Daniel Roth at St. Sulpice, Paris - Improvisation 3

[BaboonArse]

This video really does show how great Cavaille-Coll was as an organ builder in faith of his design and materials used, by the way Mr. Roth gives the console a thorough thrashing.

[kempedkemp]

man becomes one with the machine... what a genious!

[samthemusicguy]

Love the orchestrated dim starting at 5:25

[krPeter2010]

voices from another world that should stay there...because organists cannot improvise in more than 2 flats and make harmonic sense...oui? Nez pas?

[Metrojunky]

I can't get enough of this.

[FromHolbergsTime]

voices from another world

a marvel and a wonder

**********

Glenn

[frajtas]

Merci Aristid, merci Daniel.......beautiful

[GeneralAn4l]

I bow to his awesomeness!

[serassone]

Assolutamente geniale!

[serassone]

The name of the book is Liber Usualis

[nizaru100]

@polsterj the 32' bombard Knob is not pulled , if you do not pull first a stop on this organ the stop won't soud , after pulling a stop you can then activate it or not with the pedal reeds. The pedal solo sounds strong indeed , but if you pull 32' principal and 16' reeds (bombarde 16' bassoon 16' etc..) and some tirces you may create this effect.

[polsterj]

And I'll say it again, the 32' bombarde is used! It's the only stop that can make a sound of a 32' reed!

Listen to the pedal solo parts, then you'll hear. Also note that the Sulpice Contre-Bombarde is so loud like in Rouen or Sacre-Choeur!

[praestant8]

@polsterj Nope, your ears and youthful desire deceive you. Certainly it would have been to great musical effect at the climax, but he didn't. The world will not end.

[polsterj]

@praestant8 And I'll say it another time, it is used.

At 5:00 you can hear this thunder, wich is the low Cis of the contre-bombarde, and I have already been there, I've already heard it.

And I have to correct a mistake: The The St Sulpice 32 Bombarde is NOT as strong as on other Cavaillé-Colls, it doesn't really roar (only at Cis)

And please keep that stupid comments about age for you, that's mostly unimportant.

[praestant8]

@polsterj I'm still not totally convinced since the pedal is moving quickly, but perhaps its a trick of poor recording and it hiding in the Jeux de combinaision and not drawn with the rest. Clearly the 32' Principal is drawn. Having heard numerous recordings it is not a coy or reticent stop even with anches coupled. We could argue it forever but why bother, its still a magnificent instrument played by a magnificent organist.

[Nateness01]

I have to chuckle to myself, as a friend of an organbuilder, I know how much repair that poor century year old tracker organ must need after a good playing like this,.

[miauw777]

The only company that is capable to do a restauration like this is the company of Elbertse organbuilders in the Netherlands. They have the respect and the knowledge to restore an instrument like this. They know it must be a testimony to its original builder. Nobody in France is capable to respect the orginal work of A.cavaille-Coll

[nizaru100]

specification of the organ is found at st sulpice web site . As I know, It's , I mean You HAVE FIRST TO PULL the stop and then , you can ON/OFF it with the foot spoons, at the bottom. So the 32' Bombarde is not used here and there is no problem at all

NOTE PLEASE : I'm from Morocco and I'm Muslim, So I see the pipe organ only as a huge machine with no link to religion or Jesus(peace on him), and please we have to stop comparing the pipe organ sound with ALMIGHTY GOD, it's nonrespect to LORD.

[polsterj]

Ah, now I have it: At the plan of the console you can see that there is a "anches pedale"-pedal between the tirasses and and the pedal couplers. I don't know how much french you speek, but anches means reeds in english.

And anyway, according to the plan there are no pedal reeds pulled, which cannot be true!

[derCarilloneur]

@nizaru100 Ah, i dont think that you can say this so! In the Christian Church the Organ has its status same like other important things, we can say, it is needed for church.

