Of all the published collections of alternative harmonies I've owned, heard, or played these are hands down the best for real Sunday to Sunday use with a typical parish/congregation. They are rich, interesting, and don't train-wreck congregational singing. There are other collections of note, T. T. Noble's two volumes come to mind as the other best overall collection, but as to Rawsthorne, his harmonies are are juicy, idiomatic, well-crafted, and beautiful to boot. Thanks for playing them and celebrating them.
I entirely agree. I've had the original collection of 200 last verses on the console for the best part of 20 years. I was, at first, disappointed that the arrangements weren't a bit more extravagant, but experience has taught me that, as you say, these are well-crafted arrangements which add just enough "spice" to encourage congregational singing. I have recently bought the second set of 200 last verses, which were later amalgamated into the single volume Richard is using here. Much of the output from Kevin Mayhew gets a bad press, but there were some good collections published in the 90s of which Noel Rawsthorne's compositions and arrangements are some of the best: generally suited to a typical "parish organist" and achieving a good effect without resorting to too many notes! I play his arrangement of Elgar's Nimrod every year on Remembrance Sunday. There's also a lovely Aria (published separately (with, I believe, a typo in the pedal on the last page)) and a Prelude on the Londonderry Air, both of which I enjoy playing.
@@benjamindaniel8467 Yes, Mayhew's stuff is a very mixed bag, but there are some lovely things among them, and Rawsthorne's are about the best of the bunch and I don't mean that in any way but by way of high praise. There is an under-appreciation for a composer who can craft something short, lovely, playable, with the reach of an average organist, and yet also something that is a joy to play and hear. I think of some of the little pieces by big composers that are just meh, but then there are the real gems for the average Joe from the pen of composers who are not celebrated enough. Plus, you can always tell who really understands the organ from the way the parts, voice-leading, and disposition of forces is laid out on the page and how it translates to real use on the instrument. I swear you can feel it in your hands the first time you sight-read a piece by someone who gets the organ.
@@amicus1766 one of the problems with some of the Mayhew books is that they include the odd misprint. They also used to reprint pieces from one collection in another book, which you'd buy only to find you had half of it already! I also like many of the pieces by Christopher Tambling. "Music for Occasions" was later incorporated into "An Organ Miscellany (85 attractive pieces)", which is a very handy compilation to have on the shelf for filling-in before and during services. Another collection from the 90s was entitled "Stillness and Splendour" (various composers) and deserves to be reprinted.
@@benjamindaniel8467 Agreed, I had some of the choral anthologies, and there are some very nice things in there, but in the common PD selections the odd typo or misprint, plus sometimes an odd setting in terms of the typesetting, etc. Thanks for the two titles you mentioned I will seek them out.
So few comments; maybe I should take the time to read them? But first, an anecdote, called to mind when Mr. McVeigh played the tune "Austria". Decades ago, our congregation had a pastoral student (3rd year seminarian) who, when choosing hymns for the 11th of November, selected "Austria" which in our hymnal started with "Glorious things of Thee are spoken ...". This was an unintended, and splendid, piece of irony, as she seemed oblivious to the association of the tune with German militarism, as in, "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles" (Germany, Germany above all) and apparently also oblivious to the significance of November 11. I got a chuckle out of it at the time, but to my everlasting regret, the incident reinforced an overweaning and unfounded smugness on my part from which I have not fully recovered.
00:00:22 Abbot's Leigh 00:03:49 Abends 00:04:50 Aberystwyth 00:06:12 Abridge 00:07:08 Ach Gott Und Herr 00:08:02 Ad tuum nomen 00:09:26 Addison’s (London) 00:10:56 Adeste Fideles 00:12:21 Agincourt 00:13:27 Ajalon 00:14:35 Albano 00:15:31 All For Jesus 00:16:21 All Sairts 00:17:31 All Saints 00:18:43 All Thirigs Bright And Beautiful 00:20:21 Alleluia, dulce carmen (Tantum ergo) 00:21:05 Almsgiving (Dykes) 00:22:20 Amazirg Grace 00:23:13 Amen court 00:24:00 Angel Voices 00:24:56 Angelus 00:26:53 Anima Christi 00:28:26 Ar Hyd Y Nos 00:29:39 Armageddon 00:31:22 Ascalon 00:32:17 Ascension 00:33:25 Au Clair De La Lune 00:34:35 Aurelia 00:35:53 Aus de Tiefe (Heinlein) 00:36:41 Austria 00:37:58 Ave Virgo Virginum 00:41:07 Bangor 00:42:05 Beatitudo 00:42:41 Bedford 00:43:36 Belgrave 00:44:29 Belmont 00:45:47 Benson 00:46:41 Berkshire 00:47:39 Bethany 00:48:51 Beulah 00:49:33 Billing 00:50:34 Binchester 00:51:38 Bishopthorpe 00:52:29 Blaenwern 00:54:14 Blessed Assurance 00:55:33 Bonn 00:56:42 Bow rickhill 00:57:41 Boyce 00:58:55 Bread of heaven 00:59:43 Breslau 01:00:37 Bristol 01:01:30 Brockham 01:02:19 Brookfield 01:03:38 Brother James’ air 01:04:38 Bryn Calfaria 01:05:54 Buckland 01:06:40 Bullinger 01:07:30 Bunessan 01:08:13 Caithness 01:09:40 