Paul Carr

QUOTE(mrbouffant @ Nov 22 2007, 06:10 PM) Preach it, brother! I have had Bach Trio Sonatas leave me with a mild groin strain. I think there are more enjoyable ways to achieve the same effect!! Playing the Dupré G minor Prelude (& Fugue)?????

We'll be there, looking forward to it. (My wife always looks after the umbrella - I don't have one! )

Wow! He's loving every note of that! And why play the final run with your hands when your feet can do it perfectly well??!!

It's the Lemare, published by Wayne Leupold Volume IX of the Complete Lemare. It's not easy, Thomas Trotter plays it very, very cleanly - I confess to relying on a touch of acoustic camouflage, especially where there are rapid chromatic scales, etc. For that reason I've chickened out of playing it at Blenheim next April as the acoustic there is pretty much non-existent, it was in on the original programme drafts, but I'm playing a (little) safer. Cor, now we really are confessing all!

That's exactly what happened for those sitting in the choir stalls behind the big screen used at David Briggs' opening recital at Emmanuel, Wylde Green a few years ago. And a few of them noticed too!

Yes, it's been like that in The Organ Magazine for ages, at one time there were two photos of toasters with odd-looking low As on the pedal! Easily done though - there's a geography text book at school that's had the same treatment resulting in Big Ben being at the wrong end of parliament. All the stops are the wrong sides of a picture of the Notre Dame console in one of the Cochereau CDs, and again the manuals look wrong. Either I have too much time on my hands or I'm drawn to noticing these things!! P.

The Dupré G minor (Symphonie, I think) is probably heard more often than the E minor concerto. Certainly I've never managed to hear the E minor Concerto live, I'm unaware of it being performed in this country in recent years. A recording I have of it from Adelaide Town Hall (Walker), along side Guilmant 1 and the Poulenc, is stunning. P.

Absolutely - I think they probably take more practice overall, certainly they often need longer at the performance instrument as the registration schemes can be very complex. It took me just over three hours to register Daphnis at St Chad's Cathedral last year, using a mixture of generals (allowing quick use of the stepper) divisionals and a couple of hand registration changes. The copy has still got about three packs of post-it stickers all over it! P

Yep. Trying to keep up with you! All have featured in a recital I've played at some time or other, although I'd need a bit of notice to wheel out the Briggs transcription of Ravel's Daphnis again, it's still almost unplayable in part even with plenty of practice. P.

Now I'm wishing I lived closer to Wimbourne!

Ok, here goes, sorry not all the transcribers are there... March from "Egmont" - Beethoven/Carr Marche au Supplice (Symphonie Fantastique) - Berlioz Rákóczi March (from La Damnation de Faust) - Berlioz/Best Fantasia on Carmen - Bizet Pizzicato (from Sylvia) - Delibes Fanfare pour précéder "La Péri" - Dukas Hungarian Dance no.1 - Dvorak/Briggs Prelude and Angel's Farewell from The Dream of Gerontius - Elgar Pavane - Fauré Carol (from Five Bagatelles) - Finzi Forlana (from Five Bagatelles) - Finzi Peer Gynt Suite no 1 - Greig Alla Danza (Hornpipe) from The Water Music - Handel And the Glory of the Lord (from Messiah) - Handel Bouree, Minuet & Trio (Music for the Royal Fireworks) - Handel Finale from Concerto no.5 - Handel Hallelujah Chorus (Messiah) - Handel Largo - Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks: Bouree, Minuet & Trio, La Rejouissance - Handel Organ Concerto no 10 in D minor (1st & 2nd movement) - Handel Organ Concerto no 10 in D minor (2nd movement) - Handel Organ Concerto no 4 in F (1st movement) - Handel Overture to The Occasional Oratorio - Handel Sinfonia to Solomon "The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" - Handel Two Marches: Judus Maccabaeus in G & Scipio in D - Handel Jupiter (The Bringer of Jollity) from The Planets - Holst Venus (The Bringer of Peace) from The Planets - Holst Adagio in D flat (Consolations) - Liszt Wedding March from A Midsummer Night's Dream – Mendelssohn (!!) Coronation March "Le Prophète" - Meyerbeer Bell Rondo - Morandi/Best Gopak - Moussorgsky/Carr Baba Yaga. The Hut on Fowl's Legs (from Pictures at an Exhibition) - Mussorgsky The Great Gate of Kiev (from Pictures at an Exhibition) - Mussorgsky Will o' the Wisp - Nevin Canon in D - Pachelbel March from "The Birds of Aristophanes" - Parry March from "The Love of Three Oranges" - Prokofiev/Guillou Rondeau from Abdelazer - Purcell Vocalise - Rachmaninoff/Carr Daphnis et Chloé - Ravel/Briggs Rigaudon from Le tombeau de Couperin - Ravel/Carr Flight of the Bumble Bee - Rimsky-Korsakov Overture to The Thieving Magpie – Rossini/Heywood Overture to William Tell - Rossini Danse Macabre - Saint-Saëns The Swan - Saint-Saëns Finale from The Organ Symphony - Saint-Saëns/Briggs Gymnopédie I - Satie Ave Maria - Schubert March Militaire - Schubert Träumerei - Schumann / Guilmant Finlandia - Sibelius Alla Marcia from Karelia-Suite - Sibelius Intermezzo from Karelia-Suite - Sibelius Minué from Concerto no. 6 - Soler Radetzky March - Strauss Die Fledermaus Overture - Strauss/Carr The Lost Chord - Sullivan Overture to Poet and Peasant - Suppé La Danserie - Susato/Carr The Nutcracker Suite - Tchaikovsky Grand March (from "Aïda") - di Grand March (from "Tannhäuser") - Wagner Introduction to Act III "Lohengrin" - Wagner Isolden's Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde - Wagner Overture: "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" - Wagner Ride of the Valkarie - Wagner The Bridal Chorus – Wagner (!!) Pilgrims Chorus - Wagner The Skaters' Waltz - Waldteufel Alla Marcia (from Music for Children) - Walton Coronation March 1937; Crown Imperial - Walton Coronation March 1953; Orb and Sceptre - Walton Popular Song (from Façade) - Walton Prologue (from A Wartime Sketchbook) - Walton Spitfire Prelude (from The First of the Few) - Walton Suite from 'Henry V' - Walton I think that's about all... P.

