Sophie-Veronique Cauchefer-Choplin - Bach organ Fugue Cm

[galsvanidze]

21 октября 2008 года была на её концерте в соборе Святого Михаила в Турку. Её выступление вызвал у меня незабываемый восторг. Очень добрый и скромный человек. Я не люблю брать автографы, но тут не удержалась. Восхищена её игрой. Правда практически весь концерт проплакала, не могла остановиться. Спасибо за ролик.

[VoceCorale]

@puppyphart Well... she's playing an organ!

[zzzxtreme]

incredible sight reading skills

[happyidiottalk]

Holy hell that was too excruciating to listen too. Very bad recording. Shame, it was probably very nice.

[shawardara]

yes it's the barker lever at work

[1floss1]

alot of parts to that instrument,alot of work to operate.but i'm sure once you've mastered it like her,such incredible LOUD melodies can really come from it.

[peteacher52]

The smile at the end says it all! Here is a highly talented but modest lady with no airs and graces, who looks as if she is always pleased to see you. And the organ loft of St Sulpice where she is co-titulaire along of Daniel Roth, would be one of the most prestigous anywhere. Personally, I find the mechanical clatter of the console part of the charm of Cavaille-Coll organs.

[camreeno360]

Wow talk about exercise. 

[Maxbay89]

wtf is that noise?!?!?!

[Egestus18]

@Maxbay89 I think that is the barker lever of the first manual, reducing the power you need to press the keys :)

[MRDRWWILLIAMS]

Just out of interest, does anybody have any clue as to why the trackers are so prominent on this recording, but not in things played by, say, Daniel Roth?

[altpapapi]

Most likely it's microphone positioning. My guess is the microphones here were placed nearer the console/organist and not near to the pipework.

[MRDRWWILLIAMS]

@altpapapi

Thank you.

[pianoplayeruk]

Does anyone know whereabouts this instrument is?

there's no mention in the title of the organ.

[altpapapi]

St. Sulpice, Paris, France

[pianoplayeruk]

Thank you very much

[altpapapi]

A remarkable demonstration of the skill needed to perform on the mechanical tracker action still found in many of the instruments from previous centuries. Thank you Ms. Cauchefer-Choplin for offering us the opportunity to see and hear this workout up close and personal.

[Meridamondo]

like granny used to say, you could give em Taj Mahal and they'd b**tch about the tile

[rowlandorganlover]

If this console were in Denmark, it would be "fredet", that is is could not be changed according to law. Think that Widor, Vierne, and Dupre have all actually played on this console. Forget the noise from the trackers or Barker levers and just enjoy the celestial sound!

[afertyus1000]

i thought it was someone muching on biscuits

[sinverluis]

Veronique is a great organist and wonderfull human being. The organ is magnificent but I guess the "percusion" added is due to the Barker levers of the organ.

Luis

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Colombia

[merryweatherchannel]

the percussion sounds like water

[Chesterbarnes1]

I enjoyed seeing and hearing this great organist and organ. Tremendous

[akm5176]

Ok, playing that organ would really start to piss me off with that back ground sound....

[Tom1980nj]

I am not a tracker fan, but I don't mind the noise. I love hearing the stops open and close when I play an organ and old console noises etc. So much fun, the mechanics as much as the music.

[akm5176]

That's great and I can see your point. But when i play music...i like to hear the notes i want to hear not the sound of wood slidding to open a valve under the key. Quite honestly, there's no reason for the organ to make that annoying sound...they really should invest having that looked at. Considering organs all work on the same principals and basic design, updating it couldnt hurt. I'm mostly pissed because she's awsome but there's all that back ground sound.

[Bachlives2]

Well that organ has a lot of stuff to move when you play There are multiple Ventils per Manual I believe,

[marsvltor2]

Well, just to say that the S Sulpice console is nothing less than a great historic monument (and one that has been played regularly by Widor, Vierne and Dupre prior to the appointment of Daniel Roth. If you want a 'silent' action, have an Allen lol.

[tjugofyra]

The action don't sound much at all down in the nave. I know organs which action sounds much more!

[M3town3]

24 why did.

[tjugofyra]

24, that means that you are swedish lol and I don't have a clue about what you are sayin'!

[DAOFB]

xD Organists fought decades against the electrification or modification of this organ and it remains unchanged since 1862. It has a mechanical memory system which seems not to be very usefull compared to a 10.000-memory sytem of a modern cathedral organ, but it represents the spirit of this time. I have visited the organ and Mme Cauchefer and she convinced me, that it would be horrible to make any changes at all to this organ!

