☕ Organ Demonstration // Recording Truro Cathedral Organ \\ Episode 4 of 5
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2024
- How about an Organ Demonstration of one of the UK's finest organs - the 'Father' Willis organ in Truro Cathedral!
Join me in this 5-part Mini Series where I head down to Truro Cathedral to record their incredible 4-manual Father Willis organ played by their cathedral organist - Andrew Wyatt.
Episode 3: Setting Up In The Cathedral
00:00 | Introduction
00:41 | Swell
05:06 | Choir
07:42 | Great
11:50 | Solo
13:11 | Epic Crescendo - Love divine, all loves excelling (Blaenwern)
This series looks at the whole end-to-end process from packing up my equipment, pre-recording nerves, setting up the microphones and cameras, an organ demonstration and finally back at home in my studio.
The recital will be broadcast on the channel on 5th April 2021 (Easter Monday).
Episode 1: Equipment, Excitement And Anxiety
Episode 2: How Should I Capture The Organ?
Episode 3: Setting Up In The Cathedral
Episode 4: Organ Demonstration
Episode 5: Post-Production In The Studio
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While I enjoyed everything about this, I *especially* enjoyed being able to see the registrations along with hearing them. I hope you will be able to do this similarly in other videos. I would love to see the registrations being played on your Hauptwerk performances.
I like sound register flute armonique and claribel and principal mixture 😍
In just under 20 minutes you have fully shown us why you need a 4 manual draw stop console of your own!
Thank you for showing us the beautiful voices this instrument has in this way. I have been to Truro Cathedral twice for lunchtime recitals, firstly in 2009 and then again in 2019. It was a privilege both times to sit and listen to this organ and the acoustics of the building.
Thank you also for all the detail and craftsmanship that goes into your work, it is really appreciated.
Thank you David. My aim in recording this magnificent organ was to emulate how the organ is heard in the build itself - something which is so often lost in organ recordings. I do hope that you enjoy Andrew's forthcoming recital on Easter Monday, and that it enables to you see and hear the organ perhaps like never before.
What an amazing organ! Thank you for showing it to us Richard, and for the exquisite playing.
This is a really good presentation. I particularly like the addition of the specification of highlighted stops when in use! Overall just superb, and simply highlights the Father Willis masterpiece in Truro Cathedral. There is nothing like an English organ, and there is most certainly nothing like a Father Willis organ!
Brilliantly done Richard! Most enlightening tour of the mass of beautiful sounds the Truro organ has to offer🙏🏼🙏🏼
Many thanks!
It's wonderful to hear this phenomenal Father Willis. It's thirty years since I left England, and have mainly concentrated on French music and the French symphonic organ. But to listen to this masterpiece, played sympathetically in a beautiful acoustic, amounts to emotional whiplash! I still love the organs of King's, Durham, and the Temple Church, but I wonder if Truro just superseded them...
Richard, just this one video has added so much to my understanding of organ stops, colours, and building registrations for hymn playing. Masterful! Thank you so much. (I was not familiar with the tune, "Blaenwern".)
What a fantastic demonstration and what a sound. Super sound engineering, videography, playing, editing, planning - just all around - great!!!
Well said Jerry!
Thanks Jerry. Setting in my studio, mixing the audio and putting the video together is as much fun as actually playing the instrument itself (it certainly takes longer!). What fun!! 😃
Those chords at the last verse were amazing! It sounded so good
It's a wonderful tune isn't it!
That was so COOL!
Mesmerising!
Funny story: When I play our church organ (2004 Allen 2 manual) slowly building from ppp to fff, the nice elderly church ladies in our congregation first have to turn their hearing aids way up, and then they politely complain when the organ gets "too loud" and they have to turn the hearing aids completely off.
Mission Accomplished. Perhaps I'll just have to get them some good headphones with volume control.
Thanks Richard - that was great and good to see the used stops 'live'.
Magnificent demo!
Thank you so much for this Richard!!
Would you consider doing a tour and stop demonstration of more UK Cathedral organs??
More organs are already booked in the diary! :)
In the 1960s, William Lesley Sumner, in his classic book on organ construction, history and use, stated that it would be hard to imagine better organ sound in the UK than at Truro Cathedral and Beverley Minster. There are many who refer to the Truro organ as "The Little Giant". Well done Richard - you do the instrument full justice.
