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@MrJordanbailey95 - Bellamy is a capable guitarist, singer and pianist. A professional organist he is not. Olivier Latry, the chap in the video I linked to, is arguably the greatest organist alive - it is no insult to Bellamy to say that Latry is a vastly greater organist.

@prestant15 - who's a berk and why?

@TheYorkshireJack - if that's what he thought, he clearly never heard Schoenberg's Variations on a Recitative - makes Messiaen sound like Elgar in his huge, sweeping melodies by comparison... though Messiaen IS FAR from un-melodic...

Come on, Matt, where are the big reeds? Why aren't you using the Pedal department? It could have VASTLY more impact than this...

@AnOrganCornucopia - that's the Valse des Anges, if anyone's not clear about that!

It never ceases to amaze me how the SILNYC organ does justice to virtually every conceivable area of the repertoire. It'll play this beautifully, yet will also do everything from Howells to Vierne to Messiaen equally convincingly...

@contraposaune - the action is modern H&H electropneumatic. The rest is - apart from additions and the enlargement and enclosure of the Solo by Willis III in the 1930s - all Father Willis. I think the console, though, is Willis III revamped by H&H.

A lovely organ, but it's certainly not the one in the picture (Durham Cathedral's mighty Willis/Harrison - a huge Romantic earthquake zone)!

You have Jardines over in the US? I thought they were only to be found in the vicinity of Manchester, where their maker was based... By the way, I laughed at your Kotzschmar video...

PS what's this about building organs?

Hi! I'd always been under the impression that the Austin UAC incorporated a pneumatic or electro-pneumatic action, but this suggests a direct tracker action - which is actually the case?

Oh dear. Rushed.

Lovely organ, but I cannot think why ANYONE would enjoy the Tibias + trems sound! It makes me feel seasick... and Kinuras are nothing more than badly-voiced Oboes. Thin, weak, poorly regulated sound. Would have been nice to have heard the diapason chorus above 4ft, seeing as it goes up to 2 2/3, ...

You'd have thought that with all the money swilling around Taipei, they could afford a proper pipe organ, or at least a better toaster.

@poopingeneral - not really! Are you talking about its tonal design or the design of the case? If the latter, the case is from the 1630 Crespin Carlier organ - in terms of its style and date, it's more Baroque. There are about 20 old ranks from various rebuilds - some may be by Carlier, but not a...

@jazzkeyboardman - 30-SECOND REVERB? Even St Paul's Cathedral in London (where I first heard this piece, with a stunning five-manual Father Smith/Father Willis/Willis III/Mander), one of the world's biggest acoustics, can only be pushed to 11 by use of EVERYTHING...

I think it's a vastly more exciting instrument than the lush but slightly bland Woolsey Hall organ. GDH knew a thing or two!

@nunocarmona - small modifications?! All that remained of C-C's organ by the time Messiaen was done with it was the pipework and the case - the chests and soundboards were all replaced AFAIK, the action and console were completely replaced... it is a masterpiece nevertheless, but a slightly-modif...

Thank you for this superb performance of one of my favourite works. A bit fast for my tastes but I can't complain! What a truly wonderful organ, too...

This is pretty much the most joyous piece of music ever written for the organ IMO!

Nice to find a performance of this that isn't being rushed! Amazing how French this Casavant sounds, though not of course the same as a C-C... pity it's in a typically dry North American church. Tuning sounds off on the odd note now and again, and there's the odd slip - but overall very, very goo...

Too fast, too fast! The whole thing feels rushed! This piece ought to take about 12 minutes! Magnificent organ, though. Cezig, I suggest you add a lot more tags to this video...

A fine performance on a truly magnificent organ by a builder languishing undeservedly in Cavaillé-Coll's shadow. Pity it's not the full piece - now that the YouTube upload limit is 15 minutes, could you please upload the full version?

@ds1868 - what do you mean, 'even'? St Paul's is one of the greatest organs in the world. ND is a mucked-up travesty akin to what battered survivals there are of most Skinner organs in the US (I know there are a few intact Skinners, but not many).

@menschmaschine5 - what's been wrong with the M&O? Speaking as one looking to acquire one...

@siwmper - you might be surprised. A bit of research indicates that it was built in 1990 by Roy Redman and has mechanical key action (but presumably electric stop action and electric coupling). These days you can have mechanical action with detached consoles at all sorts of odd angles - look up t...

Makes for interesting comparison with Nathan Laube's performance on M&O Opus 1 - available as a video (of his whole recital) on his website.

A fine organ, but what a ghastly building. Time to turn the clock back to an era when Vatican II and modernism were just disastrous mistakes in man's future - and warn man away from making them! A big new church should have a proper Gothic building, with a belltower (and bells hung for change-rin...

I'm not sure the Tuba works on this digital instrument - though the rest is as fine as we have come to expect of M&O, if still a tad artificial-sounding. However, the problem with pipeless instruments of such quality is that they rival pipe organs also in sheer cost! Wall Street's M&O cost as muc...

I dare say it does not lack intellectual rigour, and I can cope with atonal music (Messiaen especially) but this seems to lack both shape and even the slightest semblance of melody. I can't imagine that anyone would ever programme it in a recital - half the audience would leave in protest and the...