Carillon de Westminster at Berliner Dom

Here is the Carillon de Westminster by Louis Vierne on the Sauer Organ of Berliner Dom, Germany.

Much thanks to Martin Doering of www.die-orgelseite.de for allowing me use of his fantastic pictures.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Carillon
• de
• Westminster
• Berliner
• Dom
• Louis
• Vierne
• Sauer
• Organ

[multimill]

There are so many great recordings of this piece on YouTube but this is one of the most magnificent in every way, in my opinion. I hope that when I go through the Pearly Gates it is to this music because I will be a happy man!!

[robertgift]

A Carillon stop should have MINOR tierce to mimic a carillon bell's minor tierce !

And a less prominent major tierce an octave higher - as in a carillon bell.

What a magnificent work by Vierne.

[willowthebored]

@robertgift Actually, I just browsed the stoplist and it looks like there isn't, though I wouldn't be surprised if there were a similar mixture of a different name on that organ somewhere.

[willowthebored]

@theaterpipe1

Generally speaking a Carillon is a high-pitched mixture, most commonly at two or three ranks, containing one or more third-sounding ranks. So, it's like a kind of high-pitched echo cornet with breaks. They do a surprisingly good job of imitating their namesake, I think, when they're built and used appropriately.

[mikedc2020]

This organ truly sings. Wow!

[hautyboy]

Perfect!

[robertgift]

@theaterpipe1 There is a carillon stop!

[andre26071955]

This instrument is as great for this music as a genuine Cavaillé-Coll! And Andreas is giving a top-notch performance of it!