Wishing everyone a peaceful and very Happy Christmas, with good health and enjoyment in the wonderful Christmas music that seems to get better each year!
Wishing everyone to whom it means something, a very 'Happy Easter'! Enjoy the music, the eggs and the springtime ....... unless of course you're 'down under', in which case your eggs might be hidden under a carpet of leaves! :grin:
Want to purchase an All-in-one Music System specifically to play CDs - predominantly organ and classical music, but which make/system is best? Preferably one with inbuilt speakers.
Christmas is fast approaching! It would be good to know what choices the 'experts' are making for voluntaries this year. Any recommendations too would be welcome, for interest if for no other reason.
Have recently been watching Vincent Dubois on YouTube, and am curious to know the process(es) used to enable organists of his calibre to perform vast tracts of music totally from memory. Anyone got some theories ...... or knowledge?
I was fortunate enough to 'sit-in' on a couple of improvisation workshops with Sietze de Vries a few days ago and also to attend a concert where he was improvising. Wonderful!
A link here from youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr_NN-DYtpE
Unfortunately the other two links I posted turned out...
Robert Bennesh, guide and organist, features in a series of 8 videos entitled 'Great Organs of Malmo', compiled as part of his Master's thesis at Malmo Academy of Music.
4. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW08UaiCNdA
7. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjTWoZjhFKg
These are links to only two of the videos...
A recording here of the Adagio from Bach's Toccata, Adagio and Fugue BWV 564 with Peter Hurford at the organ of the Church of Our Lady at Sorrows in Toronto.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5QNLSzmNP4
Here Willem van Twillert plays 'Pie Jesu' as an organ solo:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PymS6q3C4NM
and here, on the same organ, he plays 'Festival Postlude in C' by Cuthbert Harris, and speaks about the registration set-up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XGJCVCGPW8
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