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I am happy to report that Édith's Heures Domincales are now available
Enjoy,
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Giwro
Thanks for posting this. This sounds good. An order will be coming your way in due course.
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Thank you for this, AJJ. I ordered my copy of 'Sportive Fauns' a few days later, and it has just arrived.
APB
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To MM
Thank you for this information. It is much appreciated. I endorse your high regard for this music.
Unfortunately, the link that I gave does not work. Iam not sure why; I took it from the Youtube page directly. Anybody who wants to hear this performance can go to Youtube, and then search for kapitany denes (do not worry about accents); 'sportive Fauns' usually comes up, as it happens, as the first thumbnail
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Ref: Antalffy-Zsiross Dezso: Sportive Fauns after Böcklin; Hungarian name: Játékos Faunok
Where can a get a copy of the music for this? Is it widely available in England?
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Edith is working on some shorter pieces (useful service music) - I'd be happy to post when I have more information.
Best,
-G
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Does anyone know of any other music by Edith Beaulieu?
There is a link here , which links to the first few seconds of each movement of the Organ Symphony, but I cannot find anything else by her, that has not already been posted.
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There is a work by Jean Langlais called La Cinquieme Trompette. In the middle section of this, top G is required on the pedals (as well as F sharp more than once). It is not possible to 'fake' this, as the pedal registration is specified as a 4ft solo, with two different manual registrations (left hand playing slow-moving chords on a Celeste, right hand playing a 'spiky' fast moving rhythm on the Jeu de Nazard, if I remember correctly). There is a recording of the piece on a CD by John Scott at St Paul's Cathedral.
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There is a short article on the organ rebuild on the Cathedral website here
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I was hoping to read others views about the recital, but nobody seems to have put anything up yet; I'm sure that will change.
Organ seemed to have a very good Swell, (best bit of it), tubas quite fat with not particularly good starting transients, there was also some thin scratchy solo reed of some description. Some strings very keen, but the organ had some lovely quieter stops. Clarinet and Vox Humana several pipes almost sounding sheeplike (mid g#/a), as they were released. Tuning at the the top of the compass not all that good either which showed on the quieter passages.
From where I was sitting very little of the pedal could be heard unless the reeds were on which made the organ sound all top and out of balance with the bass. There was very little bass vibration through the floor probably due to acoustics so some of the excitement was lost there. I could not hear any rattling pillars caused by a nice open wood or anything like that.
I was disappointed and had been expecting something which sounded much more impressive. Acoustics aren't lively which doesn't help. . .
But what do you want, Edna (or "leathered lips" (don't you just hate it when people don't give their true names)). Where were you sitting? I heard the Pedal clearly enough, sitting in the Circle, to the left of the organ (door W).
I also heard the cypher (in America), and it did seem to take a long time to go away. I do not agree about Full Organ which (apart from being as loud as anyone could want), also had more brilliance than is sometimes found.
I am intrigued that Edna 'missed' the "rattling pillars caused by a nice Open Wood. . ." I prefer the building not to move, or rattle, when a heavy bass is being played, for fear that it suggests (or, for that matter, causes) structural weaknesses, but each to his own. . .
A few pipes, mainly high pitched ones, were indeed out of tune.
More seriously, I also found Dame Gillian's registration in the 'Ad Nos', when she reduced (considerably) towards the end of the second loud section (just before the extended quiet passage). Surely (in addition to being against the (admittedly scanty) registration notes provided by the composer), this is against the spirit of the music? Is this what Jeremy Jones (Jun 23rd) meant?
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I am looking for a recording (preferably on cassette or CD) of the Fugue, Chorale & Epilogue by Herbert Howells, as recorded by Roger Fisher at Chester Cathedral. The recording was made some years ago now, before the recent rebuild. Can anyone help with this?
Thank you for this. I shall wait and see what happens.
Help identifying instrument
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sjf
Is it this organ? I cannot get the link to work, but the church is called St Marks Hamilton Terrace.
It has those characteristically shaped stop keys that Walker used.
I know it from my student days in the 70s, when I applied to be a bass in the choir there (I've not actually played it myself). I went there about two years ago, to ask permission to practice on it. It is not now fully playable, and I did not get permission to practice, and the choir has also gone.
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