The Reconstructed 1907 Voit organ at the Liszt Academy in Budapest

[@pavaomrazek]

So many colours and combinations! I would probably get lost playing this organ 😅

[@rogerlewis3787]

Absolutely beautiful sounds from this organ. One of the nicest I’ve heard I think.

[@agogobell28]

The sound of the organ is almost intoxicatingly smooth. The variety of subtle gradations in tone is just gorgeous, too.

[@nancyhobson9710]

This organ has an absolute absolutely beautiful sound. But what a monumental task to restore. ..

[@PointyTailofSatan]

Wow. I would rank that one of the best Romantic voiced organ I have ever heard. And a Carillon! Add a Crumhorn and it's perfect! lol

[@Mr05241948]

Thanks for the musical trip through this incredibly gorgeous and beautifully appointed pipe organ. I could listen to you perform all day on this instrument.

[@michaelmiller1215]

A wonder instrument

[@nealpanning3536]

I really love this organ. It's so unique. The crescendo pedal with the not a clock kinda has me excited.

[@Inesdysphoria]

This is the video that I have been waiting for, I love romantic period Hungarian organs so this has hit home

[@twillert-organ-projects]

Thank you for your fine demonstration Balint Karosi of this historic and noble instrument.

[@youtube_user]

Wonderful! What an impressive reconstruction work! There are a lot of German romantic organs, where I live, but not as big as that one. Simply Wow!

[@deaganjones4666]

This organ looks like it’s quite the experience to play. I’ll have to add it to my list of organs in other countries that I want to play

[@Doeff8]

The possibilities on this organ seem endless, endless! It must be a joy to study on this organ... What a perfect job has been delivered here!

[@MichaelStBede]

Thank you for this pleasing demonstration of a marvellous romantic organ. What magical sounds are created with all those beautiful tonal colours!

[@vyvianspipes]

From what I see in the photos, that organ has been built to last centuries. A fine sounding instrument all-around!! Wonderful demonstration!!

[@KarlSheen]

Wow....beautiful sound!! Great demonstration it's nice to hear a organ demo where the organ is taken first place rather than the organist yapping on loving the sound of their own voice. I would love to get a sample set of this!

[@garymcwithey980]

What a marvelous instrument and venue. Thanks for sharing!

[@astrogabalus1630]

Your demonstrations are always very instructive, the instruments you choose to record are also very interesting. The range of dynamics is truly surprising, the dolcissimo when the organ “disappears” in particular. Thank you for letting us know those instruments even exist.

[@EElgar1857]

What a magnificent beast! It’s wonderful that this organ can be heard, especially as there are so few of its type left. And a fine demo!

[@achenpigeon]

This is Andy from your concert at St. Mark's last weekend - it was a wonderful concert, and of course it was a pleasure to meet you after it!

[@bkarosi]

Thanks for coming to the concert! It was so nice meeting you. PM me if you want improvisation lessons! :-)

[@bobh5087]

Thanks for the interesting demo (and stoplist) for such an historic and noble instrument. Thanks, also, for providing the equivalent familiar stop names (Rohrflöte, Gemshorn, Gedeckt, etc.) - much appreciated. Your improvs are always of the highest quality and very enjoyable. 👍❤️

[@charlessiegler6303]

Impressive demonstration 👍 Thanks for posting :)

[@agogobell28]

So many free reeds on this organ!

[@bilcal]

Beautiful! Thanks for the introduction to this magnificent instrument!

[@ninniblack3251]

Uno strumento bellissimo!

[@classicalmidiorgans]

Wow ! What a beautiful organ !

[@wotan10950]

classicalmidiorgans That just sounds so funny because I have a dirty turn-of-mind!!

[@gregfolland8452]

Dave Glo - You’re sooo naughty!

[@glockengambe]

The glow in your eyes during the Gamba speaks volumes and I can understand very well. ^^ The free, brilliant sound of this Gamba is very familiar to me: in my area there are still some smaller organs from Voit around 1880-90 with ~20 Reg., either more or less original or integrated in modern organs, which are known for their fresh and singing sound. Fein gemacht, es ist eine Freude dir zuzuschauen und deine Begeisterung zu teilen! Eine sehr interessante und inspirierende Orgel, wie ich finde.

[@califdad4]

Sounds really good

[@wotan10950]

Fascinating! Although I’m a decent amateur pianist, I cannot pretend to understand the organ. The piano has one keyboard and one or two pedals in nearly every composition. I’m lost after that!!

