The Gnessins' cathedral organ began as a dream in late 1992 after we met Alexander Fiseisky in St Petersburg and talked about the analogue electronic organ in Bedale Parish Church (North Yorkshire) that we had completely revoiced and re-regulated to make into a splendid modern cathedral organ. It became our great privilege to be the principal designer of the specification, tonal structure and detail, regulation and console of this important instrument.

The specification, sound, presence, effect, and enormous flexibility of the Bedale organ resulted in it being the model for this first English cathedral organ in Russia, which is not quite as large.

A listing of stops, couplers, and accessories shows how comprehensive the organ is. Very careful design of the voicing of all stops, their size, regulation, and the balance of subdivisions and departments, has led to an organ that has a multitude of thrills from the quietest to the most majestic.

(Michael Cole)

The inaugural concert on 25 OCT 95 was an outstanding
success, beyond all expectation. Musicians, academics,
diplomats, politicans were delighted and entranced.

Alexander Fiseisky has written a brief history of the
English Organ Tradition in Russia.