My dear Graham. I am truly honoured and deeply touched to have been chosen as the dedicatee of your remarkable new composition. It certainly is worthy of being included in the top 19 entries of the BIS Competition. Your music has not only graced the world with its beauty, but it has also granted me an immense privilege I will forever cherish. This gift resonates within my heart, and I am profoundly grateful for this meaningful connection between your artistry and my passion for the pipe organ. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for this extraordinary gesture that will forever resonate through the pipes of many organs in the world. Theo🙏
Your gracious and warmhearted words are a little overwhelming, Theo, but mean such a lot to me. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the support and encouragement you so generously offer me when I know I am so very far away from the musical echelons you rightly occupy. I am in awe of your musicianship and powers as an organist and composer. That we now share a connection is a source of profound gratitude for me as well. Thank you for enormously enriching my life.❤
Another WOW!!! I don't know why Utube is not letting me know when you upload new videos and I have to seek you out in order to hear your latest compositions, however with that being said and this being Dec 26th, I am thrilled to be sitting down and listening to your upload that is so completely different than the other "Twist" compositions but still delightful to listen to! You keep amazing your audience with these gems! Thank you for sharing Graham!!
Thank you, Michael. This composition sets out to explore an approach that is certainly not natural to me, but which I thought might stretch my creative abilities when paying homage to a more contemporary style of organ music. My efforts were rewarded as this piece was surprisingly awarded a runner-up prize!
Thank you very much for watching and for leaving a comment - quite different to your love of guitar and instrumental music! It's kind of you to subscribe!
This work recently became my favourite , very complicated harmonic vertical, joyful coloristic burst . I suppose this score could be put together and fit my hands well after several months of hard practice every fu........ day. And you are always complaining that you are not good enough performer- much more skilled than me !
Haha! With this style of music, no-one notices the wrong notes . . . and my performance is sloppy, whereas you are always so meticulous and correct when you play. English finger substitutions. I know you love them! Thanks for listening and commenting . . . but this composition is never going to get me into heaven!
Since the beginning, I was very impressioned with this video. Excellent composition a little in the way from Vierne or Dupré. I have listened in whole with much pleasure. Good playing, better than me! And with a great sound. Greetings. 🎹
Thank you very much, Jerry. If truth be told, I am slightly more confident about writing music in this idiom than I am about playing it. Far too many accidentals and demi-semi-quavers for my liking!!! 🤣
Dear Graham. What an absolutely stunning piece - and so brilliantly performed, too. Bravo! And based on one of my favourite hymn tunes too. Please keep up the wonderful compositions. David.
Magnificent, Graham! (That short sentence also works without the comma.) A tremendous work whose musical stature is rightly recognised in the BiS publication. Drama, power, tenderness are a trinity of words which spring to mind. Once again with your compositions, I search for a word beyond BRAVO!
So very kind, Paul: thank you! This composition saw me explore some more modern-sounding harmonic language . . . though true atonality is a leap too far for me! I'm glad you enjoyed the piece. It even grew on me as I was putting it together without knowing where it was going until I reached what seemed like a suitable end after a quick blast on an en chamade reed! (Dykes will be turning in his grave!)
Dear Graham, this is yet another beautiful composition, full of harmonic, melodic and timbre nuances, which hold your attention from beginning to end. In addition, in addition to your performance, Graham, who is always endowed with balance and musicality, presenting us with his skills as a performer and composer. Finally, it's always nice to appreciate the image interventions you add throughout the video. As usual, a treat for us listeners. BRAVO!!!
Muito obrigado por assistir e deixar um comentário adorável, André. Esta foi uma mudança de direção para mim harmonicamente, pois explorei algumas ideias de algumas músicas de órgão francesas do século XX. Que bom que você gostou do que consegui criar. Um grande abraço para você e calorosas saudações da Inglaterra! ❤
Dear Graham, once again I am amazed by the skills you use to create your compositions. you are a great role model for me. an incredibly versatile and highly professionally designed composition. I will listen to it very often.
Dear Markus - I am so very honoured by your generous comment. You are an organist I greatly admire as all your performances are highly professional and a joy to listen to and to watch. I am so lucky to have your encouragement and support: thank you!
Hello Graham. You work admirably well during the holidays. Bravo for this new composition in a style a little different from previous works. I will be happy to receive the score and get to work! I wish you a good Sunday and thank you again.
Many thanks, Vidas, for watching and leaving a comment. It's a slightly different approach from me for this one. I see 'Nicaea' also inspired you twice with your 'Fanfare' (Opus 122) and your 'Berceuse' (Opus 233). Let's hope Revd Dykes would have been appreciative of our treatment of his beautiful hymn . . . and not turning in his grave!
@@SecretsofOrganPlaying Haha! Wicked you! I think we both fall far outside of Victorian sensibilities. Dykes would probably have preferred it if we had treated his hymn more like John Cage's 4'33!