[@Highinsight7]

It sounds phenomenal...

[@davidfoster-smith211]

Fantastique restoration 🌝

[@musicisitall]

Thumbs up!

[@TheJohn1567]

that was wonderful!

[@stephenkunst7550]

For more than 50 years I have heard nothing but bad things about the Germanic Romantic organs, and why they had to be destroyed. Its great to hear they are not the horror which the neoclassic organ movement painted. Its also great to hear a demonstration of the different sounds. Too often organists feel the need to use big registrations on big organs. Keep the videos coming.

[@bkarosi]

Stephen Kunst you are absolutely right.... it is unfortunate what happened to many beautiful romantic organs in the 20th century. However, the same thing also happened to Baroque or classical organs when they romanticized them in the 19th century

[@stephenkunst7550]

@@bkarosi Agreed, but I give the ancestors a little space as they did not know better. Their view of history was not as well informed. As for the neo-classical organ. I have serviced too many of them and think too many were driven by fads and slavish adherence to what they thought were the right ways. Add to that the reproduction of a compact design when not necessary, making maintenance impossible.

[@mitchweisiger5904]

Stephen Kunst yes. Beautiful instruments. People were just ignorant about these beautiful instruments. The problem wasn’t the organ, the problems as the organist didn’t know HOW TO PLAY THEM.

[@andreacosta74]

The worst thing we can do is continuing to build Cavaille-Coll clones all around the world, specially in auditoriums

[@andreacosta74]

Stephen Kunst the target is wrong. Not neoclassic movement Vs. Symphonic BUT the german “civil war” between the winning Alsatian and French-oriented organbuilding (both neoclassic and Symphonic that chain Bach to Cavaillé-Coll through the Silberman family) Vs. loosing South and central German organbuilding that chain properly Bach, Cuntius, Scheibe, Trost, Wender, Ladegast, Schultze to Walcker and Sauer). The times, fortunately, are changing as for the other Bach German “civil war” between north-German, anseatic organbuilding and the central-Thuringian one. I ‘m speaking about the war for the “real Bach organ”. But this...is another story or as you prefers: another “war”.

[@peteacher52]

Brilliant! Astro Gabalus said it for me.

[@powerofalto]

What a remarkable instrument! The way you build up sonic textures with registrations, Balint, reveals the astonishing, subtle voicing and colors magnificently. The hall is incredibly beautiful, too. Did Bartok write works for organ? This instrument makes me crave an organ addition of Concerto for Orchestra!

[@AL-ns1jm]

liszt would sound fantastic on it !

[@AL-ns1jm]

Saw it later that it was the liszt ac.

[@jimanianortonified7015]

How long do u think it would take for him to do a stop demonstration of the Atlantic City Boardwalk organ? He’ll have to hotel overnight. Stay away from slot machines and tables!!

[@sovereign254]

I'm impressed, adding on all the goop to the choruses doesn't muddy up the sound to any discernible degree , and for a romantic instrument like that, with such a broad stoplist, that is quite rare. It has quite a balanced presence in that room as well, because I assume your recording microphones were out in the room and not right up next to the organ.

[@bkarosi]

Yes, the mics were in the middle of the hall

[@agogobell28]

I think it’s partially the room; it doesn’t have quite the massive reflections that a church has, so the sound doesn’t get muddy as quickly.

[@andreacosta74]

Finally! An original, clear speaking german late-romantic organ, for playing and recording Reger (who knew concert hall organs very well) analitically, showing also all the dynamic plans, in a perfectly quiet auditorium and not inside the chaotic and boomy german cathedrals on the muddy, dark-sounding Sauer organs.

[@charlesdavis7087]

How beautiful. Was that melody/harmony line yours. Exquisite and worth of development. Thank you.

[@milou7300a]

Hi Balint, You must have good eyes, to read, and must know the games on this organ, congradulations, friendly Jacques

[@danielgolden5352]

Have you ever played a theatre organ? It would be fun to play at Radio City. My teacher has played at atlantic city and west point, and he acts as if it's no big idea.

[@earthlightsmusic2743]

It has an actual cylinder swell, something Albert Schweitzer mentioned in his writings.