[nizaru100]

NOtice that the Contre Bombard 32' knob is never pulled during all the impro. the 32' bombard is the 3rd stop (middle) at the left bottom row of the console stops (the PDF spec for the organ at st sulpice website) .and it's never pulled. But the 32' principal which is in the same row, its the one the closest to the 1st manual , thius 32' principal is indeed pulled.

Coclusion the Thunder like sound at 5:00 is not the 32' bombard. ANY REPLY?

[polsterj]

Do you know what he tirassès make? Maybe they are a kind of tutti-bottom? That would explain the problem!

[ibk301]

"tirassès" is the term for coupling the individual organ manuals to the pedals, as opposed to "accouple" for coupling the individual manuals to each other.

[praestant8]

@nizaru100 Nope, no 32' Bomb. Just lots of big chords with low pitched reeds, and probably the Gross tierces/nazards to add further wieght.

[ThePipeorganman]

pull out more stops out and couple more make it louder lol. and add the 32" bombarg. lol

[ThePipeorganman]

daniel is amazing he is one of the greater organist of our time

[hughesmr]

Best pedal reeds on earth. Period.

[logica10]

Magnificent. Incredible. A great artist.

[polsterj]

Wow!

This was absolutely... well, you can't really describe it!

One day I'll be there to watch him, I'm sure!

[miauw777]

Improvisation is an great art, given to very priviliged persons, who are real masters. Who are we to judge the artistic freedom and intellect of the performing artist???

[nannerbenahs]

I 'love' Daniel Roth's O Lamm Gottes- Bach, where he shows us his really deep musicianship and spirituality. This type of improvisation, for all its obvious virtuosity however, seems to me a much less chalenging medium for him, one lacking any real musical or spiritual significance. To be honest, this is simply a kind of fantasy cinema music for use in a church, where tone deaf bishops and priests routinely enjoy such orgiastic vibrations as a kind of backdrop to their own fantasie liturgique'.

[miauw777]

can you do it like this then?

[Sesquiltera]

fantasy cinema music for use in church??

mmmm..... kinda like that, going to do that next sunday :P

[robroy1989]

Magnifique!!! Mercie, Daniel Roth.

[miauw777]

when i am dead i hope this man still can make his improvisations on the best cavaille-coll organ in heaven. Still unprecedented and the right choice of titulaire for this great great instrument. The keeper of the great legacy started with cavaille-coll, lemmens and cesar franck and later of course charles marie-widor and vierne and almost forgotten j.j.grunenwald and dupre

[nizar200]

Have you noticed the Thunder like CC# at 5:00 played in the pedal which is coupled to the manuals . It's very strong reed , was it the BOMBARDE 32' ?

[BeFrSc]

indeed it is.

[polsterj]

I think it's the Contre-Bombarde. On the Improvisation of Choplin which I have posted, you can hear a similar sound. It also sounds like a Thunder there!

[emotiiii]

Excellent !

[redletterchurch]

What a beautiful and brilliant improvization! Jesus must be pleased!

[organmaster1989]

A great improvisation on a great organ!!

[BeFrSc]

Absoleutly amazing, but one question though, he always uses that red book, what book is that does anyone know?

[Sulpice1863]

It is an old copy of the book of chants for the yearly Catholic mass cycle -- something that was more commonly used during the days of the Latin masses (and coming back into fashion). M. Roth frequently refers to this book for the chant melodies.

[BeFrSc]

I am interested in seeing weather I can get a copy of it from somewhere, do you know weather you can purchase anywhere anymore?

[triaj53]

Please try it at an antiquarian bookseller. The correct title of the book is: «Liber usualis».

[BeFrSc]

there's a PDF of it on Wikipedia, just type in

"Liber Usualis" and in the External Links section is the link to the PDF

[64ftContraBombarde]

The book is called the 'Liber Usualis', type it into wikipedia and you can get the whole book (new version and/or old version) in PDF, it's a brilliant book!

[MrWanamaker]

daniel roth is the best!

[codeman2008]

Very strange, but absolutely amazing!

[keraulophone]

It surely is amazing, but tell me, what's so strange about it?

[codeman2008]

Just the patterns in it, and the main theme. it's just a little strange.