VGM on the 1624 Scherer organ, one of Europe's most important historic instruments

in #classical-music3 years ago

Last year, my parents-in-law had a very special birthday present for me: They organised an appointment with the resident organist at St. Stephan, Tangermünde, Germany, where I had the honor to play one of Europe's most important and famous historic pipe organs — The 1624 Scherer organ!

This organ is one of the most important historical organs in Europe and features some peculiarities of that time, like a short octave and a (1/4th-comma, IIRC) mean-tone temperament, as it was pretty common back in that era.

Luckily, among a number of other recordings, an improvisation on the "Song of Time" from "The Legend of Zelda – Ocarina of Time" did find its way to my Zoom H6n digital recorder...so, enjoy this rare and unusual piece of VGM "remix", just the way "it was meant to be 400 years ago"! :-)