Reger (3) on Europe's Largest Pipe Organ: Passau Cathedral

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Uploaded by on May 29, 2008

Max Reger's Fantasy on 'Ein Feste Burg' runs about 13:15. So I've had to do some judicious editing to slip it in under 10 minutes. Hopefully, the edits won't be too obvious.

Again, many thanks to Martin Doering of Die Orgelseite for his spectacular pictures.

Recorded in April, 1983.

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  • Wounderful!!!! But who is the performer???

  • @Guilmant512 Watch the video ;-)

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  • Glorious room. Glorious organ. Glorious music. Glorious musicianship.

  • What's available here sounds quite good indeed - now, given that YouTube has been expanding its limits, could you now post the WHOLE piece (even if it requires that the piece be split between two parts, the way many orchestral excerpts are done here)? Many thanks in advance, particularly given that there are enough places where a 'Luftpause' could be easily used for such an interruption.

    Ah, just let me get my "Lieblingsorgel" back - here's one of the pieces I wish to master and record!...

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  • I found myself laughing at how imposibly BIG this was. I now have a reason to go to Germany. Yee Gods!

  • 3 people are size-conscious of their organ :-]

  • @a55b47 ok. thx.

  • The Greatest Vitamin Is Vitamin O which is Organ Music

  • I fully agree with that statement.

  • say anything you want.. church organ is without question most impressive instrument in the world.

  • Also, regarding the instrument I mention as wishing access for again: yes, it's nowhere near as large as the Passau monster, nor is the acoustic with even 1/10th of that wonderful reverberance.

    That instrument, however, is the best in my rural area and DOES allow me to play most if not all of the organ literature more than convincingly as well as much of it quite idiomatically (though not authentically, which would be 100% idiomatic) - and it's a beautiful instrument in itself...

  • Quite seriously, I'd be very interested to see how the remainder of verse 3 (with its diminuendo) as the build-up of verse 4 is done in this recording!

    Even with such a huge instrument on hand, no real attempt is made to properly execute some of the swift crescendi in verse 2 to the pleno passages where the chorale is presented in B-flat (B-dur) - one or two more enclosed divisions (at least one of them being in the main organ) could well have helped in the process...

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