Organ featured on Choral Evensong broadcasts

[ardcarp]

Thanks Subc. I'll try harder next time.

[OliviaHunt93]

is it just me or did the organ sound a bit out of kilter today?

The organ introit and accomp for the white was done on the new chamber organ.
The Moore and Parry on the main organ.

[french frank]

The organ introit and accomp for the white was done on the new chamber organ.
The Moore and Parry on the main organ.

Well, that was a prompt answer! Welcome OliviaHunt93 .

[OliviaHunt93]

Well, that was a prompt answer! Welcome OliviaHunt93 .

Thought i would comment to clarify so people don't think the main organ is sounding vastly different to normal :)

[french frank]

Thought i would comment to clarify so people don't think the main organ is sounding vastly different to normal :)

The service certainly got the thumbs up on the Choral Evensong board!

[ardcarp]

Welcome from me too, Olivia, and thanks for the inside info.

[ardcarp]

Manchester Cathedral Organ

It's a bit of a corker this one in its position on the screen. (The previous instrument...Harrison I think...was tucked away either side of the Choir.)
It is refereed to as The Stoller Organ, which suggests 'Stoller' is a firm of organ builders. In fact Stoller refers to the benfactor and it was the firm of Tickell who made this fine-looking instrument. Kenneth Tickell sadly died, I think before seeing the finishing of this organ.

However, there's this:

https://www.manchestercathedral.org/site/assets/files/5689/stoller-organ_actions.pdf

and this:

https://www.manchestercathedral.org/worship-music/music/the-cathedral-organs/

[ardcarp]

St Matthew's Church, Westminster

https://www.stmw.org/organ.html

and

https://mander-organs.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/stmatthews_spec.pdf

[ardcarp]

Worcester Cathedral

https://www.worcestercathedral.co.uk/media/1316/organ-spec-2016.pdf

I think this new Kenneth Tickell organ was installed in 2008, so presumably that's what we heard on today's recorded CE.

(Worcester Cathedral previously had a large instrument originally built by Robert Hope-Jones, who also pioneered a certain sort of fog-horn!)

Further info: https://www.aioa.org.uk/projects/por..._Worcester.php

[Frances_iom]

found I had a CD "18th Century English Organ Music" played by Margaret Phillips on Gamut GAM CD 514 recorded 6-8 June 1990 which must have been a few months after the organ installed Sept 1989 - a "chamber organ following style and voicing of English chamber organs of the early eighteenth century". The church was rebuilt following a fire in 1977 which destroyed the church except for the Lady Chapel.

[ardcarp]

St.Peter's Eaton Square

This is the best I can do: http://www.charlesjamesorgans.co.uk/...ails.php?ID=17

[subcontrabass]

St.Peter's Eaton Square

This is the best I can do: http://www.charlesjamesorgans.co.uk/...ails.php?ID=17

Some more details here: https://www.npor.org.uk/NPORView.html?RI=D03198

[ardcarp]

Must be a wealthy parish to have a beast of that size.

[Keraulophone]

a wealthy parish

Average price for a property in Eaton Square - £4,776,989 (4/2021).

[vinteuil]

Must be a wealthy parish to have a beast of that size.

... things don't get much wealthier than Belgravia!

I had completely forgotten that it was all but destroyed in 1987 by an 'anti-Catholic arsonist'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Peter%27s_Church,_Eaton_Square

.