Sydney Town Hall Organ recording?
Erik A. Cox
Hi there!
I'm looking for a recording done in Sydney's Town Hall. The organ has the
world's only 64 foot reed pipe. Does anyone know of a recording
(preferrably solo organ) that captures the power of the 64' pipe? For some
reason the name Ampt is in the back of my head. The organist, perhaps? My
searches have come up empty. Please reply via email if you can help me find
a recording (on CD) of this monster organ.
Thanks,
--
-Erik-
ec0...@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
http://www.cif.rochester.edu/~ec011e
Donald Patterson
Erik A. Cox wrote:
>
> Hi there!
>
> I'm looking for a recording done in Sydney's Town Hall. The organ has the
> world's only 64 foot reed pipe.
Not the only 64 foot pipe. The organ in the Crystal Cathedral in
Garden City (?), California harbors a 64 ft. behemoth. The organ
builder (perhaps jokingly) called it "La Force".
(Your statement may indeed be true, since I am not
at all sure that "La Force" is a reed.)
--
Don Patterson <don...@erols.com>
Arranger
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Emily Zinn
: I'm looking for a recording done in Sydney's Town Hall. The organ has the
: world's only 64 foot reed pipe. Does anyone know of a recording
: (preferrably solo organ) that captures the power of the 64' pipe? For some
: reason the name Ampt is in the back of my head. The organist, perhaps? My
: searches have come up empty. Please reply via email if you can help me find
: a recording (on CD) of this monster organ.
: Thanks,
Mackerras's superb live recording of the Beethoven Missa Solemnis on ABC
434 722 was made there (in 1992); the organist is one Warwich Dunham. I'm
afraid the organ doesn't make much of an impression (at least not on
me)....
Simon
Raymond Edwards
Erik A. Cox wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I'm looking for a recording done in Sydney's Town Hall. The organ has
> the
> world's only 64 foot reed pipe. Does anyone know of a recording
> (preferrably solo organ) that captures the power of the 64' pipe? For
> some
> reason the name Ampt is in the back of my head. The organist,
> perhaps? My
> searches have come up empty. Please reply via email if you can help
> me find
> a recording (on CD) of this monster organ.
> Thanks,
>
The organ at Convention Hall in Atlantic City, NJ, although now in
disrepair and only 20% functional also has an open 64ft. pipe (which had
to be milled and constructed in the hall). I think that you'd have to
have a great whopping subwoofer to capture the low C of a 64ft pipe
(8hz?).Ray Edwards
David Shoemaker
Erik:
There are two CDs that I know of the feature the Sydney Town Hall
organ. The William Hill & Son Organ (1890) contains the only (as I
know) working real 64' organ stop. The La Force stop at the Crystal
Cathedral is a resultant tone (unison 32' + quint 21-1/3') which
produces the harmonics of a 64' but is not the "real" thing! (Even so
the Crystal Cathedral can shake some ground - No it's not a
earthquake!!) The Washington Catherdral Organ has a 64' electronic
extention of the 32' Bombarde - but the real pipes at Sydney are a
real engineering/organ building marvel!
David Durey "Music for a Grand Organ" ABC Classics (PolyGram) (c)1990
ABC 432 527-2
David Durey "Pomp and Circumstance" ABS Classics (PolyGram) (c)1993
ABC 438 881-2
Good Luck!
David Shoemaker
On Sat, 21 Feb 1998 22:18:55 -0500, Donald Patterson
<don...@erols.com> wrote:
>Erik A. Cox wrote:
>>
>> Hi there!
>>
>> I'm looking for a recording done in Sydney's Town Hall. The organ has the
>> world's only 64 foot reed pipe.
>
Jim Meehan
David Shoemaker wrote:
>
> ... There are two CDs that I know of the feature the Sydney Town Hall
> organ. The William Hill & Son Organ (1890) contains the only (as I
> know) working real 64' organ stop. The La Force stop at the Crystal
> Cathedral is a resultant tone (unison 32' + quint 21-1/3') which
> produces the harmonics of a 64' but is not the "real" thing!
There are several pipe organs in the US with 64' stops that are
"resultants," not open stops. (Perhaps the Atlantic City convention hall
organ had one. It was reputed to have everything else :-)
I had the pleasure of playing the Woolsey Hall organ at Yale in my
student days, and I occasionally played with the Yale Symphony. I
remember one performance of "The Pines of Rome," which has a part for
organ. There's a long, slow buildup to the finale, and at a certain
point, the organ comes in, with just the pedals. I used the quiet but
floor-shaking 64' Gravissima stop for that entrance (along with more
audible stops), and I knew I had achieved exactly the right effect when
a student in the front row said, in a vintage 70's
we've-smoked-a-little-something-before-the-concert stage whisper, "Oh,
shit."
Jim