On the Mighty Flentrop Organ | Saint Mark's, Seattle
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- Опубліковано 9 тра 2019
- Canon for Cathedral Music Michael Kleinschmidt offers a short introduction to the five divisions of the landmark pipe organ of Saint Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, Seattle, originally manufactured by the Dutch firm Flentrop in 1965. This video is rather longer than all the others in the "On Saint Mark's Cathedral" series, but if you stick with it, there is a surprise cameo at the end!
Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral in Seattle, Washington strives to be: a house of prayer for all people, where we worship God and proclaim the reconciling Gospel of Jesus Christ; a loving, welcoming, inclusive community that nurtures faith, encourages service, and integrates social and environmental justice into our lives; a sacred gathering place for the Diocese of Olympia and the broader community in times of crisis, sorrow, and celebration.
Saint Mark's Cathedral is part of the Episcopal Church, and as a cathedral, serves as the seat of the Bishop of the Diocese of Olympia.
Ik heb genoten van de mooie klanken groeten van Hans uit Zwolle Nederland
I've seen a few organ demos, but Michael's near-giggling enthusiasm for this instrument and organs in general is wonderfully infectious. What a delight to watch, and this instrument is a beauty.
Also, having watched one or two recitals and listened to a few organists, Michael has a refreshingly compleat comprehension and mastery of the instrument.
@@railgap Thank you so much for your kind words! Please pay the organ a visit whenever you are in Seattle.
That was absolutely AMAZING
I always appreciate somebody who knows exactly what they're doing
Oh Bunnykins! That was just ausgeseichnet! Bestimmt!!!
That 32' actually makes my desk vibrate with just a laptop.
I love this video, and watch it again and again! Thank you.
Thank you so much! We've been thinking about a follow-up for a very long time now, so please stay tuned...
@@saintmarksseattleThank you, that will be wonderful! I discovered this video not long after covid lockdowns started here in Australia. Amidst the uncertainty of everyday living, and as an ‘essential worker’ out in the community to carry out a rather difficult role, I returned to this video time after time. There’s so much to enjoy; the technical account, the demonstrations, and the gentle humour sprinkled throughout. It’s been a wonderful antidote to the negativity of 2020-21 and remains so today. I feel that your faith community must have a really positive and warm vibe, I certainly feel that spirit through this and your other videos. Cheers!
...was present at the E P Biggs inaugural..actually sat by him with my organ teacher Wm Pulliam...still playing given such experiences...
Wow, Mr Wojtowick, that's great! Canon Kleinschmidt partially recreated those Biggs recitals for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the instrument, in 2015. Please reach out to the him directly if you have any historical materials or memories from that time which you would be willing to share -- you can find his contact info on the cathedral webpage, saintmarks.org
A phantastic and very powerful instrument! And the most completely explanation from you Master, my devotion to the Mighty Flentrop... thanks a lot.
Thank you for your kind words, George.
Awesome instrument! Imagine going to church 400 years ago and hearing something like that for the first time.
Yes, they are so awe inspiring. I came to this channel via the channel of a little 12 year old boy who's a budding organist and he says he "adores" the music. It just gets hold of some of us and never lets go.
The astronauts at NASA have button envy. So amazing! Thank you for sharing this work of art.
Very well explained. I learned a few things myself today.
Organ is stupendous and the acoustics are divine!!!
Thanks, Micheal!!
I studied church music as a pianist and chorister for many, many years, and have been associated with many organists. This is the first time I have understood some of the concepts you explain here.
What a surprise: a Dutch Flentrop Organ in the USA. I visited several churches here in the Netherlands with my late father, who was an organist for 45 years.
Rene, you are welcome to come visit us in Seattle anytime! Although the instrument is today rather different than the one Flentrop designed in 1965, it remains one of the grandest instruments the firm ever built.
E. Power Biggs performed many recordings on the Flentrop organ of Busch Reisenger Museum at Harvard University. It's a small tracker organ that serves as an introduction to the Baroque Era organ building and classic voicing.
@@kansasthunderman1 The Flentrop there was built in 1958. The Busch Reisinger Museum (now Adolphus Busch Hall) has similar acoustics to the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, where Bach served many years as cantor.
Awesome, and greetings from St. Philip's Episcopal Church, Circleville, Ohio founded in 1817 and still blessed by God.
Thank you, David!
4:11 ''right now the gallery is shaking a bit'' Just then my shelves where wandering around my flat. never before have a Church organ on youtube made my shelves vibrate around.
