PLAYING A CATHEDRAL ORGAN!! Cathedral Church of St. Mark

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  • Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
  • My improvisation at 9:44 was one of my personal best

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  • @ryanroberts8783
    @ryanroberts8783 6 днів тому +8

    I worked on the installation of this beautiful organ by Bigelow. All the pipe guiding and console veneers are my work. Best job i ever had bar none.

  • @greerbox
    @greerbox 3 дні тому

    What a beautiful instrument.
    Beautifully played.
    You look so smart in your suit ❤

  • @s80keys
    @s80keys 5 днів тому +1

    I can only imagine the feeling of sitting at that console in the middle of those pipes. I especially love hearing the Zimbelstern. Really nice architecture in the room as well.

  • @kennethray8473
    @kennethray8473 День тому

    The more that I see and hear of Bigelow’s work the more that I am impressed. The 8’ Principal on the Great is particularly beautiful. I don’t think I’ve ever seen keycheeks carved like that, it’s very interesting.

  • @richardvoran5514
    @richardvoran5514 6 днів тому

    Absolutely beautiful installation. Your improvisations always amaze, but the one today (9:44) is definitely at the top of the list. Quite an instrument and quite an outstanding organist! And the suit and tie - very professional!

  • @magnifyoparah2402
    @magnifyoparah2402 5 днів тому

    This was wonderful, Charles❤😊

  • @grahamtwist
    @grahamtwist 6 днів тому

    An excellent demonstration of a fabulous instrument (which certainly packs some sound into the building, as well as probably several blocks outside!): bravo, Charles!
    Yes, I like the 'French' characteristics of your chimeric improvisation starting at 9:44. Your eclectic taste in differing genres enables you to create interesting 'fusions' . . . so I await your future compositions with great interest as not only do you have the talent to 'copy' styles, but also the inventive freshness to create new sounds (and, I trust one day, your own unique 'voice'. Hope I'm still alive for that!). I particularly enjoyed the toccata development starting at 11:38 and I think Léon Boëllmann would have been smiling if he'd been watching. And so glad you resisted the 'Tierce de Picardie' for the final chord . . . !

    • @Charles-Reardon
      @Charles-Reardon  6 днів тому

      Thank you so much! I always love your thoughtful comments.

  • @jcolbyt82
    @jcolbyt82 6 днів тому

    It has to be amazing to sit inside of a sanctuary/concert hall and at the console and know that you are actuating all of that raw sound. Thanks for another wonderful demonstration of a spectacular pipe organ!

  • @jamesvanian5524
    @jamesvanian5524 6 днів тому

    What a beautiful sounding organ. Love the tracker action, you feel a lot more. A great demonstration of this incredible instrument. James.

  • @SeanReilly-nx6si
    @SeanReilly-nx6si 6 днів тому

    Wow this is great. I wish I could play an improv just like yours 🎹🎹🎹☘️

  • @frpaddy
    @frpaddy 6 днів тому +1

    Absolutely awesome 🙌

  • @CowboyBill521
    @CowboyBill521 День тому

    What?? 40 Ranks? What a glorious ensemble. Amazing!

  • @railroadralf
    @railroadralf 6 днів тому

    Thanks for sharing the visual and aural beauty. Your technical expertise is also amazing!

  • @C.Golobish27
    @C.Golobish27 3 дні тому +1

    Why people complaining about the talking? It adds a fun charm cause most organ demos are very boring

  • @stephenvanas4580
    @stephenvanas4580 6 днів тому

    As always, an excellent, impressive demonstration.

  • @organblower
    @organblower 6 днів тому

    A careful demo of the organ's individual voices and harmonies, your demos are so much more detailed than your early work. Nice playing too. (looking like a million in your fancy suit)

  • @geonmzahsan6640
    @geonmzahsan6640 5 днів тому

    Lovely organ & organist

  • @questionit2518
    @questionit2518 3 години тому

    40 ranks of heaven

  • @Taoseno2007
    @Taoseno2007 4 дні тому

    Well? Where is this?

  • @lawrencewheeler8868
    @lawrencewheeler8868 6 днів тому +1

    I remember the Holtkamp!! sicLol

  • @Organham4903
    @Organham4903 3 дні тому

    Fantastic improvisation. Do you usually improvise on hymn tunes, or do you just play random stuff that sounds good?

    • @Charles-Reardon
      @Charles-Reardon  3 дні тому +1

      I usually do it on a tune. This one was on “Serenade to a Cuckoo”. Playing random things is nice but it doesn’t make me any better, so I try to avoid it

  • @_Hellcat_
    @_Hellcat_ 6 днів тому +1

    dude you belong at Notre Dame de Paris!

  • @Taoseno2007
    @Taoseno2007 6 днів тому

    Where is this??

  • @EElgar1857
    @EElgar1857 5 днів тому

    Come on; tell us where this is! I know about St. Mark's Cathedral in Seattle, and this ain't it.

  • @TruckguyTruckguy
    @TruckguyTruckguy 6 днів тому

    the ruck positive is too much visually in there

  • @stthomasmore4811
    @stthomasmore4811 5 днів тому

    Since this "cathedral" (fake seat of a fake bishop) is 1/4 the size of my local parish church, it must be Episcopalian - famous for great organs with theology as dead as their acoustics. 😂. Sorry - I'm in a trolling mood. Thanks for the video of a great instrument.

    • @Charles-Reardon
      @Charles-Reardon  5 днів тому

      Wow. Those were some very bold claims. No comment🙈

    • @stthomasmore4811
      @stthomasmore4811 5 днів тому

      @@Charles-Reardon Hey, I'm Sir Thomas More. I lost my head for such claims. 😂

    • @syncopate50
      @syncopate50 5 днів тому +1

      Rather than trolling Somebody else's servants, why not see what you can do to follow that Somebody more closely: go find some hungry people and feed them, for instance.

    • @stthomasmore4811
      @stthomasmore4811 5 днів тому

      @@syncopate50 Glad you are certain that I am not feeding the hungry. You might want to read the passage about beams in eyes. I've not attacked any person, only an ideology and a theology. And besides, that second great commandment is based upon the first: serving and adoring God with all heart, mind and soul - that means loving His truth, loving His doctrine, loving the Apostolic order He established: which I am attempting here by asserting that the Anglican so-called "communion" is nothing but a country-club and a cesspool of heresy founded entirely upon one horny king's incontinence. LOL

    • @EElgar1857
      @EElgar1857 5 днів тому

      Oh, you must belong to one of the few Catholic churches that isn't failing.

  • @Glenn-In-PA
    @Glenn-In-PA 5 днів тому

    How about a little less talking and laughing. You didnt need to fo so.much talking about the otgan, the stops, the divisions of the ranks. Most non-organist could care less about that stuff. It would have bren better to just play, not enough organ playing for me.👎👎

    • @Charles-Reardon
      @Charles-Reardon  5 днів тому +1

      Are you a non organist?

    • @Glenn-In-PA
      @Glenn-In-PA 5 днів тому

      @Charles-Reardon i am a retired Church Organist with 35 years of service. And also a retired organ professor
      I know what Im talking about

    • @Charles-Reardon
      @Charles-Reardon  5 днів тому

      I’m sure you do!