Cameronian midnight hymn 01:10:26 Capel 01:11:07 Capetown 01:11:53 Carlisle 01:12:37 Caswall (version 1) 01:13:17 Caswall (version 2) 01:13:48 Charity 01:14:45 Chartres (Angers) 01:15:59 Childhood 01:16:58 Christchurch 01:18:32 Christe sanctorum 01:19:21 Church Triumphant 01:20:40 Cloisters 01:21:21 Coelites plaudant (Rouen) 01:22:21 Contemplation 01:23:16 Corde Natus (Divinum mysterium) 01:24:20 Cradle Song 01:26:05 Cranham 01:28:01 Crimond 01:28:45 Croft’s 136th 01:29:51 Cross of Jesus 01:30:55 Criger 01:31:59 Culbach 01:32:42 Cwm Rhondda 01:33:41 Daily, daily 01:34:39 Danny Boy 01:36:07 Darmstadt 01:37:15 Darwall’s 148th 01:38:45 David’s harp 01:39:44 Day of rest 01:41:04 Deep harmony 01:41:57 Deerhurst 01:43:09 Deo Gracias 01:44:05 Deus, tuorum militum 01:45:01 Diademata 01:46:34 Dies dominica 01:47:36 Dix 01:48:23 Dominica 01:48:48 Dominus Regit Me 01:49:16 Doncaster 01:50:04 Down Ampney 01:51:05 Duke Street 01:52:25 Dundee 01:53:20 Dunfermline 01:54:12 Ealing 01:55:00 Easter Hymn 01:57:27 Ebenezer 01:58:27 Ein’ feste Burg 01:59:46 Eisenach 02:00:40 Ellacombe 02:01:38 Ellers 02:02:36 Engelberg 02:03:43 England’s lane 02:04:43 Epiphany (Hopkins) 02:05:26 Epiphany (Thrupp) 02:06:09 Es ist ein’ Ros’ entsprungen 02:07:20 Es ist kein Tag 02:08:19 Eudoxia 02:09:56 Evangelists 02:10:44 Evelyn’s 02:12:13 Eventide 02:13:20 Ewing 02:14:27 Falcon Street 02:15:30 Farley Castle 02:16:36 Festus 02:17:34 Flavian 02:18:02 Forest green 02:19:10 Franconia 02:20:05 Fulda 02:20:44 Galilee 02:22:08 Gartan 02:22:40 Gelob't sei Gott (Vulpius) 02:23:41 Gerontius 02:24:44 Glasgow 02:25:16 God Rest You Merry 02:26:17 Golden sheaves 02:27:25 Gonfalon Royal 02:28:07 Gopsal 02:29:19 Gott will’s machen 02:30:00 Greensleeves 02:31:04 Groningen 02:32:17 Gwalchmai 02:33:11 Gweedore 02:35:56 Halton Holgate 02:37:00 Hanover 02:37:39 Harewood 02:39:03 Harts 02:39:34 Hawkhurst 02:40:20 Heathlands 02:41:01 Helmsley 02:42:44 Hereford 02:43:40 Herongate 02:44:19 Highwood 02:45:19 Hollingside 02:46:30 Holyrood 02:46:55 Horbury 02:47:34 Horsley 02:48:38 Houghton 02:49:32 Humility 02:50:45 Hursley 02:51:23 Hyfrydol 02:52:53 Illsley (Bishop) 02:53:31 In Dulci Jubilo 02:54:19 Innocents 02:54:49 Innsbruck 02:55:55 Intercessor 02:58:10 Irby 02:59:01 Irish 02:59:36 Iste Confessor 03:00:35 Ivyhatch 03:01:05 Jackson 03:01:55 Just As I Am 03:03:23 Kelvingrove 03:03:59 Kilmarnock 03:04:41 King's Langley 03:05:32 King’s Lynn 03:06:39 Kingsfold 03:07:36 Knecht (Kocher) 03:08:07 Lasst uns rfreuen 03:09:16 Laudate Dominum 03:10:01 Laudes Domini 03:12:18 Laus Deo (Rehead No. 46) 03:13:05 Leoni 03:14:03 Liebster Immanuel 03:14:47 Lincoln 03:15:18 Little Cornard 03:15:58 Llanfair 03:17:01 Lobe Den Herren 03:18:13 London New 03:18:42 Lord Of The Dance (Shaker Tune) 03:19:29 Love Divine 03:20:03 Love unknown 03:21:57 Lubeck 03:23:02 Luckington 03:24:00 Luther 03:26:10 Lux Benigna 03:27:31 Lux eoi 03:28:42 Lydia 03:31:43 Lyngham 03:32:50 Maccabaeus 03:34:39 Mannheim 03:35:21 Marching 03:36:13 Margaret 03:37:41 Martyrdom 03:39:04 Maryton 03:40:29 Melcombe 03:43:21 Melita 03:43:21 Melling 03:43:58 Mendelssohn 03:45:17 Mendip 03:45:59 Merton 03:46:44 Metzler’s Redhead 03:50:08 Miles Lane 03:51:21 Misericordia 03:52:15 Mit Freuden zart 03:53:07 Monkland 03:53:55 Monks Gate 03:55:34 Montgomery 03:56:26 Morecambe 03:57:27 Morning Hymn 03:57:57 Morning Light 03:57:58 Nativity 03:57:59 Neander (unser Herrscher) 03:59:05 Moscow 04:01:26 Mount Ephraim 04:02:22 Narenza 04:04:48 Newington 04:04:55 Newington 04:05:32 Nicaea 04:06:33 Noel 04:07:43 Noel Nouvelet 04:08:55 North Coates 04:09:44 Nottingham 04:10:28 Nun Danket 04:11:58 Nun danket all 04:12:31 O Filii Et Filiae (version 1) 04:12:57 O Filii Et Filiae (version 2) 04:13:54 O perfect love 04:14:46 O waly waly 04:17:45 Obiit 04:18:25 Ode to joy 04:19:06 Offertorium 04:20:04 Old 100th 04:20:48 Old 104th 04:22:20 Old 120th 04:23:34 Old 124th 04:23:46 Olivet 04:24:50 Ombersley 04:25:41 Oriel 04:26:37 Orientis partibus 04:27:39 Oxford New 04:28:39 Paderborn 04:29:25 Passion Chorale 04:30:33 Pastor pastorum 04:31:05 Penlan 04:32:04 Personent Hodie (Theodoric) 04:33:04 Petra (Redhead No. 76) 04:35:44 Picardy 04:36:26 Praise My Soul 04:37:16 Puer Nobis Nascitur 04:38:17 Quam dilecta 04:38:49 Quem Pastores 04:39:25 Rachie 04:41:10 Ratisbon 04:42:00 Ravenshaw 04:42:28 Regent Square 04:43:28 Regnator orbis 04:44:19 Repton 04:45:25 Resonet in laudibus 04:46:17 Rex Gloriae 04:47:15 Rhosymedre (Lovely) 04:48:21 Rhuddlan 04:49:39 Richmond 04:50:26 Rimington 04:51:10 Rinkart (Kommt seelen) 04:52:15 Rivaulx 04:53:04 Rockingham 04:54:02 Royal Oak 04:54:48 Rustington 04:56:08 Ruth 04:56:56 Saffron Walden 04:58:02 St Aelred 04:58:42 St Anne 04:59:26 St Agnes (Dykes) 05:01:30 St Albinus 05:02:17 St Alphege 05:03:24 St Anatolius 05:04:36 St Andrew of Crete 05:05:39 St Bees 05:06:14 St Bernard 05:06:47 St Catherine 05:07:39 St Ceilia 05:08:25 St Clement 05:09:05 St Columba 05:09:50 St Cuthbert 05:10:23 St Denio 05:11:49 St Drostane 05:13:14 St Edmund 05:14:30 St Etheldreda 05:15:19 St Ethelwald 05:16:00 St Flavian 05:16:40 St Francis Xavier 05:17:13 St Fulbert 05:17:55 St George (AKA St George's Windsor) 05:19:30 St Gertrude 05:20:39 St Helen 05:23:44 St James 05:24:30 St John Damascene 05:25:24 St Leonard (Smart) 05:26:54 St Magnus 05:27:58 St Matthew 05:29:10 St Matthias 05:29:59 St Michael (Old 134th) 05:30:32 St Oswald 05:31:02 St Paul's 05:31:32 St Peter 05:34:40 St Stephen 05:35:20 