Thomas Dawkins
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Quilter: "Now sleeps the crimson petal"
This song may only be two minutes, but what a beautifully sensuous two minutes they are! Roger Quilter sets the outer stanzas of Tennyson's sonnet-formed "Now sleeps the crimson petal" (I say sonnet-formed because while it is metrically a sonnet and has the right number of lines, it does not rhyme). One of the finest miniatures in English song literature.
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"Quelle est cette odeur agréable?" (Whence is that lovely fragrance?) (arr. Willcocks)
Просмотров 612 часа назад
This beautiful French carol is given a majestic setting by the great Sir David Willcocks. Two unison verses with organ accompaniment are followed by two harmonized verses unaccompanied, the second with baritone solo, then an organ tag. One of my favorite "international" carols, I prefer to do it in the original French. The translation in the video is my own since the English text often sung is ...
Scarlatti: Sonata in g minor (K. 111)
Просмотров 384 часа назад
This Scarlatti sonata is in his usual binary form (AABB) in 12/8. It has some unusually dissonant chords, many of which fall on weak beats where they are unexpected; in 12/8 the strong beats are 1, 4, 7, and 10 and the chords come on 5, either one beat late or two beats early depending on how you think about it. It would be considerably more jarring if Scarlatti varied these entrances as once y...
Wetter: Sextett (1966)
Просмотров 977 часов назад
I cannot find much information on the composer of this piece, Wolfgang Wetter, except that he was born in 1933 and seems to still be alive. This little sextet was written for flutes (two piccolos, three flutes, and alto flute) in 1966 and as soon as I saw the score I realized that it would translate very well to recorders (two sopranino, alto, two tenors, bass) and it only really needed to be t...
"Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen" (arr. Goedecke)
Просмотров 899 часов назад
This arrangement of "Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen" comes from a cycle of German Advent and Christmas songs arranged by Werner Goedecke (born 1936) who seems to specialize in sacred vocal music. While the score is for organ, he specifies that any kinds of instruments may be used to accompany the men's voices here and there are parts published in C (for most instruments) and B-flat (for clarinet, ...
Banchieri: Fantasia Prima
Просмотров 10412 часов назад
Adriano Banchieri (1568-1634) was a Bolognese composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque. A Benedictine monk, he nevertheless was most famous in his own day for secular vocal music in the form of madrigals and madrigal comedies, unstaged collections of songs that tell a story when performed together. He also published an important collection of organ music in 1605 that was popular enoug...
Prelude and Postlude for December 29th (First Sunday of Christmas)
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To celebrate the first Sunday in Christmastide, we have a set of variations on "Hark, the herald-angels sing" by the English organist Charles Joseph Frost (1848-1918) or as he calls it "Mendelssohn's well-known hymntune [sic]" which actually wasn't a hymn tune at all but the melody of a cantata movement celebrating the 400th anniversary of the Gutenberg printing press. Frost gives it the royal ...
Poston: The Lamb
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Elizabeth Poston is best known for her carol "Jesus Christ the Apple Tree" and not much of her other work has been published. The English company "Multitude of Voyces" has been working on changing that for her and for many other composers who happen to be women, from the early Renaissance to the present day. This comes out of their volume of "Advent to Candlemas" pieces and could be sung by uni...
Rutter: Candlelight Carol
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The Candlelight Carol was written in 1984, requested by John Romeri at the Church of the Assumption in Pittsburgh, who asked for a Marian carol. It was published the next year by Oxford University Press and subsequently orchestrated and arrangements for women's and men's choirs made. John Rutter wrote both the text and the music; though there is nothing wrong with the text I find him a better c...
The First Nowell (arr. Willcocks)
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Though they are well-known throughout the English-speaking world, I still have a soft spot for Sir David Willcocks' arrangements of some of the most popular carol (and a few little-known ones, too). Most of them were done either for the Bach Choir or King's College; arrangements for the former often had brass accompaniment too. I found myself wondering for years why only the refrain of the last...
