What I love more in England is the impressive quality of music one can listen in almost every single church! In Westminster Abbey music is always gorgeously played and sung.
I am a young french teenager and i play this type of music and registration on my private electronic Roland organ in my home sometimes when anybody is in my house ! Congratulation for this beautiful and majestic Harrison & Harrison organ, i love it !!! I would be born English just for the quality of this music ;) Greetings from the suburb of Paris and i love england and English so much ! peace !
Bastien, your country gave the world wonderful Cavaillé-Coll organs, not to mention César Franck and so many more great composers. You don't need to be English. By the way, we want to leave the EU but not leave beautiful France!
I am 70% English, says the pie chart, I am proud of it. Our family has always claimed German; because a lot of young englishmen married German girls who were great cooks. The young german studs made a lot of german-english babies when one or two of the Channel Islands were occupied. Adolph would be proud!
it is played brilliant. I have performed this piece twice in a concert.. One time it was a complete mechanic organ - was an adventure to get the right stops at the right time by one friend as a "Registrant". It is a pity that the end of the Liszt is cut off! greetings from germany!
This is Simon Preston playing this piece, isn't it? I've sung under Simon Preston when he came out to Australia on year to be the Guest Conductor of one of the Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) Summer Schools. He was really good, and I and others that did the course, learnt a lot from him. He was a great person to talk to.
I really wish I knew the answer! There is a fine recording of the Abbey Choir and organ (Douglas Guest/Tim Farrell) in which the microphones are placed so as to make the solo Orchestral Trumpet come across in a similar way to the current Bombarde reeds; as the organ is spread throughout the north and south triforiums either side of the organ screen, different placings of microphones can easily make it sound like a different instrument.
The church next to the abbey is St Margaret, Westminster. A piece of superfluous information that might interest you. When the organ was replaced in the 19th century, the old instrument was bought by a wealthy businessman with the intention of having it installed in his own house - however, after learning that St George's Cathedral, Cape Town in the then Cape Coliny was in need of an instrument. He not only donated the organ but paid for its delivery and installation. Bring your raincoat!!
It is up to each and every organist to use what is available on the organ theyre are performing. Not one organ is the same as another. Sheet music does not come with rank or piston setting instruction. You have to read between the notes. Pipe organs are about sensation and emotion as much as the sound.
This is a grand performance of this work I have ever heard. Can you tell me where or if this is available on record or cd? It is to bad we couldn't here the final finish
What a shame after listening to some excellent music on a most excellent organ, I scroll down and find a bunch of people arguing over something. Please take your bickering to another site and leave us to enjoy the music.
've sung under Simon Preston when he came out to Australia one year, not on year. Sorry about that everyone, I'm sure you all knew what I meant to say. Enjoy this piece.
I agree with you Les Westley,There are many dickheads who write in these spaces who cannot think for themselves little own can listen to quality organ playing.
Thanks. I'm well aware of the distinction, but felt that saying Ian was never organist in Westminster covered all eventualities! Go hear my friend David Grealy if you can, he's organ scholar in Westminster Cathedral this year.
Hi! Thank you for posting an excellent recording of this wonderful organ that lets the cathedral do its part. This audio track has to be from a professional CD, or pro recording. Unless your previous writer knows the cathedral, why would he ask where the mics were placed.. And what kind of mic.. Great video.
0:25 0.31 One can see the former building on the site of the present Barclays Bank opposite; there's a HongKong Shanghai next door; an old picture. . You can still see the flag atop the Parliament House buildings from Victoria, but that is all of the building you can see. o0o .
I'm very curious as to where the microphones were placed - and were you using the Bombarde reeds in the tutti passages? Certainly the pedal reeds only usually sound quite that large in the Quire - if so, did you have the solo Trumpet coupled with the Octave couplers? The organ makes a very fiery, exciting sound - and despite knowing it inside out, I'm very stumped as to how you registered the tutti!!
Hello Kevin - in case you've not already found out, this is the Fantasy and Fugue on the name B-A-C-H by Franz Liszt - one of his most famous works for the organ. Though it may sound sinister, this was intended as a great tribute to J.S. Bach. If one takes the name of BACH the four letters of his last name are translated into 4 notes: B flat, A C, B natural (for h). That is literally what you hear right from the get go in the piece. Liszt spelled out Bach's name in notes. And what a brilliant performance this is on a grand instrument!
