Worcester Cathedral organ

There is no one Schulze organ left in Germany ! “The Organs of Worcester Cathedral”, Colin Beswick, June 1969, Worcester Cathedral . Even in Cavaillé-Coll organs, despite the french "Truth" that states, since at least the 18th century, "there will never be any Tierce in the Plein-jeu". Look at how often French composers ask for Hautbois with Recit fonds.Back to Hill, I found this page that shows how fast the ideas evolve today.It's about a 1913 Hill in Melbourne, disfigured in 1960, but with a quite happyYes- I know this work.

The instrument is very much on its last legs and we must be kind and have her 'put-down'.The original Hill instrument was taken out (all except the Transept Case) when Hope Jones built the then new instrument - if you wish to hear a large part of this and see part of the original quire case from the instrument, then visit the church of All Saints, Cheltenham, Glos - this is where a large proportion of it remains!Also, given the size of the Cathedral at Worcester I must say that I think it is an excellent idea to have two instruments... What we tend to forget in the UK is that most of our Cathedral Organs cannot fulfil their job effectively as they are trying to do two several things at once... not least try and fill two spaces... that of the Quire and the Nave. Slightly different, isn't it?We absolutely need to reconstitute this one; of course, in order to stay historically correct, we also need to reconstitute the iceberg as well. Would it be necessarily more expansive than two new organs? You could not play Bach nor even Mendelssohn on it. This is the case at Southwell Minster where a second, nave organ (largely a wonderful instrument originally by J J Binns) was installed in the cathedral's triforium for nave congregations. It is pecularly british, tough the french organ can display something of the kind, but the difference lies with the mixture. There was for a time a 2-manual Harrison organ on mobile platforms which could be used on these occasions, but in recent years organ sound in the nave has been provided by a 3-manual Bradford electronic instrument.The 1925 H&H rebuild was not *that* deep as one could believe.

Look at the spec of Sydney Town Hall. This location is too remote to be effective in the nave, with the result that what is called the solo division, in the south transept, is in reality a second great division consisting of a large scale diapason chorus with high pressure reeds. Even Marcel Dupré still held to that. : You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. I think this may be ab error. All the Great Mixtures are quints.

I asked about Schulze's organs in Germany, but never got any answer. This results in particularly thrilling effects when one sits in the quire for cathedral evensong as the sounds and vibrations of the organ are so close to you.Full swell at Worcester is very exciting, and settings like Howells St Pauls service, or Jackson in G, which include trumpet fanfares coming through the texture (played on the fiery Gt.

Schulze's house still exists and the remains of a fish farm behind it which he is supposed to also have run (or so we were told).With regard to the reason for two new organs at Worcester, I believe it is in part because the whole cathedral gets turned round for the Three Choirs Festival. I love it that way, because it is one of the instruments that impressed me the most with their musical qualities.However, the introduction of the electric action allowed our happy hoping Robert to redesign *slightly*Hill's previous scheme. The firm of Hill remained conservative.I believe there is not a great diiference to the application of the Fonds/anches concept of the English and French late romantic organ.