It's nice to hear Dr. Karosi play an equal-temperament organ, where all the chords come out sweet. A bright 4-foot rank bodes well for registrations that follow!

[@ExAnimoPortugal]

I would have never guess such a modest looking church would house such a colorful organ.

[@edwardluth7740]

I always enjoy the pipe organ. My favorite magnificent instrument.

[@agogobell28]

What a gorgeous warm tone. It feels like a totally natural progression from the Thuringian organs of Bach’s day and area, without yet getting into the thick symphonic tone of some late Romantic German organs.

[@ailex12]

Your channel is honestly such a gem!

[@rbk2745]

Thank you a lot. I am using your videos to learn about registration.

[@brucetominello7440]

The 8’ principal, is a beast!

[@peteacher52]

A surprisingly large (looking) organ for the size of the church. What a charming sound, so ably demonstrated and played. Each of your illustrating phrases are masters of miniature improvisations themselves. Once again, bravo!!

[@AL-ns1jm]

this organ has a superb sound... what a transparency!

[@joannescouchet7038]

Funnily, the voicing of the lower principals and flutes reminds me of that of the Stellwagen in Lübeck, that very clear vocal sound - does anyone else has this impression?

[@giselatoms2692]

Greetings from Canada. Today is Thanksgiving here, what a perfect music to this day. Thank you very much, you made my day.

[@vittoriobacchiega9118]

Thank Balint! It's remarkable the attack transient of salicional stop. It's impressive contrast of internal lutheran furniture and the organ@ by the way it is a lutheran "permission" for our instruments 😊

[@KravchenkoAudioPerth]

A nice well balanced organ. Good power in the 16 foot Pausaunen. Nice balance on tutti and solo stops. I liked it. The Bach was great. Nice to see you play from memory you show a lot more intimacy with the music when you do. Thanks for making the video and especially for sharing it with us!

[@rogerscottcathey]

Masterpiece of cabinetry and mechanics.

[@peteacher52]

Good comment.

[@thunderhands3274]

It's felt like fantasy world's. Thanks for your gift. I pray there are blessing to you and around you.

[@evanduggan431]

Thank you Balint. I really appreciate (and love) your demonstrations and playing.

[@jofido]

Nicely done, Balint. Thank you.

[@farahmohammed1963]

Oh, these charming music examples!! These are what I love most about your videos, Balint!!! Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. I know that I am so thankful for these wonderfully educational videos!! 🌺💕😊🎶🍂🍁

[@mascha4843]

Wonderful 🥰 Greetings from Wahlwinkel

[@stefanjohansson3607]

I love your organ demos videos on different organs. 🙂🙂

[@jofido]

Just listened to your performances of 541 today and three years ago. Both excellent. I prefer the current one. Different organ, environment, mechanics, voicing and acoustics helps to make totally different interpretations. Accepting that no two performances are ever identical, it is to me amazing to sit back and enjoy the same score in an entirely new light. Both wonderfully done but different in so many ways.

[@joannescouchet7038]

YES! I've always wondered about these early 19th century Central German organs, to see how tonal ideals developed between Trost and, say, Ladegast. Looking forward to the stream!

[@joannescouchet7038]

Very Baroque-sounding -- and very clear sound, even with all those foundation stops and tierce mixtures. No manual reeds, too, which seems very old Thuringian! Also interesting that it was tuned at such a high pitch (ca 480?), I hear BWV 541a in A major :) A very good organ for Bach, actually! The lack of pipeshades is very interesting, from pictures looks like it's a Hesse family specialty. The Salicional (by Knauf) is very nice, but I do miss, say, a Sesquialtera in its place. Is this family related in any way to Adolph Friedrich Hesse? Are you familiar with any organs by Carl Eduard Schubert? Conservative late 19th century builder who insisted on building organs in sort of a Silbermann style and often refused to modernize old organs -- sadly there are not many good sound examples of his works online.

[@espressonoob]

@@joannescouchet7038 I was gonna say, the sound of the bach is amazing here. What I'd describe as perfect to my ears lolol.

[@joannescouchet7038]

@@espressonoob Might be heresy, but I like it more than the Trost in Walterhausen! Same array of interesting dusty Central German sounds, but much less strident, in better acoustics, and probably easier to play! (Although the action still looks quite heavy and the pedalboard wide, but those are just things you deal with on a beautiful old organ)

[@espressonoob]

@@joannescouchet7038 honestly I'm actually not to familiar with organs as I'm a mere pianist, but I've been told by my choir prof who's also an organist that old baroque organs he got to use while visiting germany were surprisingly difficult to play. generally just due to the old tuning and the action, which was weird because harpsichords have a much lighter action to use and I thought it'd be the same case lol. guess not.

[@organrepertory815]

Danke für diesen interessanten Beitrag.

[@davidhall7455]

I'm hearing the same flute and principal sounds that Gerhard Brunzema obviously studied and imitated. Which leads me to suggest that the HW Principal 8' is intended to be always used with the Hohlflote 8. If you had compared the 8 and 4 principals directly you would have noticed that the 4' had a much fuller sound that would have only been matched by the two 8's used together. The sound of the principal chorus for your Bach G+ would also have benefitted from this. Thank you for your demonstration videos. I am putting a similar thing together for my Brunzema instrument in Kitchener Ontario Canada in preparation for the Organ Builders Conference visit planned for July 2021.

[@dkbvi]

Danke für die interessante Demonstration!

[@non-resortthailand4548]

Great. Perfectly. No more comments.

[@jozsefmakai9194]

Köszönöm Szépen!

[@alma2491]

Amazing!♫♪♥♫♪♥♫♪♥♫♪♥

[@bobh5087]

Some really lovely Flute stops (and one rather quirky String). And no manual Reed stops or Mutations. hmm..... 🤔 Isn't that a Pedal Principal 16' in the façade ? Many thanks for this very interesting demonstration. 👍

[@fiskfan1999]

imo the facade pipes look like they're 8 foot, judging by the console

[@PASD2008]

💕🌹💕🌹💕🌹💕🌹💕🌹💕🌹Muito bonito , me encanta ....

[@karlrovey]

KZbin just had to put an ad about 20 seconds from the end...

[@peteacher52]

You are right. They are ignorant money-grubbers with a 'fuck you' attitude towards the very clientele that provides their income.

[@vittoriobacchiega9118]

They want to sell the music app without ads. this annoying and disrespectful behaviour is wanted

[@RobertOrgRobert]

Prefer it when he doesn’t “pull out all the stops” Less works much better on this quaint instrument

[@peteacher52]

"He"? Mr Karosi has a name. It's clearly there for all to see.

[@zeusantony5027]

Handsome instrument and beautifully demonstrated as usual. I find everything sounds bland with very little character to the individual voices and the choruses sound very thick and uninteresting. Very English Victorian perhaps in sound.