I have @ Dual ''beast'' subwoofer system @ 1000rms watt. It' goes down to 35 hz. but when C−1 or C−2 is played I can still clearly feel it :) Thx for the best organ video on you tube. It has all the hallmarks of a great video!
Two highlights of my life: pulling stops on this gorgeous instrument for my friend Roger Sherman and then years later getting a personal tour of the Flentrop shop in Zaandam by their outstanding technical director. And what did I pass in one of the hallways? A photo of this beauty (they're very proud of her, one of the largest they ever built). She seems to sound better and better every time I hear her.
What an amazing instrument, a stunning building and a superbly talented musician.
All three have to go hand-in-hand adding beauty to one another.
As an Anglican priest and choreographer of worshipful liturgy, it must be mind blowing and spiritually uplifting to have such music, played by such a musician, during a religious feast.
Thank you for your kind words, Rev. Phillips.
WOW... Fantastisch!!!!! Bravo
Ever since a very dedicated friend of mine introduced me to the wonderful world of the pipe organ and the great music by famous composers, played by great musicians, my life went up another step in admiration and shear pleasure with music. In a couple of years now, so many Dutch and German churches and monasteries we visited to pay tribute to impressive architecture, famous pipe organs and finest compositions.
The more proud as well I was seeing and hearing a great and very understandable explanation by Mr. Kleinschmidt, clearly showing his delight and admiration with this Seattle Flentrop pipe organ, built by my highly skilled and famous fellow Dutchmen.
👍...wow....knocks my socks off......
It's a joy to hear an explanation from a person who clearly loves the instrument.
And, is well intormed!
Michael had a tremendous reputation when in New York at At. Thomas' Church.
Michael, this is terrific! What a fine demonstration of this instrument. You communicate some of the joy that is part of being an Organist and which is so hard to explain to people. Greetings and all good wishes from Iowa: some of our choristers who sang with you at RSCM courses still ask about you. I will tell them "Watch this video."
Awesome organ, marvellous presentation, very beautiful video. And I find that playing Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott is a very good idea. Many thanks!
With a group of organ students I visited the Flentrop shortly after it was installed over 50 years ago. This organ has certainly stood the test of time and resounds in its marvelous acoustic. Thanks for triggering a memory.
Although I never had the pleasure of meeting Michael Kleinschmidt, I’m well aware of him being from NYC.
From the first time at age sixteen that Dr. Gerre Hancock allowed me to play the now gone but wonderful organ at St. Thomas 5th Avenue until the last time I played it thanks to the late John Scott in 2015, I missed meeting Michael Kleinschmidt who’s not only a brilliant organist, but also a nice guy and he was the associate organist at the famed St. Thomas 5th Avenue church.
This organ is on my ‘bucket list’ of organs to hear live, but also to play. I’m thrilled to know that Mr. Kleinschmidt is at St. Mark’s, it’ll be terrific to hear him, that organ and that room live.
Canon Kleinschmidt returned to St. Thomas Fifth Avenue to play a recital on their new chancel organ just a few months ago, in May of 2019. But please come visit us in Seattle any time!
Very informative! Thank you.
Truly, a magnificent organ in the best tradition of the Netherlands, explained with bubbling enthusiasm. Piet Kee and his contemporaries would have loved this one!
Thank you for filling me up!
Excellent organ and demonstration.
My father was an organist, and he’d let us go up into the chest. Even with just a 32’ stop, you wouldn’t hear it, really, but you would feel it beating against your stomach.
What an absolutely marvelous video, and brilliantly presented by Michael Kleinschmidt. His overflowing enthusiasm made it all the more compelling. And the whimsical counter-piece at the end was a lovely ending.
Thank you.
Stunning! Brings tears to my eyes, both because of the SOUNDS!, and the realization that I went strings/Cello! Why of why?! My favorite voice(s) are those of the Horizontal Reeds....they shake my soul and cannot wait to hear what music the Lord has in store for those of us who have made Jesus Lord. Ausgezeichnet, ich hab' alles genoßen!! Augen voller Tränen! Vielen Dank.
oh, boo hoo hoo!
OOOO EMMMM GEEE.....my brain has new grooves in it thanks to the Mighty Flentrop!! Big thanks.
I could see you were enjoying the session. I, too, enjoyed it incredibly. That organ is brilliant! Thank you!
this is what a pipe organ is suppose to sound like, love it!
Some day, I will play a similar instrument.
