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Piano? No, no, NO! Divorak wrote this for string trio and HARMONIUM. There are lots of pieces for string trio and piano--they should have done one of them. If the string players were set on this piece and no harmonium/reed organ/pump organ was available, they should have found a church willin...

@ebach1

The main theme is based on a Czech BAGPIPE tune; hence, the reed sound is important.

If a reed organ is not available, why not adapt the keyboard part for accordion, bandonion, or concertina?

@Velothu

Children? Hardly children. These are young men & women.

Tony Randall sang this on the Carol Burnett Show; I've not found a copy of it, but I remember hearing it before I knew about F&S.

F. wrote this for harmonium, not for reed organ. Although the performer is skilled, the ebb and flow of the wind pressure from the foot-pumped bellows makes the piece sing; given that harmoniums are no longer being manufactured, adapting these works for the accordion or bandonion makes more sens...

This is very nice, but it is NOT intended for pipe organ; F. wrote it for harmonium/reed organ/pump organ. The music is obviously written for how the air pressure on the reeds ebs and flows. On a pipe organ one can approximate it with the use of the swell/expression pedal, but you can't get the...

Franck wrote this for reed organ/pump organ/harmonium, not for a big pipe organ. Try it on such an instrument---it sings, that way; although the organist is very skilled, the piece sounds DULL on a pipe organ. If no reed organ is available, far better to arrange it for accordion or bandonion.

Considering that they don't make harmoniums any more, could that part be adapted for accordion or bandionion?

This would also sound good with a harpsichord or small organ/harmonium doing the keyboard part.

What is the instrument? It sounds almost like an accordion, but not quite.

I thought that this was a recording by a male. It sounds more like a middle-aged soprano than like a boy treble.

A very nice voice, but she's a bit stiff in her manner. I didn't get any sense of *communication*--that she was trying to *say* anything. She looks very young; is she a conservatory student? If so, then if she can ever learn to relax a little and to actually TALK to her audience through the m...

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Now that is REAL music, as opposed to the hip-hop-pop-slop we are daily subjected to.

Stylistically, this is a perfect bridge between Handel's "Messiah" and Beethoven's 9th Symphony.

Come to West Virginia! Going down some of our mountain roads on a tadpole recumbent is not just fun---it is a real SCREAM!

My German is rudimentary, so forgive me if this is covered.

Was this done on a bobsled or luge course?

I've done this on a recumbent trike. It is a real scream.