St Theodulph (version 1) 05:35:59 St Theodulph (version 2) 05:37:14 St Thomas (Webbe) 05:37:56 St Timothy 05:38:24 St Venantius 05:39:18 Saltash 05:40:06 Salzburg (Hintze) 05:41:07 Sandon 05:42:26 Sandys 05:44:30 Savannah 05:45:22 Seelenbrautigam 05:46:18 Selby 05:46:47 Sharon 05:47:22 Shipston 05:48:10 Sing Hosanna 05:48:52 Slane 05:51:47 Solomon 05:52:41 Solothurn 05:53:18 Somervell 05:54:02 Song1 05:55:16 Song 13 (Canterbury) 05:56:02 Song 22 05:56:52 Song 24 05:59:13 Song 34 (Angel's Song) 05:59:54 Song 46 06:00:45 Southwell (Damon) 06:01:40 Southwell (Irons) 06:02:10 Stabat Mater 06:03:16 Stille Nacht 06:04:22 Stockton 06:05:13 Stories of Jesus 06:05:54 Stowey 06:06:56 Stracathro 06:08:01 Strength and stay 06:08:30 Stuttgart 06:09:32 Surrey 06:10:59 Sussex 06:11:33 Sussex Carol (version 1) 06:12:02 Sussex Carol (version 2) 06:12:47 Tallis’ canon 06:13:26 Tallis’ Ordinal 06:14:02 Tamtum ergo (Grafton) 06:14:44 Tell me 06:16:18 The ash grove 06:17:14 The First Nowell 06:18:17 The staff of faith 06:19:17 This endris night 06:19:54 This joyful Eastertide (Vruechten) 06:20:51 Thornbury 06:21:53 To God be the glory 06:22:56 Trentham 06:23:52 Truro 06:24:48 Unde et memores 06:25:49 University 06:28:55 University College 06:29:40 Veni Emmanuel 06:30:30 Veni Sancte Spiritus 06:31:13 Victory 06:32:27 Vienna 06:33:18 Vom Himmel hoch (Erfurt) 06:34:00 Vox dilecti 06:35:44 Wachet auf 06:37:11 Waltham 06:39:36 Wareham 06:40:39 Warrington 06:41:42 Was lebet 06:42:26 Were You There? 06:43:26 Westminster 06:46:31 What a friend (Converse) 06:47:24 Will your anchor hold 06:48:32 Wiltshire (version 1) 06:49:06 Wiltshire (version 2) 06:49:55 Winchester New 06:50:33 Winchester Old 06:51:05 Wir pflügen 06:52:26 Wolvercote 06:53:13 Woodlands 06:56:47 Württemberg 06:57:33 Wychbold 06:58:19 York 07:01:14 Yorkshire (Stockport) 07:07:17 Hornpipe Humoresque, by Noel Rawsthorne 07:12:27 Outro - Rhosymedre, by Ralph Vaughan Williams 392 detected. Cranham, Duke Street, Doncaster, Epiphany (Thrupp), Eudoxia, King's Langley, Melita, St George (St George's Windsor), Truro added manually.
Got,the,1991,copyright,edition minus,a lot of,the tunez,in yours. Which edition is yours please? I have no organ to play so I use the piano n try to omit some tough notes to stretch to
Well played Richard! Great demonstration of “sight reading” that puts many of us to shame! It’s Sunday here in Cape Town & I’m blown away by yr marathon yesterday! Well done to Caroline as well 🙏🏼
So enjoyed listening and hearing some new hymns. There are some very beautiful hymn tunes in there that I heard yesterday. Thank you Richard for playing them all.
Thank you so much for doing this. First off your registrations are so beautiful and complement the last verses perfectly. I have been using these for the last couple months and it is very reaffirming to see that the majority of people really love and respect this collection....Now we just need a saint to come along and time stamp each one for easy reference...
The Rawsthorne last verses are our staple diet at my church. I use them weekly - occasionally I add one or two twists of my own, but they are wonderful arrangements as they stand.
My dear late organist of happy memory used these every week as improvisation was not his strong point. At first, I found them understated, but came to appreciate their virtues. All the more with a congregation without a choir that tended to part company with visiting organists who loved to dazzle. Stuck in the middle of the battle between organ and congregation, it was hard to keep a straight face and I was often reduced to a helpless shaking fit unfailingly detected by the cognoscenti among the congregants. Rawsthorne’s last verses may be modest by some standards, but better matched to realities in the pews. Very much appreciate Richard’s play-through as I am sure my organist would have done.
for personal reference... Aurelia 34:34 1:19:00 Church triumphant 1:22:00 Contemplation 1:23:00 Corde Natus 1:41:00 deep harmony 1:43:00 Deo Gracias Danny Boy: 1:34:37 Just as I am: 3:01:54 Lux Benigna: 3:26:09 Lux Eoi: 3:27:28 Mccabæus: 3:32:48 The ash grove: 6:16:17
Brilliant to hear all of these in one go. What an incredible resource. If I ever wanted to hear a particular one of them to compare with my efforts, well now here is the resource. Thanks a million.
For later reference: 2:32:15 - Gwalchmai 1:28:00 - crimond 10:57 - o come all ye faithful 1:45:20 - diadementa 6:53:18 - woodlands 4:09:54 - Nottingham 4:58:40 - st Anne 6:49:53 - Winchester new 1:00:49 - Bristol 4:41:08 - Ratisbon 4:20:05 - old hundredth 2:00:37 - Ellacombe 4:54:00 - Royal Oak 52:29 - Blaenwern 4:05:31 - Nicaea
Other than loving listening to this all afternoon (Sunday), I've learned a new word too! 'Urtext' - had to look it up, so thanks for that. Oh, congratulations too 👏👏👌
Sorry about the misinformation below. The wonderful tune, which I had never heard before this week, is "Highwood," nor "Hightower," as I called it below.
2 or 3 old Methodist hymn tunes mostly in the evangelical vein, iincluding Lydia. I am not a good old Methodist, just old though I do respect their hymn singing tradition. Nice day here in bad old Minneapolis.
I'm not a big fan of these re-harmonisations, and it certainly adds nothing to Lydia, which should be a rousing sing, I think. Not to mention the following one - Lyngham, which is another 18th century Methodist tune, from memory.
