Have been feeling very nostalgic today as my parents were married 72 years ago on August 23, 1952. Then I listened to this video with "Handel's Largo" that was played at their wedding. Mother loved the piece and talked often of her wedding day. When she passed away in December 1998 she chose for her funeral, "Thine Be the Glory, Risen Conquering Son." Perfect video for a nostalgic day. Thanks Ben.
Happy Resurrection Day to all who count themselves crucified, buried and risen with our risen Lamb! This is a very fine Easter treat, Ben. I enjoy touring the soggy English countryside with you and time traveling through centuries of stony church history. Blessings!
"Postlude for Mechanical Action" is brilliant. Modern, yet timeless. Written for the best and most logical intellectual reasons. yet intensely emotional. Your future as a composer is secure. You'll never be reduced to standing by the roadside holding a sign that says: "Will Play For Chutney." Somehow, Valerie's "spirit" seems to be in that organ (even though she's obviously very much alive). Did you sense it? The wood, the pedals , the pipes, the keys all seem to have something of her in them. No wonder she was happy to place it in your able hands.
Rejoice, o my soul, in Christ, the Risen Saviour! Ben, your narrating is truly wonderful, so beautifully English. Thank you for this wonderful recital.
Just had to comment when I got to the end of the video and the piece you have written. Postcode to mechanical action. It prompted me to simply say Brn you are a genius. Your piece achieved its purpose and end. Your videos are an absolute delight. The music the visuals, your comments and just everything about these presentations is a credit to you. Every blessing to you and thank you for brightening our day
Bless your heart Ben. My mother was a church organist (got her Masters in Michigan, USA in 1933 !) I have loved this music all of my life and have missed it so much over the years. Thank you for bringing us not only the gift of the music, but everything else you offer, program notes on so much and many varied yet pertinent facts, the beauty of the churches, grounds and countryside on film, and more. You are inspired, and a gracing to me and I'm sure us all.Thank you. Thank you Thank you 🙏🌷🤗
Couldn’t have a better Easter than one with Ben Gifted ,Talented and Blessed Beyond Measure. Brings Solace And Peace Always. A real pleasure to see and listen to. Richest Blessings and Grateful Thanks To You Ben from Scotland
Hello Ben, Trying to put my 5 month old grandson to sleep and as soon as he heard you playing Handel’s Largo he relaxed and went straight to sleep. Absolutely beautiful music and playing. I love your composition too, Ben. Thankyou 😊
My father’s cousin Fred used to play the Largo every year at our family Christmas concert. I think it was the only piece he remembered from his boyhood lessons. He played it lovingly and gently.
Thine be the glory, risen conquering son, with music by Handel, is my very favourite hymn. Ben’s 24 videos since last October have attracted just over a million views, unequalled by any other organist in such a short time. To count oneself a member of Ben’s RUclips family is to have won one of the best prizes in life’s lottery.
One of my favourites too. The only further comment I have is that I think he looks older with a beard. Maybe it’s ironic that perhaps when you’re young you want to look older. But when you’re older you’re very keen to look younger. Stay looking young as long as you can. Life tends to creep up on you.
I absolutely love Ben Maton and this great channel. I'm from the UK. ordained in Durham Cathedral. Now living in Urbana Illinois where John Paul Buzard Pipe organs are built. Thankfully I attend The Chapel of St John the Divine Episcopal where we are blessed with one of his organs. Thank you, Ben, for your ministry of music to all of us.
"Postlude for Mechanical Action" was just great!! Nothing like full organ!! I am so glad there was video of your feet on the pedal board!! I love watching organists play the pedal board!! Thank you from Maryland for this Easter video!!!
I had only ever heard that French melody as "Sing We Now of Christmas" before; I didn't know it had other words set to it. The words to that hymn are lovely!
A week or so ago I found myself humming the evocative and tingly anticipatory theme that plays in the Salisbury Organist each week; I sensed a Matonesque quality and curiously, was going to pose the question as to its composer this week. So thanks Ben for the fascinatingly full answer ... and bravo, it does the job clatteringly! Enjoy many a cheese and chutney sandwich in sunny churchyards through the summer and have a great holiday.