[@bertspeggly4428]

Called a "Rollschweller," I believe

[@Maxxarcade]

Is this organ running on a PC-based system, or something proprietary? I'm just curious what type of modern electronics are in the vintage console. The pipes sound great, as well as the room acoustics!

[@espressonoob]

what are the first two pieces you played at the beginning? sounds beautiful

[@eryktaterka9808]

Do pedal stop demonstrations

[@bertspeggly4428]

I think Reger must be the second most important composer of organ music after Bach.

[@xbqchm]

Szia Bálint! Gratulálok a csodálatos videóidhoz és a fantasztikus orgonajátékodhoz! Can you explain us what the numbers on the crescendo clock represent? They look like arbitrary numbers, but they most certainly aren't. Is it the number of stops involved maybe?

[@alexandrearaujoandradedasi550]

Does the music from 1:30 to 6:35 has a specific name or you were just improvising?

[@BurkhardTerhart]

Amazing reconstruction jobe done there! The additional registration looks like SINUA. Am I right?

[@bkarosi]

Burkhard Terhart I’m not sure

[@stevemykowski8740]

The stop list only names the manuals by number. How are they named? Which manual would be the Great, Swell, etc. The 3rd and 4th appear to be under expression. Is that correct?

[@bkarosi]

Yes, the 1. Is HW 2. positive 3. Sw 4. echo

[@松沢松木]

3:50

Szívesen meghallgattam volna ezt magyarul is. De sajnos, ahogy látom nem mi vagyunk a célközönség. Egyetértek, ez a Principal mintha kicsit nyelvsíposabb színezetű lenne.

[@bkarosi]

ntamas84 szívesen csinálnám magyarul is, de így sokkal több ember nézi. Föleg amerikaiak meg érdekes németek és hollandok is... a KZbin pontos statisztikát készít erröl.

Igen a németekről meg a hollandokról tudok. Az egyik Arjen Leistra a másik meg valami Gert van Hoef. (mármint akiknek elég sok videója van fent) Mondjuk konkrétan németeket nem találtam ebben a témában. De pl. végignéztem az Amerikai orgonisták társulatának oktatóvideó sorozatát meg most találtam egy zseniális művészt, Jonathan Scottnak hívják és nagyzenekari műveket hangszerel át orgonára. Az USÁban az is érdekes, hogy ott mennyire más az orgonakultúra. Magyarországon mikor lesz egy bevásárlóközpont éke egy orgona? Azért nyomtam egy feliratkozást. :)

[@matejsvoren9858]

How did you learn to improvise so well?

[@bkarosi]

I can teach you! I give skype lessons

[@matejsvoren9858]

@@bkarosi nice! How much it will cost?

[@johnhiggins7140]

@@bkarosi Hi Balint, please tell me more about possible Skype improvisation lessons, kind regards John

[@bkarosi]

@@matejsvoren9858 Hi Matej, there are three possibilities 1. private lessons ($75) 2. becoming a a patron in the "improvisation circle" on my Patreon page ($30/month). becoming an "underwriter" on my Patreon page for ($50/ month) that comes with a monthly lesson

[@bkarosi]

@@johnhiggins7140 there are three possibilities 1. private lessons ($75) 2. becoming a a patron in the "improvisation circle" on my Patreon page ($30/month). becoming an "underwriter" on my Patreon page for ($50/ month) that comes with a monthly lesson

[@pauljames5914]

Too many ads on your videos now. Can't watch...

[@jimmymiller77]

I want him to move next door to me !!!!!

[@bkarosi]

Actually my neighbors don't like me (except one)

[@jimmymiller77]

@@bkarosi Well, There's no accounting for taste. I own three organs and a piano. If I had to say who is my hero is it would be you,. I am a disabled vet and i just can't get enough of your videos. Please don' stop. All my best, >

[@danielgolden5352]

@@bkarosi You know someone likes you when you have 2.7K youtube subscribers!

[@danielgolden5352]

I'm sure you'll reach 3K soon, you'll have to do something extra special for that. Maybe you could try doing a video on a famous French organ, like St Sulpice. Or maybe even the organ at the Basilica of Valère in Sion, Switzerland. Then you'd've played both organs that are considered the oldest. Or you could even go to Queens for the first time!!! :)

[@bogdanfutera]

Very poor speech sound quality. Also presentation is somehow chaotic: instead of adding still more and more and more voices, in my opinion, individual voices should be presented. This will allow listener to fully appreciate their unique sound quantities.