Alexandre Guilmant: Cantilène Pastorale

I chose a different angle for this piece so that you can see what your hands have to do if you want to play this. Not only do you have to change very quickly from one manual to the other, you also have to keep one finger on one manual and go on playing with the other fingers on the second manual. Quite challenging, but very beautiful.

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[joeyboi87]

fantastic little piece, and fantasicly played, perfect phrasing and technique, this piece is actually not at all easy to play! ....what kind of organ is this?

[Messjuh1]

It's a digital organ by German organ manufacturers Ahlborn, type "Organum II".

[Larsky1010]

Thanks for the close-up of your hands. Your fingers seem quite long. Will they span greater than a tenth?

[Messjuh1]

No, that's about it.

[hallgeir1984]

I'm practicing this piece right now, and that part where you have F#'' in 2. manual and the melody in the 1. manual really is the most difficult I've ever played. I'm really struggling to play it. I see you hold with your 3rd finger, like Guilmant writes. I've tried for a couple of weeks to change to 2nd finger right before f#''-b''-f#'' in 1. manual, but it just doesn't get even...

well, well, I'm not supposed to play it before march... in worst case, I'll let the pageturner play the oboe f#

[joeyboi87]

Im sure they are actually Italian, if you go into the Ahlborn website they only have english and italian translations! However they do have an Ahlborn factory in Germany

[Messjuh1]

No, Viscount is an Italian company. Ahlborn are based near Stuttgart, went there myself to try out the organ before I bought it.

[joeyboi87]

Are Ahlborn organs not Italian?

[MrsFaraway]

Adorable. Sounding so light-hearted (being so hard to performe). Impressive Hands. So sorry I couldn´t even try that (manage only 8 - 9, if I cheat :-) A pleasure to watch and hear...would like this done at a really big Church organ....

[Messjuh1]

I simply added the flute 4' to the fluite 8'. A sequencer allows an organist to programme a list of registration changes and advance through it by pressing a piston labeled "+" (or regress through it using a "" piston). It becomes unnecessary for the organist to push the proper piston; he must only press the "+" piston and the next registration in the sequence will be activated. (copied from Wikipedia)