Preciosa Iglesia victoriana un bello marco para el Domingo de Pascua de la Resurrección de Nuestro Señor Jesucristo, a El gloria por los siglos de los siglos hasta la consumación de los tiempos. Gracias Ben por estas hemosas piezas para un día especial. Un abrazo virtual desde el este del Reino de España junto al mar Mediterráneo.😊❤
Wonderful stuff Ben. As a retired performer myself and former Head of Keyboard at Trinity College of Music, I really appreciate your presentations. Aside from your fine organ playing and fascinating, discreetly educational programmes, your comments on and appreciation of church architecture are much enjoyed. You have a rare, keen eye for detail. Keep up the good work.
What a blessing to see and hear your mini Easter recital. Your playing is with skill and with emotion. Additionally, you speak with emotion in your videos of the English countryside and the village churches. Thanks for the multiple segments of your pedalboard technique in my favorite organ shoes-Penny Loafers!!!! (rubber waders are sometimes necessary in your village countryside videos. Understand). Blessed Resurrection Day,Ben.
Although I love Bach. And even when all the pieces of music you've played today, they were in my list of favourites. "Postlude for Mechanical Action" was the one that moved my feelings the most. I can't find an adjetive which could best describe my feelings than: Sublime! It is certainly a sublime composition! I was particularly amazed by the parts we hadn't yet heard! I don't want to exaggerate, but I feel it is at the same level of Bach, Albinoni, or any of other great composers. Congratulations, your composition is amidst my most dearest ones! (Of course, this doesn't mean much, as I don't know about musical theory and techniques; but in the end, music should be all about feelings and emotions. The Prince on Dostoevsky's novel "The Idiot" is quoted to have said: "Beauty will save the world." And a question is left opened: "What beauty will save the world?" From my point of view, music is one of the means which drives to that Beauty. As we're made of vibrant energy -or something like that says the "Theory of the Strings" in Quantum Physics- music can move our vibrations into a higher level)
Dostoevsky's "The Idiot" is one of my favorite novels. Years ago when I was in a book discussion group it was my suggestion for one of the monthly readings. To my sorrow, a fair number of the people who read it, disliked it -- a lot! I was so disappointed. But I still love the book.
Ben! Just what I needed! A new video from you works wonders when I’ve been busy doing things. What a nice surprise. I came downstairs to listen to your channel and there it was. "Thine be the Glory" and "Love Divine" seem to be recorded into my head. Two favourites I hear all the time! Happy Easter. Have a great holiday. Liz❤
Ben's cheese and pickle sandwich got a nice upgrade with that wonderful gift selection of chutneys, and the card was heartwarming. Made my heart glad to see him appreciated like this. I always look forward to his videos and music and his latest made Easter even more special.
A tune kept going round and round my head... I couldn't think where I'd heard it... until I found it again here, after a bit of a search, your Postlude composition. Thankfully, I now know where to find it when I require that particular 'fix' 😄 Thank you!
Thank you Ben. I have such good memories with each piece especially "Thine Be The Glory" my late father and I belting it out whenever it came up to be sung in church on a Sunday. Happy and blessed Easter to all.
Thank you for this Easter treat, Ben - a delight as always, especially hearing the full postlude. I'm looking forward to more cheese-and-chutney-fuelled explorations!
Happy Easter, Ben, and thank you for this beautiful program! I had sincerely hoped you would do something for your fans for Easter! It has been such a lovely Easter so far and this video just made it perfect! Thank you for sharing your gift with us!
Ben, thanks so much for sharing this wonderful and healing music! It is so refreshing to hear, it's like nutrition for the soul!!! Easter greetings from Southern California.❤
An inspiring Easter "present". Thank you. Your music choices are superb, but I also greatly respect and admire that you clearly love the words of poets and hymn-writers. Just recently, you have brought so many "voices" back to me. I look forward to hearing what you select from George Herbert. Happy, blessed Easter, Ben to you and your family.
Love the fact that these old organs often have stuff leaning against them like that ladder. I remember mid service once smoke started to come out of the swell box. Turns out for some random reason an ancient heater had turned on and was trying its best to burn it down. Keep up the good work. Would love to sometimes see into workings of these old instruments.
