The BIGGEST Gothic Cathedral in the WORLD! The organ of Saint John the Divine in NYC

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@stepps511 3 ай бұрын

A wonderful video featuring this mammoth cathedral and it's temporary instrument which, by all accounts, you played brilliantly! Thanks, Charles!

@samueljaramillo4221 3 ай бұрын

We’ve been to this magnificent cathedral many times. We love to just sit and listen to the magnificent organ.

@scottgarver5782 3 ай бұрын

Widor's tocatta in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. How absolutely glorious!

@bhigdaddymark 8 күн бұрын

Excellent video, thanks for demonstrating that fine Walker Technical Organ. .y friend Bob Walker is a GENIUS in his contribution to the organ world and we thank him for it.

@paullewis2413 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the upload. I wonder if this amazing cathedral will ever be finished. You can see from the design that it began in the Romanesque style and continued in Gothic. That actually makes this building more like the ancient cathedrals of Europe which is many cases were begun in the 11th/12th century and completed hundreds of years later.

@raphaelramin9015 3 ай бұрын

The Catedral de Seville (built between 1401 and 1519) is the largest Gothic church in the world. Saint John the Divine in NYC is Neo-Gothic and not Gothic, so it is a stylistic copy since it was only completed in 1911. But the organ is fantastic!

@Charles-Reardon 3 ай бұрын

What I was told was a lie😢

@raphaelramin9015 3 ай бұрын

@@Charles-Reardon No, you didn't know. That's a difference.

@user-qt5cm1qf3m 3 ай бұрын

I wish 😪 that they at least completed the two towers of the cathedral.

@richardharrold9736 2 ай бұрын

To be fair, SJD isn't just "neo", it is quite inventive and original, re-imagining Gothic for the twentieth century.

@jeremiahthompson82 14 күн бұрын

@@Charles-Reardon This is a Gothic cathedral. St Paul's is considered Romanesque yet it's built with Gothic engineering. Gothic architecture is predominated with pointed arches like we see in this cathedral instead of the rounded Roman arches

@grahamtwist 3 ай бұрын

The Walker instrument is amazing - I confess that it sounds like a real pipe organ (helped by the extraordinary acoustics of this magnificent cathedral). You were very fortunate to play it, Charles . . . maybe you will be able to return when the Skinner is playable once more!

@Charles-Reardon 3 ай бұрын

The trip is in the planning!

@bikdav 18 күн бұрын

😮 What? That Walker is a totally electronic organ? That’s awesome sounding. I might recommend something like this for a small church in my area.

@greerbox 3 ай бұрын

Hey Charles, what a beautiful church/organ. You are so clever being faced with that organ for the first time and producing such great music. I loved the finale as I guess you did judging by your smiles. You seemed to gel so well with the resident organist. Great vlog, love watching you ❤

@paullewis2413 3 ай бұрын

The toccata from Widor’s organ symphony no 5 never fails to thrill. Heard this not along ago on the magnificent organ at Westminster Abbey, London. 😊

@SknappCFA 3 ай бұрын

Cool to see you inspired by the cathedral. If you can, please do yourself a huge favor and visit the cathedral in Seville, Spain. It’ll be the same experience, but it’ll be on steroids.

@Todd1356 3 ай бұрын

Fantastic. Your tempo for the Widor was perfect.

@TrinityDivineMozart 3 ай бұрын

I haven't been to that church in ages the organ and inside the church is absolutely wonderful and divine in Uptown Manhattan.

@nathanaellee8356 3 ай бұрын

This was after the fire but before the Cathedral’s 148 rank Aeolian-Skinner Organ was reinstalled. Last I researched, the Skinner was still being cleaned and restored,a project that should be completed by next year. The organ will then be reinstalled and used for services once again.

@drbobdrake 3 ай бұрын

There was a more recent smokey fire under the chancel several years ago that has resulted in another cleaning of all the pipes. The Walker speakers were installed in the pipe chambers.

@Charles-Reardon 3 ай бұрын

It will be back this year, except the state trumpet😞

@sashineb.2114 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing this. Years ago, I was at St. John's for Easter Sunday service (the church was full, with hundreds standing). It's so sad about the fire and the condition of the organs, after the first restoration a few years before that. When do they expect that the current organ cleaning will be finished, with everything restored and back in place? It's amazing how the 3-manual organ sounds so big in the space. Thanks so much.

@Charles-Reardon 3 ай бұрын

It will be back by the end of the year. State trumpet has no eta yet though sadly

@tomhulbert2784 3 ай бұрын

I did a walk through of this church a few years ago. There was only a handful of people there so it was tranquil. As large as the building is it felt intimate.