Thanks for the wonderful organ registration demonstration! Very useful for appreciating the English organ tonal colors.
Had the joy of having Chris Gray show me around this organ many years ago when I was young. Then got confirmed there with Bishop Bill and then rang the bells there a few years later! A truly magical place for me and you’ve done it real justice, so thank you!
Chris is such a nice chap, and has done excellent things at Truro. I think he'll have a very successful musical career and will go on to inspire lots of future singers. He was very helpful to me on the morning of setting up and offered me some ideas and thoughts of where best to capture the organ 😊
Epic crescendo with Blaenwern. My all time favourite hymn! Fantastic!
Mine too! 😃
Thanks for a compact and beautiful demonstration. Quite a challenge with a large organ like this.
Looking forward to no. 5 of the series!
A challenge, but terrific fun! The challenge for me is to bring you these wonderful organs in new and innovative ways, and of course in the highest possible quality! Cheers for your comment Ralph - good to have you onboard 😃
Very nice tour of stops ! And thanks you for the written display, I guess it was quite a work to do ! Very instructive, can't wait for the recital
Thank you! It did take a long time to sync, but I'm pleased with the way it has come out. I like to try new things which haven't been done before, such as this :)
I really enjoyed this formal for a demonstration, especially the way in which registration was displayed. Well done!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you, thank you for displaying the stops and each manual and pedal stops you are adding . I have never seen any other organ YTer do that. So helpful to me to learning how to add and delete stops as the hymn progresses. Richard, you gave not only an excellent demonstration but also a tutorial. Suggestion to learners: if Richard is too fast in adding stops, slow the playback speed to see what stop are highlighted in white as stops added.
Thank you
Thanks John. I'm trying to bring organs to RUclips in ways that have never been done before, and it's my intention to bring you as up-close-and-personal to these instruments as possible. Expect to see more organs like this in the future!
@@beautyinsound Grateful for all your work and teaching.Look forward to new BiS programs!!!
That's the tidiest it's been up there for some years....
It was the first thing I did when I got there, and Andrew agreed that we should remove anything from the console which didn't need to be there. It made such a difference!
Loved this, Richard. Made me feel quite nostalgic for an instrument which I know like the proverbial back of my hand. I very much enjoyed your demonstrations and Blaenwern. I really think it's the best Willis - like driving a Lamborghini (I imagine!!).
Thanks David! It was just quickly put together during our lunch break, and of course one legendary stop I didn't demonstrate was the Ophicleide! I think the Little Giant is more like a Hot Hatch... small, understated and incognito but will give cars twice it's size a serious run for their money! 😁
Wonderful instrument but, most of all, a very talented and experienced organist
A very excited organist who loves capturing these instruments in ways never done before 😉
Hi Richard. Leaving a comment as requested. :-) For a quick mixdown this is really great. Your mic placement looks to have ticked the main boxes! A really good wide stereo image, which is lovely. You should be happy with that! It will come down to the mixdown and mastering now!
Always really difficult to offer detailed commentary on mix without hearing the raw source material from the mics and knowing the acoustic first hand. RUclips audio encoding is never helpful either. I look forward to hearing the tweaks you make for the finished recital when you publish that.
A great mixing trick to pick out issues is switching to mono monitoring for comparative listening occasionally (more sucking eggs advice available on request!)
If you'd find detailed feedback useful, just shout and I'll get in touch. I think most of your subscribers would think such feedback in youtube comments to be uber-critical and nit-picky (which is certainly not my intent). There are definitely a couple of things that would benefit from your attention - primarily the low end (200hz down) where I think you are having some phasing issues between the sets of mics (for example the organ feels warm when you play the low D on the pedal, but feels thin otherwise) and perhaps a touch too much of the nave omnis in my opinion. I suspect these two things are actually connected, but the problem could be due to the spacing between the two ORTF sets you used. Either way, it should be correctable in the mix.
I'd be happy to discuss further if you were so inclined - drop me a reply here and I'll reach out if so.