After I watched - and listened to him play “Now the green blade riseth” I decided to see what other recordings there were. I didn’t like any of them. Admittedly, most were on bells. But after Ben’s version they just seemed to race through it at high speed.
Happy and fulfilled Easter, dear Ben! If you're visiting South-Germany, maybe in a holiday, you will find many, many organs with mechanic tracker-action. Keep care of you and thank you for all this wonderful videos. English pipe-organs are having so nice stops. Please continue! Easter-greetings from Swabia, Stephan
A terrific selection of musical pieces to play this week. Of course, that is true every week!. I look forward to your new videos on a more or less weekly basis. From Florida USA.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! I feel privileged to be able to enjoy your superb programs. Inspirational is the word I would use to describe this one.
Three of my favorite hymns: I think Christ lag in Todesbanden is the best Easter hymn. We have similar taste, I think. A great program, Ben. Thank you!
Happy Easter! The recital was amazing. I sang Now the Green Blade Riseth in the choir today. I love that hymn. Also, love the postlude. Absolutely, there is such a warmth to an organ that plays without electricity. The nostalgic sound of such instruments is what sacred music should posses. That mixed with the organ sounds emanating off a solid floor of concrete or marble and that is church to me. Thank you, Ben for your teaching and your beautiful music!
Thank you for playing the Largo from Xerxes. We had that as a prelude at our wedding 42 years ago - where has the time gone?! Would you play the Trumpet Voluntary by Jeremiah Clarke some time? That was our recessional. Both were very popular at 80's weddings. 😊
I just love your Postlude for Mechanical Action, Ben! I was cooking the big Easter Sunday lunch yesterday with snatches of this wonderful piece repeatedly coming into my head, along with those beautiful views of the Wiltshire lanes you travel down on your way to making your videos, and I wondered who had composed this superbly evocative music. So my heart leapt this morning seeing you play this same fabulous piece in full on this week's episode - and to then realise it's your own composition - wow, Ben, you truly are a gifted musician! We are so very lucky in this modern age to be able to enjoy, via the medium of RUclips, what you do. Another donation coming your way! Have a well-deserved Easter break and enjoy those cheese and chutney sandwiches!
Wow end of June & just had the Christmas post & now Easter lol, but l am not complaining & l got to hear your composition which is as good as any composer & better in some cases! It was beautiful!
Happy Easter Ben! Your series is a blessing and boon to like-minded people everywhere! ( I Whatsapp every "show" to friends and family around the world. You're a great ambassador for old Blighty!😊
Alleluia, He is risen! he is risen indeed! Alleluia! Happy Easter, Ben. The Largo for Xerxes is one of my favorites. So, peaceful! Just sang "Now the green blade riseth" twice this morning. The tune is haunting. And your postlude is a proper homage to the earliest organ technology! Bravo!
Thank you for your thoughtful Easter special. I enjoyed hearing all the pieces including your own composition too. Waiting for your next adventure visiting the smaller churches in your area and watching the seasons change in your part of the world. When you run out of churches in your area do you plan to cover other regions?
Thank you so much Ben, for honouring us with your amazing and grand composition ... always loved it as the introduction to your videos, but especially appreciated seeing you play it ... please, please come to Sydney, and play it on the Sydney Town Hall organ ... you would love the magnificent organ, and we would love hearing you ... Titus Greyner is the Town Hall organist, and you can get in touch with him easily online ... he is a fellow composer like you ... With Love and Thanks from Australia ... Enjoy your holiday, but we will miss you ... Susan
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Happy Easter from Malta
When Bach lay on his death bed he told his family "Do not cry for me. For I go where music is born."
What a wonderful quotation.
But he might have gone to the fiery pit, he couldn't know.
@@awreckingball Sign me up for the fiery pit if Bach is there.
Have been feeling very nostalgic today as my parents were married 72 years ago on August 23, 1952. Then I listened to this video with "Handel's Largo" that was played at their wedding. Mother loved the piece and talked often of her wedding day. When she passed away in December 1998 she chose for her funeral, "Thine Be the Glory, Risen Conquering Son." Perfect video for a nostalgic day. Thanks Ben.
Happy Easter to all, and thanks to Ben Maton!
