Davidb

Agree with Paul that the 'Ave Maris Stella' T/F/C is a quite splendid piece, the fugue being one of the more statisfying ones to play from 19/20th century western europe imo (Certainly more so than MM'Dfavourites by the likes of Dupre, Vierne and Widor) Interesting how his music without a tune as the basis generally has appeared to me to be weak.. including the well known 'aria' which seems to meander around a bit without going anywhere (i'm sure some would say much like howells)

Do these people contribute anything towards the church? Are they in the congregation? do they give a recital freely each year, to cover their costs? If not perhaps enough money to cover the costs in the form of a donation to the music fund? Agree about students though (especially being one) - encouragment is needed wherever possible.

An amusing idea Lee, especially if some of the fiestier charachters from the organ world were put in there (SP/JPS etc) possibly with former dean and chapters of westminster? Put martin neary in as well and could be riotous!

There is a quite pleasant suite by WLW called 'Chorale Cantiliene and Finale' which doesn't possess tremendous technical difficulties, and makes a nice recital piece, sharing the same thematic material throughout the three pieces (about 3/4 minutes per piece) A Few years ago, Kevin Mayhew done 'box sets' of organ music (their inhouse stuff mainly, but when you're 11 and getting over £250 of music for £20 you don't complain) and these boxes contained two books of his. His is certainly pleasant, if not world beating music, and there is a gorgeous prelude on rockingham (When i survey the wonderous cross) That doesn't answer your question at all does it? sorry db

i can do that just as well with a cymbelstern:P More worrying is the quality of the tune but thats another matter i suppose

Yup, thanks to JP for getting it fixed, i've certainly missed reading and contributing to the debates

i'll double check, but i think they are putting an electronic in

I think paul you have a slightly misunderstood view of downloading. On ITunes for example, a track costs 79p , and is legal (unlike the free downloading you mention, which is ILLEGAL) or other services such as napster or rhapsody where you pay a set fee per month, which gets distributed between record companies (as i understand it.) Nowadays, most record labels have opened up their material to these sites, but the quality is lower than on cd (an MP3 is 128-192 thousand 'bits' of information per second, wherease a cd can be up to 1411,,) though it is reguarly argued that the material cut out is of little worth. Is this the reason (Especially put to Gary) that comapnies such as Regent, Priory and Hyperion (to name three that i would love to be avalible on these services:)) haven't as yet put their materials online. Is there likely to be a market for them to do so in the near future?

Depends on the piece, but most of the time with JSB they are two seperate pieces. They very rarely share thematic or musical ideas (unlike say, Buxtehude where many p+f are linked musically) How many times have you heard, for example, somebody ONLY play the Toccata in F Major (BWV 540) - Despite knowing this work intimately, i couldn't tell you much about the fugue. On the other hand they are categorised as one work, so you could argue Bach intends them together. As with much music of this period, we can't ask them, and their ideas wern't explicity written down, so do what you think is right

i think it was probably reasoned and worked out... certianly if 540 (fmaj) is anything to go by. That piece is the ultimate in musical writing.

i stand to be corrected but i think it is if you make a 'private' recording for your own benefit only (i'm not even sure such recordings can be passed on to friends of yours, on a not for profit basis)

There are two books... one is seven pieces for organ (in french) and i think the other is five. One is blue one is green. They contain many beautiful shorter pieces, including a piere where u can smell the incense wafting around. It is very 'high church' music the gmajor toccata you can't go wrong with though

I've never really been taught on 'hymn playing' but more had pointers... definetly nothing with re: to tieing notes. As a rule, i play the pedals as written, wiht the A/T parts tied where appropriate, unless it is rythmically important for them not to be

did u guys read the comments about the video on her site, about how it was ad-hoc without the music etc etc. Lee you seem to take great delight in the criticism of others, perhaps you could post some recordings for us to listen too and comment upon?

Malcolm Archer during his tenure as Assistant at norwich was a fan of word painting. During the verse which ends 'and the ships of the lord sail on by' (or similiar) MA gave a 'parp' on the solo trumpet, immitating a ship's horn, to which the deam pulled him aside after the service "Malcolm my dear, when the Psalm talks about the Lords' ships, i don't think it is referring to the Queen Mary"

If you've got a musically minded congregation, two postludes, firstly the bach chorale prelude, followed by Transports de Joie (Messiaen) works SUPERBLY

Evelyns. Can't beat it

As long as the choir is good, yes. Especially when word painting, either through choice of stops or alternative accompniments Congregationally sung - No as it is so much harder

don't even joke about it mate..... I once had a debate with a member of the congregation at my church who noticed as organ music i had put down 'toccata - Renaud' - and he thought i muts have been wrong...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cotw/pip/eh7oo/ There are five hour long programs, the last of which airs tonight. I haven't been listening, but i think i might record them all over the course of the weekend, then listen at leisure.

What was the playover that adrian lucas wrote?

Franck is 'hard' music to listen to but can be very rewarding if the effot is put in. The chorales certainly, reward intent repeated listening when played well

I like the Garth Edmundson. It fits under the hands quite nicely in many places, and is certainly simpler than many french toccatas, the style of which is copied in places

What do you do to Mushel. I have my own ending, where i finish on the open C chord.... then play an octive run g-c and play the original theme an octave higher before playing C/B flat with g and e below it, whilst L/H does a scalic run down three octives to end on bottom C.

Thomas Trotter done the same you mention when he reopened a Richard Bower organ at Dereham Parish Church. THe first video screen i ever saw was of Daniel Roth, when he came to Norwich a few years back. For strong players, such as Mr. Roth (or indeed, Thomas Trotter) i have certainly found this a useful experience, and have spent as much time studying the technique of these top players as i had intently listening to the music. There are sometimes things you can incorporate into your own playing, so from an educational point of view they are good. It also makes recitals more user-friendly, because to the non-affeciando, staring aroudn for 90 minutes whilst music you may or may not know / like isplayed can be a bit on the boring side (so im told) - this would certainly give something for the eyes to do I suppose if you don't like them, you must be able to sit somewhere else in the church? not everywhere can have full view of the screen surely?