Episode 3 - Daniel Moult

Welcome to Episode 3 of Chiff Chat - The Organ Podcast! Today's guest is the larger-than-life Daniel Moult.
Ben embarrasses himself by getting the fundamental element of quizzes wrong - the questions. Dan tells us about his teaching life, commissioning new organs and filming organ documentaries, and we find out Dan's taste in organ music through the regular heaven & hell item.
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Chapters:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:04:19 - Welcome to Dan
0:05:35 - Teaching and New Organs
0:25:46 - Documentaries
0:31:57 - Quick-Fire Round
0:40:15 - Organ Heaven
0:49:10 - Organ Hell
0:53:56 - Thanks to Dan!
1:04:28 - Outro

[@rupertaustin]

A fascinating conversation - thank you Ben. I too have a Prigles addiction. Salt and vinegar is my flavour of choice. Once a tube has been opened, the difficulty in putting the lid back on and returning the tube to a cupoard safely out of reach is ridiculous for addicts like us!

[@JonathanSilverton-ol7kn]

I listened to this on the bus home and got so engrossed that I went well past my stop and ended up in the middle of nowhere in the rain. If one is going to ask what is one’s top organ pieces, it might be a good idea to say “excluding Bach. In that case, there can only be one answer. Cesar Franck’s masterpiece “Priere”.

[@michaelcollins6577]

You are not bad at this podcasting business Ben, quite good really. So I listen through at my will, chuckling away occasionally largely absorbed by the conversation. Then I dare to come back for a second go with a pen and pad at arms reach, taking notes like a student eves-dropping on a master class. Thanks Ben and your guest, Daniel Moult for your insights. Wonderful.

[@grahamtwist]

Thank you for another fascinating Chiff Chat Organ Podcast, Ben, and thanks also to your special guest for Episode 3, Daniel Moult, who was (like a Mr Kipling's Cake), exceedingly good company. I love the balance you achieve between gentle organ world humour (with plenty of sharp wit) and rather more serious, organ cerebral musings - always great entertainment for those of us who are organ nerds.
I thought your comment that you supposed (Jean-Jacques Charles) Grunenwald was a character from the Harry Potter franchise was hilarious! What house - Slytherin or maybe Ravenclaw, having listened to some of his improvisations? You, Ben are clearly a Gryffindor; Daniel seems more Hufflepuff (though maybe not his en chamade cackling laugh!).
I'm sure you'll know that the Howells' C Minor Organ Sonata dates from 1911; Howells’s lessons during his time with Herbert Brewer consisted of piano and organ performance, composition, and harmony and counterpoint. Five piano pieces survive from this period. 'The Arab’s Song' is the earliest extant piece of Howells, written on his sixteenth birthday in October 1908, and preserved in a single manuscript (RCM MS 4702). Would that fairly be called Opus 1?
Looking forward to Episode 4: B R A V O !

[@Huwtube72]

Another really wonderful and fascinating Chiff Chat podcast. Please could you see if you could get Robert Quinney as one of your guests. Also, and I know it’s a long shot, but I wonder if it might be worth approaching Dame Gillian? Her recent interview with Peter Wright, available to see on UA-cam, is very interesting.

[@Rl469]

How about Apfel Regal?

[@TheBellsandwhistles]

Good one!