@mathewmatics160 3 ай бұрын

Wow this was incredible! I've always wanted to play at that cathedral! I have access to a 3 manual walker down in virginia beach that has almost the exact same specs! So it was interesting to hear the similarities.

@Serghey_83 3 ай бұрын

СУПЕР. Очень люблю готические храмы.

@citylimits8927 3 ай бұрын

Quimby Pipe Organs had just done a very thorough and excellent restoration of the Aeolian-Skinner instrument when the 2019 fire occurred! What a bummer that it needs another restoration so soon! And that restoration was after a previous fire in 2001.

@seraphimharper8773 3 ай бұрын

Mr Reardon, my apologies. I was under the impression that the main organ of the cathedral was what we were talking about, not a temporary instrument. Again, my apologies.

@Nahji_Carter 3 ай бұрын

I definitely have to come visit when the organ is complete I heard the State Trumpet is crazy loud

@Charles-Reardon 3 ай бұрын

You heard right

@heinmadsen-leipoldt2341 3 ай бұрын

For a large cathedral but a small organ, our church is smaller but hosts a 5 manual organ with just over 14000 pipes and, our church will be celebrating its 102nd birthday in September

@Charles-Reardon 3 ай бұрын

What church?

@digitalpipes Ай бұрын

Milan's cathedral is the biggest Gothic church in the world. This one is a neo-Gothic building.

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@aaronstokes9513 3 ай бұрын

I definitely understand with regards to the Chattering person.😏😏

@pixmahler5859 3 ай бұрын

I LOVE the Sponge Bob Square Pants socks you have on.🤣

@seraphimharper8773 3 ай бұрын

I have heard larger organs played. I believe Riverside Church has a much larger instrument; I could be mistaken, however.

@questionit2518 3 ай бұрын

Babe wake up Charles posted another banger

@Charles-Reardon 3 ай бұрын

Lol

@organblower 3 ай бұрын

You played the acoustic of the largest gothic cathedral in the world. Did they say when 150A would be reinstalled? The Walker Technical does a good job in the mean time.

@Charles-Reardon 3 ай бұрын

by the end of the year

@tyronesills9423 3 ай бұрын

Great acoustics. My parish church is getting a Walker.

@Jeremy-eu9em 3 ай бұрын

The place is gigantic…. And to think… The cathedral construction has not been finished.

@joemaliga16 3 ай бұрын

I’m confused. The Aeolian-Skinner was repaired and cleaned some years ago.

@drbobdrake 3 ай бұрын

A smaller smokey fire under the chancel more recently.

@dkeithtag 3 ай бұрын

@@drbobdrakewow… is Quimby involved now also?

@drbobdrake 3 ай бұрын

@@dkeithtagI believe so. All the small Æolian-Skinner organs in the chapels were similarly affected.

@joscallinet6260 3 ай бұрын

Was this video made after the fire but before the main Aeolian Skinner organ was repaired and restored? It's been a few years now since the fire and after the organ had been thoroughly cleaned, repaired and reinstalled to great acclaim. It's now 2024 - this video here must have been made over a decade and a half ago.

@ThatcherNelson 3 ай бұрын

It had to be cleaned again because the church caught on fire again

@drbobdrake 3 ай бұрын

A small smokey fire under the chancel a few years ago necessitated yet another cleaning.

@joscallinet6260 3 ай бұрын

@ThatcherNelson and @drbobdrake: Thank you both for your replies. It seems that the Cathedral of St. John the Divine continues to be cursed by bad and even EGREGIOUSLY CARELESS STEWARDSHIP of its property. It's amazing to me that a structure made almost entirely of granite could catch fire as readily as St. John's has. You'd think after its gift shop went up in flames in December 2001, that those in charge of the care and upkeep of this landmark structure would have learned their lesson. That YET ANOTHER FIRE has taken out the organ A SECOND TIME only twenty-three years later is beyond belief! At this point the cathedral might as well mothball its Aeolian Skinner organ and make the temporary Walker organ a permanent fixture. It sounds good enough to where MOST attendees at the Cathedral wouldn't notice the difference! I'm sure the insurance company underwriting this latest fire-damage claim must by now be VERY annoyed by St. John the Divine's remarkably poor oversight of its property and will surely raise its rates accordingly, if not outright deny it any further coverage. Taken together, this pair of fires at St. John the Divine on this side of the Atlantic is nearly the equivalent of the devastating fire that all but destroyed Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in April 2019 - the HUGE expense and effort that the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Manhattan's Upper East Side had to put into cleaning not only the organ but also the ENTIRE interior stonework of the church after the gift shop inferno was on a scale proximate to what's now being done to restore Notre Dame.