Dear Graham, once again, you have created a magical masterpiece! What a beautiful piece of music! I’m thrilled this will be published in the new BIS volume and that you were chosen as one of the top pieces! Well deserved! I’d love a copy, though I’m not sure I’m talented enough to play it! Congrats on this wonderful work! 🎶😍🎶
Thank you so much, Phil. I will confess to trying to be more 'modern' in my harmonic language with this piece as I though the usual 'Twist' would be seen as dull! I was delighted to see that the judges were not dismissive of some entries which were wonderfully traditional, as well as some extraordinary compositions which left me feeling very inadequate indeed! I am honoured you are interested to see the score of my 'Rhapsody' and I will email you a copy. I appreciate your support and encouragement very much . . . I just wish I had your flair!❤
Magnificent Graham. I was thinking of you last night when tuning into the BIS composition recital. Well done for being accepted for publication. Well deserved.
Thank you very much! Listening to the other compositions that were featured in the Festival upload, I felt heavily outclassed! I must have just scraped through . . . !
It's awesome how a Twist-ed mind can unravel into such a cogent work as this! No need to question where it comes from -- just let it flow -- stay out of the way, and stand there with a big bucket to harvest the outpouring! (i.e. keep up the great work! ;-)
@@grahamtwist Oh wait! - you want sanity too? Isn't a sane composer an oxymoron? (jk!) Whatever -- you never fail to impress and reward your hearers -- I'm always looking forward to your works and performances.
A wonderfully crafted piece, Graham. The contrasts in moods and textures and the harmonies in the music are most appealing. Bravo on another very fine composition! Please may I have a copy of the score?
Many thanks for watching and leaving a comment, James - much appreciated. I'm guessing I only just made it through as I have heard thirteen of the other successful entrants now and they are all amazing compositions. It's so exciting to think that the King of Instruments is still inspiring the creation of such diverse and wonderful music - a real comfort in my old age! (Your copy of the score is on its way across to the other side of the world!)
What a fabulous composition. Today I played a “Guilmant-style” piece that you crafted. But this is more Vierne or even Messiaen. Fantastic to listen to. But I’m afraid my skills are just enough to play the pedal part of this piece. Nevertheless I like the two sides from you as composer. The intimate mediations and the extravert big pieces. Well done dear Graham!
Wow. So many elements in this piece take us listeners to places surreal and unexpected. You truly stepped out of your "comfort zone" on this one and did so with great success, Graham! I'm also thrilled to hear it will be published in the BiS upcoming collection. Kudos all around and back again!!!
Many thanks, Christopher. Yes, it was a new direction for me . . . but I couldn't totally break free of my old habits! Time to return to my 'comfort zone'!
Dear Graham, I have been hearing from you on and off and now here I find your channel. I am very happy and excited. A certainly difficult composition to play but just great! I'm sure I'll hear a lot of great things from you, you've shared a lot of videos, thanks for that and many greetings! Roland
Congratulations on this new brillant composition Graham ! You clearly desserve to be one of the finalists of the Bis compétition ! As you see, my piece has been denied... So I get better, and try next year ! Good evening dear friend !
My dear Graham. I am truly honoured and deeply touched to have been chosen as the dedicatee of your remarkable new composition. It certainly is worthy of being included in the top 19 entries of the BIS Competition. Your music has not only graced the world with its beauty, but it has also granted me an immense privilege I will forever cherish. This gift resonates within my heart, and I am profoundly grateful for this meaningful connection between your artistry and my passion for the pipe organ. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for this extraordinary gesture that will forever resonate through the pipes of many organs in the world. Theo🙏
Your gracious and warmhearted words are a little overwhelming, Theo, but mean such a lot to me. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the support and encouragement you so generously offer me when I know I am so very far away from the musical echelons you rightly occupy. I am in awe of your musicianship and powers as an organist and composer. That we now share a connection is a source of profound gratitude for me as well. Thank you for enormously enriching my life.❤
Lovely work on Nicea! Beautiful video as well.
Have enjoyed your work for years🙏
Thank you very much - glad you enjoyed it!
Cool. I love this hymn. Great stuff!
Thank you, Daniel. A very. English hymn with a French 'twist'!
Another WOW!!! I don't know why Utube is not letting me know when you upload new videos and I have to seek you out in order to hear your latest compositions, however with that being said and this being Dec 26th, I am thrilled to be sitting down and listening to your upload that is so completely different than the other "Twist" compositions but still delightful to listen to! You keep amazing your audience with these gems! Thank you for sharing Graham!!
Thank you, Michael. This composition sets out to explore an approach that is certainly not natural to me, but which I thought might stretch my creative abilities when paying homage to a more contemporary style of organ music. My efforts were rewarded as this piece was surprisingly awarded a runner-up prize!
Great playing. Subscribed
Thank you very much for watching and for leaving a comment - quite different to your love of guitar and instrumental music! It's kind of you to subscribe!
This work recently became my favourite , very complicated harmonic vertical, joyful coloristic burst . I suppose this score could be put together and fit my hands well after several months of hard practice every fu........ day. And you are always complaining that you are not good enough performer- much more skilled than me !
Haha! With this style of music, no-one notices the wrong notes . . . and my performance is sloppy, whereas you are always so meticulous and correct when you play. English finger substitutions. I know you love them! Thanks for listening and commenting . . . but this composition is never going to get me into heaven!
