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When the organ becomes a grandiose symphony orchestra

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Grand Organ in Melbourne Town Hall
Originally built in 1929, the Melbourne Town Hall Grand Organ uses ninety thousand cubic feet of air every minute and can produce anything from a delicate whistle to deafening thunder. The Town Hall Grand Organ was lovingly refurbished and relaunched in 2001 and now contains drums, bells and almost eight thousand pipes across three town hall levels.
The core of the main organ in the Collegiate Church dates back to the organ builder Franz Xaver Chrismann in 1774 and is known today primarily as the “Bruckner organ”. The famous composer Anton Bruckner sat at the console in 1875 when this instrument was rededicated after being rebuilt by the Mauracher company. The present instrument was rebuilt in 1951 by Wilhelm Zika using the existing historical material from Chrismann (1774), Mauracher (1875) and Dreher & Flamm (1932), and has been repeatedly rebuilt and extended in the years since. With 103 stops, the instrument is one of the largest organs in Austria! Some special features of the organ are, for example, the division of the Mixture in the Positive (I) into individual Aliquots, as is actually customary in Italian organ building. Furthermore, the Swell (IV) is unusually divided into three sections (labials, trumpets and short-barreled reeds), which can be coupled separately.
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Bruckner organ, Austria Linz © Sandra Pointl
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Cavaillé-Coll Organ
On the express recommendation of Peter Tchaikovsky, an organ by the Cavaillé-Coll company (owned by Charles Mutin) was installed in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. In 1900, the completed instrument was first presented at the World’s Fair in Paris in the Russian pavilion before being moved to Moscow and inaugurated there in May 1901. The French-Symphonic disposition, typical of Cavaillé-Coll, consists of 48 stops distributed over three manuals and pedal. As a special feature, there are two additional reed stops en chamade on the third manual, which sound powerful and very present due to their horizontal arrangement.
Thomas Heywood
Thomas Heywood © Krazy Smile
“Who needs an orchestra?” This is the title of one of Thomas Heywood’s more than 30 albums. Heywood’s huge repertoire of more than 5000 works includes not only the “”classics”” of organ literature, but also many of his own organ arrangements of symphonic orchestral works. As Australia’s first concert organist, Heywood travels extensively and is a regular guest in the USA and Europe. He also teaches at the Melbourne Conservatory and University and is the founding president of the Australian and New Zealand College of Organists.
Hansjörg Albrecht is regarded as a musical prodigy and is one of the few concert organists who is also regularly present internationally as a conductor. He is Artistic Director of the Munich Bach Choir & Bach Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of the Teatro Petruzzelli Bari, Guest Conductor of the Carl-Phillip-Emanuel-Bach-Chores Hamburg, as well as a frequent guest with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra and the Staatskapelle Weimar. He gives concerts in the great music centres of Europe as well as in Japan and New York. In the meantime, both as an organist and as a conductor, he has released more than 25 albums and was nominated for a GRAMMY Award in 2013.
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Albrecht © Florian Wagner
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Konstantin Volostnov
Konstantin Volostnov won the 1st prize at the 2009 Int. Festival in St. Albans (UK) and three additional prizes, among others for the best Bach interpretation. Since then he has toured Europe and North America including the important festivals in Haarlem, Chartres and many others. Volostnov studied organ, piano and harpsichord at the Moscow Conservatoire and at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart with Ludger Lohmann, where he graduated with honours in 2013 for organ. In addition to his own concert and recording activities (meanwhile more than 15 CDs), as a jury member and the of organ festivals, Konstantin Volostnov has been teaching himself since 2010 at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He is familiar with the valuable Cavaillé-Coll organ in the famous Great Hall from numerous performances.

SYMPHONIC BUNDLE - Bundle of 3 films

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