Organ at St. Bavo in Haarlem, Netherlands

Music by Buxtehude on the organ at St. Bavo Grote Kerk in Haarlem, The Netherlands. Just some informal playing and experimenting with various stops on this famous instrument while vacationing in Holland. -Neal Biggers

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Music

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• pipe
• organ
• Haarlem
• Netherlands
• Holland
• Buxtehude
• Bavo

[cpcheung]

Can anyone please tell me what is the name of this song??

[nealbiggers]

Dietrich Buxtehude: Praeludium in d minor

[jv04jm]

How did you get to just "informally" get to play that organ? I was there in 2004 and heard Thomas Trotter play it - AMAZING!!!

[nealbiggers]

Just lucky connections: I have a friend, an organ professor in the U.S., who has a friend & colleague who knows one of the organists at the church there in Haarlem.

[Ntalikeris666]

Dont compare modern organ with an old one.

If you asked me, which one i prefer, i would go for the Muller organ . Wanamaker and all these are modern organs which all sound almost the same.

Dutch organs are something special. An American modern organ would never have the depth of the sound of a Dutch organ.

[Ntalikeris666]

Did you just call this masterpiece a piece of junk!!?!??!?!?!?!

[pinorg]

@paqman67 In the future it might be wise to ask for only positive comments to the postings. The page asked for comments. It didn't say what type they should be. So I gave my opinion. If an individual is not ready or willing to take criticism of their work, they shouldn't be posting things on the internet for people to be able to respond to.

Also, if I did go to St. Bravo to play the organ, it still wouldn't change the quality of his playing.

[paqman67]

@pinorg amazing how you can deduce his registration from a video camera, with a far from good microphone, acoustics right next to the pipes instead of on the floor like it's suposed to be. the articulation seemed lively and fine to me. If you disagree with his playing, why don't you travel to St. bavo and do a proper recording of this piece yourself?

[san6166]

@poopingeneral yes this organ has a 32ft reed in the prdal

[poopingeneral]

At the very end of this, does this organ have a 32' stop? sounds like it does. That or he's using multiple 16' stops.

[poopingeneral]

@nrps801 why was that?



[nrps801]

I also had the opportunity to play this organ a couple weeks ago, however they had mentioned NOT to put any video material on the internet.......

[peteacher52]

Neal - don't take any notice of the pseudo-learned remarks of pinorg. That person seems to think that you can make the organ sound, with just one brief familiarisation session, as eloquent as the likes of Piet Kee, Jos van der Kooy and Anton Pauw, people who have spent years, even decades, playing it and recording it with professionals. Of course they sound better, and so they should! Under the circumstances, you did very well indeed, and thanks for sharing your fabulous experience.

[pinorg]

I find it difficult to listen to someone play one of the worlds finest instruments and make it sound so incoherent of tone. The registratation was poorly chosen and the playing of Buxtehude came across as an accumulation of volume with no articulation. The piece was played too fast and the organ never got the opportunity to sound it's notes. Poorly done.

[freepdeez]

@Ntalikeris666 Got the opportunity to play it a couple of years ago. A highlight of my life!