oscar_rook
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There is a 1989 recording, released by Abbey Records, listed by Colin Brownlee in his marvellous archive. If you scroll to page 106, it's the first item on that page. I think that Priory Records recently acquired the Abbey catalogue and they might have the master tape.
Good hunting!
Oscar
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For more details about this release, visit the Herald website.
By the way, I forgot to mention the excellent booklet notes by David Gammie. In recent years, he has become the leading writer of programme notes, both for recitals and CD booklets; I find his contributions very informative and elegantly written. You only need to look at the perfunctory twaddle that accompanies many orchestral and chamber music CDs to see how fortunate we are.
Oscar
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I have just received Adrian Gunning's superb new CD (Herald HAVPCD 361), recorded last October on the Cavaillé-Coll/Debierre organ of Notre Dame d'Auteuil, Paris. For many years, Adrian has been a committed advocate of Tournemire's music and it is marvellous to have his incandescent performances of twelve movements from L'Orgue Mystique performed on this fine instrument in a suitably spacious acoustic. The timbres are ideal, with beautiful strings and flutes, roaring bombardes and typically French-sounding mixtures.
In lesser hands, Tournemire's L'Orgue Mystique can seem like endless shapeless doodlings, with nothing much to get your teeth into. Certainly the music requires a rich tonal palette and plenty of resonance to make its mark. Enthusiasts may already have George Delvallée's peerless 12CD set of all 51 suites, but this new CD is a great way to sample the choicest plums.
Has anyone else heard this CD? Are others as enthusiastic?
Oscar
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There is an 8ft Suavial on the Schwellpositiv of the 1960 Metzler organ at the Grossmünster in Zürich, a marvellous organ used by the young Lionel Rogg for his first (nearly-) complete JSB recordings and the three Hindemith sonatas. André Marchal also recorded there. What a pity this organ has made so few appearances on CD.
Regards
Oscar
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... I can't help but think that his Toccata, Chorale & Fugue is Francis Jackson's finest work, and I am constantly disappointed that no-one ever seems to play the "Diversion for Mixtures," which appeared in that album entitled "the colours of the organ" by Novello.
MM
Joe Sentance, of St Stephen Walbrook in the City of London, has a long association with Dr Jackson and included both the Diversion for Mixtures and several movements from the organ sonatas in recent recitals. The Diversion received a particularly warm reception.
Regards
Oscar
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Peter Wright is performing Dupré's Le Chemin de la Croix at Southwalk (Anglican) Cathedral this Wednesday 31st March at 7.30pm. Again, not to be missed.
Regards,
Oscar
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Many thanks for the details of Gavin Brown's career.
I cannot recall seeing his name as a recitalist at a venue other than St Peter's Brighton...but we didn't then have the marvellous organrecitals.com website to provide comprehensive listings of forthcoming organ concerts.
Best wishes,
Oscar
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The recent mention of St Peter's Brighton reminded me of a broadcast in the mid 1960s of the complete Symphonie No1 of Vierne performed by the church's organist Gavin Brown. As an enthusiastic schoolboy, I wrote to him and he invited me to join him there after Sunday morning Mattins for a tour to the instrument. It was the first time I had seen a HNB rebuilt with the then-trendy rectangular thumb pistons. I recall little of the detail but two things that stuck in my mind were the thunderous pedal Ophicleide and the tierce mixtures on the Great and Swell.
Where did Gavin Brown go after leaving St Peter's? I cannot remember seeing his name as a recitalist thereafter.
Regards
Oscar
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Would you expect Marks and Spencer to pay for an advertisement by Waitrose?
I find threads about new instruments and photos of the work in progress very interesting. I enjoyed watching the progress of the Tickell organ at Worcester, the Klais at Leeds, and the St Martin instrument at Petersham. I'm unclear why the new Aubertin in Denmark has caused a problem. Photos of all these instrument give me a chance to see things that I wouldn't normally see and thereby increase my understanding and appreciation of what goes into the making of a modern organ.
Nigel's enthusiasm for Aubertin instruments is widely known, yet his postings are factual, without purple prose and unnecessary gushing. He is one of the most kindly and wise members of the Mander forum and I hope this is simply a one-off curbing of his contributions. It would be very sad to see him depart, along with the much-missed Cynic.