Hassler: "Verbum caro factum est"
Просмотров 74День назад
"The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." So reads the 14th verse of the opening chapter of John, according to the King James translation still used in many churches for formal occasions. It is the ending of the ninth and final lesson of the "lessons and carols" service, and one of the most...
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols
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Ralph Vaughan Williams was very important in the documentation and preservation of English folk songs, going into the more rural sections of the country and writing down what he heard in the same way that John Jacob Niles and Alan Lomax did in America and Béla Bartók did in Hungary. From these collected carols, Vaughan Williams assembled a magnificent "fantasia" using music from Herefordshire, ...
Torelli: Christmas Concerto
Просмотров 143День назад
0:00 I. Grave 0:27 II. Vivace 2:37 III. Largo 5:08 IV. Vivace Apparently the Christmas Concerto has its roots in an Italian folk custom. During the nine days before Christmas, reenactments of parts of the Christmas story were common, and instruments were used in the adoration of the shepherds. This music turns into the "pastorale" which is often in 12/8, kind of a "rocking" music with a drone i...
Prelude and Postlude for December 22nd (Fourth Sunday in Advent)
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0:00 Veni Emmanuel (Lutkin) 3:40 Picardy (Shaw) 6:04 Corde Natus ex Parentis (Hull) This week's selections are all based on chant or hymn tunes, and were all written in England, beginning with Peter Lutkin's prelude on "Veni Emmanuel" which is probably the most famous of all Advent hymns. English speakers usually sing it as "O come, o come, Emmanuel" and it is a paraphrase of the seven "O" anti...
Sterndale-Bennett: The Carol Singers
Просмотров 8014 дней назад
T.C. Sterndale-Bennett was the grandson of the great English composer William who was one of Arthur Sullivan's teachers. I came across this humorous parlor piece some time ago and thought it might be fun to do. It dates from the early 1920s but honestly sounds like it could be Victorian. It tells the story of a group of amateur Christmas "waits" in an English village who have robust enthusiasm ...
"Infant Holy, Infant lowly" (arr. Wilberg)
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"Infant Holy, Infant lowly" (arr. Wilberg)
Bach: Pastorale BWV 590
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Bach: Pastorale BWV 590
"We Wish You a Merry Christmas" (arr. Warrell)
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"We Wish You a Merry Christmas" (arr. Warrell)
Willan: The Great "O" Antiphons
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Willan: The Great "O" Antiphons
Fischer: Ricercar pro Tempore Adventus (on "Ave Maria klare")
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Fischer: Ricercar pro Tempore Adventus (on "Ave Maria klare")
Prelude and Postlude for December 15th (Third Sunday in Advent)
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Prelude and Postlude for December 15th (Third Sunday in Advent)
Grimm: "Machet die Tore weit"
Просмотров 5521 день назад
Grimm: "Machet die Tore weit"
Praetorius: "Come, thou Redeemer of the earth" (arr. Willcocks, Cleobury)
Просмотров 20021 день назад
Praetorius: "Come, thou Redeemer of the earth" (arr. Willcocks, Cleobury)
Schild: Herr Christ, der einig Gotts Sohn (chorale variations)
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Schild: Herr Christ, der einig Gotts Sohn (chorale variations)
Bernard: Winter Wonderland (arr. Shizu)
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Bernard: Winter Wonderland (arr. Shizu)
Rutter: "Of a rose, a lovely rose" (from Magnificat)
Просмотров 14221 день назад
Rutter: "Of a rose, a lovely rose" (from Magnificat)
Pachelbel: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland
Просмотров 19921 день назад
Pachelbel: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland
Prelude and Postlude for December 8th (Second Sunday in Advent)
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Prelude and Postlude for December 8th (Second Sunday in Advent)
Menotti: "O woman, you may keep the gold" (from "Amahl and the Night Visitors")
Просмотров 7628 дней назад
Menotti: "O woman, you may keep the gold" (from "Amahl and the Night Visitors")
"On Jordan's bank the Baptist's Cry" (arr. Archer)
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"On Jordan's bank the Baptist's Cry" (arr. Archer)