Happy Resurrection Day to all who count themselves crucified, buried and risen with our risen Lamb! This is a very fine Easter treat, Ben. I enjoy touring the soggy English countryside with you and time traveling through centuries of stony church history. Blessings!
Hallelujah! to our Risen Saviour!
Christ is risen! He is risen, indeed!
@@Anagrams458 Amen indeed
@@shaneduyvenedewit8621 Amen indeed
Christ is risen indeed, Alleluia.
"Postlude for Mechanical Action" is brilliant. Modern, yet timeless. Written for the best and most logical intellectual reasons. yet intensely emotional. Your future as a composer is secure. You'll never be reduced to standing by the roadside holding a sign that says: "Will Play For Chutney."
Somehow, Valerie's "spirit" seems to be in that organ (even though she's obviously very much alive). Did you sense it? The wood, the pedals , the pipes, the keys all seem to have something of her in them. No wonder she was happy to place it in your able hands.
Rejoice, o my soul, in Christ, the Risen Saviour!
Ben, your narrating is truly wonderful, so beautifully English. Thank you for this wonderful recital.
Just had to comment when I got to the end of the video and the piece you have written.
Postcode to mechanical action.
It prompted me to simply say Brn you are a genius.
Your piece achieved its purpose and end.
Your videos are an absolute delight.
The music the visuals, your comments and just everything about these presentations is a credit to you.
Every blessing to you and thank you for brightening our day
Opps not Postcode, should be postlude, sorry
Bless your heart Ben. My mother was a church organist (got her Masters in Michigan, USA in 1933 !) I have loved this music all of my life and have missed it so much over the years. Thank you for bringing us not only the gift of the music, but everything else you offer, program notes on so much and many varied yet pertinent facts, the beauty of the churches, grounds and countryside on film, and more. You are inspired, and a gracing to me and I'm sure us all.Thank you. Thank you
Thank you 🙏🌷🤗
Couldn’t have a better Easter than one with Ben
Gifted ,Talented and Blessed Beyond Measure.
Brings Solace And Peace Always.
A real pleasure to see and listen to.
Richest Blessings and Grateful Thanks To You Ben from Scotland
Hello Ben, Trying to put my 5 month old grandson to sleep and as soon as he heard you playing Handel’s Largo he relaxed and went straight to sleep. Absolutely beautiful music and playing. I love your composition too, Ben. Thankyou 😊
From South afrika...
Thank you.
May your grandson learn to love this music as he matures.
My father’s cousin Fred used to play the Largo every year at our family Christmas concert. I think it was the only piece he remembered from his boyhood lessons. He played it lovingly and gently.
Thine be the glory, risen conquering son, with music by Handel, is my very favourite hymn. Ben’s 24 videos since last October have attracted just over a million views, unequalled by any other organist in such a short time. To count oneself a member of Ben’s RUclips family is to have won one of the best prizes in life’s lottery.
One of my favourites too.
The only further comment I have is that I think he looks older with a beard. Maybe it’s ironic that perhaps when you’re young you want to look older. But when you’re older you’re very keen to look younger.
Stay looking young as long as you can. Life tends to creep up on you.
I couldn’t agree more! I’m so glad I found him
Yes so young and full of soul and zest for christ
Same here
I totally agree.
I love watching Ben’s videos ❤🎹🎶
I absolutely love Ben Maton and this great channel. I'm from the UK. ordained in Durham Cathedral. Now living in Urbana Illinois where John Paul Buzard Pipe organs are built. Thankfully I attend The Chapel of St John the Divine Episcopal where we are blessed with one of his organs. Thank you, Ben, for your ministry of music to all of us.
Nice to hear an organ played after being tuned- when it’s at its best. Love “Noel Nouvelet”.
Always a delight to watch your visits to these country parishes and to enjoy your playing. Thank you for the Handel largo - sublime 👍🏻
"Postlude for Mechanical Action" was just great!! Nothing like full organ!! I am so glad there was video of your feet on the pedal board!! I love watching organists play the pedal board!! Thank you from Maryland for this Easter video!!!
I had only ever heard that French melody as "Sing We Now of Christmas" before; I didn't know it had other words set to it. The words to that hymn are lovely!
