wolsey
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Incidentally...his parents are both FRCOs - Father (Norman) is at St George's Cathedral and a superb player, Southwark and Mother (Marilyn) a well known organist/teacher in South London.
This got me thinking (having an hour or so to spare in lazy August). There are quite a few organists - amateur and professional - whose offspring have also taken up the instrument; France saw Albert Alain and Albert Dupré. Some have achieved great eminence, while others practise their art out of the limelight.
Can anyone add to this 21st century list? Apologies in advance for errors.
Sarah Baldock (Stephen)
Jennifer Bate (H A)
Stephen and Nicholas Cleobury (John)
Timothy Harper (Norman and Marilyn)
Andrew Lumsden (David)
Andrew Nethsingha (Lucian)
Benjamin Nicholas (Michael)
Andrew Parnell (Frederick)
Adrian Partington (Kendrick)
Nicholas Robinson (Christopher)
Jonathan Vaughn (Rodney)
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Are there any other similar but better volumes from other publishers?
The Oxford Book of Wedding Music?
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One of my pet irritations: Why do people persist in the inanity of calling any old hymn before the Magnificat (or, sometimes, the psalms) the "office hymn"? In no way was the hymn sung at this service an office hymn (and they hardly ever are). It was just a hymn, so why not call it that? No doubt you're all thinking, "Who cares?" but, really, it's the liturgical equivalent of slurping your soup. One must uphold standards, you know.
Liturgical precedent for the Office Hymn is mentioned here as well as elsewhere. It is true that in most instances, the text of the hymns sung at the places you mention are not true Office Hymns. An excellent source of them is the English Hymnal - NB not NEH.
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I've mentioned this before, but another one [...] is in the Psalm Prelude 2/ii, where the last quaver in the left hand of bar 26 must surely be an A sharp (thus anticipating the succeeding note and agreeing with the A sharp in the right hand). The printed A natural has no logic.
I agree; the same progression occurs in another key eighteen bars later.
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While on the subject of Howells misprints, another telling one occurs in the last of the Psalm Preludes (Set 2, No. 3). In the twenty-second bar of the Maestoso, meno mosso, the pedal minim E should be F sharp, thus agreeing with the manuals. I have this from two separate sources, and believe one of them received this correction from Howells himself.
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There is virtue in using the "best" edition and by that I believe Barenreiter is widely accepted at the most scholarly edition of Bach, and there is also great value I have found in looking at music I have played and with I am very familiar set out afresh.
Some swear by the Breitkopf edition (ed. Heinz Lohmann).
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Archive broadcast of 1989 Choral Evensong today http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t20vj
Erm, no. It's tomorrow.
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A starting point (not prescription) is the section Hints on the Registration of Bach, his Contemporaries, and his Immediate Predecessors from Peter Hurford's book Making Music on the Organ (OUP 1988). A footnote in the Hurford says, "See 'Registration, general rules of' in [Peter] Williams, The European Organ (1450-1850) (Batsford 1966)."
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It's just a shame that we didn't get any substantial output from Britten, Tippett, and RVW.
AJS
RVW's Prelude and Fugue in C minor?
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What do you make of bar 49 (Crescendo edition, so should be page 7, top system second bar). Going along with usual practice the Ds in the RH would of course be 'natural' despite the D# in previous bar and in the LH. My copy has D naturals, but I am not convinced . . .
Bar 49 in my H W Gray edition has RH: semiquaver E sharp; quaver D sharp; semiquaver A sharp; quavers B and D sharp [accidental still in force from second note]. Many of us have been around long enough to know that proof-readers and typesetters are not infallible - especially when the notation contains abundant accidentals. One's eye and ear - together with a grasp of the musical context - are the final arbiters.
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Sonata in G minor, Op. 35 1969/70 (OUP archive - available from Allegro Music)
Sonata giocosa per la renascita di una cattedrale Op 42 1972 (OUP archive - available from Allegro Music)
Third Sonata Op 50 1979 (Banks)
Fourth Sonata (Ten variations on an original theme) Op 68 1985 (Banks)
Sonata V in C minor (a homage to Percy Whitlock) Op 140 2003 (Banks)
Sixth Sonata 2004 [banks]
John Henderson: A Dictionary of Composers for Organ
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I wonder how "dangerous" members feel the flat 21st rank is?
It occurs in the harmonic series, so is not, in itself, 'dangerous'.
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I think an RAH debut for Iain Farrington (Prom 43) as I don't recall hearing of him in any previous lineups. How well known is he?
Excellent former John's, Cambridge organ scholar. Seek and ye shall find here.
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I haven't noticed any in-depth explorations of any repertoire.
Older listeners will wistfully remember on BBC Radio 3 such series as the complete organ works of J S Bach (Peter Hurford), and two series by Gillian Weir: the complete organ works of Franck and of Messiaen. All three series were introduced by the two performers themselves.
PS Was it on this forum that I saw that Gillian Weir's TV series The King of Instruments is due for imminent release on DVD by Priory Records? I've already ordered my copy.
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There is a bar in this piece that has always sounded odd to me, but it has only just dawned on me that it might be due to a misprint. The bar in question is on page 7, at the end of the second system.
For those with the one-volume Six Pieces it's page 36, second system, last bar. I had pencilled in a D flat in the LH chord on a previous occasion; its absence is, of course, a misprint.
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Bach was not a mathematician,
Wow! Are the many people who write of Bach numerology - and cite examples - barking (Baching) up the wrong tree?
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Chacun à son goût!
1st: 7
2nd: 6
and I would have included in my top three Joe Vitacco's video recording (JAV Recordings Inc. - May 2009) of John Scott at the Taylor & Boody organ of St Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue in New York. It's still listed in my YouTube 'Favourites', but has sadly been removed by its owner.
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I seem to recall that Princess Diana went out to the great Bach C minor.
The cortège moved westwards to Tavener's Song for Athene, and Martin Baker did indeed play the Bach C minor (after a minute's silence) as the cortège moved through the west door.
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These days the RCO does a lot of things like this - all aimed at getting young people interested, with hands-on experience - from an early age. This Board features a lot of unkind criticism of the RCO but it does now have full time staff specifically there to provide outreach of this kind.
Indeed it does, and this is why I have been irritated by the constant ill-informed carping about the organisation which has featured here all too often. The type of event described above is nothing new as far as the RCO is concerned, and it would be good for once if people did find out what it is doing now in the twenty-first century, rather than clinging to a yesteryear image of rose damask and Kensington Gore. Their website is only a mouse-click away.
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"Fanfare for KBL (1990) was the composer's last organ work, and is recorded here for the first time. It's dedicated to K. Barry Lyndon, who was Registrar of the Royal College of Organists at the time...."
Taken from http://www.clofo.com/Newsletters/C090312.htm
Graham
I'm afraid the notes are incorrect. Barry Lyndon was the Clerk to the College; Hugh Marchant was the Hon Registrar.
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I'm going to take this opportunity to put in a shameless plug for the CertRCO.
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I use Amadeus, as recommended by Margaret Phillips.
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As you will see here, the so-called 'RSCM rates' are available to members only. The ISM now issues the results of surveys of members as this is the only way it will satisfy the requirements of the Office of Fair Trading and not fall foul of the Competition Act, otherwise it would be committing an offence by creating a cartel. Those advising the RSCM, however, interpret the Competition Act differently, and do not appear to have come to the attention of the OFT as happened to the ISM. The RCO does not recommend rates.
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Arthur Wills - Carillon On 'orientis Partibus'
in The Organ
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It's not for the faint-hearted, and one or two systems will require patient practice...