Didn't this piece come about as the result of a competition? The challenge was to use Bach's name as the basis. I believe Max Reger was another composer in the competition.
I can recommend two of Simon Preston's CD's: 1. 'The World Of The Organ', DECCA 430091-2. (Widor, Bach, Handel, Walton, Mozart et al) 2. 'Widor (Symphony No.5) & Vierne (Carillon De Westminster)', Deutsche Grammophon 413438-2. Hope you find what you're looking for.
Someone correct me because I'm gonna get this half-way wrong. Pt.1 Phantom of the Opera. Pt. 2 Toccata in G-minor. Composed by Sebastian Bach Beethoven.
This is really not the subject to be discussing while listening to this wonderful instrument but I must admit my typo, that the Abbey certainly is not a Cathredal and I stand corrected. But as we in the Anglican Church reaffirm our faith in the words of the Nicean Creed " I believe in one Holy catholic and Apostolic Church" . Even a Peculiar Church is indeed a catholic church, although not Roman. With this my friends, I return to the concert ( I hope you allow it to be called a concert ).
The Harrison and Harrison organ of Westminster Abbey that you are hearing was installed for the Coronation of King George VI in 1937, so it is not possible to say the Episcopalians robbed the Catholics of it.
Már, hogyne hinném el! Liszt Ferenc írta! Lisztet, nem egy könnyű, játszani, de egy érdekes személy lehetett, mert a műveiben, szinte követhetetlen, a gondolat világa is.
OK, we know that this the Westminster organ, and piece is the Liszt B.A.C.H.... May we know WHO is playing, and if this recording is available to the public? Hmmmm? :)
Franz Liszt! :D :D this song sounds great! ( i cant get enough out of organ songs in minor keys...the minor and evil sound just fits the organ magically!)
What an appalling exchange between visitors here ! Yes, it is a virtuoso work - Liszt's Fantasia on BACH (that's B flat, A, C, B natural) and this is a fine performance. Organist unstated. By no means all the organ works played at the abbey are as flamboyant as this. Fine organists / musicians know the power of the instrument and do not need to show off. It's not about might / speed, but musical insight and interpretation.
The organist is very good, but it's certainly not Simon. I knew him years ago and he certainly doesn't look like that young man. As for the organ - I seem to remember that the original instrument was by William Hill, but later rebuilt by Harrison and certainly bears all their hallmarks now.
Dear John: I have been looking for pictures of the old hill console and screen before the 1937 Harrison organ was built it would be interesting to see those old historic pictures. Thanks Paul Brennan
Your organs may be larger, but i will bet that most of that pipework is based on european designs, in my opinion, Germany's Sielbermann 3 manual organs produce superior sounds to the american's organs. You build big to be more impressive, we build what we need and want. having a lot of something doesn't make it better.
Once again I dare say that the Church of England as well as the entire Anglican Communion, including the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, is catholic. It is not Roman!!! but very catholic!!!!
I do *not* believe Simon Preston is the organist. He has not recorded this piece since the Abbey organ was restored in the 80s, and if he were playing, he would have used a wider variety of soft stops, and he would not have played on the plenum for much of the time. The playing here is commendable, but one or two slips and poorly-timed piston depressions betray that is not the performer mentioned.
alright, we Americans may not take advantage of our our great expanse of land for exercise but, we got the cows and they make super premium ice cream! England has to import super premium ice cream. England is jealous of the access the USA has to super premium ice cream. USA means huge land, giant organs, corpseless churches, and awesome, fattening food! don't be jealous!!
از جناب رییس جمهور ایالات متحد امریکا آقای جوی با یدن و (ملکه خانم الیزابت ) جو بایدن، رئیسجمهور آمریکا پیش که از مراسم خاکسپاری ملکه الیزابت شرکت کردند بسیار پرشکوه میباشد خانم ملکه الیزابت امزوز با جاودان و جاوید به پادشاه چالز جاویدان میگویم و متشکر از حضور ریس جمهور ایالات متحد امریکا آقای جو بایدن در این روز ۱۸ سپتامر ۲۰۲۲ میلادی جاودان بر پادشاه چالز و ولیعهد ولیام و هریی و خانم نخست وزیر لیز تروس متشکر میباشیم جاودان به شما و ملت و دولت و مردم کشور بریتانیای بزر و لندن قدردانی داریم کشور انگلستان و خانم ملکه الیزابت روحشان و پیکرش و قبرشان درخشان باشد از درفتر سیاسی آقای علیرضا شکیبایی میباشد با سپاس از شما و قدردانی میباشد سپتامبر میلادی و ۱۴۰۱ خورشیدی ایران
What I love more in England is the impressive quality of music one can listen in almost every single church! In Westminster Abbey music is always gorgeously played and sung.
