Played by Carl Weinrich on the organ in Vårfrukyrka (Our Lady’s Church) in the city of Skännige, 180 miles south of Stockholm. Weinrich had a rhythmic sense, and a sense of the harmonic rhythm of a phrase [and of whole sections], that is unsurpassed by any organist to whom I have ever listened. And something wonderful happened to the man when he sat down at that particular organ in Skännige, Sweden.
I agree: Carl Weinrich was a superb player and the recordings which he made on the organ in Skannige are real treasures...I'm so grateful that they are being posted on RUclips. Unfortunately, Weinrich's later Bach recordings were made using the Holtkamp instrument at General Theological Seminary, NYC which--to my ears--has a harsh, shrill tone. It's these recordings that most people remember, and Weinrich's reputation has suffered as a consequence. It's wonderful to hear him on an instrument that's worthy of his genius.
Mr. Booker, you may already know this, but just in case you don't, one can download for free over an hour-and-a-half's worth of Carl Weinrich playing Bach on the organ in Skanninge taken from the original Westminster tapes in pristine condition here: www.baroquemusic.org/91213Web.html If you can't get to that web page directly, try this next one and do a search for "Weinrich" on that page: www.baroquemusic.org/bmlcatalogue.html
Thank you so much...this is a real treasure, and no, I wasn't aware of it. The sound is just magnificent, and Weinrich's playing is superb. Here's a question for you: in the late '30's, Weinrich collaborated with G. Donald Harrison of Aeolian-Skinner in designing a small Baroque style instrument for Westminster Choir College. Weinrich subsequently made some 78 recordings on this organ. Do you know if they have survived and may be available? They apparently made quite a stir at the time. Thank you again.
I haven’t seen any of the 78s you mention that have been transferred to another medium. There was a 78-rpm 3-record set of Weinrich (made in the 1940s, I believe, on the Musicraft label), playing 9 Bach Chorale Preludes. It appeared on eBay recently, but it has been sold. You might want to check eBay occasionally. I’m fond of doing Google Advanced Searches as a good way to scan the Internet when looking for rare items that sometimes show up. For instance . Access this link: www.google.ca/advanced_search . Under ‘this exact word of phrase’ type: Carl Weinrich . Under ‘all these words’ type: 78 . Under ‘any of these words’ type: aeolian-skinner aeolian skinner rpm Then I try other similar combinations to see if I get lucky. I had the opportunity for about a year-and-a-half to practice, once a week for a couple of hours, on perhaps the finest Aeolian-Skinner organ in the San Francisco Bay Area. I wrote “The Tiger” (after William Blake’s famous poem), which I played during a church service on this organ. The recording level was too high, so if you listen to it, turn the volume down quite a bit. ruclips.net/video/cZcV1_GDcAQ/видео.html If you like, click the subscribe button on RUclips for “illyrialady”. That’s me.
The complete - ? - recording of Bach's works on this Neobaroque Marcussen organ was very worthy: one important thing described by one of my friends is that, in the trio-sonatas, he always played the repeats when indicated. I only regret the way he performed the BWV 565, 552, 538, and 566 on the Holtkamp organ of the General Theological Seminary.
Played by Carl Weinrich on the organ in Vårfrukyrka (Our Lady’s Church) in the city of Skännige, 180 miles south of Stockholm. Weinrich had a rhythmic sense, and a sense of the harmonic rhythm of a phrase [and of whole sections], that is unsurpassed by any organist to whom I have ever listened. And something wonderful happened to the man when he sat down at that particular organ in Skännige, Sweden.
I agree: Carl Weinrich was a superb player and the recordings which he made on the organ in Skannige are real treasures...I'm so grateful that they are being posted on RUclips. Unfortunately, Weinrich's later Bach recordings were made using the Holtkamp instrument at General Theological Seminary, NYC which--to my ears--has a harsh, shrill tone. It's these recordings that most people remember, and Weinrich's reputation has suffered as a consequence. It's wonderful to hear him on an instrument that's worthy of his genius.
Mr. Booker, you may already know this, but just in case you don't, one can download for free over an hour-and-a-half's worth of Carl Weinrich playing Bach on the organ in Skanninge taken from the original Westminster tapes in pristine condition here: www.baroquemusic.org/91213Web.html If you can't get to that web page directly, try this next one and do a search for "Weinrich" on that page: www.baroquemusic.org/bmlcatalogue.html
Thank you so much...this is a real treasure, and no, I wasn't aware of it. The sound is just magnificent, and Weinrich's playing is superb. Here's a question for you: in the late '30's, Weinrich collaborated with G. Donald Harrison of Aeolian-Skinner in designing a small Baroque style instrument for Westminster Choir College. Weinrich subsequently made some 78 recordings on this organ. Do you know if they have survived and may be available? They apparently made quite a stir at the time. Thank you again.
I haven’t seen any of the 78s you mention that have been transferred to another medium. There was a 78-rpm 3-record set of Weinrich (made in the 1940s, I believe, on the Musicraft label), playing 9 Bach Chorale Preludes. It appeared on eBay recently, but it has been sold. You might want to check eBay occasionally.
I’m fond of doing Google Advanced Searches as a good way to scan the Internet when looking for rare items that sometimes show up. For instance
. Access this link: www.google.ca/advanced_search
. Under ‘this exact word of phrase’ type: Carl Weinrich
. Under ‘all these words’ type: 78
. Under ‘any of these words’ type: aeolian-skinner aeolian skinner rpm
Then I try other similar combinations to see if I get lucky.
I had the opportunity for about a year-and-a-half to practice, once a week for a couple of hours, on perhaps the finest Aeolian-Skinner organ in the San Francisco Bay Area. I wrote “The Tiger” (after William Blake’s famous poem), which I played during a church service on this organ. The recording level was too high, so if you listen to it, turn the volume down quite a bit.
ruclips.net/video/cZcV1_GDcAQ/видео.html
If you like, click the subscribe button on RUclips for “illyrialady”. That’s me.
The complete - ? - recording of Bach's works on this Neobaroque Marcussen organ was very worthy: one important thing described by one of my friends is that, in the trio-sonatas, he always played the repeats when indicated. I only regret the way he performed the BWV 565, 552, 538, and 566 on the Holtkamp organ of the General Theological Seminary.