Choral Evensong: Voluntary: Buxtehude

[John Furse 0]

I listened with much pleasure to Ben Bloor’s Voluntary at the end of this week’s Choral Evensong, from New College, Oxford: Buxtehude’s episodic Praeludium and Fugue(s) in G minor (BuxWV 149).

 

I know this piece well- and was once fortunate to be able to play it in Buxtehude’s church at Helsingør.

 

Registration and ornament (his, that is) were exemplary; with its pedalling, it was a very ‘northern European’ performance. Congrats to him. This organ does this kind of repertoire so well.

[Malcolm Kemp 0]

I listened a few days ago via iPlayer from Wednesday's live broadcast. I too thought the Buxtehude was absolutely superb with wonderful style and musical projection. A pleasant change from the boring and unstylistic performance of the Bach motet by the choir. Ben Bloor is clearly a player we shall be hearing much more of in the coming years.

 

Malcolm

[sjf1967 0]

Glad you enjoyed it. I have the great pleasure of being Ben's teacher (his teacher before Oxford - Tom Corfield, I think - had done a marvellous job), and I will pass on your compliments to Ben when I see him next week.