Bach "Sinfonia" from "Cantata No. 29" Paul Jacobs, organist

Paul Jacobs, Chair of the Organ Department at Julliard School of Music performs Bach's "Sinfonia" from "Cantata No. 29" on the 273 rank Fratelli Ruffatti organ at the Crystal Cathedral in Orange County, California.

The church's 273 rank, five manual pipe organ is one of the largest in the world. Constructed by Fratelli Ruffatti and based on specifications by Virgil Fox and expanded by Frederick Swann, the instrument incorporates the large Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ built in 1962 for New York's Avery Fisher Hall, and the Ruffatti organ which had been installed in the church's previous sanctuary. Swann was organist at the Crystal Cathedral between 19821998. As of 2008, it has 273 ranks and 15,948 pipes playable from a five manual console.

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• paul jacobs
• ruffatti
• crystal cathedral

[quovadismusicRo]

Paul's version is the best. Diana Bish has an impeccable execution, Paul

too, but Paul know to use better the pipes’ registers, so his pipe organ

become more expressive. Diana sing almost in same register ( all is

tutti all the time), so, her execution is missing the effects, dynamics, all is a flat strident sound. Paul’s sound is simply beautiful (bass sounds very nice, but Diana’s bas is missing or weak); Paul's dynamic is excellent (gradually from piano to forte).

[Branchporter]

This beats happy clappy praise music hands down!

[LivingMindfully1975]

I know the Catholic Diocese will make very good use of this cathedral and organ.

[Ralphaz1]

PERFECT to my hears. So sad that one of the great organs in the world is being silences. and Paul Jacobs plays it with full command of the instrument!

[forbearsake]

Paul is a great organist though he not as fluid as Diane Bish in the final measure

[LivingMindfully1975]

@Branchporter ....ABSOLUTELY 100% AGREE!!!!!!!!

[adrianmusic2009]

BEAUTIFUL..!!!!

[steelersfanhawaii]

Who are the four knuckleheads who clicked dislike, either you made a fat finger error and really meant to like it or you have an intrinsic bias against the king of instruments.

[steelersfanhawaii]

@tmsenzig I believe the organ will get used as least three times the amount it did even when Mr. Swann was there. Reason: The amount of responses, hymns, and acclamations in the Catholic mass compared to the times the organ plays in the RCA worship service. We have the 4 hymns: gathering, prep of gifts, communion, and leavetaking, plus pennetential rite, gloria, resp psalm, gosp accl, Santus, mem accl, great amen, Lord's Prayer, and Lamb of God, plus prelude & postlude lots of organ.

[del4m3u]

hahaha thats bwv1006

[tmsenzig]

@MrOrganist, the Crystal Cathedral and its 31 acre campus were puchased just a few weeks ago by the Catholic Diocese of Orange. It will eventually be rennovated into the Cathedral for the Catholic Diocese. Catholic Cathedrals tend to employ music programs that feature quality, time-honored, sacred music (rather than the happy-clappy dirges you hear in many parish churches today). Therefore I am confident that the organ will be retained in its current state as much as possible.