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    Francis Jackson query

    in The Organ

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    It's a mislabelled track. I fell into the same trap.

    If you buy the track labelled Sonata Giocosa Op 62: Cadenza (Track 11 of the same CD) you'll have the Bairstow Impromptu.

    It's published in the Fanfare for Francis album put out by Banks in 2007 - which comes with a recording of JSW playing it at the Minster.

    Youtube

    in General discussion

    Posted

    Handel/W.T. Best - Overture to the Occasional Oratorio [Complete]

    Sydney Town Hall

     

    The March (the final 2 1/2 mins) demonstrates the unusual 'chorus-reed' colour of the Tubas, and the "blaze" effect of the 16'8'4 battery capping full organ.

    Compton Organ in Dorset

    in General discussion

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    Does anyone have any experience of playing this organ? It is in Poole/Parkstone in a now redundant church called St Stephen the Great. I am told that there is quite a connection to Whitlock, for whom it was one of his favourites, and I think he may have even recorded on the instrument.

     

     

    It was apparently Whitlock's preferred organ for recordings.

     

    Some of the recordings are on Youtube

     

     

    Smallest 4 manual ever

    in The Organ

    Posted

    There are three remarkable 4M stoplists, two genuine, one conjectural, listed in Norman Cocker's marvellous essay on small-organ design here, courtesy of the late Julian Rhodes:

     

    [Excerpt] "It is reasonable to argue that the church organist would not know how, when and where to use percussions. But there are many church organists who do not appear to know how to use an open diapason."

     

    http://web.archive.org/web/20020613035811/...mes/cocker2.htm

    Pentecost

    in The Organ

    Posted

    There's John Rutter's 'Come Down O Love Divine'.

    Needs decent resources, but a fantastic piece. Part of the 'Rutter for those who hate Rutter' category.

    Classic FM Hall of Fame

    in The Organ

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    Guilmant gets a considerable look in, with five entries.

     

    Organ Symphony No.2 in A major Opus 91

    March upon Handel's 'Lift up your heads' Opus 15

    Organ Sonata No.1, Opus No.42

    Grand chorus in G minor, Opus No.84

    Morceau Symphonique

     

    You can also vote for the Bach Passacaglia twice!

    Earliest Example Of An Undulating Rank In An English Organ

    in General discussion

    Posted

    Vox Angelicas are not always tuned as celestes, as on some organs they are tuned as on pitch ranks.

     

     

    At Exeter Cathedral, drawing the Swell Voix Céleste (actually the old Choir Vox Angelica) also draws the slide (but not the stop-head) of the Salicional (also formerly on the Choir Organ).

     

     

    It would be interesting to know how common this practice was.

     

    There's an excellent example of this on the untouched 3M Bevington at All Saints, Hunters Hill in Sydney

    Organ - All Saints', Hunters Hill

    My memory is a little hazy but I seem to recall pulling the Voix Celeste brings the Vox Angelica on with it.

    These two stops were apparently singled out for praise by Edward Hopkins while in the Bevington factory.

     

     

    Swell

    16 Double Open Diapason

    8 Open Diapason

    8 Hohl Flöte

    8 Bell Gamba

    8 Voix Celeste

    8 Vox Angelica

    4 Principal

    4 Harmonic Flute

    II Mixture

    8 Cornopean

    8 Oboe

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