The Church's One Foundation (Aurellia) - Samuel S. Wesley - Berlin Reed Organ
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- Опубликовано: 20 фев 2011
- This hymn was played at the closing church service while this organ was still at the church.
The tune was written by Samuel Sebastian Wesley, who lived from 1810 - 1876. He composed many pieces, one of them being "Choral Song", which I played in another RUclips video :
• Choral Song - Samuel S...
Played on a Berlin Organ Company reed (pump) organ, made in Berlin (now Kitchener) Ontario, Canada in 1904. 
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You remind me to be grateful for having grown up in the age of hymnals and the organ. Our church now has drums and guitars etc in the name of keeping the young involved. Blessings as you lead people on worship...as you have just now.
"The Church's One Foundation" was the opening hymn at every one of our Annual Conferences when I was a United Methodist pastor. Great hymn.
Many pleasent memories from childhood days at the Methodist Church in Chile, where reed organs were frequent.
Many reed organs found their way even to New Zealand..I restored some years ago..truly amazing sound for such an instrument.
Wow, Rodney, THANK YOU! for this and all your other pieces; I read your spellbinding story of the rescue and restoration of this wonderful instrument. I must add my voice to that of all your fans proclaiming how beautifully you play each hymn - I find listening to your art quite an emotional experience.
Samuel's Uncle was John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Movement and his father, Charles, wrote many of the hymns used in churches of many denominations.
This particular playing of this special hymn brings such peace and comfort by this masterful organist!
Quanta musicalidade. Suas execuções chega a emocionar.
São tão belas e sentimentais. Parabéns, maravilhosa performance. Cordiais Saudações,
Josimar
Been to Kitchener a few times in the early 1990's..never knew it was called Berlin at one time or that it had such a distinguished organ building tradition. What a fine instrument this is..
My Grandfather in Wales had a reed organ in the parlour of his farmhouse when I was growing up and remember him playing hymns on it. Such memories this video has evoked..thank you.
I love this song very much and the way you play it on your reed organ ist just... wonderful!
Really moving and beautiful.
Great old hymn, beautifully done!!! :-)
I`ve played one of these organs in our church for over 50 years
That is great brother
Also, when playing a hymn as an instrumental solo instead of playing it to accompany singers, the reasons for a particular tempo can be quite different. I never have played where the acoustics are "difficult" so when playing hymns for a congregation I have always tried to take a tempo that I think best facilitates the singing with respect to phrasing.
Rodney Jantzi it's a blessed!
I love the tone of this organ and your playing is always very good. Your tempo in this particular hymn is, for expressive reasons, slower than I prefer. Of course some hymns should be played more slowly.
Here's the word:
The church's one foundation
Is Jesus Christ her Lord;
She is his new creation
By water and the Word.
From heaven he came and sought her
To be his holy bride;
With his own blood he bought her,
And for her life he died.
Elect from every nation,
Yet one o'er all the earth;
Her charter of salvation,
One Lord, one faith, one birth;
One holy name she blesses,
Partakes one holy food,
And to one hope she presses,
With every grace endued.
Though with a scornful wonder
We see her sore oppressed,
By schisms rent asunder,
By heresies distressed,
Yet saints their watch are keeping;
Their cry goes up, "How long?"
And soon the night of weeping
Shall be the morn of song.
Mid toil and tribulation,
And tumult of her war,
She waits the consummation
Of peace forevermore;
Till, with the vision glorious,
Her longing eyes are blest,
And the great church victorious
Shall be the church at rest.
Yet she on earth hath union
With God the Three in One,
And mystic sweet communion
With those whose rest is won.
O happy ones and holy!
Lord, give us grace that we
Like them, the meek and lowly,
On high may dwell with thee.
Til with the vision glorious her longing eyes are blessed--indeed.
Jesus came ‘to call sinners to repentance.’
The self-righteous are offended He calls them sinners. The World is offended He calls for repentance.
One of the reasons that hymns are often sung slower is called "English Traditional", since in larger churches, acoutics and echo produced a muddled mess of returning sound and out going sound. Singing slower cold cocked that.
sehr sanft gespielt
i have been listening to pipe organ music for years now but just found your entries on utube beautiful! not being familiar with reed organs, what kind of sound board amplifies the bass so well? and is there a swell box? controled by your right knee? does your left knee pull a coupler? how many organs do you have? sorry for all the questions, they all sound so beautiful!
Hi Tim, thanks for all the comments! Awesome questions by the way, I think I should add these to my website. The bass in this organ is a wooden box, much like today's sub woofers for entertainment systems. The left knee engages all the stops, without pulling any (similar concept to pipe organs crescendo pedal), the right controls the swell shades, which again like a pipe organ sometimes will control the volume, but I think of it more of controlling the brightness. There are 12 organs at home :)
hay i got a piano you think you can help me to find out what kine it is
That is true. Too many play the songs too fast---I think to get the service over with faster sometimes...har d har har. JK or am I? Or is it so?
I can make a yamaha keyboard sound like your reed organ?
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