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Malcolm Kemp

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  1. Social media reports the death of Richard Popplewell a couple of days ago. Many of us were grateful recipients of his teaching, friendship and wise counsel. RIP Malcolm
  2. Organ Recital by Malcolm Kemp Monday 2nd November, 1pm St Saviour's church, South Street, Eastbourne Retiring Collection - coffee and biscuits available afterwards. Programme Franck - Chorale No. 3 in A minor Purcell - Voluntarty in Dminor for Double Organ J S Bach - Prelude and Fugue in B minor Howells - Rhapsody in Dflat Reger - Melodia in Bflat Vierne - Final from Symphony No 1.
  3. Paul Collins, the director of music at St Saviour's, is the best person to tell you about the Hunter in St Andrew's URC. I don't think he's on this forum but you can contact him via St Saviour's.
  4. This work, all thirty five minutes of it, is being played by Paul Derrett in a recital at Holy Trinity, Sloane Square, London SW1, at 3pm on Saturday 28th March. The recital is part of the AGM of The Organ Club but the recital is open to the public, free of charge. Other works in the programme include thosse by Bach, Stanley, Delius and Harold Skidmore. You will be aware that the organ was recently rebuilt by Harrison and Harrison. Paul describes the Weitz work as "wonderfully written for the instrument, powerful, wonderful and attractive". Malcolm
  5. The best and most enduring video yet to be produced by St Paul's (and they're all pretty good) is that of The Revd Richard Coles talking about his recently published autobiography in conversation with Canon Mark Oakley.
  6. Three things you should never, ever do with blogs: (a) write them ( read them © attach any credence to them. Malcolm
  7. A couple of weeks ago I played the first movement of the Sonata in a recital. I first learnt it many decades ago with Dougie Hawridge who was in his elemet with this genre, and I've kept it in the repertoire on and off ever since. Preparing for this recital I carefully studied the Christopher Kent edition in the organ volume of the complete Elgar edition and found the more detailed markings very helpful and interesting, giving me a new perspective on the work. I also studied a YouTube recording of the Arthur Jacob orchestration which I found somewhat disappointing although it was an old and poor quality recording. The Elgar started the recital and it finished with the first movement of Widor 6. I discovered that both pieces are transformed if you observe all the phrasing, staccato etc., markings meticulously and practise doing so very slowly and meticulously. The result was that, for me and, I hope, the audience, both pieces came so much more alive than they often sound. Malcolm
  8. St Saviour's Church, South Street, Eastbourne. Monday 3rd November at 1pm Retiring Collection and light refreshments. Malcolm Kemp (organ) Elgar First movement, Allegro Maestoso, from Sonata No 1 in G major Howells Master Tallis's Testament Mozart Fantasia in F minor and major (KV 594) Reger Benedictus in Dflat Langlais Cantilene from Suite Breve Widor First movement, Allegro, from Symphony No 6.
  9. I found this rather interesting performance on YouTube a couple of days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYi6BeLBXSQ Malcolm
  10. Not only is the Lancelot performance extremely fine; he also demonstrates how to get round some of the musical and technical problems that the work presents. Worth having even for that even if the performance hadn't been utterly first rate (which it is!) Malcolm
  11. Thanks, Mr Wolsey, you've helped me decide that it's worthwhile to pay out all this money to the Elgar Foundation. You may have seen the discussion on this topic on my Facebook timeline. I think it's a worthwhile financial sacrifice to make in the interests of the integrity of authentic musical performance! A lot has changed regarding this sort of thing since I first learnt it with Douglas Hawkridge so many years ago even though i remember him playing it so well at Sussex Gardens. Malcolm
  12. It's such a pity that the Christopher Kent edition of the Sonata (which has been described to me with varying levels of approval) has - according to learned and academically aware organist friends - only ever been available in the volume of complete organ works in the Novello Complete Elgar Edition. One might hope that one day it might appear published as a performance score on it's own. Something over £80 for the whole volume is a little steep for a Senior Citizen! Malcolm
  13. The Ludlow DVD is superb. I ordered in on-line and it was at my house within 21 hours. Excellent. Malcolm
  14. Not only is ridiculously fast tempi a problem in Baroque music; some Anglican church music - and especially Psalms - is now performed significantly faster than it was fifty years ago. Perhaps the problem with the Baroque tempi is like so much with life these days; everyone's in such a hurry all the time. I'm sure I've read somewhere (perhaps in the writing of Peter Williams, I'm not sure) that Bach was very aware of the speed of the average human heartbeat. Surely that gives us some indication of what he was thinking? Malcolm
  15. Colin - Your comment about Bach gradually changing his playing as he aged/matured brought Dupré instantly to my mind. Some of his best known recordings - not necessarily his best technically - were made when he was getting quite old. Malcolm
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