I remember back in the late 60s - We had an apartment down the street in the old Loveless Building and would walk down to the church for their concerts. You could wander in casually, sit on the steps leading up to the alter, lie back and gaze at the ceiling during the concerts. One of the highlights was that each visiting artist was given a theme during the intermission and as a closing piece was required to play an impromptu set of variations on that theme. It was exciting and gave the entire concert an air of a sporting event. Wonderful memories.
Had the great pleasure of hearing this instrument in person last July for the AGO convention. Just wow. Spectacular instrument, recordings definitely don't do it justice.
Thank you, Joshua! Please pay a visit again any time.
"A very sturdy hymn." I loved that. The organist at my home church when I grew up would refer to those as "pipe cleaners."
he really loves that
organ
I enjoy the beautiful sound, well I've never played on a flentrop before
Ty for sharing
FAB Michael
Fantastic Instrument and explanations!
Pipe organs are simply amazing instrument! Nothing can compare to this. Thanks for the Organ 101 !!!
In case you are wondering. ON Bill Nye The Science Guy. This Organ was featured on the episode Season 3 - Episode 11 (waves). I also had the privilege and honor to play this organ just a few days AFTER this organ had shifted from the Earthquake, in the early 2000s. which knocked OUT the swell division until it was re-serviced. It is a GREAT ORGAN and out of the 50+ i've played on. VERY memorable instrument. The reeds have a "fiery" thunder which sends a brisk down the chill of one's spine. Being at the controls of this great Instrument is beyond exhilarating.
Now Bill Nye is the fake-science guy. How sad.
So incredible!
Thank you for watching!
Marvelous!
P.S.: if you wish to hear how an organ known to and played by Bach might have sounded, come to Europe and visit, play and hear: (1) the Arp Schnitger Organ of St. Jacobi in Hamburg; (2) the Zacharias Hildebrandt Organ of the St. Wenceslas Organ in Naumburg (recently restored and recorded with the complete Art of Fugue on Aeolus); (3) the Gottfried Silbermann Organ of the Dome in Freiberg, the most precious example of baroque organ building preserved to the present day (BTW, Bach tested the Hildebrandt Organ in Naumburg together with Silbermann of which testimony is preserved in his own hand-writing)
One of the world's greatest organs. I'll never forget hearing it during the OHS Convention.
This is perhaps the best organ demo I have ever watched. Wonderful instrument, of course!
The wonder of y-tube. One start to watch a video of tank battles and end up with an orgasmic organist. Dude is skilled with the info and knows how to tickle those ivory knobs.
Well I was sitting in St Mark's this past week at the AGO convention. I noticed how many bulbs were out on the chandeliers. I figured they just were cutting costs! Now I know -- the organ pops 'em!
Enchanting! Thank you.
I loved your passion for explaining how the organ works and you played at the same time.
Thank you for your demonstration you did it fine
Gotta love couplers
Organ wundervoll, nice to hear about Hauptwerk Rückpositiv, it is normal for me, because i am from Germany, and also play the Organ.
But not with four manuals, and not with Rückpositiv and also Not with 32'Fuß, nice to hear about🙂
Made in my home town, and the factory's still building and refurbishing organs :)
Thank you for your comment! Flentrop Orgelbouw have a good UA-cam channel themselves as well :-)
Have watched quite a few videos explaining and displaying the operation of various organs. IMHO this one one offers one of the best demonstrations of organ tone colors and how they can be combined.
A clear and enthousiastic demonstration. And the acoustic is overwhelming. Thank you for demonstrating this Dutch topografie,
Now I'm going to look for a recital there! Thanks!
Chris, the Saint Mark's Music Series concert schedule-which always includes at least two recitals on the Flentrop organ-will be announced in the fall of 2022.
The audio of this video is quite well-done so as to really be able to discern the different divisions originating in their own different points in time and space.
The building has good acoustics which complements the sound of the organ.
What an absolute marvel of engineering, and a great detailed presentation, Thanks!!!!
except it is NOT a modern instrument...
What a delightful presentation, Michael. Would that every organist took such utter delight in their instrument!
Years ago when I was young, I had the honor of attending a student workshop with Flentrop!
What splendid demonstration! Thank you so much for making this.
this was a helluva lot more interesting than I thought it was going to be!
I LOVE the horizontal reeds! Sounds like a combo olde-style horn section/harpsichord. Very nice sound!
Those Spanish trumpets are the newest part of the instrument -- they replaced the earlier (and somewhat gentler) chamade in 2011.
Wonderful sounding organ and very well demonstrated. Thanks for posting.
Thank you for watching!
Thank you for this demonstration. It was very helpful and entertaining. Scintilating playing.
