Pipe organ variation on Psalm 149 by Martin Mans

[OrganGoes]

k ben geloof ik niet de enige die zonder schoenen speel! haha verder goed gespeeld hoor.

[anneroelofse1]

ik mis wat tonen uit de psalm 149 op pedaal vooral de eerste regel van het voorspel ! maar zeker goed gedaan!

[organjohn231]

Ha i know you! That looked like a lot of fun. We need a few more organs like that on this side of the pond.

Cheers!

[kabouter1983]

dus aan een zeer slechte geluidsopname kan jij bepalen hoe dit orgel klinkt? Ga maar is live naar het orgel luisteren, dan praat je wel anders.

[matjuh86]

zeer slechte geluidsopname? Misschien heb je zeer slechte luidsprekers? ;-) Maar het lijkt me best een mooi orgel op zich. Niet zo oud denk ik, of wel?

[kabouter1983]

Mijn boxen daar is niks mis mee. misschien is er wat mis met je oren :) want je wilt dit toch geen goed geluid noemen? Ik reageerde meer op het feit dat Hillsproductions09 zei dat het orgel niet warm aan klinkt. Het orgel is van oorsprong een Vierdag orgel, staat in de noorderkerk in Enschede en is in 2000 gerestaureerd door BAG.

[freedom2lead]

Was this written by Martin Mans? I can't find the music for this online...

[int43239]

Geen idee wie deze knaap is, en of hij speelt zoals Bach of Handel of wie dan ook zou spelen. Het is mijn smaak ook niet, maar wat ik hier zie is iemand die geniet van een prachtig instrument, en dat is belangrijk. Over smaak valt niet te redetwisten.

[cootjebea]

eh...volgens mij is dit niet martin mans... die is beter.... maar ja, dit is ook wel mooi hoor, mooie psalm, vooral in de nieuwe vertaling, al is de oude ook mooi...

[Jippesz]

waarschijnlijk is het stuk wel van martin mans, maar speelt hij het zelf dan niet..

zomaar een idee.!!

[jv04jm]

I can appreciate critique but I can't appreciate offencive comments Amsterdamswinger. Therefore I have removed your comments.

[gerardesberg]

beelden kloppen niet helemaal met geluid maar verder mooi gedaan kunt u die amsterdam swinger verwijderen en blokken hij heeft het bij mij ook zitten zeuren bvd

[deopromusic]

Het orgelwereldje in Nederland is verdeeld, dat is al jaren zo. (Opbouwende) kritiek mag, daar kun je wat van leren. Mensen beledigen past daar niet bij, al helemaal niet op de manier die 'Amsterdamwinger' meent te moeten hanteren. Verschrikkelijk.

[deopromusic]

't Is hard, snel en het zijn veel noten.

Daar is alles dan ook wel zo'n beetje mee gezegd.

[deopromusic]

't Is hard, snel en een hoop noten.

Daar is dan ook alles mee gezegd.

[Paulm1207]

Very well done. I'm baffled by some of these comments. If their should be no iprovisation, how should one demonstrate ones own joy in a piece of music. How many interpretations are there of Amazing Grace. Don't make the world boring!! I just want to see more of this talent.

[Pieterman42]

I was not referring to the organ but to this kind of music.

[accousticdecay]

The intensity of the contentions expressed here evidences our great passion as organists and music lovers. However, we must not be each other's judges, lest there be no person remaining who is honorable. The digital organ has its place. We could not stuff five ranks into our small sanctuary, but we have 35 ranks, and they don't sound cheap.

[Pieterman42]

It is cheap and it sells, what do we want more.This formula made MacDonalds a success too and now let's

apply this formula to church-music and they will love it!

[accousticdecay]

This music is great, and is above bachlover's criticisms. I play Bach on a (gasp) new Allen digital organ and it is very pleasant and well received. Music must reach to the people's hearts and lead them to the heart of God. Existential analysis can't go there.

[paranormaalutrecht]

An organ has to give joy. Find your way out of the church, and go to your public. They don't come out of there selfs!

Nice caractre, nice play, keep on the good work!

Bert.

[paranormaalutrecht]

Let bachlover1 talk....... When you having fun it is the most important thing. Effect music. Music excist for 100 percent of effects :)

So let them talk.

One thing is a simple truth. Bach is the greatest ever. You have bach and componists :).

But, there is a lot of beautiful music. Do you know virgil fox? Listen to his interpretation of the gigue .. you can find it on youtube: gigue virgil Vox.... one feast of joy, whit a happy clapping and dancing public on organ music...

[Bachlover1]

I agree with you that Bach was the greatest ever. But since you know that and it seems you can understand the greatness of that music I cannot understand that you like the music of Mans. I ment that the effects are cheap, never original or copied from other componists. This music is for religous adepts it has no artistic value at all.

[ccoraxfan]

Bachlover1, if all you can appreciate is Bach, then you are in a rut! Bach is great, but so too is this!

[karlwurtz]

Bachlover1, it is perfectly clear to me that you don't know a thing about Bach and the way he was perceived by other musicians in his life-time. It is exactly those with your mentality that despised his "weird"-at that time- music.

[Bachlover1]

I don't know who he is and perhaps I don't want to know. Cheap effect-music.

[erikhavenaar]

wie is deze jongen?

[ccoraxfan]

I can tell that you really enjoy playing the organ! And that makes a big difference in the way you play. You may not be perfect (but then, nobody is) but you have spirit in your playing which I love to hear!  Never mind these music haters, they don't count!

[Rens1989]

This is not Martin Mans, but he plays fairly well!

[jv04jm]

...both of them played (no pun intended) extremely important roles in bringing back the organ to life during the 20th century. Does that make one of them right or wrong? No! Exactly the opposite becomes apparent: they both were right. Biggs wanted to go back to historical and Fox loved to create new interpretations of the same music. That's precisely the beauty of art. Oh and one more thing: there is no need to be rude.

[jv04jm]

...I'm not saying that something like Prayer by Rene Vierne or Priere a Notre-Dame by Boellmann isn't most soul stirring either. Each type of music has its place. Also, have you ever heard of the term "interpretation"? People interpret EVERYTHING differently. If you want to use Biggs as an example, I think you will agree with me that him and Virgil Fox interpreted things totally differently and yet...

[jv04jm]

Who made you the authoritative voice on what makes fast organ music crap? It is most interesting that the most famous organ piece is nothing less than a toccata (Bach's D-)! What say you then of Widor's toccata from his 5th symphony or Vierne's Carillion de Westminster or Gordon Young's toccatas or John Rutter's Toccata in Seven, etc., etc., etc.? They are touchstones and benchmarks for fine, fast, lively and spirited organ music...

[trentin24]

I don't know, E. Power Biggs, William Visser (world renown organ builder) and Charles Rus (Organist for the San Francisco symphony) among others seem to agree with me. But hey some people like listening to crap you sound like your one of them.

[trentin24]

Now I know why so many people hate the pipe organ! Adding notes and playing it faster doesn't make a song better.

[GrandeChoeur]

HA. You couldn't be more wrong.

[Principaal]

Honestly I think that this kind of organists make it a not very loved instrument,, I bet he's right!

[RWAbacus]

Great playing! I do find it difficult to follow when the sound is not synchronized with the motion - but this was very enjoyable nonetheless. I like to memorize everything too, but I always have the music as a backup. It's saved me many times.