@KathiPerry-nv5vx 3 ай бұрын

when I was on the faculty of Columbia University I the blessing of visiting this cathedral during holy weeks. I now watch morning worships & holy eucharist from the Washington D.C. cathedral. While attending a workshop for deaf & blind, I prayed there. The commentary from one person was totally out of place. Cathedrals & churches, mosques/temples are places of worship & deserve respect when inside!

@jamesh1303 3 ай бұрын

How many audio channels and speakers are on this instrument. There must be some huge subwoofers too. The sound is incredible! 😅

@Charles-Reardon 3 ай бұрын

@Rjl41 3 ай бұрын

@@Charles-Reardon in fact, this a mix between an electronic organ and a traditional pipe one, if I'm right! I love organs, I am a friend of Pierre Grandmaison's, organist at the ND Basilica in Montreal, Canada, a huge Casavant organ, around 95 stops or so!

@bhigdaddymark 8 күн бұрын

@@Rjl41 This Walker is all digital with no pipes at all.

@vinalboy 3 ай бұрын

😎 BRAVO!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏! And to that talker SHH!! 🤐 You’re being rude.

@TheJakeman789 5 күн бұрын

Sounds obviously electronic. Bring back the pipe organ!

@JPBAMA 3 ай бұрын

I will be glad when the pipe organ is finally restored and played again. SJTD does not record well on their streams. Washington National Cathedral mics much better. Their new temporary Walker / Hauptwerk? instrument sounds great!

@user-jx3jp3gb4x 3 ай бұрын

IT SURE DOES!!!!!!!

@bhigdaddymark 8 күн бұрын

To my knowledge, it's all Walker nothing else. I owe Bob Walker a call and I'll ask him. Both SJD and WNC are temporary Walker Technical Organs.

@seraphimharper8773 3 ай бұрын

St John’s organ is very small; what gives it the “massive” sound is the space.

@Charles-Reardon 3 ай бұрын

If you think 151 ranks is very small, I can't imagine what you think big is...

@bikdav 18 күн бұрын

Update me. Are you the present organist at the cathedral?

@Charles-Reardon 18 күн бұрын

Only during months that end with F

@lukereilly4963 24 күн бұрын

at 16:05 boellmann!!!!

@JordiFranchParella 2 ай бұрын

Please, a gothic cathedral was built in XIVth century. What was NYC in XIVth century?

@richardharrold9736 2 ай бұрын

Gothic began in the 12th century and continued to the 16th, and was revived in the 19th. SJD I think qualifies as legitimately Gothic. It isn't a mere replica of European forms in the way Washington National is.

@theohess3242 3 ай бұрын

what a flag outside there?

@semperwifi100 3 ай бұрын

What happened to the State Trumpets?

@Charles-Reardon 3 ай бұрын

Water damage

@semperwifi100 3 ай бұрын

Is there an eta on when they’ll be reinstalled?

@Charles-Reardon 3 ай бұрын

Not that I know of

@andydeakin7914 3 ай бұрын

“The biggest gothic cathedral in the world” 🤣🤣🤣. Built in 1910.

@richardharrold9736 2 ай бұрын

Yes, and? It is Gothic, it is a cathedral, it is the biggest such.

@canoeman621 3 ай бұрын

Reverb!!!

@KRELL427 3 ай бұрын

Built by the Tartarians.

@MrKmoconne Ай бұрын

For such a grand building, the organ cases are rather uninspiring.

@Charles-Reardon Ай бұрын

I honestly agree

@bhigdaddymark 8 күн бұрын

Those are 1911 E.M.Skinner cases...

@MrKmoconne 7 күн бұрын

@@bhigdaddymark Skinner was better known for what was behind the case.

@ernestomaceira6380 3 ай бұрын

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@rolandmohr7062 3 ай бұрын

Never gothik....this is a mixture of neo Styles....

@rednekokie 3 ай бұрын

The Walker is nice, but it isn't a pipe organ - and certainly not an AEolian-Skinner.

@drbobdrake 3 ай бұрын

Walker has sampled Skinner stops and is as close as a virtually organ is going to get.

@Jean-tu2bd 3 ай бұрын

Neo-gothic exactly

@andrewashdown3541 10 күн бұрын

dizzying ... camerawork. Pls learn to hold the camera still!

@Charles-Reardon 10 күн бұрын

What makes you say that

@andrewashdown3541 10 күн бұрын

@@Charles-Reardon the camera is all over the place

@Charles-Reardon 10 күн бұрын

@andrewashdown3541 in what way?

@jonwelch686 2 ай бұрын

Episcopal? And what fire made it such the organ had to be removed and replaced with a fake. Temporary I hope. Those key boards sound awful.

@richardharrold9736 2 ай бұрын

The Walker digital was brought in because the pipe organ suffered extensive smoke and humidity damage from the 2019 fire. In David Briggs' recordings the Walker sounds pretty fine.