Ralph, I do not believe you can get this via pdf. However you can buy the book from numerous locations as either 2 lots of 200 reharmonisations or the book Richard is using which is all 400. The book of 400 is roughly in the region of £25 to £30.
I have listened to this music for hours in several different sittings, but I rarely make it past the hymn tune "Hightower." It is a ravishing tune, and only two numbers away from my proclaimed favorite, S. S. Wesley's "Hereford." Specifically, I wanted to respond to you about the tunes you do not know and don't know where to find. I can't be comprehensive in doing so, since I've only got through about half of the program. But, the ones you don't know, so far, are to be found in he Hymnal 1982, the standard hymnbook of the Episcopal Church in the United States. I've identified "Caithness," which is found in "the 1982" three times: at #121, #352, and #684'. If I'm not mistaken, it was also in the 1940 edition of that hymnal. Also, Healey Willan has a gorgeous two-page chorale-prelude on "Caithness," still in print and readily available, I think. (By the way, I suggest that for future programs you might want to play through his "36 Chorale Preludes on Familiar Hymns" (published in three volumes of 12 each) (one program) and its companion set [also three volumes, another program, but I forget the exact number of preludes.]. the other tune you said you had not heard of is "Intercessor," which is #695 in the Hymnal 1982. I do not know that tune or the words there set to it, either. I'll add others as I come to them in your excellent program! I'm so glad to find you on my computer. Until about Monday of this week I had only seen your program on the U-Tube channel of my TV set, where there was absolutely no way to chat with you. I have contributed once, but I think I did it by credit card rather than PayPal (which I flatly refuse to use lest I put money in the pockets of its CEO, who supports and subsidizes the political and social causes in this country that I find most odious and objectionable. I trust you use PayPal only because it is easy and you are ignorant about the political and social objectives of the persons in the United States who benefit most from it.). Can you suggest another way for me to support your work? I am a retired church organist whose primary employment was as a college history professor. I live in Beaufort (between Charleston and Savannah), South Carolina. I LOVE your program and enthusiastically support your goals.
Jim, thank you for your comment and information about the hymns - it’s very helpful! Alternatively to PayPal you could become a Patron where you can contribute financially either monthly or annually. It’s what most people are doing these days and actually is terrifically supportive to the ambitious ventures that I have planned for BIS in the coming years. Thanks again! x
Amusing, your short sweet introduction! :) Watching & listening to your performance while I multi-task reviewing HS scholarship apps. How wonderful to have such glorious music to inspire my work!
I’m still listening to these last verses - and can’t help thinking that it may have enhanced the difference between the improvised last verse if yu played a verse with original harmony ? But I realise it would have taken twice as long! Thoroughly enjoying it anyways 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Yes I think you're right, and that was actually my original plan. This would've taken twice the amount of time and also I couldn't work out how to have access to the original harmonies in the same order they are presented in this volume.... any ideas?
I just played through this particular book of arrangements in order. In hindsight, I should’ve played a verse using the ‘proper’ harmony first before launching into the reharmonisation. Perhaps next time this is that I’ll do!
Slowly catching up on this marathon. Another 'small' donation made by PayPal towards the console. Question: do the manuals provide velocity information as well as key on / key off? I realise that organs are usually " make noise or do not make noise", but velocity might provide some interesting options if mixed with other MIDI instruments.
You just played "Lydia," which is not in the Hymnal 1982 and is not in the mainstream hymnbooks of American denominations, either. I can't help you with that one.
Goodness! 7 hours of Reharmonisations. NAUGHTY?? They seem mostly pretty tame to me. If I could have you do it over I would ask for the Normal version followed by the naughty one...to hear the contrast. Also, can virtual reeds be tuned? I'm about to twist my earlobes off!
This was exactly my intention, but I couldn't work out how to do it without flicking between the hymns in a hymn book. The reharmonisations are arranged alphabetically by tune name but in hymn books they are not. Hope you enjoyed them though! :)
This guy shaming his audience to grift for a free luxury item .. shameful! Yes, I want a pre war Bugatti.. Do I spruik my youtube audience to get it? NO . Will I get it? No
What do you call playing the organ for people around the world for around 7 hours? The average working day is 7 hours. What’s the difference? I work for things, and I never expect anything for free. The last Organ Marathon I did was for 16 hours, and the one before that 12 hours. ‘This guy’ is working darn hard thank you very much.
Historically, organs have been paid for by subscriptions. The Willis in Hereford Cathedral in the 19th century right up to Christ Church Greenwich NY which has just raised 3.5 million dollars for a new Harrison and Harrison. In fact it is rare for an organist to have to work as hard as Richard ! This BiS organ is for a Virtual Church of thousands and a recital audience of tens of thousands. The channel is a beacon for organ music for the World and having a good instrument is vital for this "ministry" or project. I am very excited to be able to see the recitals and workshops on the new organ. It is an incredible thing that Richard is doing and the community he is building around the recitals and VC is proof of this. I just hope he raises the money before he has to do s 24 Hour marathon 😅 PS fantastic to hear these arrangements. Once again a unique resource for all organists and fans of hymns - unique and brilliantly played. Thank you Richard 🙏
I don’t think your 36 Subscribers entitle you to make such an offensive comment on the work of a much appreciated professional. Richard has justly earned both his phenomenal reputation and his 71k Subscribers. If they wish to support his projects, who are you to criticize them? There is absolutely no “shaming” going on at all. It’s not compulsory for you to be here either - find something better to do with your time.
@@beautyinsound It is very much like a street musician. People can throw some money in the hat, or walk on by without giving up anything. No shaming whatsoever here. But, trolls gotta troll:)
3:40 I fell in love with this hymn watching the funeral of John F Kennedy in 1963.
I enjoy listening to these anytime, but they are all so well done that they’re great to listen to while at the day job!
Of all the published collections of alternative harmonies I've owned, heard, or played these are hands down the best for real Sunday to Sunday use with a typical parish/congregation. They are rich, interesting, and don't train-wreck congregational singing. There are other collections of note, T. T. Noble's two volumes come to mind as the other best overall collection, but as to Rawsthorne, his harmonies are are juicy, idiomatic, well-crafted, and beautiful to boot. Thanks for playing them and celebrating them.