Oh to be there, To feel the air vibrate! The sheer power of that organ. It's on my bucket list !!
It's quite something in person.
I am a young french teenager and i play this type of music and registration on my private electronic Roland organ in my home sometimes when anybody is in my house ! Congratulation for this beautiful and majestic Harrison & Harrison organ, i love it !!! I would be born English just for the quality of this music ;) Greetings from the suburb of Paris and i love england and English so much ! peace !
Merci Bastien.
Bless you !
Bastien, your country gave the world wonderful Cavaillé-Coll organs, not to mention César Franck and so many more great composers. You don't need to be English. By the way, we want to leave the EU but not leave beautiful France!
I am 70% English, says the pie chart, I am proud of it. Our family has always claimed German; because a lot of young englishmen married German girls who were great cooks. The young german studs made a lot of german-english babies when one or two of the Channel Islands were occupied. Adolph would be proud!
What a great piece---Probably my most favorite Romantic period organ work.
Thanks for posting this. Breathtaking !
it is played brilliant. I have performed this piece twice in a concert.. One time it was a complete mechanic organ - was an adventure to get the right stops at the right time by one friend as a "Registrant". It is a pity that the end of the Liszt is cut off!
greetings from germany!
Thanks for posting! Love the sound!! :)
Love the sharp reeds/mixture at 3:24
All can say is MAGNIFICENT!!
This is Simon Preston playing this piece, isn't it? I've sung under Simon Preston when he came out to Australia on year to be the Guest Conductor of one of the Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) Summer Schools. He was really good, and I and others that did the course, learnt a lot from him. He was a great person to talk to.
Great organ sound.
masterpiece!
I really wish I knew the answer! There is a fine recording of the Abbey Choir and organ (Douglas Guest/Tim Farrell) in which the microphones are placed so as to make the solo Orchestral Trumpet come across in a similar way to the current Bombarde reeds; as the organ is spread throughout the north and south triforiums either side of the organ screen, different placings of microphones can easily make it sound like a different instrument.
Beautiful
The church next to the abbey is St Margaret, Westminster. A piece of superfluous information that might interest you. When the organ was replaced in the 19th century, the old instrument was bought by a wealthy businessman with the intention of having it installed in his own house - however, after learning that St George's Cathedral, Cape Town in the then Cape Coliny was in need of an instrument. He not only donated the organ but paid for its delivery and installation.
Bring your raincoat!!
Wow! That is some big sound.
It is up to each and every organist to use what is available on the organ theyre are performing. Not one organ is the same as another. Sheet music does not come with rank or piston setting instruction. You have to read between the notes. Pipe organs are about sensation and emotion as much as the sound.
This is a grand performance of this work I have ever heard. Can you tell me where
or if this is available on record or cd? It is to bad we couldn't here the final finish
What a shame after listening to some excellent music on a most excellent organ, I scroll down and find a bunch of people arguing over something. Please take your bickering to another site and leave us to enjoy the music.
@DBGOGIRL I agree with you wholeheartedly! Richmond, VA
've sung under Simon Preston when he came out to Australia one year, not on year. Sorry about that everyone, I'm sure you all knew what I meant to say. Enjoy this piece.
Whar happened to tge end??
I agree with you Les Westley,There are many dickheads who write in these spaces who cannot think for themselves little own can listen to quality organ playing.
Another interesting tidbit... the legendary Edwin H. Lemare was organist at St Margaret's for a few years before moving to the States.
What is the name of this piece?
OrganMASTER100:
What is the builder of thie organ, and how many ranks, and manuals. We never see a picture of the consoles, can you provide one?
Very exciting performance--whoever it is...