Комментарии

  • @gregschmidt3604
    @gregschmidt3604 4 часа назад

    Awesome. I had to write a paper on this "Now Sleeps..." in college. I got a d+ as the professor said I missed the point. Evidently it is about sex (or so he read it as such). I was too naive to figure that out. Go figure. Happy New Year!

  • @mrcuttime22
    @mrcuttime22 День назад

    Wow, this is really quite colorful and lively! Thanks!

  • @LudwigAustin
    @LudwigAustin 3 дня назад

    Omg i love this!!

  • @penelopebateman6024
    @penelopebateman6024 3 дня назад

    Nice. I’d forgotten this version

  • @LudwigAustin
    @LudwigAustin 4 дня назад

    What an interesting pacing on this one ..lovely

  • @kathyjohnson2043
    @kathyjohnson2043 10 дней назад

    Merry ChristmasW

  • @gregschmidt3604
    @gregschmidt3604 11 дней назад

    Beautiful, as always. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah to you and your family.

  • @jonathanclemens4660
    @jonathanclemens4660 11 дней назад

    Love this piece! Thanks for posting

  • @musicstewart9744
    @musicstewart9744 11 дней назад

    Thanks for posting this!

  • @LudwigAustin
    @LudwigAustin 12 дней назад

    Ohhh yesss ...glorious WBT!!!

  • @kathyjohnson2043
    @kathyjohnson2043 12 дней назад

    How I do love this piece!!

  • @JonathanSilverton-ol7kn
    @JonathanSilverton-ol7kn 13 дней назад

    I liked all of these pieces. Especially the Eaglefield Hull one whichwas new to me. . As a boy ,my old choirmaster had sung in his choir in Huddersfield. It felt today that his tragic death was caused by overwork and confusion rather than any deliberate attempt to decieve. He was in his day a great force for good in the West Riding of Yorkshire

  • @bobbyb9263
    @bobbyb9263 16 дней назад

    Beautiful. Merry Christmas!

  • @maxlaushintertupfingen4611
    @maxlaushintertupfingen4611 16 дней назад

    I Love it. But i really can‘t find the score

    • @ThomasDawkins88
      @ThomasDawkins88 16 дней назад

      I transcribed it from a couple of sources, one of which was the manuscript. If you send me an email, I'm happy to send you a copy.

  • @gillchatfield3231
    @gillchatfield3231 17 дней назад

    Thanks for the extra background information.

  • @aamara18
    @aamara18 18 дней назад

    I was trying to find the written lyrics to this piece, then I stumbled upon this. This is so beautiful! Reading along while listening really brought the song to life, and you have such a cool voice :)

  • @gregschmidt3604
    @gregschmidt3604 19 дней назад

    Nicely done, as always. Will there be any other composers named after a King (or Wise Man) during advent? Or better yet, Epiphany?

    • @ThomasDawkins88
      @ThomasDawkins88 18 дней назад

      Actually, today's selection was by Johann Caspar Fischer, so now I just have to find a Balthazar.

  • @clarekuehn4372
    @clarekuehn4372 19 дней назад

    That's so beautiful! Please write the lyrics to the original tune, putting them into the description below the video.

  • @raulsimon2218
    @raulsimon2218 20 дней назад

    Interesting music. Sounds like Heinrich Schuetz.

  • @andrewferguson5653
    @andrewferguson5653 21 день назад

    That was charming!

  • @frederickadeberry8122
    @frederickadeberry8122 22 дня назад

    Lovely. I really liike this.

  • @kathyjohnson2043
    @kathyjohnson2043 23 дня назад

    agree about the Pops!

  • @borislavtanev4358
    @borislavtanev4358 26 дней назад

    Sounds really good 👍😀

  • @gillchatfield3231
    @gillchatfield3231 26 дней назад

    Love the comment that an organ is a box of recorders with one pitch each!

  • @bobbyb9263
    @bobbyb9263 26 дней назад

    Lovely setting with the recorders. I’m playing the organ arrangement this season.

  • @MizzKittyBichon
    @MizzKittyBichon 26 дней назад

    I always enjoy discovering more of Pachelbel's works. As for the often forgotten gigue, I really like the Academy of Ancient Music version by Christopher Hogwood which includes both the canon and the gigue and is played with period instruments.

  • @frankk.777
    @frankk.777 27 дней назад

    Just beautiful

  • @ottotheweinerdog676
    @ottotheweinerdog676 29 дней назад

    Absolutely beautiful! The use of nun danke alles Gott was very appropriate considering that lyrics largely revolved around the 30 year war.

  • @bobbyb9263
    @bobbyb9263 29 дней назад

    Lovely descant.

