Jim Treloar
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There were regular Saturday recitals in the 70s, I remember attending them but like you my memory also fails me so I can't recall when the recitals finished but it would have been about 1980. Indeed the loony left lost interest in their wonderful buildings and the hall was left to fester for a long time. "Henry Willis" of this parish may well know when the recitals ceased.
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A couple of (lesser, but not to them) appointments that have not been mentioned so far as far as I know. Ian Roberts is now assistant director of music at Chester, formerly assistant organist. Mark Swinton, assistant at Bath Abbey, goes to Kendal Parish Church, a post up to now held by Hugh Davies.
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Headcase - glad to see you included that Andre Isoir at St Sernin, also one of my first LPs and it opened my eyes to French organs, never looked back! I heard Roger Fisher play before I bothered to buy any organ LPs but my first of his was Rheinberger 7 and 8, wonderful, never reissued as far as I know although he's recorded no 8 more recently.
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Just a brief warning if contributors have picked up on the Organ Club tour to Paris, it's proving to be very popular with existing members as one would expect and I undertand that it is already likely to be oversubscribed, so if you're interested join the Club quickly and get your name down!
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Cameron Carpenter has been mentioned on this thread a few times (like him or not!) I am told that he was in this country recently although he didn't give any public recitals. He was taken to a few organs mainly in the west country which he played privately. Those who met him said that although his YouTube appearances show him to be a flamboyant player, he is a quiet, self effacing personality, not at all Carlo Curley-like. Apparently it's possible that he will be in the UK for recitals in 2009.
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Mine also arrived yesterday. I have to say I am rather disappointed with it, it's very short, and if I'm not mistaken the improvisation is in mono. The shots of St Sernin are I think all stills. When you boil it down the toccata is all there is, the CD was much more rewarding.
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Paul was, as usual, being modest in saying the Organ Club enjoyed the organ at Bridlington yesterday. Maybe so, but HE gave the demonstrating recital and it was fabulous. It is a magnificent instrument and well worth hearing if you've not been recently.
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A slight correction regarding the organist at St Asaph - it is in fact the assistant organist, John Hosking, who served behind the bar in a local pub and the landlord was so impressed with him he suggested he took the exams for a licensee (which he passed). The reasoning was that the landlord and his wife could go away on holidays and leave the premises in John's capable hands, and as far as I know this is still the case, he still works there, I think.
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Yes, it sounded excellent. Church very full and Colin Walsh put on a programme that was not too difficult for the non-afficiandos. The first time I've heard it so can't say what normally goes on there. Two more Saturday evening recitals in the offing, July 12th, David Houlder and the piece de resistance, 27th September, (Sir, why not!) Francis Jackson.
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handsoff - pleased to be of help! As an aside S-V C-C is a charming personality, maybe some members of this group have met her. She played for us when IAO visited Paris in 2003 (?) and I purchased a CD from her personally when she visited Chester many years ago, which she signed "a big thank you to you for loving my music". A lovely lady.
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Festivo CDs should be readily obtainable in the UK. Priory are the distributors, have a word with them first. The disc is still listed on Festivo's website.
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I am sure Cynic is too modest to mention it himself, but he has just brought out a double CD of the music of Richard Francis (which I'm listening to as I write this). It is excellent, easily approachable music, in general, and I see has a good review in the latest O.R.
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To their shame Warrington have lost interest in the Parr Hall Cavaille-Coll, I've heard they want to carry out alterations to the Hall and the recitals that used to be held there have ceased. Very worrying.
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As a listener, not a performer, I hesitated to add to this topic, but since Paul has now mentioned listener I will add two items a) the first time I sat in Freiberg Dom and heard Bach, albeit 565; spine tingling, and
on an organ tour in Belgium, in Antwerp Cathedral, locked in after the tourists had left, the organists in the gallery and I was alone in the nave with all those Rubens paintings and one of the party played one of the big Tournemire pieces. Not the finest organ I've heard, but a magical moment. To add to Paul's listening experiences, anytime Roger Fisher plays the Reubke in Chester, and although I've heard him play it often, it never tires. -
I have purchased the Bine Bryndor set, 6 individual CDs on the DaCapo label which I enjoy although there are a few pieces missing. With Herrick and Davidsson coming I think we spoilt for choice.
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The wedding - I read only recently that it was Dupre who played, something that maybe i should have known before.
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Tony and Peter - many thanks, very helpful. It looks as though the R-09 is on the shopping list,
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I have found this thread interesting, particularly as I had never come across these devices previously. Before venturing further could someone tell me what type of "out" sockets are available on them, I am hoping that there is a optical socket as I have a CD recorder with an optical "in", which would make direct transfers easy. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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All Saints Falmouth again, pcnd5584 - I think that the All Saints website is more accurate than NPOR, which does seem a strange entry. If anyone wants further details or to visit I recommend they contact the organist who is mentioned on the website, he seems very keen, but lives in St Just, some distance from Falmouth.
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As a boy, just after the unpleasantness with the Germans, I sang in the choir of All Saints Falmouth and the organ there is apparently well thought of. I don't play and my enjoyment of the organ is just listening to the music, but I was wondering if any of the forum members have any experience of it and their opinions if so. It's a 1894 Hele, Speechly did an overhaul in 1926, and Roger Yates revoiced and enlarged it in 1950, there was a further restoration by Lance Foy in 1980 and he still looks after it. I understand he is doing some work on it at present. I know all this as I have just bought a CD of the instrument, recorded for back of the church sales, so it's all easy listening. Any opinions would be welcome.
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And, until the departure of David Poulter, Chester as well, down to three at present.
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I always remember my first visit to Germany (1978) when we attended a service at Stade. I was impressed with the fact that the clergy and choir processed in, sat down, and then the organist played (I think) a Buxtehude P and F while all listened. At the end of the service the clergy and choir and congregation all remained seated while a voluntary was played - THEN the clergy and choir processed out. Nobody said a word until then. How civilised. Does this still happen? It's a long time since I've been.
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The usual full house at Liverpool Anglican for Ian Tracey in the morning. The new nave division was dedicated by the dean, even though it's been in use since December, but this was the first time in a recital. We then had Rigaudon de Louis XIV in c by Lully, using the nave as an echo. The division blends well as we heard later in the recital, I understand it's very effective in congregational singing. Unusually for Liverpool we were blessed with two ciphers but D. Wells was on hand to fix them in a jiffy. An extra item was inserted in the recital, Franck Fantasie in A, not announced, which threw those in the audience who didn't know the music as they thought the penultimate piece was the last. Hey-ho. They thought that Peeter's Lied to the Sun was an encore!
on an organ tour in Belgium, in Antwerp Cathedral, locked in after the tourists had left, the organists in the gallery and I was alone in the nave with all those Rubens paintings and one of the party played one of the big Tournemire pieces. Not the finest organ I've heard, but a magical moment. To add to Paul's listening experiences, anytime Roger Fisher plays the Reubke in Chester, and although I've heard him play it often, it never tires.
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JPS - in the good old days when there were decent programmes on TV, we occasionally saw some organ music being played. I recently found an old video, must be the late 70s, early 80s, of one such in which JPS was playing an electronic. I leave it to your imagination as to what the cameraman was more interested in, but teenage boys would revel in it. DVD copies available "at a price"!