The piece is the "Fugue on the name BACH" by Franz Liszt
Thanks. I'm well aware of the distinction, but felt that saying Ian was never organist in Westminster covered all eventualities! Go hear my friend David Grealy if you can, he's organ scholar in Westminster Cathedral this year.
Hi! Thank you for posting an excellent recording of this wonderful organ that lets
the cathedral do its part. This audio track has to be from a professional CD,
or pro recording. Unless your previous writer knows the cathedral, why would
he ask where the mics were placed.. And what kind of mic.. Great video.
Someday, I want to play this organ!
me too
ONE heck of an instrument!!!!!
Fantasia on B-A-C-H by Franz Liszt.
PERFECT organ for it!!!!
Did Mark Quarmby play this???
Indeed, I know the Abbey (not Cathedral) and organ extremely well!
0:25 0.31
One can see the former building on the site of the present Barclays Bank opposite; there's a HongKong Shanghai next door; an old picture.
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You can still see the flag atop the Parliament House buildings from Victoria, but that is all of the building you can see.
o0o
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I'm very curious as to where the microphones were placed - and were you using the Bombarde reeds in the tutti passages? Certainly the pedal reeds only usually sound quite that large in the Quire - if so, did you have the solo Trumpet coupled with the Octave couplers? The organ makes a very fiery, exciting sound - and despite knowing it inside out, I'm very stumped as to how you registered the tutti!!
no that was not Simon perston at all
Moonlight & Roses - didn't know that.
What piece is being played?
Hello Kevin - in case you've not already found out, this is the Fantasy and Fugue on the name B-A-C-H by Franz Liszt - one of his most famous works for the organ. Though it may sound sinister, this was intended as a great tribute to J.S. Bach. If one takes the name of BACH the four letters of his last name are translated into 4 notes: B flat, A C, B natural (for h). That is literally what you hear right from the get go in the piece. Liszt spelled out Bach's name in notes. And what a brilliant performance this is on a grand instrument!
chen0466 z z
And yet another typo, again my humble apologies, it is the Nicene Creed.
xjyskax . in the "old days" people used to practice on a harpsichord that had a peadal board built on.
Didn't this piece come about as the result of a competition? The challenge was to use Bach's name as the basis. I believe Max Reger was another composer in the competition.
I can recommend two of Simon Preston's CD's:
1. 'The World Of The Organ', DECCA 430091-2.
(Widor, Bach, Handel, Walton, Mozart et al)
2. 'Widor (Symphony No.5) &
Vierne (Carillon De Westminster)',
Deutsche Grammophon 413438-2.
Hope you find what you're looking for.
Ian Tracey is organist in Liverpool Anglican cathedral and was never organist at Westminster.
Liszt Franz : Fantasy and Fugue on the Theme B-A-C-H
The one and only Simon Preston.
there's a picture of the console at 1:01
Someone correct me because I'm gonna get this half-way wrong. Pt.1 Phantom of the Opera. Pt. 2 Toccata in G-minor. Composed by Sebastian Bach Beethoven.
Fantasia on B-A-C-H by Franz Liszt.
Alright i'll stop being a SOB. England is likely the first land I visit when I go to Europe. What is the little chapel next to Westminster Abbey?
What was Liszt's nationality?
Hungarian
@@andrassygy but his native tongue was German...
@glevantino
Franz Liszt-Prelude an Fugee on BACH
this piece is Liszt präludium und fuge
+ Jhr. Humphrey: Indrukwekkend orgel en spel.
This is really not the subject to be discussing while listening to this wonderful instrument but I must admit my typo, that the Abbey certainly is not a Cathredal and I stand corrected. But as we in the Anglican Church reaffirm our faith in the words of the Nicean Creed " I believe in one Holy catholic and Apostolic Church" . Even a Peculiar Church is indeed a catholic church, although not Roman. With this my friends, I return to the concert ( I hope you allow it to be called a concert ).
Big organs for big people
I believe that this is the Franz Liszt "Ad nos ad salutarem undam."
no... Correct on the composer... It's the prelude and Fugue on the name of BACH
I have to say, Guillou's version of the piece is so much better than the original Liszt edition
The Harrison and Harrison organ of Westminster Abbey that you are hearing was installed for the Coronation of King George VI in 1937, so it is not possible to say the Episcopalians robbed the Catholics of it.
