innate Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Any ideas? My mind has gone blank! Something for St Valentine :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJJ Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Ubi caritas from the Op 8 set by Demessieux possibly? A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
innate Posted February 6, 2015 Author Share Posted February 6, 2015 Thanks, AJJ. I’m ashamed to say I don’t know any Demessieux. I should have specified that it needs to be suitable for a rather unusual organ in London with 2 manuals and pedal, tubular pneumatic action (I think) and no swell box. Half the instrument was bombed in the war (including the whole of the Swell division) and never replaced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Drinkell Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Ultra-slushy - Der Frage und die Antwort by William Wolstenholme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJJ Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Thanks, AJJ. Im ashamed to say I dont know any Demessieux...The Op 8 set are not typical of her work - not difficult and also very effective on different shapes, sizes and types of instrument. They are a good set to have lurking 'just in case' - 12 preludes on Gregorian themes ranging from the quiet and rather lovely Atente Domine and Rorate Caeli to an accessible toccata on Veni Creator and a march on Tu es Petrus. A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Pykett Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Salut d'Amour by Elgar. The organ on which it's played in this link is rather different from that which innate describes, but it would fit almost any instrument. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e7-OGM-AmU But then, I am a bit of an (unashamed) Elgar freak. CEP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Goodwin Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 ... or for something completely different, Paul Ayres Toccata on 'All you need is love' http://paulayres.co.uk/catalogue/243.html Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
innate Posted February 6, 2015 Author Share Posted February 6, 2015 Great suggestions, all! Many thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Cooke Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 There are chorale preludes on Down Ampney (Come down, O love divine) by Sumsion and Henry Ley which could be useful before a service. Afterwards, wouldn't the Mendelssohn march be a possibility? A bit obvious, of course! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Drinkell Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 Isn't there a rather nice, kind of quirky prelude on Down Ampney by Richard Popplewell in the Hovingham Sketches, published by Banks? I find the Ley disappointing - his harmony is commonplace and takes the spice out of RVW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Pykett Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 Isn't there a rather nice, kind of quirky prelude on Down Ampney by Richard Popplewell in the Hovingham Sketches, published by Banks? There is a piece called Puck's Shadow by Richard Popplewell but it isn't in my 1982 Banks edition of the Hovingham Sketches. Don't know why - copyright issues maybe? It formed part of the original collection. Puck's Shadow is published separately by OUP. Two others have also been left out - Trio by Peter Hurford (Cramer) and Scherzetto by Arthur Wills (also Cramer). The complete book was recorded by Francis Jackson in York Minster on Gamut UT 7504. This info comes from the contents page of the Banks edition. CEP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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