Yes! I was used to hearing "Sing we Noel..."
That Postlude for Mechanical Action is absolutely fabulous. Thank you.
A week or so ago I found myself humming the evocative and tingly anticipatory theme that plays in the Salisbury Organist each week; I sensed a Matonesque quality and curiously, was going to pose the question as to its composer this week. So thanks Ben for the fascinatingly full answer ... and bravo, it does the job clatteringly! Enjoy many a cheese and chutney sandwich in sunny churchyards through the summer and have a great holiday.
Loved hearing your entire postlude. I'm an old converted pianist who never had college music so especially like to watch your hands and feet.
I’m indebted to you, Ben, for raising my spirits with your wonderful music and I’m learning so much too.
Thank you for preparing and performing these wonderful pieces for this Easter recital! Your playing is delicious, and I love your composition!
Thank you Ben. Have a peaceful and restful break....so appreciate your expertise in so many areas.God bless.
Hi Handsome 👋
Great to watch you play your Easter day music in such a lovely church....😊
Oh, I do love the sound of tracker organs. You can really hear the work of producing the music. Thanks for sharing today's presentation.
Thanks for all the beautiful music, Ben. Especially your own composition. It is both fresh and typical of the genre.
Preciosa Iglesia victoriana un bello marco para el Domingo de Pascua de la Resurrección de Nuestro Señor Jesucristo, a El gloria por los siglos de los siglos hasta la consumación de los tiempos. Gracias Ben por estas hemosas piezas para un día especial. Un abrazo virtual desde el este del Reino de España junto al mar Mediterráneo.😊❤
Wonderful stuff Ben. As a retired performer myself and former Head of Keyboard at Trinity College of Music, I really appreciate your presentations. Aside from your fine organ playing and fascinating, discreetly educational programmes, your comments on and appreciation of church architecture are much enjoyed. You have a rare, keen eye for detail. Keep up the good work.
Happy Easter to you too, dear Ben, and thank you for your lovely videos and music.
Bravo, Ben! What a gift to your patrons for Easter!
Beautiful music thank you Ben.
What a blessing to see and hear your mini Easter recital. Your playing is with skill and with emotion. Additionally, you speak with emotion in your videos of the English countryside and the village churches. Thanks for the multiple segments of your pedalboard technique in my favorite organ shoes-Penny Loafers!!!! (rubber waders are sometimes necessary in your village countryside videos. Understand). Blessed Resurrection Day,Ben.
Thank you for a wonderful concert - a Sunday highlight. Best wishes from Canada.
Although I love Bach. And even when all the pieces of music you've played today, they were in my list of favourites. "Postlude for Mechanical Action" was the one that moved my feelings the most.
I can't find an adjetive which could best describe my feelings than: Sublime!
It is certainly a sublime composition! I was particularly amazed by the parts we hadn't yet heard! I don't want to exaggerate, but I feel it is at the same level of Bach, Albinoni, or any of other great composers.
Congratulations, your composition is amidst my most dearest ones! (Of course, this doesn't mean much, as I don't know about musical theory and techniques; but in the end, music should be all about feelings and emotions. The Prince on Dostoevsky's novel "The Idiot" is quoted to have said: "Beauty will save the world." And a question is left opened: "What beauty will save the world?" From my point of view, music is one of the means which drives to that Beauty. As we're made of vibrant energy -or something like that says the "Theory of the Strings" in Quantum Physics- music can move our vibrations into a higher level)
Dostoevsky's "The Idiot" is one of my favorite novels. Years ago when I was in a book discussion group it was my suggestion for one of the monthly readings. To my sorrow, a fair number of the people who read it, disliked it -- a lot! I was so disappointed. But I still love the book.
Thank you Ben for this beautiful recital.
Ben! Just what I needed! A new video from you works wonders when I’ve been busy doing things. What a nice surprise. I came downstairs to listen to your channel and there it was. "Thine be the Glory" and "Love Divine" seem to be recorded into my head. Two favourites I hear all the time! Happy Easter. Have a great holiday.