Regards
Oscar
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In addition to Nicolas Kynaston at Altenberg Cathedral and Gillian Weir at the RAH, there are at least two more recordings: Péter Sírak on the Mander organ at Nagasaki Cathedral and Léonce de Saint-Martin at Notre Dame de Paris in 1953.
Regards
Oscar
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{snip} The absolute authority on S S Wesley's anthems is Peter Horton, sadly not a member here, {snip}
I've been in touch with Dr Horton and he sent me the following remarks:
a) although several early works have plentiful registration markings ('The Wilderness', 'Blessed be the God and Father', original version of the Introduction from the Introduction and Fugue in C sharp minor), he stated in a letter in 1845 that he had given this up because no two organs were alike.
Swell reed in Wash me throughly. I'm not an organist, but I would expect a registration change at the end of the first section (bar 32)c) Use of the pedals. Wesley used the pedals more sparingly than later generations and in my Musica Britinnica edition I have suggested that the pedals should only enter in 22, dropping out after the first note of bar 32, re-entering in bar 51 and dropping out in bar 88.
I believe that Stainer & Bell might be thinking of marking the publication, in March 2010, of the third volume of Wesley anthems in Musica Britannica by offering a discount of the first two volumes....so they will only cost you an arm instead of an arm and a leg.
Kind regards
Oscar
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Paul's contributions to this forum on matters of repertoire are sadly missed. I'm glad to know his personal email is still working.
Regards, Oscar
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Paul Derrett made a splendid recording of the Weitz Symphony at Hereford Cathedral for Priory many years ago...so he might be able to provide his solution to these questions if you ask him. I think he is currently unable to post to this forum, but an email to him should work. You can contact him via the link on his website - paulderrett.piczo.com/?g=1&cr=6
Regards
Oscar
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The Cavaillé-Coll in St Michael's Abbey, Farnborough is ideally positioned in the apse behind the altar and sounds marvellous from the nave, to only part of the building open to the public and congregation. Of course, the acoustics are helpful to all music-making there, so that even a dog howling would create an interesting experience. Howells? (apologies!)
Regards
Oscar
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Unfortunately, the rumour is true. The Organ Appeal website confirms this.
The problem of raising the necessary money in these difficult financial times means that the completion date for the full replacement organ has been extended beyond Easter 2010. However, the organ that will be in place at Easter next year will be uncompromised in quality with preparations in place for the installation of the Solo Organ when funds are in place.It's good to see that several fund-raising events are scheduled. Let's hope they are successful and the delay will not be over-long.
Regards
Oscar
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I'd second Hector's recommendation of Rachel Laurin's music. She participated at the 2007 Annual Festival of New Organ Music in London and performed at both St Marylebone Parish Church and St Lawrence Jewry. For those looking for a vehicle to demonstrate their technical prowess (and a large instrument!) try her Etude Héroïque Op38.
The AFNOM website is a treasure-trove of information about contemporary composers and their music for organ. For instance, there's a short biography of Rachel Laurin, and programme notes and mp3 recordings of the works she performed in London.
Rachel Laurin is absolutely charming, without airs and graces, and both a fine composer and organist. It's surprising that she hasn't been invited to play more frequently in the UK.
Regards,
Oscar
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At least three CDs have been made on the Aubertin organ at Vertus.
1. Olivier Vernet recorded several works there as part of his complete survey of JSB's complete organ music. There are two ways of buying the Vertus recordings: either a 15 CD set (Ligia Digital 0104081-99) of the complete works, or as a 3 CD set (Ligia Digital 0104046/48-97).
2. Nigel Allcoat knows the organ well and Cantoris have issued two CDs:
CRCD6041, entitled "Improvisations II," is performed on the Aubertin organs at St Martin, Vertus and St Catherine, BitcheCRCD6040, entitled "Barock Orgel," is recorded at Vertus and includes works by Sweelinck, Buxtehude, Böhm and JSBI only know this instrument from recordings but can highly recommend all three CDs.
Regards
Oscar
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<snip...> whoever it was that was playing, Tom Wimpenny or Adrian Lucas. <...snip>
I think it's Tom Winpenny and Andrew Lucas at St Albans Abbey
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I might be wrong, but did Priory record this at St. Mary's, Woodford many years ago?
Peter
Keith John did record the Busoni/John transcription for Priory at St Mary's Woodford.
