general organ repertoire thread

[pianistimo]

i found that the international music score library has some good stuff.  just printed out saint saens 'fantasie in Eb major (or the first page, anyways).  in measure 9 it looks like the hands cross over.  somehow, this always makes people think you're better than you actually are. 

question - now for organs with three manuals - would this be the top keyboard?  or is this merely intimating you can now change registers and make it sound different here.

can anyone give me some pieces to practice where you have to suddenly change the registers or something else mid-piece.  i want to practice this.  apparently, one merely holds a note down with the other hand - flips the buttons - and continues on as if the sound hadn't grated down the entire audience with it's voice change.

[pianistimo]

organ is a dangerous instrument.  at this site you will find a crazy loon who combines rachmaninov's c# minor prelude with scott joplin's style and makes it 'c# minor rag.'  the destructive potential in organ playing is definately there.  http://www.archive.org/details/GregOwenLiveAtTheTheatrePipeOrgan

[cygnusdei]

Hi Pianistimo - I'm glad you started this thread. I have been listening to Mendelssohn's Six Organ Sonatas and I enjoy them immensely. I wonder how these would fit in organ repertoire in general; they don't seem to be standard material. Anyway, Sonata no. 6 is a chorale variation and fugue - the variation culminates to such a scintillating climax that the fugue seems a let down. I think a piano transcription would be terrific.
I recommend the recording by Ullrich Böhme on Capriccio.

[pianistimo]

will have to look into those.  organ can be addicting.  the only problem i've found is that what sounds good to one person's ears can be devastating to another's.  for instance, i have to practice when all my kids are out of the house.  i don't think i play terribly.  occasionally the organ will make a loud raccous sound that i didn't intend - but for the most part - i play quieter than most organists i've heard.  is there some kind of high pitches my kids hear that i can't?  do you think it is more fun to play organ than listen to it?