Director of Music, St Peter's Petersfield. Recitalist & Teacher. YouTube: markdanceranacrusismusic
Waterlooville, Hants
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Samuel Sebastian #Wesley died otd 150 years ago in 1876. Here’s some organ music that isn’t the Choral Song & Fugue nor the Larghetto in F sharp minor!
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#Sundaymusic this week is part four of my #EightShort #PreludesandFugues series and it’s Number 4, the F major, which is possibly the most overtly cheerful of the set.
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More from Gloucester for this week’s #Sundaymusic. Here is Herbert #Howells’ reflective #PsalmPrelude Set 2, No 2, based on Psalm 139, verse 11: very Howells but with a dash of #VaughanWilliams in the mix!
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Some gentle music from Gloucester for this week’s #Sundaymusic – Herbert #Sumsion’s #Saraband and #Interlude. This makes a beautiful introduction/prelude to a Sunday morning service or for the signing at a wedding. Sumsion does write a good melodic line!
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This week’s #Suundaymusic is the third in my three weekly series of the “Eight Short” Preludes & Fugues once attributed to #Bach. The seventh in A minor is really something of a Fantasia and Fugue, the former being somewhat fragmentary in style.
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Another gentle chorale prelude by Hubert #Parry for my voluntary at Choral Evensong at @stpetersfield is this week’s #Sundaymusic: ‘Eventide’, the tune for ‘Abide with me’, with a surprising syncopated little figure that runs throughout.
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François #Couperin was arguably the greatest #French #Baroque composer for the organ, yet left only two organ masses for the instrument. Here are the five movements of the #Kyrie from the one for the use of convents.
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To round off August’s #Sundaymusic here is another of #Bach’s(?) Eight Short Preludes & Fugues, the second one in D minor. Unpretentious, but ‘does what it says on the tin’, as the slogan goes.
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Today’s #Sundaymusic features one of the most beautiful melodies ever written: #Greensleeves. #VaughanWilliams memorably used it in his opera ‘Sir John in Love’, whence it was later arranged into the well-known #Fantasia of that name.
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For those not enjoying the heat – and everyone else! – here is #Parry’s delightful #Chorale #Prelude on the tune #Martyrdom, “As pants the hart for cooling streams”, a beautifully placid piece of writing.
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Auctor Ignotus for this week’s #Sundaymusic, this, in G minor, is the sixth of the “Eight Short Preludes and Fugues” once attributed to #Bach. All sorts of names have been suggested without actual evidence, but it’s not worth worrying about really.
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#Sundaymusic today is another transcription: #Bach arranging one of his own cantata movements to make a chorale preludes. “Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten” is one of the six #Schübler chorales. Just three stops needed to play this lovely little piece.
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Today’s #Sundaymusic is some #Haydn that the master probably didn’t compose but is by an admirer. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn’t matter, as it’s a delightful piece of string quartet music that suits the organ very well.
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