iy45

A few lines in Henderson. Ian

Wasn't that a performance in the RFH? Or perhaps it happened more than once. Ian

This brings back memories. Back in 1976 I spent a few months filling-in playing the organ in what is now Harare Cathedral. I played the Cocker one morning after the Sunday Eacharist, and as I finished two of the choir men came to the console to tell me that they'd been in Cocker's choir at Manchester. Fortunately, they didn't make any invidious comparisons! Ian

There's a short paragraph in John Henderson, which I'm loath to quote for copyright reasons.. Ian

Could it, perchance, have been E Power Biggs? I remember some Sweelinck in St George's Hall, Liverpool where the antiphony between chorus reeds and tubas seemed ever so slightly inauthentic? Ian

At the risk of stirring a hornet's nest ... surely, the Neopolitan chord at bar 285 cries out for a cadenza. Ian

One eminent current Cathedral DOM claimed around the time of his appointment never to have played a note on the organ. Ian

Didn't Andrew Lucas give a first-hand account somewhere on this Forum? Ian

And "Bristol Suite", based on the same tune and published by Novello in 1977.

I think I'm responsible for introducing the notion that metal pipes are more expensive than wooden ones. I really don't know, and I was just making presumptions about the costs of material and labour. I guess the expert answer would be on the lines of "It all depends on ...", but is there a rule of thumb answer to the question of which tends to be cheaper? Ian

Flor Peeters' Op 74 is a "Concerto for Organ and Piano". Years ago, I lived in hope of finding a pianist who would play it with me but it never happened - and now it's much too late! Ian

Wouldn't it be because metal pipes are much more expensive than wooden ones (aren't they)? Ian

It's a Hinrichsen publication (it says No. 355 on the cover). It has the first movement of the Pastorella, the Jig Fugue, and the Fugue on a theme of Corelli. Ian

I've long thought that the organ contribution to the last variation of the Enigma is an aspect of the self-portrait. Ian

I once, as a teenager on an organ crawl, found myself seated at the console in Ampleforth Abbey. I played the first few notes of BWV564, then I heard the first few notes of BWV564, then I gave up! Ian