[Bachlives2]

I find the clattering rather charming the Organ in Weingarten has some really long trackers that make a huge racket =P

[advisorC101]

The mechanical action is indeed a very beautiful noise, you can just hear and feel everything inside the organ.

[pointydogg]

For all of you who want to hear the sound as a member of the audience, go attend a performance. From the organist's perspective, it sounds just like this: pages turning, manuals noisy, stops vibrating, etc. Thanks for the great vid!

[sweelinck99]

So friends don't be pedant more than necessary.Want a well done video/rec? PAY 20 peoples that with their professional equipment will give you back all perfect of all at S. Sulpice organ built by Cavaillè-Coll. Come on let's enjoy the BACH music 'n honour to him as composer and to Sophie-Veronique for her years of study 'n sacrifice.

De minimis non curat praetor.

A propos don't you notate that the stop doublette of 4th manual has a little stain on the superior part, don't you? By robert

[pianoplayeruk]

whoever posted this video has titled it:

'Sophie-Veronique Cauchefer-Choplin plays Bach organ Fugue c minor'.

But on which organ????

[Sinatra70]

It's the Cavaille-Coll organ at the Church of St. Sulpice in Paris.

[Guilloufan]

you forgot something ;)

one of paris' greatest organs :)

[marsvltor2]

If one needs to ask which organ this is, there is little hope! A five-manual Cavaille console that is still played - there is only one!!!

[pianoplayeruk]

there are a lot comments here about awful sound quality and poor audio production etc etc etc. I think it's glaringly obvious- even to someone with a brain the size of a walnut, that this video isn't meant to be DVD/broadcast quality in any way. It's merely a friend-made video showing the organist having a practice!

[rfstg]

I fear the video would not exist under your conditions...this is no professionel DVD-Produktion.Thanks God.

[clarification007]

Good piece of music, but TERRIBLE SOUND.

Why no soundman?

Big junk in quality.

[rfstg]

Why so pedantic? I think it is a documentation not a disk recording. Thanks for the video.

[clarification007]

She is super as player but the visual and sound quality is so poor and obvious, that is destroying the pleasure to watch and listen.

I'm a professionnel in the documentation.

Please, she greatly worth a lot better then this poor video.

The real sound of the organ is in the pipes level and far from any unwanted noise and the camera should be on a VERY GOOD tripod.

[pianoplayeruk]

I agree. though it seems there are other here who's mental capacity is so low, that they are unable to digest that concept.

[bachspirit]

what is it called when you play the organ and the keys at the top play on there own, who invented that?

[smharb59]

I really like this playing. It's musical and one feels the player is really listening to and understanding all the contrapuntal lines. Excellent work! S.

[patriciafc93]

Wooooow!! amazing. I love it!

[ZackRich022494]

good pice but the trackers are way too loud

[Rottenburgh77]

Brava!

[OrgelbauKuhn]

would this peice work without so many coupled parts?

[Brandotuomikoski]

depends on the organ as the stops u need are on different keyboards

[PointyTail]

Wow. some serious play in those couplers!

[roybrachet]

Never mind about noisy trackers, that cheeky little smile at did it for me!

[Cheff100]

Pardon my ignorance, but what is a tracker as it relates to the organ?

[sondasam]

Trackers are long rods which connect to various other mechanistic devices inside the organ(bearing shafts, rollers...) these trackers raise up when a key is depressed and the long connection between the key and the pipe is made so that the air is allowed to flow from the wind chest in to the pipe and resonate to produce the sound.

[BayAreaBiker2001]

I heard tracker noise only when she is playing the bottom manual, which is coupled to three other manuals, or when there is a trill in the pedal, which was coupled to all of the manuals. The trackers might need to be adjusted.

[cornwall59]

I think she is so good,lets hear more of her!!

[coventrygardens]

that's neat. nevertheless i think they need some sort of muffler on those things that the

organist hits with the feet. yep, a muffler.

when i was a kid, the muffler fell off my dad's car. i thought it sounded neat without muffler, yet my dad disagreed.

[Sheeny89]

Jesu christe! One of the most amazing cavialle - colls ever built and listen to the tracker action! its horid! and plus in a place like San-suplice (i think so anyway) you wont get the full effect sitting next to the organist, but im sure if you where in the middle of the place it would have blown yer socks off!

[marmin74]

Pretty cool to hear this fugue on an organ on which it was not, in any way, designed for. Still, good performance.

[florgano]

Utterly inspiring! I'm going up to practice this very instant. Thank you for posting this!

[queenown]

OMFG five manuals that's hardcore!

[BeFrSc]

Does it really matter, she always wears those shoes.

