David Pinnegar

It was with great delight that the recording of a brilliant concert turned up in my YouTube suggestions on an instrument which is of very great credit to Manders. Best wishes David P

The organ-related archive is now completely transcribed - ORGAN SOLO REPERTOIRE https://youtu.be/jaKX1Tpr9-o Guilmant Symphony No. 1 Robin Wellshttps://youtu.be/0recmn65DJk Organ favourites - Robin Wells 1983https://youtu.be/AWkUhnqxaDE Organ favourites 1988 Phil Scrivenhttps://youtu.be/9kB1JCJFgBI 1986 Handel Organ Concerto and Albinoni Adagiohttps://youtu.be/Y2wMZeYpwWQ Trumpet and Organ - Patrick Addinnal and Robin Wells https://youtu.be/h3VxGbll9uY Herbert Howells recording https://youtu.be/Fgpu7Tx4ID0 Benjamin Britten - Rejoice in the Lamb and Late evening carols 1988 https://youtu.be/bCj0GV1o5Us Chapel Choir and Special Choir 1990-93 Choral music from Charterhouse Chapel ORGAN IN CHAPEL ACCOMPANYING MODEhttps://youtu.be/IIsP6OfQSJw Leith Hill Music Festival Choirs 1986 (a particularly magnificent recording)https://youtu.be/S9G7KKeJFtM Matins and Anthems 1984/85https://youtu.be/f8YKVPWLbJE BBC World Service Worship 1986https://youtu.be/56iadfadpEY BBC World Service live October 1986https://youtu.be/Kbvdd1t0d2k BBC World Service live November 1987https://youtu.be/0o1QxW9So2M Jerusalem extracted from a longer recordinghttps://youtu.be/eXdsx_vsuu4 John Rutter Gloriahttps://youtu.be/_VDPHUcnUXY Mozart Requiemhttps://youtu.be/J5mv66uI7NI Praetorius - Lutheran Mass for Christmas Morning https://youtu.be/Fgpu7Tx4ID0 Benjamin Britten - Rejoice in the Lamb and Late evening carols 1988 https://youtu.be/bCj0GV1o5Us Chapel Choir and Special Choir 1990-93 Choral music from Charterhouse Chapel

Herbert Howells had a special relationship with the instrument - The instrument was commissioned during the tenureship of Reginald Thatcher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Thatcher as Director of Music who was a well known organist for the whole of his life. https://artuk.org/.../sir-reginald-thatcher-18881957... and is probably underappreciated as a composer, setting no doubt more than one Psalm tune https://youtu.be/S9G7KKeJFtM?t=225 After Thatcher, Thomas Fielden took over in 1928 and in 1930 commissioned Herbert Howells to compose "A Hymn Tune for Charterhouse". This is better known as "All my hope on God is founded". Howells would have been intimately acquainted with the chapel and the instrument. Best wishes David P

Oh dear. Senility strikes. I'm not unfamiliar with Reubke having hosted Hugh Potton performing, but I found the disc labelled such without realising that it's actually the same recording https://youtu.be/UOtvpZL0tJs Very great senility. Apologies Best wishes David P

More recordings: Praetorius Lutheran Mass https://youtu.be/J5mv66uI7NI Liszt Ad Nos https://youtu.be/nkbaCQupj3I Chapel Music (very helpful in assessing suitability of the instrument for its use . . . ) https://youtu.be/S9G7KKeJFtM BBC World Service 1986 https://youtu.be/f8YKVPWLbJE Best wishes David P

Two more recordings which I found very exciting https://youtu.be/_VDPHUcnUXY https://youtu.be/eXdsx_vsuu4 in which the organ plays back-stage which I hope will be enjoyable nevertheless. Best wishes David P

Some perhaps wonder how the instrument accompanies a choir . . . and perhaps https://youtu.be/IIsP6OfQSJw might be the answer accompanying the 15 choirs of the Leith Hill Music Festival and https://youtu.be/Y2wMZeYpwWQ is the accompanying of a young trumpeter who has since had a most distinguished musical career inter alia as Principal Trumpet of the BBC Philharmonic. Best wishes David P

https://youtu.be/Y2wMZeYpwWQ is a recording of 1983 Jeremiah Clarke - Trumpet Voluntary The Prince of Denmark's March Telemann Suite No2. - Con Affeto, Dolce, Largo, Vivace Loeillet Sonata in B flat. - Adagio Allegro Gavotte Sarabande Gigue Telemann Heroic Music - Reschuto, Tranquillo, Giocoso Purcell - Trumpet Tune & Air Best wishes David P

🙂 Haha! No-one can accuse me of being biased. The instrument is of the English character and if that is as being as dull as ditchwater . . . that's how we are. The accompanying of the strings in the Albinoni is exciting and not all instruments might express the Bach D Minor as St Maximin I'm not sure one can say that one is "better" than the other - merely different. And it's in that diversity of difference that we enjoy things. Were all instruments like St Maximin then perhaps indeed some English banana and custard would be salve after the curry. The point about the Jerusalem is one of fitness for purpose. No-one can say that the instrument is too loud. Best wishes David P

Another gem to emerge from the tapes - and 700 congregation vs the Ophicleide Best wishes David P

For those without access to Spotify is a transcription of a pre-recorded cassette on a not very good machine - apologies - but is all I've had. The original CD is "out of stock" sadly. Another recording might be enjoyable and of the classic lollipop pieces, extracted from the Organ Favourites, possibly worthy of a YouTube entry on its own Perhaps in the pleasure this instrument has given to many I might be forgiven for enthusiasm. Best wishes David P

Thanks to everyone for helping to identify pieces. It's a bit like a musical crossword . . . A recording of Herbert Howells by Philip Kenyon is on Best wishes David P

Brilliant - thanks so much. I'm trying to compile the corpus of available recordings of this instrument. On https://youtu.be/0recmn65DJk I can't remember which Mendelssohn it is, and am hazy on the third item, and of course I should know the Elgar but can't pin it down, nailing only the Bach D minor and the Boellmann. If anyone can help me on this I hope the recording is enjoyable. The tape had to be baked in order to retrieve the recording and the quality might not be as good as others. BASF 911 tape has survived well but the 910 is all subject to the Sticky Shedding Syndrome but luckily without great loss. However, occasionally on playback or fast winding, a whole strip of oxide will shed catastrophically. Best wishes David P

Off specific topic but could anyone kindly remind me of what the first two items are on https://youtu.be/ZG1swrloB94 ? Senility strikes. Is the second Widor 6? Many thanks David P

Haha! Yes - thanks for pointing that out - and like you don't quite agree with that bit: it was simply included within the line of substance. For me, the music of the War Memorial Chapel at the time, the organ which was built to express it and the sound of that instrument provide the context of the time relevant to the remembrance of the War and the warning to those who follow about wars. That music - still within the age of the Empire - certainties - expectations of victories - losses - boldness and bravery and no doubt others will be able to add more eloquently all of those contradictions that the War Memorial brings. Usually a War Memorial is architectural, monumental, but this War Memorial spoke and speaks with sound, singing and the expressions of music. https://youtu.be/ZG1swrloB94 rather sums up those emotions, even to the point of the recording being tragically truncated. However in that particular instance the replacement instrument would be equally competent but other recordings perhaps with full complement of singers and orchestra. Best wishes David P