Liz❤
Thank you for the beautiful music. Blessings, 💕🙏🙏🇺🇸
How great ! I get to enjoy another episode with Ben Maton
Ben's cheese and pickle sandwich got a nice upgrade with that wonderful gift selection of chutneys, and the card was heartwarming. Made my heart glad to see him appreciated like this. I always look forward to his videos and music and his latest made Easter even more special.
A tune kept going round and round my head... I couldn't think where I'd heard it... until I found it again here, after a bit of a search, your Postlude composition. Thankfully, I now know where to find it when I require that particular 'fix' 😄 Thank you!
Absolutely love postlude have played it time and time again
Happy Easter Ben thank you again for wonderful video god bless you till I hear you again 🙏
Have a blessed Easter,Ben ! Thank you !
Thank you Ben. I have such good memories with each piece especially "Thine Be The Glory" my late father and I belting it out whenever it came up to be sung in church on a Sunday.
Happy and blessed Easter to all.
Thank you for this Easter treat, Ben - a delight as always, especially hearing the full postlude. I'm looking forward to more cheese-and-chutney-fuelled explorations!
Thank you for the wonderful Easter music.
Happy Easter Ben and to all who follow you on RUclips.
Happy Easter, Ben! It was wonderful to hear the postlude in it's entirety. Much thanks!
Happy Easter, Ben, and thank you for this beautiful program! I had sincerely hoped you would do something for your fans for Easter! It has been such a lovely Easter so far and this video just made it perfect! Thank you for sharing your gift with us!
Thank you. This is so welcome on this Sunday and Easter.
Cheese and chutney sandwich. Valerie is a trooper.
Ben, thanks so much for sharing this wonderful and healing music! It is so refreshing to hear, it's like nutrition for the soul!!! Easter
greetings from Southern California.❤
An inspiring Easter "present". Thank you. Your music choices are superb, but I also greatly respect and admire that you clearly love the words of poets and hymn-writers. Just recently, you have brought so many "voices" back to me. I look forward to hearing what you select from George Herbert.
Happy, blessed Easter, Ben to you and your family.
Love the fact that these old organs often have stuff leaning against them like that ladder. I remember mid service once smoke started to come out of the swell box. Turns out for some random reason an ancient heater had turned on and was trying its best to burn it down. Keep up the good work. Would love to sometimes see into workings of these old instruments.
Great playing, as usual.. AND a fantastic haircut!!
A delightful way to finish Easter Sunday. Your subscribers in Northants and Huntingdoneshire are growing!
I have never heard that Largo (Handel) played so beautifully and movingly.
Would you consider offering for sale a recording of this recital?
After I watched - and listened to him play “Now the green blade riseth” I decided to see what other recordings there were. I didn’t like any of them. Admittedly, most were on bells. But after Ben’s version they just seemed to race through it at high speed.
Happy Easter Ben and all listeners.
😊🎹
Happy and fulfilled Easter, dear Ben!
If you're visiting South-Germany, maybe in a holiday, you will find many, many organs with mechanic tracker-action.
Keep care of you and thank you for all this wonderful videos. English pipe-organs are having so nice stops. Please continue!
Easter-greetings from Swabia,
Stephan
You are amazing organist. Thank you for sharing your beautiful music with us.
Blessings to you, Ben, hope you have a wonderful Easter! I love the hymn, Thine is the Glory.
Your first Bach piece is one of my favorites
You are a treasure. Happy Easter.. Great postlude.
Your performance just gave me the perfect gift for this special day, Easter 2024. Thank you very much!
A terrific selection of musical pieces to play this week. Of course, that is true every week!. I look forward to your new videos on a more or less weekly basis. From Florida USA.
I love your postlude!
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! I feel privileged to be able to enjoy your superb programs. Inspirational is the word I would use to describe this one.
Ben, thank you very much!!!
Three of my favorite hymns: I think Christ lag in Todesbanden is the best Easter hymn. We have similar taste, I think. A great program, Ben. Thank you!
Oooh! That chutney looks delish! Cheese & Chutney sarnies! Oh yeah! The music was good too! 😄🙋🏴🇮🇪🙏
Happy Easter! The recital was amazing. I sang Now the Green Blade Riseth in the choir today. I love that hymn. Also, love the postlude. Absolutely, there is such a warmth to an organ that plays without electricity. The nostalgic sound of such instruments is what sacred music should posses. That mixed with the organ sounds emanating off a solid floor of concrete or marble and that is church to me. Thank you, Ben for your teaching and your beautiful music!