This is the Preludiem and fugue on the name of B. A. C. H. by Franz Liszt
This instrument has steel balls! Of course, an acre of acoustics probably has Something to do with it. Too Bad Player Not Known...
Indeed there is. People shouldn't judge a whole nation by one person. The idiots will ruin it every time.
Might be service bells preserved - certainly not part of the ten.
those bells at the beginning are bloody horrible. You sure they are from Westminster Abbey?
Liszt' Fugue on B. A.C.H.!
The organ is actually from Matthias Church in Budapest
Not in least bit jealous.
Már, hogyne hinném el! Liszt Ferenc írta! Lisztet, nem egy könnyű, játszani, de egy érdekes személy lehetett, mert a műveiben, szinte követhetetlen, a gondolat világa is.
OK, we know that this the Westminster organ, and piece is the Liszt B.A.C.H....
May we know WHO is playing, and if this recording is available to the public?
Hmmmm? :)
1963mathetes The recording is right here on RUclips. Plenty of ways to download it.. Google
Franz Liszt! :D :D this song sounds great! ( i cant get enough out of organ songs in minor keys...the minor and evil sound just fits the organ magically!)
B-A-C-H
B-A-C-H .....
It is still a Catholic Cathredral, just not Roman.
What an appalling exchange between visitors here ! Yes, it is a virtuoso work - Liszt's Fantasia on BACH (that's B flat, A, C, B natural) and this is a fine performance. Organist unstated. By no means all the organ works played at the abbey are as flamboyant as this. Fine organists / musicians know the power of the instrument and do not need to show off. It's not about might / speed, but musical insight and interpretation.
The organist is very good, but it's certainly not Simon. I knew him years ago and he certainly doesn't look like that young man. As for the organ - I seem to remember that the original instrument was by William Hill, but later rebuilt by Harrison and certainly bears all their hallmarks now.
Dear John: I have been looking for pictures of the old hill console and screen before the 1937 Harrison organ was built it would be interesting to see those old historic pictures. Thanks Paul Brennan
Your organs may be larger, but i will bet that most of that pipework is based on european designs, in my opinion, Germany's Sielbermann 3 manual organs produce superior sounds to the american's organs. You build big to be more impressive, we build what we need and want. having a lot of something doesn't make it better.
This organ is often recoded so close that all reverb is lost (which is a shame because the room does have terrific acoustics).
Once again I dare say that the Church of England as well as the entire Anglican Communion, including the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, is catholic. It is not Roman!!! but very catholic!!!!
I do *not* believe Simon Preston is the organist. He has not recorded this piece since the Abbey organ was restored in the 80s, and if he were playing, he would have used a wider variety of soft stops, and he would not have played on the plenum for much of the time. The playing here is commendable, but one or two slips and poorly-timed piston depressions betray that is not the performer mentioned.
alright, we Americans may not take advantage of our our great expanse of land for exercise but, we got the cows and they make super premium ice cream! England has to import super premium ice cream. England is jealous of the access the USA has to super premium ice cream. USA means huge land, giant organs, corpseless churches, and awesome, fattening food! don't be jealous!!
English organs don't do anything for me. If all organs sounded like this I wouldn't be the least bit interested in organ music.
از جناب رییس جمهور ایالات متحد امریکا آقای جوی با یدن و (ملکه خانم الیزابت )
جو بایدن، رئیسجمهور آمریکا پیش که از مراسم خاکسپاری ملکه الیزابت شرکت کردند بسیار پرشکوه میباشد خانم ملکه الیزابت امزوز با جاودان و جاوید به پادشاه چالز جاویدان میگویم
و متشکر از حضور ریس جمهور ایالات متحد امریکا آقای جو بایدن در این روز ۱۸ سپتامر ۲۰۲۲ میلادی جاودان بر پادشاه چالز و ولیعهد ولیام و هریی و خانم نخست وزیر لیز تروس متشکر میباشیم جاودان به شما و ملت و دولت و مردم کشور بریتانیای بزر و لندن قدردانی داریم کشور انگلستان و خانم ملکه الیزابت روحشان و پیکرش و قبرشان درخشان باشد
از درفتر سیاسی آقای علیرضا شکیبایی میباشد با سپاس از شما و قدردانی میباشد سپتامبر میلادی و ۱۴۰۱ خورشیدی ایران