Great work though, and a job well done. These environments are a challenge even for seasoned engineers, so you should definitely be really chuffed with your results! Its certainly an enjoyable recording to listen to. :-)
-Melodic
An excellent demonstration. Thank you. I do hope you can continue this type of roving organ reports. I'd like to see every cathedral organ done ! But the two Lavender sets for real - Hereford and Salisbury plus the St Mary Le Bow Set ! So that we can see and hear them in situ. Other organs I'd like to see demonstrated are St Alban's Cathedral, Coventry Cathedral and St Michaels Tenbury. Really enjoying your content and intend to become a patron 👍
More organs are already booked to be recorded, so keep an eye out for more!
Thank you Richard as always. Thanks for driving the 200 miles to Truro.
As an organ student, I find the following list of standard stops very helpful:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pipe_organ_stops
Meanwhile, I sense that a baby may be on the way.
I'm exited about both the baby and the new console.
Beautiful instrument! Some of the Willis sounds are very close to work of Ernest Skinner here in the US
Hi Richard; is there an episode 5 "Post-Production In The Studio"? Cant see it on your channel. Cheers
It was after the delivery, but I saw it. I listened to a lot of beautiful songs and learned about the organ. There are still many things I don't know, so I would appreciate it if you could tell me various things. It was late, but it was really good to hear it. Thank you for playing.
You are very welcome. Do you have the chance to hear good organs being played in Asia?
@@beautyinsound
Although I have the opportunity to listen to it, there are only a few churches, Christian universities, and other venues where concerts are held. The exhibition hall also plays orchestras, so there is also an organ for that reason. If you have another small organ, you can find it at the hotel. (I use it for weddings, but sometimes concerts are held.) By the way, many Japanese churches are made of wood.
It's about my country.
Suber pesa está tudo bem tucado 🤗🤗🤗🤗👏
I’ve been looking forward to this instalment of the series! I’m really surprised that there is no 4’ flute on the swell - really useful in crescendi and diminuendi when the 4’ principal is just too present. Also really surprised that no-one has added a Tierce and Nazard over the years to the choir division. It is still a fantastic and very powerful instrument that must be a joy to play!
I guess when the organ was first built, there may have been space and financial constraints, and I like the idea of the organ being preserved almost exactly the way it was when it was first installed. I think Manders did a bit of alternation to it, but it's nice to think that this organ will remain as a testament to Father Willis's original design and vision. The organ console, of course, used to be up with the pipes!
@@beautyinsound It's interesting that the Swell division of the organ of St Paul's cathedral, another masterpiece by Father Willis and rebuilt by Manders, does not have a 4' flute either. The late John Scott mentioned on several occasions that a 4' flute on the Swell would be very useful, but the Swell remains exactly the same to this day, apart from the addition of the Vox Humana in 1977. Whatever the reason for the absence of a 4' flute at Truro and St Paul's we should not really complain, as both are masterpieces in their own right!
Very nicely done.
The Solo Flutes really added something to the Tuba at the end ... just kidding ;-)
😄
Lovely sounding organ Richard. I like the ui you used to show the stops and what was pulled.
Thought I might give you an update on where the moller is in progress. The Allen has been finally moved out of the way and we are planning on moving in the console on April 9th. From there we are going to probably use some boards from midiworks to make it somewhat operational until I can come up with the money for a proper system from Walker or Peterson that can integrate with the pneumatic combination system.
How goes work on your console?
Mine is going good pedalboard is acting up thank you for asking
Glad you liked the UI! It's my intention to bring this out-of-reach organs to people in ways that allows you to get up-close-and-personal. When I was a youngster, I had no way of seeing these organs and I'm trying to break down this barrier as best as I can.
My console is still in the design phase, but will be started very soon. The UHT keyboards have the longest lead time so we need to get our order in with them ASAP (I'd like the organ to be ready and installed by Advent Sunday). I'll share the whole journey with the BIS community so make sure you stay tuned for updates!
@@beautyinsound Thank you for the info very kind of you
I find it quite amazing that Willis could get such a grand sound out of a very modestly-sized organ,
at least for the size of the Cathedral. Great demo!
It sounds incredible in the building, and this is the sound that I'm trying to capture in my recording of it. Wonderful stuff!
I’m excited!How were you allowed to play the ogan?
Have you watched the whole series so far, Stone?
I will have to go back and rewatch it all!
