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Toccata on "Joy to the World"

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Uploaded by on Oct 15, 2007

Concert organist Martin Setchell plays the Toccata on Joy to the World from his 3-Piece Suite, on the Rieger organ in the Christchurch Town Hall, New Zealand. The score is available from www.fagus-music.com

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  • This is my favorite song since I started organ. EXCELLENT! I got the three piece suite for a grad present so I could play it, and I love it!!!

    Thanks for postings.

  • Thanks for posting that - what a neat grad present! It's actually nice to be able to see how the composer plays their own pieces, as here. Martin loves to hear when people play his stuff...

  • could you also upload him playing his trumpet tune...it is one of my favorite pieces!

  • ok - will put that on the list!! Could be a wee while but I won't forget!

    cheers , Jenny

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  • Listen to the pedel line...that gives it away easily.

  • Nothing can beat the sound of a church organ

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  • Played this as a postlude at my church this past Sunday and it was a major success. People loved it!

  • Wonderful. Thats my Midnight Service sorted out then!!!

  • @bingoace The info about Macy's organ came from Wikipedia

  • @bingoace Nothing can beat the sound of a church organ"

    I guess you mean a cathedral organ. Most of them are truly awesome but the new churches built these days can't afford anything else other than an electronic organ which just don't have enough power to compete with a big pipe organ. Macy's store in Philadelphia previously Wannamaker's s the largest operational pipe organ in the world. It has 28,543 pipes in 462 ranks listen to it here /watch?v=1_8cqFtnU1I

  • @bingoace 'The organ console consists of six manuals with an array of stops and controls that command the organ. The organ's String Division forms the largest single organ chamber in the world. The instrument features eighty-eight ranks of string pipes The organ is famed for its orchestra-like sound, coming from pipes that are voiced softer than usual, allowing an unusually rich build-up because of the massing of pipe-tone families.

  • You guys need better recording equipment! The 240p and whatever camera/audio device you're using doesn't do this great art form justice! Even a simple digital camera with HD video recording and a mic attachment, on a tripod, would be great!

  • Thanks for this.. I love it! :)

  • Great stuff.  I am practicing this piece for this coming Christmas.

  • Wonderful to see some New Zealand Organists!!! Bless you for posting and greetings from Wellington.

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