sbarber49
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On 16/09/2015 at 09:54, Richard Fairhurst said:
As a very belated followup to this topic, would-be purchasers of hymnbooks might be interested to learn that a new version, the Revised English Hymnal, is in preparation. Publication is expected in 2017.
Well, the latest date for publication is the end of January 2023. What on earth is happening. It was supposed to be published in 2018 to mark 60 years after Vaughan Williams' death. Then April 2021, Sep 2021, January 2022, June 2022, September 2022 and now the end of January 2023. It had better be good! I'm glad we didn't wait for it to be published before changing from Hymns Old and New.
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The copies on IMSLP suggest crotchet = something like 56 (I use Pierre Gougain's edition). The version in Marsden Thomas's Graded Anthology (Book 5) suggests crotchet = 60 but the notes are double length (RH starts in crotchets rather than quavers) - this is, to me, ridiculously slow so I think she has carried the metronome marking over from a copy with different note lengths.
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There seems to be a lot of later work on this organ - I think Sonus Paradisi are being a bit cheeky to describe it as a Hill.
https://www.bhamorgan.org.uk/organs/088.htm
https://www.npor.org.uk/NPORView.html?RI=N04943
https://www.npor.org.uk/NPORView.html?RI=N04942
https://www.npor.org.uk/NPORView.html?RI=G01463
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Deleted - posted in error!
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28 minutes ago, Colin Pykett said:
No he doesn't, and as an expert organ designer and builder he would never have confused the two either. But I'd be the first to admit that the issue can be confusing and it crops up repeatedly in these sorts of discussion. But lots of hares will be set running if honourable forum members don't keep them firmly in their warrens!
or in their forms?
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There's the "Book of simple organ voluntaries" (though I can't find my copy at the moment) - I like the Murrill "Postlude on a Ground".
In "An Album of Preludes and Interludes" I like Paul Maleingreau's Chorale Prelude (on ??) and, of course, Peter Hurford's "Meditation" from the Laudate Dominum Suite.
There's the "Chorale preludes on English Tunes" with's Leighton's lovely prelude on Rockingham.
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My selection of short and easy pieces this year:
Carol Service
Tracey Improvisation on Hereford
Dandrieu Où s'en vont ces gais Bergers
Dandrieu Si c'est pour ôter la vie
Midnight Mass
Buxtehude In Dulci Jubilo
Bach In dulci Jubilo (BWV 729)
Christmas Morning
Barber Prelude on Away in a manger
Dandrieu A minuit fut fait un Reveil
Held God rest you merry, gentlemen
Christmas 1
Bach Jesu, meine Freude (Orgelbuchlein)
Karg-Elert Pastorale: Nun freut euch, lieben Christen gmein
Pachelbel Vom Himmel Hoch (P52 - trio) -
Obituary in the Telegraph today though behind a paywall.
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Ah - I'm on that site but it's very busy and I don't often get very far into it!
Re. my Chaconne Mélancolique: thank you for that. It's lovely to know that someone's played it!
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What's the other site?
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1 hour ago, Rowland Wateridge said:
we have as yet no idea how the new ‘combination organ’ sounds. The Chancellor approved the scheme in the expectation of “a new first class organ” being installed. Also, in fairness, the reordering of St Michael’s was to permit other community use, something which will become more and more common for some churches to remain viable.
Not sure about the 'combination organ'. From the church website:
"The nineteenth century organ was in a poor playing state with an inherently heavy playing action and occupied most of the north transept; it has been replaced with a modern digital instrument which is moveable. The transept is now a new, fully equipped commercial kitchen, whilst the earlier kitchen is a utility room. The Cullerne Room, that had previously been adapted from a chapel, was further changed to create a vestry and storage areas together with a meeting room on a new first floor."
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38 minutes ago, Rowland Wateridge said:
Final word today - I don’t want to bore everyone. There is protection in the C of E under the faculty jurisdiction. I have known of instances where it has been blatantly ignored, but recent reports on the Law & Religion UK website quote several cases of Diocesan Chancellors coming down like a ton of bricks with stiff penalties for transgressors. A C of E incumbent selling organ pipes without a faculty would be in very serious trouble.
Of course, if the top-heavy CofE has its way they will get rid of many of the "key limiting factors" like incumbents anyway: the new C of E-endorsed scheme aims to create 10,000 new lay-led churches in the next ten years. "Lay-led churches release the Church from key limiting factors........ When you don’t need a building and a stipend and long, costly college-based training for every leader of church… then actually we can release new people to lead and new churches to form."
No buildings so no organs, unless the wealthy untrained people who will lead these 10,000 new churches fancy having an organ in their homes.
See: Is this the last chance to save the Church of England? | The Spectator
Or you could try to stop it: Save The Parish
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1 hour ago, Andrew Butler said:
AND as for following "guidance" from a load of idiots who couldn't guide water out of a sieve.....!
The government has lifted restrictions and singing is now allowed. It will be up to the churches to decide whether or not they will allow it.
My church is continuing as we are now until September.
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"possible changes, depending........."
I suspect many congregation members will feel obliged to wear masks to protect others, which makes singing harder.
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3 hours ago, Keitha said:
Like you Martin, I have been following the project. There was to have been a competition to select the last two chorale preludes for Volume 5 in, I think, June 2017, after which Volume 5 was due to go into production. There has been no published information about this since then
The competition did take place: RCO News: Orgelbüchlein competition winners announced
There's a Facebook page where you can hear lots of the compositions: The Orgelbüchlein Project | Facebook
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On 17/06/2021 at 09:50, Choir Man said:
Fans singing in pictures here were definitely not outdoors. Yet this is considered acceptable?
No, it's not.
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3 hours ago, Martin Cooke said:
Something caused me to look back at this topic, and I thought I would mention that, 16 years on wince the original post, Rowley's Four Winds is available on imslp.
Not out of copyright yet, of course.
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Sorry - I'd completely forgotten it had been discussed before. (See below).
Good to have Willis/Harrison rivalry between King's and John's.
Are there any Father Willis organs in Cambridge currently?
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The St John's College newsletter informs me that they are hoping to replace the current Mander organ with a Father Willis organ in 2024-5. Does anyone know anything about this and where it might be coming from?
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Though you can't shut a cellist in a room and open and shut the door with your foot!
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Here's a Youtube version:
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See Andrew Butler's post in this thread on 4th March. He gives the specification of the 4 rank extension organ as it was in the church where it came from.
This link might get you to the Facebook page:
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Now sold - but sadly the organ is probably going to be removed.
'Eccentric' Bristol house with built-in pipe organ is sold - BBC News
NEH v Common Praise hymn books
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So Amazon say - I'm sure they're more up to date!