Kallio parish organist Sirkka-Liisa Jussila-Gripentrog plays "Komm, süsser Tod" (Come, Sweet Death) by Johann Sebastian Bach. This is the famous arrangement by Virgil Fox, made orginally for the Wanamaker Organ in Philadelphia in 1939 (now Macy's department store). Here it is played in Kallio Church, Helsinki, Finland. Kallio church was designed by architect Lars Sonck and it was built in 1908-1912. It has fine acoustics and two organs, a baroque style choir organ and a romantic style main organ. In the bell tower there are seven bells and a clockwork. It plays a choral melody by Jean Sibelius every day at 12 and 18 o'clock. The main organ of Kallio Church is made according to French romantic style Cavaillé-Coll-organ. It was built by the Swedish organ builder Åkerman & Lund in 1995. It has 48 stops, key action and stop action is completely mechanical. Specification is made by Kurt Lueders. Vocing was made by Helmuth Gripentrog and Kalevi Mäkinen. This video was shot in 2005, when we were recording the 10th anniversary CD of this organ. Audio is taken from original high quality multichannel recording system, not from video camera's built-in microphone. The better your audio system is, the better the sound, of course within limitations of Youtube audio. Although this is filmed in SD, the picture quality is better in 720p-HD-version. Audio, video, editing and description by Mika Koivusalo.
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