Well so we will handle some off the available organs:
In the Disney movie frankenweenie in the songs was made use of hauptwerk for the organ sounds. As did Hans Zimmer for the movie Interstellar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mLCaXvVPas
Use was made of these two organs:
Salisbury Cathedral organ https://www.milandigitalaudio.com/instruments/symphonic/1877-salisbury-cathedral-willis/?back=Instruments
Temple Church Harrison & Harrison organ. This was the real organ recorded.
I have heard of a metal band using Hauptwerk in their live performances but I forgot the name. As soon as it comes back it will be put here.
I rember it now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zN7J64IeBo
It shows a real organ but that one is to small to produce the sound. I believe they make use of hauptwerk aswell
Nightwish makes use of Hauptwerk in their non live and prerecorded live music. I can only not remember a piece from them where you realy can diferentiate the organ out of the other sounds.
As Hauptwerk is getting more and more popular more bands, movies and artists start using it.
A good site to realy listen to the differend organs is http://www.contrebombarde.com/concerthall/home/browse
A lot of people upload their recordings there. Lots of it is Hyms and classical but sometimes you find the odd rock piece or even metal.
An example here is an improvisation on the Dutch anthem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UdXD4VcbjU
This is played on the digital version of the organ of the cathedral in Utrecht the netherlands.
Supermario themes go fine on pipe organs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDCJQAdaWjM
Soundtrack of the movie the Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1OCZRwyvww
Both played on the digital version of the church of Dortmund-Dorstfeld.
Yes they even sell carilions:
http://www.contrebombarde.com/concerthall/music/20528
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These are the clocks of the saint Bavo church in Haarlem.
You raised my up, song became famous by idols and was used in movies and heard on the radio, bit religious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy5ijy-imWg
On the Notre Dame de Metz
Side note, this is not the organ of the Notre Dame de Paris. This organ has not been recorded for multiple reasons. 1 the organ owners are worried that they will lose money because less people will hire the organ to play. 2 even at night it is so noisy around the church that it is near impossible to reccord the pipes. You need near absolute silence.
The Dixy volunteers, Theatre organ music
http://www.contrebombarde.com/concerthall/music/20118
Metrolina Theatre Organ, this one is for free and you can download it
Star trek Voyager on the pipe organ in cain
http://www.contrebombarde.com/concerthall/music/19627
Looney tunes on the paramount 310
http://www.contrebombarde.com/concerthall/music/15519
The biggest organ available at this very moment is the one of the basilic in Esztergom, Hungary. Here a famous religious piece from a guy out of the history books, Maarten Luther.
http://www.contrebombarde.com/concerthall/playmusic/7325
Here is a video of the real organ with explanaition about it. (put on subtitles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNu0KD8eP0o
You can hear the echo of this organ is pretty big aswell.
Just for comparison
Here is a piece of an improvisation of Klaas Jan Mulder on Psalm 68 on the organ of the church in Rotterdam. This is a Hym but it showes the exact same piece played on the same organ so digital vs the real thing.
http://www.contrebombarde.com/concerthall/music/8823
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y59KRK3ajsA
You can hear that while the simulated digital one is good it can not get close to the real thing. This is because two things. One, the differend pipes in reality have effect on eachother and have effect on the sound waves. Two the air supply gets effected by multiple pipes and is not steady. This gives the vibrating sound which gives an organ colour. You can simply not simulate this
Next post will contain funny pieces on a pipe organ.