Thanks for that mini recital, and your very own written piece, was very good indeed.
Fabulous, thank you and best wishes to,you and yours. I’m sure I remember Steve Winwood playing and singing that French one
Blessings on this Easter Sunday !
Thank you for playing the Largo from Xerxes. We had that as a prelude at our wedding 42 years ago - where has the time gone?!
Would you play the Trumpet Voluntary by Jeremiah Clarke some time? That was our recessional. Both were very popular at 80's weddings. 😊
Love your videos , there always so informative and inspiring ❤🇺🇸
The tuned organ sounds marvelous!!😊
Well played, very nicely voiced organ despite the lack of upper work
Now the Green Blade Rises is my absolute favorite Easter hymn. Thank you for playing it.
I just love your Postlude for Mechanical Action, Ben! I was cooking the big Easter Sunday lunch yesterday with snatches of this wonderful piece repeatedly coming into my head, along with those beautiful views of the Wiltshire lanes you travel down on your way to making your videos, and I wondered who had composed this superbly evocative music. So my heart leapt this morning seeing you play this same fabulous piece in full on this week's episode - and to then realise it's your own composition - wow, Ben, you truly are a gifted musician! We are so very lucky in this modern age to be able to enjoy, via the medium of RUclips, what you do. Another donation coming your way! Have a well-deserved Easter break and enjoy those cheese and chutney sandwiches!
Very interesting music, and honestly, I love how you're doing so good. Have a good easter!
Great composition Ben. Keep up the good work. Cheers
Happy Easter! Thank you for the lovely 🎶
Wow end of June & just had the Christmas post & now Easter lol, but l am not complaining & l got to hear your composition which is as good as any composer & better in some cases! It was beautiful!
Thank you , Ben, for this wonderful Easter offering. ❤
Happy Easter Ben! Your series is a blessing and boon to like-minded people everywhere! ( I Whatsapp every "show" to friends and family around the world. You're a great ambassador for old Blighty!😊
Thank you Ben and Happy Easter to you and your family. I loved this one Blessings to Valerie!
Alleluia, He is risen! he is risen indeed! Alleluia! Happy Easter, Ben. The Largo for Xerxes is one of my favorites. So, peaceful! Just sang "Now the green blade riseth" twice this morning. The tune is haunting. And your postlude is a proper homage to the earliest organ technology! Bravo!
A blessed Easter! Wonderful!
I always loved "Thine b the Glory" but you have given me an even greater love for it with your dedicated playing and promotion of it, Ben!
Happy Easter,Ben 🙂
What a great video! Loved your Postlude for Mechanical Action. A grace-filled Easter to you, too.
Thanks for your uplifting recital, everytime a joy to experience
Thank you Ben a wonderful Easter gift to your viewers and the Postlude was awesome to hear in its entirety.. Happy Easter to you from Cape Town.
I'm so happy your played your written "Postlude" in it's entirety. ❤
Can I buy the music for it?
Thank you for your thoughtful Easter special. I enjoyed hearing all the pieces including your own composition too. Waiting for your next adventure visiting the smaller churches in your area and watching the seasons change in your part of the world. When you run out of churches in your area do you plan to cover other regions?
There are 375 Parish churches in Wiltshire . . . even if dear Ben manages to keep up one a week, that's over 7 years worth of filming & editing!😏
Often wondered what your theme music was. Absolutely fantastic to finally hear the whole song. Thank you
Thank you so much Ben, for honouring us with your amazing and grand composition ... always loved it as the introduction to your videos, but especially appreciated seeing you play it ... please, please come to Sydney, and play it on the Sydney Town Hall organ ... you would love the magnificent organ, and we would love hearing you ... Titus Greyner is the Town Hall organist, and you can get in touch with him easily online ... he is a fellow composer like you ... With Love and Thanks from Australia ... Enjoy your holiday, but we will miss you ... Susan
Delightful, Ben! Likewise Happy Easter! Masterfully done! 👏🏻👏🏻