Thank you for sharing the pure joy this amazing performance brings! My mother, only 5'3", was an organist, and she could reach all those keys! When I was too little to sing in the choir, she would sit me on the floor of the choir loft (out of sight) and play some of the foot pedals -- my first music lessons! Her pipe organ was quite old, had only 2 keyboards, lots of stops on either side to pull out and push, and beautiful pipes lining the walls. I was always amazed at how she could play 2 keyboards and foot pedals all at the same time! I eventually learned that you never look at your hands -- eyes on the music (or the wall)! I really loved this video and your reactions! Gert is something else!
Nice reaction. Thanks for sharing. I really appreciate your interest in classical music. I can also recommend BWV 542 from J.S. Bach. Especially the fugue part is awesome.
Anna Lapwood has done several modern pieces on the Royal Albert Hall Organ. "Cornfield chase" - Zimmer - from the film Interstella, springs to mind. Now that is a BIG organ!
Imagine being an 18th Century peasant. . Living on the land. . The only sounds you heard every day were the sounds of nature and human voices. Once or twice a year (if you were lucky) you might hear someone play a simple flute, or fiddle piece . . But that was it. . Then imagine you travel to the 'big city' and go to a cathederal that has a pipe organ. . . THIS is the 18th century equivalent of a *WALL OF MARSHALL AMPS!* . BASS that punches you in the chest and makes your guts vibrate! The WALLS ARE LITERALLY shaking and the bench you are sitting on is trembling with the POWER of the sound. . And such sublime and complex sounds! Nothing like the peasant music you were used to. . NO WONDER the poor believed everything their clergy told them. . . They could imagine that the power of their god was there for those uneducated peasant to experience.
This organ could be a 100 years or so newer than the other ones ,they now and have for many moons use electro- pneumatic stop action and even now fully computerised so the console would be connected to the instrument by cables similar to the Theatre pipe organs etc a technology that's been in use for nearly 100 years invented by Robert hope Jones a telephone engineer by trade, this system was used by Wurlitzer and copied by everyone else after giving the organ builders great flexibility to have organ consoles huge distances from the pipes if desired.
GERT is the new J.S. BACH for real !!!!
Do u know how old this gentleman is! Not even 30 yet! Fantastic organist!
Thank you for sharing the pure joy this amazing performance brings! My mother, only 5'3", was an organist, and she could reach all those keys! When I was too little to sing in the choir, she would sit me on the floor of the choir loft (out of sight) and play some of the foot pedals -- my first music lessons! Her pipe organ was quite old, had only 2 keyboards, lots of stops on either side to pull out and push, and beautiful pipes lining the walls. I was always amazed at how she could play 2 keyboards and foot pedals all at the same time! I eventually learned that you never look at your hands -- eyes on the music (or the wall)! I really loved this video and your reactions! Gert is something else!
Thank man, Gert is a master on the organ , this masterpiece may not be played too fast, magnificent, greetings Gerry
Must feel absolutely awesome to be able to play such a magical instrument. Love it😮
Gert is the best!
Love this series.
Nice reaction. Thanks for sharing. I really appreciate your interest in classical music. I can also recommend BWV 542 from J.S. Bach. Especially the fugue part is awesome.
Should you feel the need with this piece, gerts interpretation on the Hasselt organ is by far the best I have ever heard :)
Anna Lapwood has done several modern pieces on the Royal Albert Hall Organ. "Cornfield chase" - Zimmer - from the film Interstella, springs to mind. Now that is a BIG organ!
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Gert is phenomenal, it's interesting because he plays so many of the REALLY old German organs some which Bach used himself
Imagine being an 18th Century peasant. . Living on the land. . The only sounds you heard every day were the sounds of nature and human voices.
Once or twice a year (if you were lucky) you might hear someone play a simple flute, or fiddle piece . . But that was it. .
Then imagine you travel to the 'big city' and go to a cathederal that has a pipe organ. . .
THIS is the 18th century equivalent of a *WALL OF MARSHALL AMPS!* .
BASS that punches you in the chest and makes your guts vibrate!
The WALLS ARE LITERALLY shaking and the bench you are sitting on is trembling with the POWER of the sound. .
And such sublime and complex sounds! Nothing like the peasant music you were used to. .
NO WONDER the poor believed everything their clergy told them. . .
They could imagine that the power of their god was there for those uneducated peasant to experience.
This organ could be a 100 years or so newer than the other ones ,they now and have for many moons use electro- pneumatic stop action and even now fully computerised so the console would be connected to the instrument by cables similar to the Theatre pipe organs etc a technology that's been in use for nearly 100 years invented by Robert hope Jones a telephone engineer by trade, this system was used by Wurlitzer and copied by everyone else after giving the organ builders great flexibility to have organ consoles huge distances from the pipes if desired.
He also does a great Pirates of the Caribbean impro, and maybe check out Fantasy of the opera :)
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