Videos of the 1881 E. & G.G. Hook & Hastings
Opus 1049 Organ Pre-Restoration
Trumpet Voluntary
Jonathan Tan, PhD, Church of Our Saviour's organist and music director performs Jeremiah Clarke's "Prince of Denmark March" ("Trumpet Voluntary") on the historic 1881 E. & G.G. Hook & Hastings Opus 1049 organ.
Rondeau (Jean-Joseph Mouret)
Jonathan Tan, PhD, Church of Our Saviour's organist and music director performs ean-Joseph Mouret's Rondeau de "Suites de Symphonies, Première Suite, Fanfares" on the historic 1881 E. & G.G. Hook & Hastings Opus 1049 organ.
Organ Improvisations: "Kyrie Eleison"
Jonathan Tan, PhD, Church of Our Saviour's organist and music director improvises on the plainchant "Kyrie Eleison" from Missa XI Orbis Factor on the historic 1881 E. & G.G. Hook & Hastings Opus 1049 organ.
CAMPAIGN: ORGAN RESTORATION
1881 E. & G.G. Hook & Hastings Opus 1049 tracker organ
The historic organ at the Church of Our Saviour in Mount Auburn, with a two-sided casework and elaborately stenciled façade pipes dates from the brief period when the Hook brothers built pipe organs in partnership with Frank Hastings until their retirement in 1881.
Although this organ was altered in 1966 to reflect the changing preference for a neo-Baroque sound, most of the original 1881 pipework, bellows, windchests, and the mechanical key and stop mechanism are intact. Wear and tear since the 1966 rebuilding has resulted in an organ in a serious state of deterioration and disrepair.
As part of the rebuilding by the organ builder Michael Rathke in 2018-2019, the 1966 alterations will be reversed and the organ restored to its 1881 specifications. Two new ranks of pipes: a Mixture III for the Great and Flautino 2’ for the Swell will replace the 1966-era Mixture III and Sesquialtera II on the Great and Swell.