I entirely agree. I've had the original collection of 200 last verses on the console for the best part of 20 years. I was, at first, disappointed that the arrangements weren't a bit more extravagant, but experience has taught me that, as you say, these are well-crafted arrangements which add just enough "spice" to encourage congregational singing. I have recently bought the second set of 200 last verses, which were later amalgamated into the single volume Richard is using here. Much of the output from Kevin Mayhew gets a bad press, but there were some good collections published in the 90s of which Noel Rawsthorne's compositions and arrangements are some of the best: generally suited to a typical "parish organist" and achieving a good effect without resorting to too many notes! I play his arrangement of Elgar's Nimrod every year on Remembrance Sunday. There's also a lovely Aria (published separately (with, I believe, a typo in the pedal on the last page)) and a Prelude on the Londonderry Air, both of which I enjoy playing.
@@benjamindaniel8467 Yes, Mayhew's stuff is a very mixed bag, but there are some lovely things among them, and Rawsthorne's are about the best of the bunch and I don't mean that in any way but by way of high praise. There is an under-appreciation for a composer who can craft something short, lovely, playable, with the reach of an average organist, and yet also something that is a joy to play and hear. I think of some of the little pieces by big composers that are just meh, but then there are the real gems for the average Joe from the pen of composers who are not celebrated enough. Plus, you can always tell who really understands the organ from the way the parts, voice-leading, and disposition of forces is laid out on the page and how it translates to real use on the instrument. I swear you can feel it in your hands the first time you sight-read a piece by someone who gets the organ.
@@amicus1766 one of the problems with some of the Mayhew books is that they include the odd misprint. They also used to reprint pieces from one collection in another book, which you'd buy only to find you had half of it already! I also like many of the pieces by Christopher Tambling. "Music for Occasions" was later incorporated into "An Organ Miscellany (85 attractive pieces)", which is a very handy compilation to have on the shelf for filling-in before and during services. Another collection from the 90s was entitled "Stillness and Splendour" (various composers) and deserves to be reprinted.
@@benjamindaniel8467 Agreed, I had some of the choral anthologies, and there are some very nice things in there, but in the common PD selections the odd typo or misprint, plus sometimes an odd setting in terms of the typesetting, etc. Thanks for the two titles you mentioned I will seek them out.
Benjamin Daniel can you email me the book???
So few comments; maybe I should take the time to read them? But first, an anecdote, called to mind when Mr. McVeigh played the tune "Austria".
Decades ago, our congregation had a pastoral student (3rd year seminarian) who, when choosing hymns for the 11th of November, selected "Austria" which in our hymnal started with "Glorious things of Thee are spoken ...". This was an unintended, and splendid, piece of irony, as she seemed oblivious to the association of the tune with German militarism, as in, "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles" (Germany, Germany above all) and apparently also oblivious to the significance of November 11.
I got a chuckle out of it at the time, but to my everlasting regret, the incident reinforced an overweaning and unfounded smugness on my part from which I have not fully recovered.
00:00:22 Abbot's Leigh
00:03:49 Abends
00:04:50 Aberystwyth
00:06:12 Abridge
00:07:08 Ach Gott Und Herr
00:08:02 Ad tuum nomen
00:09:26 Addison’s (London)
00:10:56 Adeste Fideles
00:12:21 Agincourt
00:13:27 Ajalon
00:14:35 Albano
00:15:31 All For Jesus
00:16:21 All Sairts
00:17:31 All Saints
00:18:43 All Thirigs Bright And Beautiful
00:20:21 Alleluia, dulce carmen (Tantum ergo)
00:21:05 Almsgiving (Dykes)
00:22:20 Amazirg Grace
00:23:13 Amen court
00:24:00 Angel Voices
00:24:56 Angelus
00:26:53 Anima Christi
00:28:26 Ar Hyd Y Nos
00:29:39 Armageddon
00:31:22 Ascalon
00:32:17 Ascension
00:33:25 Au Clair De La Lune
00:34:35 Aurelia
00:35:53 Aus de Tiefe (Heinlein)
00:36:41 Austria
00:37:58 Ave Virgo Virginum
00:41:07 Bangor
00:42:05 Beatitudo
00:42:41 Bedford
00:43:36 Belgrave
00:44:29 Belmont
00:45:47 Benson
00:46:41 Berkshire
00:47:39 Bethany
00:48:51 Beulah
00:49:33 Billing
00:50:34 Binchester
00:51:38 Bishopthorpe
00:52:29 Blaenwern
00:54:14 Blessed Assurance
00:55:33 Bonn
00:56:42 Bow rickhill
00:57:41 Boyce
00:58:55 Bread of heaven
00:59:43 Breslau
01:00:37 Bristol
01:01:30 Brockham
01:02:19 Brookfield
01:03:38 Brother James’ air
01:04:38 Bryn Calfaria
01:05:54 Buckland
01:06:40 Bullinger
01:07:30 Bunessan
01:08:13 Caithness
01:09:40 Cameronian midnight hymn
01:10:26 Capel
01:11:07 Capetown
01:11:53 Carlisle
01:12:37 Caswall (version 1)
01:13:17 Caswall (version 2)
01:13:48 Charity
01:14:45 Chartres (Angers)
01:15:59 Childhood
01:16:58 Christchurch
01:18:32 Christe sanctorum
01:19:21 Church Triumphant
01:20:40 Cloisters
01:21:21 Coelites plaudant (Rouen)
01:22:21 Contemplation
01:23:16 Corde Natus (Divinum mysterium)
01:24:20 Cradle Song
01:26:05 Cranham
01:28:01 Crimond
01:28:45 Croft’s 136th
01:29:51 Cross of Jesus
01:30:55 Criger
01:31:59 Culbach
01:32:42 Cwm Rhondda
01:33:41 Daily, daily
