Organ featured on Choral Evensong broadcasts

[ardcarp]

Organ at St George's, Windsor

http://www.nicholsonorgans.co.uk/pf/windsor-sgc/

[ardcarp]

Our Lady of Victories, Kensington

https://www.ourladyofvictories.net/grand-organ.html

Late edit: There is an article about this organ in the April edition of Choir and Organ.

This link posted by lento: https://www.npor.org.uk/NPORView.html?RI=S00149

Apparently on the Bombarde manual, the Trompette Pontificale was, at the blessing and consecration of the organ, dedicated thus:

16' to to the parish priest
8' to The Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster
4' to His Holiness Pope Francis

Slightly ironically, the 3 stops are all of the same rank (!).

[ardcarp]

York Minster

Pulcinella has kindly sent me this link.

https://d10okuw2vik61v.cloudfront.net/uploads/2019/02/York-Minster-Specification-Final-Version.pdf

[Pulcinella]

York Minster

Pulcinella has kindly sent me this link.

https://d10okuw2vik61v.cloudfront.ne...al-Version.pdf

This book may also be of interest to those who frequent this thread:

The Organs of York Minster: 1236 – 2021 by Dr Nicholas Thistlethwaite

https://shop.yorkminster.org/product/the-organs-of-york-minster-1236-2021-by-dr-nicholas-thistlethwaite/

[Jazzrook]

I'm not usually a fan of church organ music but was bowled over by a piece titled 'Paean' by Kenneth Leighton at the end of Choral Evensong last Sunday, 26 June(just before Jazz Record Requests).
Not sure who the organist was.
Can anyone recommend a recording of this?

JR

[Pulcinella]

I'm not usually a fan of church organ music but was bowled over by a piece titled 'Paean' by Kenneth Leighton at the end of Choral Evensong last Sunday, 26 June(just before Jazz Record Requests).
Not sure who the organist was.
Can anyone recommend a recording of this?

JR

Not that many available, and you may well be influenced by what else is included:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/works/57099--leighton-paean/browse?size=10&view=large

I have the Simon Preston set.
If you can stream, you might be able to trace some of the compilations/sets and give them an airing.

The organist you heard will have been Ian Wicks:

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?24108-CE-Chapel-of-Rugby-School-Wed-22nd-June-2022-R/page4

[Jazzrook]

Not that many available, and you may well be influenced by what else is included:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/works/57099--leighton-paean/browse?size=10&view=large

I have the Simon Preston set.
If you can stream, you might be able to trace some of the compilations/sets and give them an airing.

The organist you heard will gave been Ian Wicks:

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...e-2022-R/page4

Many thanks, Pulcinella.
Am considering ordering this Kenneth Leighton CD with organist Dennis Townhill:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=tijffgYpoHo

JR

[ardcarp]

but was bowled over by a piece titled 'Paean' by Kenneth Leighton at the end of Choral Evensong last Sunday, 26 June

Yes it's a great piece.

[ardcarp]

Lambeth Palace

Electronic???

[Finzi4ever]

Lambeth Palace

Electronic???

Evident from the very first sounds of b/c

[Finzi4ever]

Evident from the very first sounds of b/c

https://viscountorgans.net/organ-lambeth-palace-chapel/

[ardcarp]

Some churches just cannot afford a good pipe organ, or cannot afford to have an old, failing pipe organ restored. Some time ago I was asked to advise on an organ for a brand new Methodist church near where I live. Hands were thrown up in horror at the price of a pipe organ...both the price of a modest-sized new one, or the price of having a secondhand instrument that was becoming available transplanted and re-built. (The latter wasn't a good idea anyway.) So having heard good reports of Copeman Hart, I delved a bit deeper. I've no idea what they are like nowadays or who owns the 'brand', but back then (30+years ago?) they had many things in their favour. For a start they didn't (as I understand it) do digital sampling, but 'voiced' their ranks individually, choosing the attack and the range of overtones as a pipe-maker might do. They were also very determined about speaker placement. They co-ordinated with the church architect to have two specially-built brick-built structures forming part of the rear wall in which to place the bass speakers where they produce
a much better sound. (Nothing worse than ugly boxes stuck randomly on a wall.)

I have to say that as a sceptic about electronics, I was astonished at the result and at the care which Copeman Hart took over the installation. I respected also their decision to scale the organ (a modest 2-manual) to suit the church and the church's needs. I still play it occasionally when asked to accompany something, and I have to say it is the most convincing electronic organ I've ever come across. Nothing worse than a small church with an electronic wannabe cathedral organ!

[Vile Consort]

Lambeth Palace

Electronic???

Painfully so.

Surely a service of Tudor music with a hired box organ would have been preferable.

[ardcarp]

Eton College Chapel

https://mander-organs.com/eton-college-chapel/

[ardcarp]

Edington Priory

When we attended the Festival some 50 years ago, the church had a fairly standard 'village church organ' that wasn't really up to the standard of music being preformed. Then, recently, came the new Harrison:

https://www.harrisonorgans.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Edington-Priory-full-2021-to-print.pdf