Dr William Mathias, taken from us far too early. You listen to the music written today and you can usually here the influence of other people's work within. Not with Mathias - he has always remained refreshingly unique and original!!! He'll always remain one of my 'A listers'!!!!
Oxford publish some stunning organ music. For those who like William Mathias, have a good technique (and a 4 manual organ), try his "Invocations". It once took me the whole summer holidays to learn when I was a student. All my (wonderful) teacher had to say was "well, I wondered what it would sound like". He was a master of understatement and this was....high praise!
What a great piece this is! I haven't played it for years (can't play it at all now, thanks to arthritic hips), and I have to say CH's tempo suits it admirably. In retrospect, I used to play it far too quickly in those far off days.
I believe so. My parents often coincided with Chris Herrick at Kingston Parish Church back in the 90s and tell me that, when I was a toddler (I'm 21 now) Chris and his wife had a baby daughter called Izzy... so IzzyH93 claiming to be Chris Herrick's daughter seems entirely believable. Chris isn't just a phenomenally talented organist, either, but one of the nicest people you could wish to meet, if outwardly a little austere in manner.
Yes I can ascertain that. My mother is related to him. When she met him at a concert he said I know who you are. He signed her CD with a lovely message I remember as did he mine. He is also a very talented organist.
Great recording of the St Paul's organ - interesting how he carries the melody on the Royal Trumpets (a good 300ft west of the rest!) with the accompaniment on the chancel organ - then uses the Tubas (presumably the old Willis ones in the Dome) for the Whistle While You Werk, Hitler is a Twerp (shades of Private Pike in Dad's Army!) fanfare at the end.
Here you really can feel it,thou I tried when I had my repetoire up to date...*sighs* Just started after a complete pause for 3 years.......ARGHHHHH,well I tried it in several churches ,small and "medium". Its great .....well you gotta have a good feeling for the setup,:)....Its worth experimenting ....especially with this one
Well ,when you practice it ......but when you play it full on,with everything its a wonderfull piece.Especially when you play the deep .....in a fairly large church,it has to be LARGE...:D
You sure about that? Sounds like the RTs to me - the only thing is that a55b47 notes that the recording was made before the Mander rebuild. I don't know, people often seem to think that a particular recording is pre-Mander when in fact it isn't, they just convince themselves that it sounds far better than it does now...
Dr William Mathias, taken from us far too early. You listen to the music written today and you can usually here the influence of other people's work within. Not with Mathias - he has always remained refreshingly unique and original!!! He'll always remain one of my 'A listers'!!!!
Oxford publish some stunning organ music.
For those who like William Mathias, have a good technique (and a 4 manual organ), try his "Invocations". It once took me the whole summer holidays to learn when I was a student.
All my (wonderful) teacher had to say was "well, I wondered what it would sound like".
He was a master of understatement and this was....high praise!
What a great piece this is! I haven't played it for years (can't play it at all now, thanks to arthritic hips), and I have to say CH's tempo suits it admirably. In retrospect, I used to play it far too quickly in those far off days.
Woow!! This is lovely stuff:)!! Thanks a lot!!
Yours,
LSA
This was my Grade VII exam piece - I passed!
I believe so. My parents often coincided with Chris Herrick at Kingston Parish Church back in the 90s and tell me that, when I was a toddler (I'm 21 now) Chris and his wife had a baby daughter called Izzy... so IzzyH93 claiming to be Chris Herrick's daughter seems entirely believable. Chris isn't just a phenomenally talented organist, either, but one of the nicest people you could wish to meet, if outwardly a little austere in manner.
Yes I can ascertain that. My mother is related to him. When she met him at a concert he said I know who you are. He signed her CD with a lovely message I remember as did he mine. He is also a very talented organist.
Great recording of the St Paul's organ - interesting how he carries the melody on the Royal Trumpets (a good 300ft west of the rest!) with the accompaniment on the chancel organ - then uses the Tubas (presumably the old Willis ones in the Dome) for the Whistle While You Werk, Hitler is a Twerp (shades of Private Pike in Dad's Army!) fanfare at the end.
It's the Trompette Militaire. The Royal Trumpets hadn't been installed when this recording was made.
Here you really can feel it,thou I tried when I had my repetoire up to date...*sighs* Just started after a complete pause for 3 years.......ARGHHHHH,well I tried it in several churches ,small and "medium". Its great .....well you gotta have a good feeling for the setup,:)....Its worth experimenting ....especially with this one
Well ,when you practice it ......but when you play it full on,with everything its a wonderfull piece.Especially when you play the deep .....in a fairly large church,it has to be LARGE...:D
It's the Trompette Militaire surely?
I'd have to believe your right, the Trompette Militaire as well as Tubas. there were no Royal Trumpets or west section back in 1969.
You sure about that? Sounds like the RTs to me - the only thing is that a55b47 notes that the recording was made before the Mander rebuild. I don't know, people often seem to think that a particular recording is pre-Mander when in fact it isn't, they just convince themselves that it sounds far better than it does now...
This is a pre Mander recording. There is no doubt about that and it is most certainly the Trompette Militaire.
The Royal Trumpets are in just before the end