We have launched a £2.3 million project to return the Royal Festival Hall's magnificent 7,866-pipe organ to its former glory. Thanks to the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund, we have £1.3 million to raise and hope that you will help us by sponsoring a pipe today.
http://www.pulloutallthestops.org
Well done! & good luck to get this wonderful organ back in working condition again!
cornwall59 3 weeks ago
@TheMysticalOrgan That's a bit harsh but I do partly agree about the look of the place, compared to the Royal Albert Hall for example, it is rather a square functional box.
I personally rate H & H organs up with Willis and Cavaille Coll.
The sound of an organ is of course very affected by the accoustics of the building.
goodchappy 1 month ago
The money they've spent on the RFH restoring it to "its original glory" would have been far better spent bulldozing hall and organ into the ground! Both were a huge, ghastly mistake. The organ is a horrid screechbox and the acoustic is simply disastrous. The building is truly monstrously ugly inside and out - that it still stands is nothing short of a national disgrace. A new Victorian-style shoebox Town Hall with a nice new Romantic Mander would have been a much better use of the funds!
TheMysticalOrgan 1 month ago
2.3 million pounds to RESTORE? the organ? Sounds like you could buy a new organ for that price.
Rheinlander95 2 months ago
Imagine the Berlioz Te Deum on this
Huddiethegreat 3 months ago
I'm playing the organ there in May :)
DaviJm31 4 months ago
@ds1868 Yes and I hope the best security measures and fire precautions are in place to protect it when it finally is completed. Similarly to the Willis in Alexandra Palace, one false move and the whole lot is lost, probably forever.
goodchappy 4 months ago
@jvdurante84 Harrison & Harrison of Durham UK. Same as St. Albans Cathedral, Coventry Cathedral, Kings College Cambridge, Westminster Abbey....
goodchappy 4 months ago
who built this organ?
jvdurante84 8 months ago
@crustylion123 Hi there the song that is being played during this video is the C.M.Widor 5th toccata. Hope this helps you.
ThePipeorganman 1 year ago