Martin Cooke Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 I expect quite a few of us are asked what we would like for Christmas. I've seen reference to the DVD from Liverpoool - what's the reference for that, please? Are there any other unmissable CD's, books, pieces of sheet music for organists this year? I am sure that members wouold, incidentally enjoy two recent purchases: "Fantaisie Triomphale" and Grades Pieces Symphoniques - two Chandos CDs from Liverpool for Organ and Orchestra - some amazing pieces I'd never come across before - well worth having - both available on itunes, too! What else is there? Sad, I know, but... I would like to find recordings of Gray in F minor Mag and Nunc and also Wood in F (Collegium Regale). I see that Llandaff (Michael Smith) recorded the Gray and it's available from ?Priory but the other settings on this recording are all home-spun things that are not familiar. Does anyone know this recording, or can they recommend another? Martin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Robinson Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 the DVD from Liverpoool - what's the reference for that, please? Martin. PRDVD1 Priory Records Ltd, 3 Eden Court, Eden Way, Leighton Buzzard, Beds., LU7 4FY Tel: 01525 377566 www.priory.org.uk sales@priory.org.uk John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbouffant Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 How about vol. 2 of Barenreiter's Jazz Inspirations for organ. Or vol. 1 as well if you never got around to buying that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Fairhurst Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 I've asked for the Durufle biography (mentioned here, passim)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgp Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 I expect quite a few of us are asked what we would like for Christmas. I've seen reference to the DVD from Liverpoool - what's the reference for that, please? Are there any other unmissable CD's, books, pieces of sheet music for organists this year? I am sure that members wouold, incidentally enjoy two recent purchases: "Fantaisie Triomphale" and Grades Pieces Symphoniques - two Chandos CDs from Liverpool for Organ and Orchestra - some amazing pieces I'd never come across before - well worth having - both available on itunes, too! What else is there? Sad, I know, but... I would like to find recordings of Gray in F minor Mag and Nunc and also Wood in F (Collegium Regale). I see that Llandaff (Michael Smith) recorded the Gray and it's available from ?Priory but the other settings on this recording are all home-spun things that are not familiar. Does anyone know this recording, or can they recommend another? Martin. The Llandaff recording of the Gray (PRCD 551) is serviceable - I don't know of any others. I'm aware of three recordings of the Wood; Blackburn (Priory PRCD 484 Mag only ) Ok ish; Peterborough (Priory PRCD 632) better and an old Saga Stanford/Wood LP by Magdalen/Rose now on CD from Oxrecs (no reference no that I can find) best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DouglasCorr Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 My son has pointed out a USB roll up keyboard - as a potential present! (needless to say he ignores the real thing....) Does anyone think these are good for anything for anyone? I've only seen a photo of one - are the black keys raised, or are they just flat - I suppose they need to be flat to roll up???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Sayer Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Sad, I know, but... I would like to find recordings of ............ Wood in F (Collegium Regale). Martin. There is a CD of Stanford & Wood canticles & anthems by the Magdalen Choir under Bernard Rose, first issued on vinyl in 1964, which includes the Wood Coll Reg (OxRecs OXCD-5368). There is also a contemporary CD transfer of English Polyphonic Church Music (Byrd, Sheppard, Gibbons, Tomkins, Dering etc) which must be one of the finest recordings of its kind ever made, with some quite unbelievably beautiful singing. Bernard Rose was a Tomkins specialist - his Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom reduces me to tears - a perfect Desert Island Disc in every way. (OxRecs OXCD-5287). You should be able to get them from Blackwells, or else direct from OxRecs direct at Magdalen Farm Cottage, Witney OX6 7RN. JS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Morley Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 My son has pointed out a USB roll up keyboard - as a potential present! (needless to say he ignores the real thing....) Is it anything like the one played by the science officer with whom Jean-Luc Picard has a brief (one episode) romantic fling in 'Star Trek, the Next Generation'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vox Humana Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 There is also a contemporary CD transfer of English Polyphonic Church Music (Byrd, Sheppard, Gibbons, Tomkins, Dering etc) which must be one of the finest recordings of its kind ever made, with some quite unbelievably beautiful singing. Bernard Rose was a Tomkins specialist - his Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom reduces me to tears - a perfect Desert Island Disc in every way. (OxRecs OXCD-5287). Agree totally about the Tomkins - it's a wonderful piece and this performance is magical. Nicholson's O pray for the peace is also a gem. I think the LP may have been on the Argo label originally, but my version is the horribly cheap Saga reissue. Sadly the OxRecs CD is now out of print and there are no plans to reprint it. I know, coz I tried to get a copy earlier this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MusingMuso Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 I expect quite a few of us are asked what we would like for Christmas. .......home-spun things that are not familiar. Martin. ========================== Here's one to keep organists happy for weeks, months.....perhaps years! Go to "my pics" and it's the first one:- http://musingmuso.piczo.com/?cr=2&rfm=y MM PS: To hell with organs after Christmas Morning.....it's the Lewis Hamilton story for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Clark Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Is it anything like the one played by the science officer with whom Jean-Luc Picard has a brief (one episode) romantic fling in 'Star Trek, the Next Generation'? At last! Another Star Trek fan (it seems) on this forum. How many more out there? Come on, own up, don't be shy! Make it so! Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Newnham Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 My son has pointed out a USB roll up keyboard - as a potential present! (needless to say he ignores the real thing....) Does anyone think these are good for anything for anyone? I've only seen a photo of one - are the black keys raised, or are they just flat - I suppose they need to be flat to roll up???? Hi The one (very cheap) version that I saw in a shop had sharps level with the naturals. Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notebasher Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Hi The one (very cheap) version that I saw in a shop had sharps level with the naturals. Tony So what are they used for??? R. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Fowler Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 I'll settle for a dozen decent bottles of red wine at any time to help me recover from a surfeit of carols. FF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DQB123 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 I'll settle for a dozen decent bottles of red wine at any time to help me recover from a surfeit of carols. FF And a membership of the local gym to burn off the calories of all those mince pies (18 sins according to Superslim....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notebasher Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 I'll settle for a dozen decent bottles of red wine at any time to help me recover from a surfeit of carols. FF I'll just settle for the dozen decent bottles of red wine any time - not necessarily all at once. R. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Robinson Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 At last! Another Star Trek fan (it seems) on this forum. How many more out there? Come on, own up, don't be shy! Make it so! Peter Me too, but only Star Trek TNG and Star Trek Voyager (principally because of 'Seven of Nine'!) John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazman Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Me too, but only Star Trek TNG and Star Trek Voyager (principally because of 'Seven of Nine'!) John Oh yes....! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Clark Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 Me too, but only Star Trek TNG and Star Trek Voyager (principally because of 'Seven of Nine'!) John And Deanna surely? Do either of you (Gareth and John) play any ST music on the organ? I mentioned before that I had played a bride in and out to DS9 and Voyager. I once played the theme to ST: First Contact (by the amazingly versatile Jerry Goldsmith) before a congregation of academics at university who had gathered to witness the signing of an ecumenical chaplaincy covenent. I was told (by the Anglican chaplain) that the music I played to accompany the actual signing of the document sounded suspiciously like The Archers! Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Morley Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 I once turned the theme from 'Voyager' into a French toccata. We were saying 'bon voyage' to a Trekkie curate at the service in question. During my time at Nantwich, a 'Star Trek' themed wedding came up. It had been allowed by the same incumbent who had allowed the mediaeval themed wedding I've mentioined in a prevoius thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bombarde32 Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 ...........A bloody good bottle of Port...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazman Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 And Deanna surely? Do either of you (Gareth and John) play any ST music on the organ? I mentioned before that I had played a bride in and out to DS9 and Voyager. I once played the theme to ST: First Contact (by the amazingly versatile Jerry Goldsmith) before a congregation of academics at university who had gathered to witness the signing of an ecumenical chaplaincy covenent. I was told (by the Anglican chaplain) that the music I played to accompany the actual signing of the document sounded suspiciously like The Archers! Peter Not yet I haven't, but it sounds a good idea! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contrabombarde Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 I bought a "roll-up" keyboard from a store in the USA as I had never seen it being sold here. I ended up paying as much in shipping as the thing itself cost, and then the same again in taxes and courier administrative charges that they slapped on for the hassle of being over the £18 import tax threshold. Moral of the story, don't buy abroad. I subsequently saw them - for a fraction of the price I paid - on ebay. As a gimmick it's asages nice idea, and I imagine one day it might be useful if going camping or something and you really want to bring a musical instrument with you. It has a wide range of instruments and is available in four or five octaves and one version is even MIDI compatible. On the downside, the accidentals/black notes are not raised above the whites, so playing by sense is very difficult, and you also have to squeeze the note quite firmly to get it to sound (obviously it isn't touch sensitive). So overall it is fiendishly difficult to play the right notes and your fingers rapidly fatigue because of the force needed to play. Would I recommend it? As a Christmas present to the friend who has almost everything else and who will accept a joke item, perhaps yes. It has its place, just don't expect anyone who has one to use it more than once in a blue moon. Contrabombarde Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whrrr Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 Agree totally about the Tomkins - it's a wonderful piece and this performance is magical. Nicholson's O pray for the peace is also a gem. I think the LP may have been on the Argo label originally, but my version is the horribly cheap Saga reissue. Sadly the OxRecs CD is now out of print and there are no plans to reprint it. I know, coz I tried to get a copy earlier this year. I managed to obtain a copy of this excellent recording yesterday, direct from Magdalen College. If you look at the Magdalen College website there are ordering instructions. It looks like it's also possible to collect in person at the lodge. Needless to say, I'm enjoying listing to it - superb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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