Me too!

So Ian's going to be "Organ Titulaire" not "Organist Titulaire"????

I think Hereford Cathedral Tuba takes some beating, very bright. H&H look after it and will know it really well as they only had it back in their workshop a year or two ago, with the rest of the organ. P.

Yes, Woods look after the organ at Blenheim, and if you would like an email for the organ curator there please PM me. P.

I have him playing the Dupré Stations of the Cross and the Second Symphony (sorry too early to type the French and spell it correctly!) at the West end of Notre Dame, recorded two years ago which is really fabulous... I play it in the car quite a lot and get some interesting looks at traffic lights if they coincide with the chamades kicking in! I think YC is an amazing player in every respect. His improvisations at Vespers (on the Choir Organ) on Saturday evening at ND are always so beautiful... Which organ is the Passion Symphony recorded on? P.

And if you use the calendar on the ND site http://www.notredamedeparis.fr you can find out which titulaire is on duty for the weekend that you're there... Also the Sunday recitalists and visiting choirs are listed. It's a big site to navigate around, but well worth it. The mp3 of Yves playing BUxtehude on the Choir organ is very interesting too, I think that's tucked away on the organs info page. P

Are you going to share it?

And the hymn tune Guiting Power's first phrase is surely "Bob the Builder"... This is SO off topic, unless of course Miss Buxtehude did look like Bob! (The builder)

Absolutely... on 17th August 2008 it will sit happily in the middle of a programme for the 4.30pm Sunday Recital at Notre Dame de Paris. P

Three spring straight to mind from these shores: David Briggs David Bednall (Someone to keep an eye on for the future, brilliant) Paul Spicer (Although he's probably better known as a conductor than an organist.) His Kiwi Fireworks and his Suite for Organ are very fine, in my opinion. P.

Brand new code which was required at our vicar's induction service last night: 10-66 “You’ll have to keep playing – we’ve lost the Lord Mayor”

Thomas was only at St Paul's during the Town Hall Organ rebuild of 1982 and then again for the spring term in 1993 (or 1994?) while something was being done to the Town Hall roof. I don't think that the roof work happened in the end, but as the publicity had already been done the recitals did move to St Paul's. I know that for sure as I was at the Conservatoire then and went to them! This was all of course before Nic's rebuilt St Phillip's Cathedral Organ, so when it came to the Town Hall's closure in 1996 St Phillip's seemed more obvious as it's closer to the TH and the organ was newly rebuilt whereas St Paul's organ by this time was showing signs of age and is now due to be the subject of a major rebuild... more of that later though! Hope that clears that up. I play St Paul's weekly and do miss a third manual, for accompaniment and repertoire although I manage to practise on a 2 man Wyvern at home - but that's mainly note learning. For fun I go up the road to the three manual I play my monthly recital series on! P.

I blame it all on vibrations!