  • @classycafe29
    @classycafe29 29 дней назад

    日本から、こんにちは。  グーテンベルクは 紙(paper) から 神(GOD)。になった。 大和言葉の kami  同音異義語。 日本における、gutenbergは 木版印刷での、ukiyo-e のKatushika Hokusai。 彼は神でなく、星になった。 戴斗という星になっている。 クリスマスの日には、サンタクロースに化身するという。そうして墨田区のトリフォニーホールにて、「北斎カンタータ」が歌われる予定は未定。

  • @kathyjohnson2043
    @kathyjohnson2043 Месяц назад

    One of my very favorites!!! Thank you.

  • @sampeled2727
    @sampeled2727 Месяц назад

    Hi. Thanks for your postings. Any idea who the publisher is of Easy Fun Pieces for the Recorder?

  • @djoldskool5763
    @djoldskool5763 Месяц назад

    Happy Thanksgiving 🦃

  • @gregschmidt3604
    @gregschmidt3604 Месяц назад

    Well done, as always. Happy Thanksgiving! BTW - I think that picture could be you in 20 years (although with a pony tail and longer tails).

  • @pl8154
    @pl8154 Месяц назад

    This is why Beethoven called him pedantic.

    • @ThomasDawkins88
      @ThomasDawkins88 Месяц назад

      I don't disagree with you. As four-hand pieces of this type are often used for teaching, though, I don't think it's a big deal. I also won't be playing the complete set of them, though!

  • @willamjacky403
    @willamjacky403 Месяц назад

    太帅了🎉

  • @kathyjohnson2043
    @kathyjohnson2043 Месяц назад

    Love H's Hideaway! I once got to be the on-stage strolling violin in that scene and I met my future spouse there. Thanks for a great performance.

  • @LudwigAustin
    @LudwigAustin Месяц назад

    Omg this is amazing

  • @JonathanSilverton-ol7kn
    @JonathanSilverton-ol7kn Месяц назад

    I have a copy of the Blair piece somewhere.This has prompted me to hunt it out.

  • @RikardPeterson
    @RikardPeterson Месяц назад

    Just want to say that I appreciate that you write a lot about the pieces you play in the video description. (I know many people tend to not read those, but I always do and I find that bit of information to be interesting.)

  • @andrewferguson5653
    @andrewferguson5653 Месяц назад

    That was spooky!

  • @Naeddyr
    @Naeddyr 2 месяца назад

    Finally, some good RUclips recommendations.

  • @sanderfagot6889
    @sanderfagot6889 2 месяца назад

    Thanks for your upload! I love it

  • @AndyJugglesLanguages
    @AndyJugglesLanguages 2 месяца назад

    My duettist and I have been practising Bach's Double VIolin Concerto on two alto recorders for years. We call it Gadget because the opening movement, when played jazzily sounds like Inspector Gadget. We have to get this music.

    • @piccolo8va1
      @piccolo8va1 2 месяца назад

      We need to find two friends to join us!

  • @edfriday7709
    @edfriday7709 2 месяца назад

    Dare I ask? Is this available as sheet music?

    • @ThomasDawkins88
      @ThomasDawkins88 2 месяца назад

      It's on MuseScore: musescore.com/user/26121171/scores/6048254

  • @JonnyMusicOrganist
    @JonnyMusicOrganist 2 месяца назад

    This was brilliant! Thanks for this endearing performance. 😊

    • @ThomasDawkins88
      @ThomasDawkins88 2 месяца назад

      Isn't it fun? I love it.

    • @JonnyMusicOrganist
      @JonnyMusicOrganist 2 месяца назад

      @@ThomasDawkins88 Indeed it was! I grew up with this cartoon. 😃 I liked it so much that I also produced my own organ cover of its theme song. Have you listened/watched it before by any chance? 😊 ruclips.net/video/5H89LN0e0Vk/видео.html

  • @MizzKittyBichon
    @MizzKittyBichon 2 месяца назад

    Listening to this while it's raining and thundering like crazy outside. So perfectly spoooooooky! ⛈

  • @kathyjohnson2043
    @kathyjohnson2043 2 месяца назад

    🎶😈🎶 nice!

  • @kathyjohnson2043
    @kathyjohnson2043 2 месяца назад

    I've played the violin solo from Danse Macabre since I was a pre-teen and I never knew there was a song! Happy Halloween.

  • @michaelhill6543
    @michaelhill6543 2 месяца назад

    A very satisfying piece to play on recorder