A quite (!) exceptionnal organ :
the size of the Grand Court (112 feet long, 66 feet wide, 150 feet high)
its size (475 stops, 462 ranks, 28414 pipes, 142 chests, 38 reservoirs)
the richness of its tonal palette
6 manuals console
729 color-coded stop tablets, 168 piston buttons under the keyboards and 42 foot controls
11 expression shoes (see details here) of which 6 are coupled to thumb slides
its Strings division (121 ranks : the world biggest)
pressures from 5" to 25" wind
Dupré improvised what became his wonderful Symphonie-Passion
Jongen composed his Symphonie Concertante for him, it has been eventually premiered
on september 2008.
concerts twice a day except on sunday
Some links...
Friends of the Wanamaker
Gothic Records : The Wanamaker organ and its recordings
PipeDreams
Listen…
The WRTI shows :
Virgil Fox in its own arrangement (written for the Wanamaker, after Stokowski's arrangement for orchestra) : Komm, süßer Tod, komm, sel'ge Ruh !, J.S. Bach
Virgil Fox : Tu es Petra, H. Mulet
Peter Richard Conte : Beginning of the Sonate n°5 opus 80, A. Guilmant
Extracts by Keith Chapman :
Beginning of the Choral n°3, C. Franck
Beginning of the Introduction and Passacaglia in Dm, M. Reger
Extracts by Carlo Curley :
Fantaisie en Mi b, C. St-Saens
Cantabile, C. Franck
Grand Choeur en Ré, A. Guilmant
Played by Guilmant during his 27th recital at the St Louis World Fair in 1904
Allegro Maestoso (Sonata n°1) , E. Elgar
Aria in F (from “XII Concerto Grosso”), G.F. Händel (arr.: A. Guilmant)
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