01:34:39 Danny Boy
01:36:07 Darmstadt
01:37:15 Darwall’s 148th
01:38:45 David’s harp
01:39:44 Day of rest
01:41:04 Deep harmony
01:41:57 Deerhurst
01:43:09 Deo Gracias
01:44:05 Deus, tuorum militum
01:45:01 Diademata
01:46:34 Dies dominica
01:47:36 Dix
01:48:23 Dominica
01:48:48 Dominus Regit Me
01:49:16 Doncaster
01:50:04 Down Ampney
01:51:05 Duke Street
01:52:25 Dundee
01:53:20 Dunfermline
01:54:12 Ealing
01:55:00 Easter Hymn
01:57:27 Ebenezer
01:58:27 Ein’ feste Burg
01:59:46 Eisenach
02:00:40 Ellacombe
02:01:38 Ellers
02:02:36 Engelberg
02:03:43 England’s lane
02:04:43 Epiphany (Hopkins)
02:05:26 Epiphany (Thrupp)
02:06:09 Es ist ein’ Ros’ entsprungen
02:07:20 Es ist kein Tag
02:08:19 Eudoxia
02:09:56 Evangelists
02:10:44 Evelyn’s
02:12:13 Eventide
02:13:20 Ewing
02:14:27 Falcon Street
02:15:30 Farley Castle
02:16:36 Festus
02:17:34 Flavian
02:18:02 Forest green
02:19:10 Franconia
02:20:05 Fulda
02:20:44 Galilee
02:22:08 Gartan
02:22:40 Gelob't sei Gott (Vulpius)
02:23:41 Gerontius
02:24:44 Glasgow
02:25:16 God Rest You Merry
02:26:17 Golden sheaves
02:27:25 Gonfalon Royal
02:28:07 Gopsal
02:29:19 Gott will’s machen
02:30:00 Greensleeves
02:31:04 Groningen
02:32:17 Gwalchmai
02:33:11 Gweedore
02:35:56 Halton Holgate
02:37:00 Hanover
02:37:39 Harewood
02:39:03 Harts
02:39:34 Hawkhurst
02:40:20 Heathlands
02:41:01 Helmsley
02:42:44 Hereford
02:43:40 Herongate
02:44:19 Highwood
02:45:19 Hollingside
02:46:30 Holyrood
02:46:55 Horbury
02:47:34 Horsley
02:48:38 Houghton
02:49:32 Humility
02:50:45 Hursley
02:51:23 Hyfrydol
02:52:53 Illsley (Bishop)
02:53:31 In Dulci Jubilo
02:54:19 Innocents
02:54:49 Innsbruck
02:55:55 Intercessor
02:58:10 Irby
02:59:01 Irish
02:59:36 Iste Confessor
03:00:35 Ivyhatch
03:01:05 Jackson
03:01:55 Just As I Am
03:03:23 Kelvingrove
03:03:59 Kilmarnock
03:04:41 King's Langley
03:05:32 King’s Lynn
03:06:39 Kingsfold
03:07:36 Knecht (Kocher)
03:08:07 Lasst uns rfreuen
03:09:16 Laudate Dominum
03:10:01 Laudes Domini
03:12:18 Laus Deo (Rehead No. 46)
03:13:05 Leoni
03:14:03 Liebster Immanuel
03:14:47 Lincoln
03:15:18 Little Cornard
03:15:58 Llanfair
03:17:01 Lobe Den Herren
03:18:13 London New
03:18:42 Lord Of The Dance (Shaker Tune)
03:19:29 Love Divine
03:20:03 Love unknown
03:21:57 Lubeck
03:23:02 Luckington
03:24:00 Luther
03:26:10 Lux Benigna
03:27:31 Lux eoi
03:28:42 Lydia
03:31:43 Lyngham
03:32:50 Maccabaeus
03:34:39 Mannheim
03:35:21 Marching
03:36:13 Margaret
03:37:41 Martyrdom
03:39:04 Maryton
03:40:29 Melcombe
03:43:21 Melita
03:43:21 Melling
03:43:58 Mendelssohn
03:45:17 Mendip
03:45:59 Merton
03:46:44 Metzler’s Redhead
03:50:08 Miles Lane
03:51:21 Misericordia
03:52:15 Mit Freuden zart
03:53:07 Monkland
03:53:55 Monks Gate
03:55:34 Montgomery
03:56:26 Morecambe
03:57:27 Morning Hymn
03:57:57 Morning Light
03:57:58 Nativity
03:57:59 Neander (unser Herrscher)
03:59:05 Moscow
04:01:26 Mount Ephraim
04:02:22 Narenza
04:04:48 Newington
04:04:55 Newington
04:05:32 Nicaea
04:06:33 Noel
04:07:43 Noel Nouvelet
04:08:55 North Coates
04:09:44 Nottingham
04:10:28 Nun Danket
04:11:58 Nun danket all
04:12:31 O Filii Et Filiae (version 1)
04:12:57 O Filii Et Filiae (version 2)
04:13:54 O perfect love
04:14:46 O waly waly
04:17:45 Obiit
04:18:25 Ode to joy
04:19:06 Offertorium
04:20:04 Old 100th
04:20:48 Old 104th
04:22:20 Old 120th
04:23:34 Old 124th
04:23:46 Olivet
04:24:50 Ombersley
04:25:41 Oriel
04:26:37 Orientis partibus
04:27:39 Oxford New
04:28:39 Paderborn
04:29:25 Passion Chorale
04:30:33 Pastor pastorum
04:31:05 Penlan
04:32:04 Personent Hodie (Theodoric)
04:33:04 Petra (Redhead No. 76)
04:35:44 Picardy
04:36:26 Praise My Soul
04:37:16 Puer Nobis Nascitur
04:38:17 Quam dilecta
04:38:49 Quem Pastores
04:39:25 Rachie
04:41:10 Ratisbon
04:42:00 Ravenshaw
04:42:28 Regent Square
04:43:28 Regnator orbis
04:44:19 Repton
04:45:25 Resonet in laudibus
04:46:17 Rex Gloriae
04:47:15 Rhosymedre (Lovely)
04:48:21 Rhuddlan
04:49:39 Richmond
04:50:26 Rimington
04:51:10 Rinkart (Kommt seelen)
04:52:15 Rivaulx
04:53:04 Rockingham
04:54:02 Royal Oak
04:54:48 Rustington
04:56:08 Ruth
04:56:56 Saffron Walden
04:58:02 St Aelred
04:58:42 St Anne
04:59:26 St Agnes (Dykes)
05:01:30 St Albinus
05:02:17 St Alphege
05:03:24 St Anatolius
05:04:36 St Andrew of Crete
05:05:39 St Bees
05:06:14 St Bernard
05:06:47 St Catherine
05:07:39 St Ceilia
05:08:25 St Clement
05:09:05 St Columba
05:09:50 St Cuthbert
05:10:23 St Denio
05:11:49 St Drostane
05:13:14 St Edmund
05:14:30 St Etheldreda
05:15:19 St Ethelwald
05:16:00 St Flavian
05:16:40 St Francis Xavier
05:17:13 St Fulbert
05:17:55 St George (AKA St George's Windsor)
05:19:30 St Gertrude
05:20:39 St Helen
05:23:44 St James
05:24:30 St John Damascene
05:25:24 St Leonard (Smart)
05:26:54 St Magnus
05:27:58 St Matthew
05:29:10 St Matthias
05:29:59 St Michael (Old 134th)
05:30:32 St Oswald
05:31:02 St Paul's
05:31:32 St Peter
05:34:40 St Stephen
05:35:20 St Theodulph (version 1)
05:35:59 St Theodulph (version 2)
05:37:14 St Thomas (Webbe)
05:37:56 St Timothy
05:38:24 St Venantius
05:39:18 Saltash
05:40:06 Salzburg (Hintze)
05:41:07 Sandon
05:42:26 Sandys
05:44:30 Savannah
05:45:22 Seelenbrautigam
05:46:18 Selby
05:46:47 Sharon
05:47:22 Shipston
05:48:10 Sing Hosanna
05:48:52 Slane
05:51:47 Solomon
05:52:41 Solothurn
05:53:18 Somervell
05:54:02 Song1
05:55:16 Song 13 (Canterbury)
05:56:02 Song 22
05:56:52 Song 24
05:59:13 Song 34 (Angel's Song)
05:59:54 Song 46
06:00:45 Southwell (Damon)
06:01:40 Southwell (Irons)
06:02:10 Stabat Mater
06:03:16 Stille Nacht
06:04:22 Stockton
06:05:13 Stories of Jesus
