Howard Goodall's organ works [videorecording] : the complete series / a Tiger Aspect production for NVC Arts and Channel 4 ; written and presented by Howard Goodall ; producer, Paul Sommers ; director, Rupert Edwards.
Documentary. Howard Goodall, narrator, performer. Originally produced for television, broadcast in 1996.
Contents:
Evolution -- European organs -- Europe to USA -- Contemporary view.
Summary:
Howard Goodall narrates, performs, and listens to performances during a tour surveying the history of the pipe organ. In programme 1 he visits and plays originals or reproductions of portative and table organs in Spain and Italy, and surveys pipe construction at the Mander organ factory in England. He then moves to instruments in Innsbruck and the Netherlands, exploring the rise of divisions. In programme 2, he visits Baroque organs in Spain, Germany, and Holland, then the 19th-century works of CavailleĢ-Coll in France. In programme 3 Goodall visits a fortress organ in Austria, and Willis organs in England, illustrating the rise of big, loud organs with attitude during the 1800s. He notes the rise of the reed organ (harmonium) and the theater organ as represented by Wurlitzer, and concludes with visits to the instruments at the Cadet Chapel of West Point Military Academy (the largest church organ in the world) and the Wanamaker Organ in Philadelphia (the largest organ in the world). In programme 4 he discusses the organ at the end of the 20th century, with visits to a collector in California and St. Alban's Organ Museum in England. 20th-century offshoots, the mechanical (player) organ, electronic organs, and digital organs are reviewed. He participates in a sound test comparing the sound of a Willis pipe organ and an Allen digital organ. The film concludes with a visit to the 1993 Mander organ at St. Ignatius Loyola in New York City.
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