Hi Richard, we have discussed the microphone setup in your episode 3 and I will now devote a few words to your recordings, as you asked. Well, actually more than a few words, I hope some other listeners find this also interesting ;-)
Thanks for your very interesting comment. Yes, it is also a subject I would like to understand thoroughly. But it is very difficult!
By the way: this was demonstrated as yesterday a new ‘headset’ from Sennheiser arrived, as I was in need for a proper headphone-microphone combination for the inevitable online meetings. My first impression was that it sounds very well, also for music, although the bass seem to be exaggerated. Then I compared this with my good old Sennheiser HD580 Precision. What the !@#$? This very musical headphones seems to be dull and mediocre?! At the same time I do not immediately think the SC165 sounds ‘sexy’ (my term for popular high and low exaggeration) but rather natural. They are almost incomparable, while both sound good. Conclusion: it is - or I find it - very difficult to judge or compare audio recordings, also using different audio sources, a laptop or professional recording gear, headphones, speakers etc. etc. But I have a recording of my KM183’s on my website so I tried to compare the sound image with yours.
Three things you describe concerning your Neumann KM184’s and TLM170’s are apparently well-known. I checked it in my ‘research’ when I bought my KM183’s back in 2009. The KM184 is a small diafragm condenser microphone with a cardoid sensitivity pattern. That’s nice on the one hand, because you can then record what you want while suppressing environmental noise. But! Cardoidal directional sensitivity always comes with a decreasing sensitivity to low frequencies. The frequency curve of the KM184 drops below 200 Hz (that’s g0, the G below middle C, don’t know what it is called in English) to -8dB for the 16’ C. That’s not done on purpose: it is physics. So it seems you need the TLM170’s to record the bass.
The second property I would like to describe is the ‘super clear sound’ of the KM184, as you describe it. Look at its frequency response: it has a slight bump of 3 dB at 9 kHz. This is done on purpose. As the brochure described it: “The result is a tonal balance that is fresher and livelier when compared to [a flat frequency response].” I guess the KM184 will in particular do well for choirs. The KM183 also has that bump and it is even stronger, but there is a clear reason for it - it is too technical to describe it here.
I think I recognise this ‘clear and fresh’ sound in your recordings. It often strucks me that on many ‘romantic’ English organs the Fifteenth and Octave are a bit unromantic shrill and sharp. On this organ the Great Octave sounds a bit sharp compared to the fine smooth sound of both principals, but the Fifteenth is more gentle. But still the recording is not too ‘super clear’. That might be because you mixed it with the mikes further away. I think (my third subject) I recognise the TLM’s, I have no experience with them but have read what they are like: wide, warm and with plenty of bass. It seems your recording contains a lot of ambient sound and I like it, but I think I hear the ambient sound has a much wider stereophonic image than the ‘super clear’ ‘direct’ mikes. I think it might even be not far from ‘drowning’ the clear higher content.
When I experimented with my KM183’s in that ridiculously reverberant delicious 8-) church, it was a matter of shifting the mikes so far from the organ that you could still ‘understand’ the organ while the reverberance was also recorded and as soon as you went foo far from the organ, the dominant low frequencies (like the incredibly loud and bassy Open Diapason 16’ in Truro!!) would go all over the place and literally drown you, leaving the pedal notes unintelligible (I had to look that word up in the dictionary, I am Dutch).
I was not rich enough to buy more than one pair and I would like to describe why the KM183’s have the frequency response they have, as I did research then and it is very interesting. I would love to come to your place and compare the KM183 and KM184 and try all kinds of postprocessing. But I guess that is not feasible.
Now I have not dedicated a single word to your incredibly informative and well-structured explanation of the composition of the Truro Willis. It is phantastic!
All the best, Rens
The organ is pretty small compared to most English cathedral organs but bloody hell can she roar :) Richard, I can't remember if I've asked you or Caroline before but have you ever played the organ at Ely Cathedral?
I've played Ely, and I'd to record it in the near future.... :)
@@beautyinsound I look forward to hearing that. I live in Cambridge so Ely is my diocesan Cathedral :) I'm sure Glen will be glad to welcome you to the cathedral. On the off chance you hadn't I was going to offer to put you in contact with Glen :)
Is episode 5 out yet?
Not yet - soon! 😊
Why ruin the console with horrible electronics.? Tuck them away in a draw.