06:05:54 Stowey
06:06:56 Stracathro
06:08:01 Strength and stay
06:08:30 Stuttgart
06:09:32 Surrey
06:10:59 Sussex
06:11:33 Sussex Carol (version 1)
06:12:02 Sussex Carol (version 2)
06:12:47 Tallis’ canon
06:13:26 Tallis’ Ordinal
06:14:02 Tamtum ergo (Grafton)
06:14:44 Tell me
06:16:18 The ash grove
06:17:14 The First Nowell
06:18:17 The staff of faith
06:19:17 This endris night
06:19:54 This joyful Eastertide (Vruechten)
06:20:51 Thornbury
06:21:53 To God be the glory
06:22:56 Trentham
06:23:52 Truro
06:24:48 Unde et memores
06:25:49 University
06:28:55 University College
06:29:40 Veni Emmanuel
06:30:30 Veni Sancte Spiritus
06:31:13 Victory
06:32:27 Vienna
06:33:18 Vom Himmel hoch (Erfurt)
06:34:00 Vox dilecti
06:35:44 Wachet auf
06:37:11 Waltham
06:39:36 Wareham
06:40:39 Warrington
06:41:42 Was lebet
06:42:26 Were You There?
06:43:26 Westminster
06:46:31 What a friend (Converse)
06:47:24 Will your anchor hold
06:48:32 Wiltshire (version 1)
06:49:06 Wiltshire (version 2)
06:49:55 Winchester New
06:50:33 Winchester Old
06:51:05 Wir pflügen
06:52:26 Wolvercote
06:53:13 Woodlands
06:56:47 Württemberg
06:57:33 Wychbold
06:58:19 York
07:01:14 Yorkshire (Stockport)
07:07:17 Hornpipe Humoresque, by Noel Rawsthorne
07:12:27 Outro - Rhosymedre, by Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Got,the,1991,copyright,edition minus,a lot of,the tunez,in yours. Which edition is yours please? I have no organ to play so I use the piano n try to omit some tough notes to stretch to
God bless you
Thanks so much!!!
Thank you very much to all the staff, including the performers, for a long time. Please take a rest now. I enjoyed it very much. Thank you very much.
Well played Richard! Great demonstration of “sight reading” that puts many of us to shame! It’s Sunday here in Cape Town & I’m blown away by yr marathon yesterday! Well done to Caroline as well 🙏🏼
So enjoyed listening and hearing some new hymns. There are some very beautiful hymn tunes in there that I heard yesterday. Thank you Richard for playing them all.
Thank you so much for doing this. First off your registrations are so beautiful and complement the last verses perfectly. I have been using these for the last couple months and it is very reaffirming to see that the majority of people really love and respect this collection....Now we just need a saint to come along and time stamp each one for easy reference...
The Rawsthorne last verses are our staple diet at my church. I use them weekly - occasionally I add one or two twists of my own, but they are wonderful arrangements as they stand.
Thank you for wonderful concert. In New Zealand so managed to listen live for first few hours then the rest later. Blessings.
Terrific; thank you. I only found your Rawsthorne video now, in July 2022. But am surely glad I did!
My dear late organist of happy memory used these every week as improvisation was not his strong point. At first, I found them understated, but came to appreciate their virtues. All the more with a congregation without a choir that tended to part company with visiting organists who loved to dazzle. Stuck in the middle of the battle between organ and congregation, it was hard to keep a straight face and I was often reduced to a helpless shaking fit unfailingly detected by the cognoscenti among the congregants. Rawsthorne’s last verses may be modest by some standards, but better matched to realities in the pews. Very much appreciate Richard’s play-through as I am sure my organist would have done.
fantastic! watching in catch up!
Love it, Bobby is a beautiful cat as well.
My favorite video of all time!!!
for personal reference...
Aurelia 34:34
1:19:00 Church triumphant
1:22:00 Contemplation
1:23:00 Corde Natus
1:41:00 deep harmony
1:43:00 Deo Gracias
Danny Boy: 1:34:37
Just as I am: 3:01:54
Lux Benigna: 3:26:09
Lux Eoi: 3:27:28
Mccabæus: 3:32:48
The ash grove: 6:16:17
Thank you for a fantastic marathon! These are wonderful arrangements.
Brilliant to hear all of these in one go. What an incredible resource. If I ever wanted to hear a particular one of them to compare with my efforts, well now here is the resource. Thanks a million.
I did order this book in late June. It just arrived this week in Utah. Not sure the delay. But it did arrive.
Blimey - that took a while! Was it shipped from the UK?
THIS IS VERY INTERESTING!
For later reference:
2:32:15 - Gwalchmai
1:28:00 - crimond
10:57 - o come all ye faithful
1:45:20 - diadementa
6:53:18 - woodlands
4:09:54 - Nottingham
4:58:40 - st Anne
6:49:53 - Winchester new
1:00:49 - Bristol
4:41:08 - Ratisbon
4:20:05 - old hundredth
2:00:37 - Ellacombe
4:54:00 - Royal Oak
52:29 - Blaenwern
4:05:31 - Nicaea
Other than loving listening to this all afternoon (Sunday), I've learned a new word too! 'Urtext' - had to look it up, so thanks for that.
Oh, congratulations too 👏👏👌
Amazing as always Richard!!
This was amazing to listen to. A feast of 'last verses' that lasted for hours
Can anyone please email me the book??? This is beautiful ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you very much for this. I have the book and am following along (gradually...)! :)
Sorry about the misinformation below. The wonderful tune, which I had never heard before this week, is "Highwood," nor "Hightower," as I called it below.
This is brilliant 👍......and rocking
24:00
In Ghana
The Handel Messiah
Please who can sincerely gift me one this reharm book(Noel Rawsthorne 400), I'm from Africa. 😢
Thank you man❤️✊🏾 beautifully played...can I get the book?