[advisorC101]

I don't wear shoes when playing, bare foot is smoother. ;-)

[archiarnold]

i think those are sensible shoes. only, the spurs are missing

[magnylam]

It has nothing to do with the shoes! The problem is, the microphones were put to close to the mechanics !

[redletterchurch]

I love to hear Bach played on a French Romantic organ by a Divinely inspired organist! It doesn't get any better!

[charpentour]

This organ, built by A. Cavaillé-Coll, is the one of the Saint-Sulpice's church in Paris.

[musicmozz]

Brilliant! I only wish I could play that wonderful instrument somday. :-)

[Principaal]

which BWV number is this:O??

please help me...

[rjijmker]

BWV 537

[pianoplayeruk]

J.S. Bach Fuga BWV 537

[trevjr]

being a glenn gould fan, i dont mind noise with my music. i could never get my feet going so i stayed with piano, i thought it was great. great playing, great organ sound.

[latribe]

Brilliant playing on a lovely organ. It's only the pedal to manual coupler trackers that are noisy. These take a hell of a bashing and often need rebushing. If an organ doesn't have a noisy pedalboard, it probably hasn't been good enough to have been played very much!

RollsRoyce59 should be disqualified for drunken driving!

[rollsroyce59]

Iatribe: Have you ever been on a makeshift array of ladders with a soldering iron to tune a pipe?

The idea behind a tracker organ alllows the artist to select how much you depress the keys to create nuances in the music.

The artist in the video was doing an;"All-or Nothing". The BWV 537 has nuances writen in it.

[marsvltor2]

Someone needs to understand what an organ is!!!

[pianoplayeruk]

Someone needs to understand how to communicate with people without being a prick!

[jsbach82]

@marsvltor2

St. Sulpice organ in Paris

[JurglyWurgly]

Wonderful playing. Madame, you look like you're having fun!

[rollsroyce59]

I've played 18th &19th cent. organs, They have had some ,"Creak and Groan"issues. What was posted on this site can only be labled as a POOR artist on a PATHETIC organ.

[classicalmusic1mzrt]

you idiot, I bet you haven't even seen a 18th century organ once (or even played on one). This organ is a master built insrument that I would give anything just to play or see. People like you either take music (and organs) like this for granted or critique it (and I hope you don't intend to flaunt your self on this website.)

[Raymondo30837]

Bien dit.

[darkoriginhunter]

the key noise kills me! but great playing

[octave4]

Trasker organs are noisy because of the mechanics - NAD this one has pneumatic assist to open the valved. It is not direct tracker.

[dokterles]

I really enjoyed listening to this despite the noice from the organ which doesn't detract from the music at all

[Pieterman42]

I like her and her performance.

[sykobeachparty]

I would like this better if she made some sort of registration change-which I know is entirely possible on this organ.

[octave4]

This may be a big Cavialle-Coll and it most certainly can make registration changes BUT - The "Purists" say that is not Bach's style so I can't do it either.

[nollentier]

Sehr differenzierte und konsequente Umsetzung des Themas, schöne Wiedergabe der Traktatur, das ist echte Orgelwiedergabe, danke!

[paranormaalutrecht]

Madam Cauchefer-Choplin, my deepest respect!! Very beautifull!

[lefeseboy]

...another reason to use tracker instruments...

[FEB090]

J'aime cette oeuvre mais c'est domage qu'il y a beaucoup de bruit avec la musique magnifique! Oui la musique est tres belle et votre interpretation etait magnifique...merci!!!!

[unkastacky]

I was in Paris nine years ago and was invited up to the organ loft in St. Sulpice to watch her play the 11:am mass. I went to hear the organ, and got much more than that! It was thrilling to watch her play, improvising an intricate and impressive finale on France's greatest organ. She is clearly phenomenally talented.

[tockoriusoschael]

The mechanical noise can be found at the Barker levers, that can be with their cases open when the recording was made. But the sound is very beautiful and the bach sounds well in these good organs of l800, I can't to said the same with organs of 1900 to 1950, with its rought sound and poor mixtures. Thank to God that the organs of today are more closely to the clasisism that the cinema. (I'm sorry very much my poor english and want that you can understand it, thank you!)

[Millieardo]

it would have been better if the mic and camera where a little farther away there is a little to much mechanical noise, but other than that it is a wonderful performance!

[lazysid]

simply extraordinary! breathtaking if i may say so

[osoleo]

Flawless performance, difficult piece. Quite a bit of "mechanical noise" from the organ console, obscuring the music somewhat....a remote placement of the microphone would have helped. Really loved the organist's smile at the end of the piece, very charming!