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  1. 58 minutes ago, sbarber49 said:

    Has anyone got a copy yet? I ordered it, years ago, from Amazon. Last week they told me it was coming before 11 pm on Friday, but now say it's currently unavailable!

    I had the same thing - then suddenly changed to an estimated delivery of 21st December! I am assured from sources that stocks are making their way from the printers this week for distribution...

  2. I’ve recently taken delivery of quite a few pieces by Gordon Phillips (Oxford reprints from Banks) which join a fair few others in my collection. Most are fairly small miniatures, although there are a couple of fairly substantial suites and larger pieces. 
     

    Not having ever played any of his music before, do any other contributors have any experience of this music? 

     

  3. I had little interest in the organ until being taken to a recital in Menorca as a youngster whilst on holiday (the Kyburz instrument at Santa Maria, Mahon). A chance visit soon afterwards to St George's Beckenham where I found the organ tuners at work further kindled my interest - being given a quick tour of the instrument and then a chance to play whilst they had a break - until I was chased away from the church by an official...it did little to put me off though!

    Soon afterwards we moved to Malta where my father managed to secure me a practice slot on a Tamburini instrument in a cavernous church every Saturday morning, a shortly afterwards I was given a key to the Anglican Cathedral in Valletta where I would spend many a Saturday afternoon entertaining (or annoying) the many visitors and tourists!

     

  4. Sad news. I have enjoyed playing his organ works for many years. His Requiem deserves to be better known.

    Some of these are available through the Buckfast Abbey online shop, although sadly not the Fantasia & Fugue or the Carillon - although I'm sure contacting the shop directly would be another option. 



     

  5. I've got quite a few of the Oxford organ albums - including the following;
     

    • An Album of Praise (mentioned by Martin above). I think this is the only one I've played all the pieces contained therein. Especially the Gordon Jacob piece.
    • A Victorian Organ Album - most of the contents are fairly familiar such as the Lemare Andantino, Hollins Trumpet Minuet etc. The Cuthbert Harris piece is rather fun!
    • A Festive Album - containing the famous Jackson Fanfare. 
    • Easy Organ Album - the prequel to the one mentioned on the other thread. The pieces in this one are probably easier than those from the second volume.
    • An Album of Postludes - I haven't looked at many of these, but all of a modern idiom - Jackson, Mathias, etc. They look considerably more difficult than items from the other books.
    • Album of Preludes and Interludes - all easy, tuneful stuff for service voluntaries, particularly the Tomlinson 'Berceuse'.
  6. There are a few other pieces I have in my collection, although I've not looked closely at most of them;

    Academic Festival March - a big Elgarian type piece with Tuba etc
    A Christmas Pastorale - fairly straightforward, good as a pre-service voluntary for a Carol Service
    Fantasy on 'O Quanta Qualia' (from the Cramer Series)
    Love Divine (based on the tune of the same name)
    Bagatelle - a light-hearted piece, more a recital item than a service voluntary!
    Chorale Prelude on 'St Columba' - I believe the same piece include in the aforementioned Six Pieces, published separately.

  7. There were a couple of music shops in South-East London which I recall - the Dulwich Music Shop which I seem to remember had a good stock of organ music; and another one on Denmark Hill which had a fair selection. Both may well be trading under different names now or gone, as I can't find much on the net about them. 

    Britten's Music in Tunbridge Wells has an organ music section but it wasn't regularly restocked with new items when I used to go in a few years ago - perhaps I should pay another visit! 

     

  8. I’m away on holiday without access to my score at present - but I’m pretty sure this is the ‘Folk Tune’ from Three Pieces by Harold Greenhill. 

    It certainly sounds familiar! 

    Tim

  9. I've just received his 5th Sonata and the Sonata Giocosa in the post, having bought them in an EBay auction. At first sight they look to be somewhat technically easier than the Sonata in G minor or the Sonata No.3 - both of which look rather technically formidable!

     

  10. On 30/09/2020 at 11:45, Richard Fairhurst said:

    Maybe upload them to IMSLP, copyright permitting? It's the go-to site for out-of-copyright sheet music downloads, and would probably reach a much wider audience.

    Have these appeared there yet? I can't see anything in the recent uploads section, and would be most interested to see more!

  11. The 3 manual Hunter instrument at Christ Church Woking was dismantled and shipped to Germany at the end of last year. Sadly at Woking they had little or no interest in the instrument at all, and it was only through a modest income from organ recitals that enabled it to be tuned occasionally. It had been rapidly deteriorating for some time, so it is heartening that it will be restored (I believe, retaining the tubular pneumatic action) and rebuilt over there. Strangely, it was completely omitted from the list of the larger Hunter instruments in the recent article in Organists Review.

  12. By chance, I ordered the pieces by Ernest Pritchard around the same time as Paul. I haven't yet had a play through them properly, but they look to be good pieces. 

    The works by Arthur Pritchard are also worth getting hold of - Elegy, Fancy and Four Diversions are also pleasant works which make good voluntaries or lighter items for a recital.

    There is such a wealth of English organ music from this period which is so often overlooked and is well worth exploring.

  13. I am certainly interested in getting the Edwards Contemplation piece - can the IAO journal be ordered from anywhere online?

    Paul - if you can point me in the direction of where I can purchase the Fantasy-Prelude and the Walter Vale pieces from that would be great.

    Kind regards

    Tim

  14. I'm not certain that any of the pipework dates from the original organ.

    I regularly practiced on this instrument (in it's previous form) when I was a teenager. I seem to remember that the original organ was formed around an instrument by Gray and Davison, later additions by Goll of Lucerne and then rebuilt with a new console in 1949 by Hill, Norman and Beard. The organ had been moved three times to various places in the cathedral (I may be able to upload from photos taken of the organ in its various places). 

    When I knew it, the spec was (as far as I recall):
    Great: Bdn 16, Open I 8, Open II 8, Prin 4, 12th 2 2/3, 15th 2
    Swell: Open 8, Lieb 8, Echo Viol 8, Celeste 8, Octave Geigen 4, Fifteenth 2, Mixt III, Contra Oboe 16, Trumpet 8
    Choir: Lieb 8, Dulc 8, Gemshorn 4, Piccolo 2, Orchestral Clarinet 8, Tromba 8 (enclosed)
    Ped: Open Bass 16, Bass Viole 16, Bourdon 16, Principal 8, Bass Flute 8,  Trombone 16

    There may have also been a mutation on the Choir and Mixture on the Great.

    I haven't played the organ in it's latest form, however!

     

     

     

     

     

     

  15. Sorry to bump up an old thread - I was wondering if any members would still have these pieces they would be willing to share with me? My membership pre-dated the offer and I gather that the original poster is no longer a member of this forum.

    Many thanks in advance.

    Timothy

     

  16. 21 hours ago, Marc Murray said:

    Introduction and Fugue on Redhead, is a fine piece too. I've played it a couple times over the past year. 

    I will look this one up - it appears to be available as an OUP reprint, along with a Toccata and some sets of Chorale Preludes. 

    Having dug out the 'Christ's Hospital Papers' by Nicholas Plumley last night, from a large collection of books I came into possession to from the estate of late organ builder, Brian Bunting - it  would seem that a lot of Lang's organ music was published after his tenure at CHH. 

    On another note (and perhaps a seed for a new thread) - have there ever been any recordings made of the chapel organ at Horsham? Many of the registrations in the organ pieces allude to that instrument, particularly in the Sonata. 

    Despite living not too far from Horsham, I've never heard the organ in the flesh. I'm pretty sure our hosts did some work on it some time ago in the 1980s. 

     

    Tim 

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