Nicolas Kynaston recorded the W T Best transcription of the Bach Chaconne for Mitra (CD 16176) on the Klais organ at Altenberg Cathedral, a CD which also contains the WTB arrangement of the Mendelssohn P&F in e.
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Broadening the search to include Bells, Cloches etc yields:
Michael Berkeley - Wild Bells
Joseph-Ermend Bonnal - Cloches dans le Ciel (Paysages Euskariens No3)
Diana Burrell - Arched Forms with Bells
William Byrd - The Bells (for keyboard/virginals)
Marcel Dupré - Les Cloches du Perros-Guirec Op21/iii (from Suite Bretonne)
Alan Gibbs - Isleworth Bells
Kjell Mørk Karlsen - Høyr kor kyrkjeklokka
Jean Langlais - Bells (from 3 Characteristic Pieces)
Nicolas-Antoine Lebègue - Les Cloches
Hans Olav Lien - The Cathedral of Northern Lights (from Organ Symphony)
Franz Liszt - Evening Bells (from Weihnachtsbaum)
Ludvig Nielsen - The Bells of the Nidaros Cathedral
Charles Tournemire - Cloches de Châteauneuf-du-Faou Op62 (for piano)
S S Wesley - Holsworthy Church Bells
Regards
Oscar
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Also:
Albert Alain - Carillon sur Lauda Sion
Albert Alain - Carillon de Bougival (Pièces pour Harmonium Bk2)
Christopher Boodle - Carillon Symphony
Michel Corrette - Carillon in F
Peter Dickenson - Carillon
Marcel Dupré - Carillon Op27/4 (from Sept Pièces)
Nicolas Jackson - Carillon (organ solo from Requiem)
Bohuslav Martinů - Carillon (for piano)
Maurice Ohana - Carillons pour les heures du jour et de la nuit (for harpsichord)
Jean-Luc Perrot - Carillon sur un thème de mon fils Romain
Stefan Pöntinen - Carillon (for piano)
Christian Robert - Carillon sur le Salve Regina
Léonce de Saint-Martin - Carillon (from Suite Cyclique)
Sebastian Wolff - Carillon (Hommage à Mulet et Vierne) (for two trumpets and organ)
Regards
Oscar
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This might be the Ralph Downes designed 2 manual JW Walker organ of 1965 in the Carmelite Church, Kensington (aka Church of Our Lady of Victories and St Simon Stock). The previous church, called Our Lady of Victories at 235a High St - with a 3 manual Bryceson organ, was destroyed in WW2.
I recall Walker's advertisement, published when the instrument was new, had a headline like "Widor and Guilmant were there..."
Details of the Walker organ:Details of the Bryceson organ:Oscar
Swell reed in Wash me throughly. I'm not an organist, but I would expect a registration change at the end of the first section (bar 32)
New College Bach
in The Organ
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There are several recordings made on the New College instrument and issued on CD including:
Bach - organ works Vol2 / Peter Hurford (Decca 421 341-2)
Sonata No1 in E flat BWV525
Prelude in E flat BWV552/I
"Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit" BWV669
"Christe, aller Welt Trost" BWV670
"Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist" BWV671
"Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr" BWV676
"Dies sind die heilgen zehen Gebot" BWV678
"Wir gläuben all' an einen Gott" BWV680
"Vater unser im Himmelreich" BWV682
"Christ, unser Herr, zum Jordan kam" BWV684
"Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir" BWV686
"Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, der von uns den Zorn Gottes wandt" BWV688
Fugue in E flat BWV552/2
Bach - organ works Vol3 / Peter Hurford (Decca 421 617-2)
"Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend" BWV726
Partita "Sei gegrüßet, Jesu gütig" BWV768
Bach - organ works Vol5 / Peter Hurford (Decca 421 631-2)
Prelude and Fugue in a BWV543
Prelude and Fugue in b BWV544
Prelude and Fugue in C BWV545
Fantasia in b BWV563
Toccata in E BWV566
Howells - choral and organ music Vol1 / Edward Higginbottom (CRD 3454) recorded 1987
De la Mare's Pavane (from Lambert's Clavichord) Op41
Flourish for a bidding
Jacob's Brawl (from Howells' Clavichord)
St Louis comes to Clifton
Walton's Toye (from Howells' Clavichord)
Paean (from Six Pieces for Organ)
Preludio "Sine Nomine" (from Six Pieces for Organ)
Psalm Prelude No1 (First set) Op32/1
Regards
Oscar