Yes - anyone can get the book. Just search for it online :)
2 or 3 old Methodist hymn tunes mostly in the evangelical vein, iincluding Lydia. I am not a good old Methodist, just old though I do respect their hymn singing tradition. Nice day here in bad old Minneapolis.
I'm not a big fan of these re-harmonisations, and it certainly adds nothing to Lydia, which should be a rousing sing, I think. Not to mention the following one - Lyngham, which is another 18th century Methodist tune, from memory.
Good work by all standards. Please which site can i get Pdf to purchase?
Ralph, I do not believe you can get this via pdf. However you can buy the book from numerous locations as either 2 lots of 200 reharmonisations or the book Richard is using which is all 400. The book of 400 is roughly in the region of £25 to £30.
I have listened to this music for hours in several different sittings, but I rarely make it past the hymn tune "Hightower." It is a ravishing tune, and only two numbers away from my proclaimed
favorite, S. S. Wesley's "Hereford." Specifically, I wanted to respond to you about the tunes you do not know and don't know where to find. I can't be comprehensive in doing so, since I've only
got through about half of the program. But, the ones you don't know, so far, are to be found in he Hymnal 1982, the standard hymnbook of the Episcopal Church in the United States. I've identified
"Caithness," which is found in "the 1982" three times: at #121, #352, and #684'. If I'm not mistaken, it was also in the 1940 edition of that hymnal. Also, Healey Willan has a gorgeous two-page
chorale-prelude on "Caithness," still in print and readily available, I think. (By the way, I suggest that for future programs you might want to play through his "36 Chorale Preludes on Familiar Hymns"
(published in three volumes of 12 each) (one program) and its companion set [also three volumes, another program, but I forget the exact number of preludes.]. the other tune you said you had not heard of is "Intercessor," which is #695 in the Hymnal 1982. I do not know that tune or the words there set to it, either. I'll add others as I come to them in your excellent program!
I'm so glad to find you on my computer. Until about Monday of this week I had only seen your program on the U-Tube channel of my TV set, where there was absolutely no way to chat with you.
I have contributed once, but I think I did it by credit card rather than PayPal (which I flatly refuse to use lest I put money in the pockets of its CEO, who supports and subsidizes the political
and social causes in this country that I find most odious and objectionable. I trust you use PayPal only because it is easy and you are ignorant about the political and social objectives of the
persons in the United States who benefit most from it.). Can you suggest another way for me to support your work?
I am a retired church organist whose primary employment was as a college history professor. I live in Beaufort (between Charleston and Savannah), South Carolina. I LOVE your program and
enthusiastically support your goals.
Jim, thank you for your comment and information about the hymns - it’s very helpful!
Alternatively to PayPal you could become a Patron where you can contribute financially either monthly or annually. It’s what most people are doing these days and actually is terrifically supportive to the ambitious ventures that I have planned for BIS in the coming years.
Thanks again! x
Amusing, your short sweet introduction! :) Watching & listening to your performance while I multi-task reviewing HS scholarship apps. How wonderful to have such glorious music to inspire my work!
I’m still listening to these last verses - and can’t help thinking that it may have enhanced the difference between the improvised last verse if yu played a verse with original harmony ? But I realise it would have taken twice as long! Thoroughly enjoying it anyways 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Yes I think you're right, and that was actually my original plan. This would've taken twice the amount of time and also I couldn't work out how to have access to the original harmonies in the same order they are presented in this volume.... any ideas?
Is there a particular hymnal or a list of the hymns that you were playing?
I just played through this particular book of arrangements in order. In hindsight, I should’ve played a verse using the ‘proper’ harmony first before launching into the reharmonisation. Perhaps next time this is that I’ll do!
Slowly catching up on this marathon. Another 'small' donation made by PayPal towards the console. Question: do the manuals provide velocity information as well as key on / key off? I realise that organs are usually " make noise or do not make noise", but velocity might provide some interesting options if mixed with other MIDI instruments.
Thank you David - received 😊 No velocity on organ keys, but I’d be interested on hearing what effect it would have!
You just played "Lydia," which is not in the Hymnal 1982 and is not in the mainstream hymnbooks of American denominations, either. I can't help you with that one.
Goodness! 7 hours of Reharmonisations. NAUGHTY?? They seem mostly pretty tame to me. If I could have you do it over I would ask for the Normal version followed by the naughty one...to hear the contrast. Also, can virtual reeds be tuned? I'm about to twist my earlobes off!
This was exactly my intention, but I couldn't work out how to do it without flicking between the hymns in a hymn book. The reharmonisations are arranged alphabetically by tune name but in hymn books they are not. Hope you enjoyed them though! :)
a 7 hour marathon, 12 hour marathon and a 16 hour marathon. What's next? A 24 hour marathon?
Depends how long Caroline lets me play for!
Just keep up the good work and keep the music coming!
How can you not know Vox Dilecti?!
This guy shaming his audience to grift for a free luxury item .. shameful! Yes, I want a pre war Bugatti.. Do I spruik my youtube audience to get it? NO . Will I get it? No
What do you call playing the organ for people around the world for around 7 hours? The average working day is 7 hours. What’s the difference? I work for things, and I never expect anything for free.
The last Organ Marathon I did was for 16 hours, and the one before that 12 hours. ‘This guy’ is working darn hard thank you very much.
Historically, organs have been paid for by subscriptions. The Willis in Hereford Cathedral in the 19th century right up to Christ Church Greenwich NY which has just raised 3.5 million dollars for a new Harrison and Harrison. In fact it is rare for an organist to have to work as hard as Richard ! This BiS organ is for a Virtual Church of thousands and a recital audience of tens of thousands. The channel is a beacon for organ music for the World and having a good instrument is vital for this "ministry" or project. I am very excited to be able to see the recitals and workshops on the new organ. It is an incredible thing that Richard is doing and the community he is building around the recitals and VC is proof of this. I just hope he raises the money before he has to do s 24 Hour marathon 😅
PS fantastic to hear these arrangements. Once again a unique resource for all organists and fans of hymns - unique and brilliantly played. Thank you Richard 🙏
I don’t think your 36 Subscribers entitle you to make such an offensive comment on the work of a much appreciated professional. Richard has justly earned both his phenomenal reputation and his 71k Subscribers. If they wish to support his projects, who are you to criticize them? There is absolutely no “shaming” going on at all. It’s not compulsory for you to be here either - find something better to do with your time.
@@andrewjkm1 Any airport in the world, any time snoopy, this aint junior prom!!
@@beautyinsound It is very much like a street musician. People can throw some money in the hat, or walk on by without giving up anything. No shaming whatsoever here. But, trolls gotta troll:)