What a great organ in a wonderfully reverberant space. Very well presented Michael.
If you think four manuals + pedals gives you a variety, you should see a five manual! Absolute terrific, loved the video!
Thank you Taylor!
Very enjoyable.
I often listen to his "All Bach on the Flentrop" video. First heard a Flentrop on radio broadcast of an E.Power Biggs Bach album. Promptly went out and got the recording. Watched a tour of the Flentrop Shop on UA-cam. It was all in Dutch without subtitles. What they were doing was clearly shown though. One of the pipemakers later sat down and played Bach on an instrument they were testing. From Chicago, U.S.A.
Thank you, Mr. Failla! The Flentrop Orgelbouw recently uploaded a new series of short videos on their UA-cam about the workshop -- with English subtitles this time! Definitely worth checking out.
Thank you for the information on the Flentrop shop videos. We have a 1991 Flentrop at the Catholic Cathedral here. It's "traditional" looking with a golden oak finish. I know I can't tell you anything about how they sound! From. Chicago, U.S.A.
Wow! When you lift your hands at the end it sounds like that sound goes clear into outer space. Love that sound.
Here in the UK I am so pleased that Organists and the King of Instruments are coming out of the closet! Of course stars such as Cameron Carpenter, Olivier Latry, Nathan Laube, and the Scott Brothers have all had a huge influence. I have always felt that the marque of a good sound-system is its ability to handle the music of the pipe-organ!
Absolutely loved your enthusiasm for this instrument; it's clear that you love it!
When I win the lottery, I’m so getting one of these.
Great...I sang at St Mark's years ago with a visiting choir from Victoria, happy memories.
Simply beguiling
JUST GORGEOUS. THANK YOU, Michael. I must visit St. Mark's when I'm next in Seattle. You must be an incredible teacher! arthur..
He is!
I was listening to organs (including Flentrop) before you were born. This video is a delight!
I want one of those in my house:)
Brilliant... Perfectly explained and fascinating. Thank you very much for posting this!
What a wonderfully clear description of the basic workings of a large pipe organ. All my life, I've wondered how the stops and pedals worked and what the four keyboards were for. I know this video only scratched the surface, but thank you for enough information to answer those questions and more. Masterful and thoroughly enjoyable presentation (and great musical snatches, too). Wish I lived in Seattle!
That was amazing. Thank you.
Wonderful explaination of the divisions of the organ and the way the stops work in combination!
What a fantastic teacher !!. Now I know all about that organ, all I need to do is learn how to read manusripts and how to play the instrument .
It's never too late to start!
Wow, what a beautiful sound--very crisp. The design is very beautiful, the way that the wood and each different metal have a very natural-looking patina, from bright metal to dulled oxidized copper is wonderful. Also, the organist's genuine love for the instrument is great to see.
Thank you for your kind words, Mr Berryman!
Perfect, absolutely! Thank you.
What a wonderful player he is!
Best explanatiom I have heard of how an organ works. Thank you.
Thank you so much for watching, Elaine!
Loved your demo...we bought our son at age six a Hammond organ...he played by ear...he at first was playing an octave and 1/2 keyboard he borrowed from school...as a teen he went on to play a B3 and different electronic keyboards in band
Karen, that's wonderful! Canon Kleinschmidt is always extremely generous with any young person who expresses an interest in playing the pipe organ-because that's how he was introduced to the instrument as a kid himself.
Great narration!
Thanks so much
Magnificent...one of the great joys of great music...such knowledge and passion.....thank you for the documentary...
Glad you enjoyed it!
LOVE IT!!
This was really fun! Flentrop organs are awesome. The organist is really personable and enjoyable. Nice guy!
Flentrop is one of several builders of the "modern baroque" organs which appeared in the 1940s.
Unfortunately, this is not a modern, evolved instrument, but one built to 18th century specifications.
@@josephgraif2588 That's Flentrop's idea to build organs to old fashioned specifications.
In what way would that be unfortunate, sir? Flentrop, one of the very most respected organ builders on earth, designed and built it to sound precisely as it does. There is nothing whatsoever unfortunate about it.
why is the organ the only instrument that continues to be built to "old fashioned" specifications? every other instrument has evolved and never "looked back". flentrop took their "lead" from charles fisk, an engineer and amateur organist who proclaimed the organ to be a "dead" instrument in the 1950's that could only be revived by returning to baroque building techniques. who was he to do so and why did we follow him? do we build baroque violins today? enough said...
Excellent! :-) Thank-You