Since the beginning, I was very impressioned with this video.
Excellent composition a little in the way from Vierne or Dupré.
I have listened in whole with much pleasure.
Good playing, better than me!
And with a great sound.
Greetings.
🎹
Thank you so much for watching and leaving such a kind comment - I really appreciate it!
Gorgeous piece. Mesmerising. Bravo!!
Thank you so much! It's kind of you to watch and leave a comment.
@@grahamtwist I’m trying to find you on FB or your email to ask if I can have a peek at the music. Would love to learn the piece.
@@tobiasbutler2754 grahamstwist@gmail.com
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Muito obrigado por assistir e deixar um comentário!
Congratulations Graham! What an exciting Rhapsody - beautifully played and as always inspiring images and presentation. Bravo!!
Thank you very much, Jerry. If truth be told, I am slightly more confident about writing music in this idiom than I am about playing it. Far too many accidentals and demi-semi-quavers for my liking!!! 🤣
Just sensational! Many thanks, and B R A V O! 🎉😊
Thank you very much! I appreciate you watching and leaving such a positive comment!
Dear Graham. What an absolutely stunning piece - and so brilliantly performed, too. Bravo! And based on one of my favourite hymn tunes too. Please keep up the wonderful compositions. David.
Thanks very much, David. I'm glad you like the piece and enjoyed my performance!
Magnificent, Graham! (That short sentence also works without the comma.) A tremendous work whose musical stature is rightly recognised in the BiS publication. Drama, power, tenderness are a trinity of words which spring to mind. Once again with your compositions, I search for a word beyond BRAVO!
So very kind, Paul: thank you! This composition saw me explore some more modern-sounding harmonic language . . . though true atonality is a leap too far for me! I'm glad you enjoyed the piece. It even grew on me as I was putting it together without knowing where it was going until I reached what seemed like a suitable end after a quick blast on an en chamade reed! (Dykes will be turning in his grave!)
Dear Graham, this is yet another beautiful composition, full of harmonic, melodic and timbre nuances, which hold your attention from beginning to end. In addition, in addition to your performance, Graham, who is always endowed with balance and musicality, presenting us with his skills as a performer and composer. Finally, it's always nice to appreciate the image interventions you add throughout the video. As usual, a treat for us listeners. BRAVO!!!
Muito obrigado por assistir e deixar um comentário adorável, André. Esta foi uma mudança de direção para mim harmonicamente, pois explorei algumas ideias de algumas músicas de órgão francesas do século XX. Que bom que você gostou do que consegui criar. Um grande abraço para você e calorosas saudações da Inglaterra! ❤
Dear Graham, once again I am amazed by the skills you use to create your compositions. you are a great role model for me. an incredibly versatile and highly professionally designed composition. I will listen to it very often.
Dear Markus - I am so very honoured by your generous comment. You are an organist I greatly admire as all your performances are highly professional and a joy to listen to and to watch. I am so lucky to have your encouragement and support: thank you!
@@grahamtwistThank you so much Graham!
Hello Graham. You work admirably well during the holidays. Bravo for this new composition in a style a little different from previous works. I will be happy to receive the score and get to work! I wish you a good Sunday and thank you again.
Many thanks for your kind comment, Philippe. I will email you a copy of the score!
Dear Graham, and here again you play an exciting and lovely composition. Thank you for spoiling us!
Many thanks for watching and leaving a comment. I hope Theo likes the piece!
It's a very joyful and exuberant work! Congratulations, Graham!
Many thanks, Vidas, for watching and leaving a comment. It's a slightly different approach from me for this one. I see 'Nicaea' also inspired you twice with your 'Fanfare' (Opus 122) and your 'Berceuse' (Opus 233). Let's hope Revd Dykes would have been appreciative of our treatment of his beautiful hymn . . . and not turning in his grave!
@@grahamtwist You’re very welcome! I appreciate your efforts not to offend Revd Dykes!😂
@@SecretsofOrganPlaying Haha! Wicked you! I think we both fall far outside of Victorian sensibilities. Dykes would probably have preferred it if we had treated his hymn more like John Cage's 4'33!
@@grahamtwist Yes because every other chord would be considered too dissonant to his ears haha!
@@SecretsofOrganPlaying So true! Holy, holy, holy dissonance! Poor Dykes!
Dear Graham, once again, you have created a magical masterpiece! What a beautiful piece of music! I’m thrilled this will be published in the new BIS volume and that you were chosen as one of the top pieces! Well deserved! I’d love a copy, though I’m not sure I’m talented enough to play it! Congrats on this wonderful work! 🎶😍🎶
Thank you so much, Phil. I will confess to trying to be more 'modern' in my harmonic language with this piece as I though the usual 'Twist' would be seen as dull! I was delighted to see that the judges were not dismissive of some entries which were wonderfully traditional, as well as some extraordinary compositions which left me feeling very inadequate indeed! I am honoured you are interested to see the score of my 'Rhapsody' and I will email you a copy. I appreciate your support and encouragement very much . . . I just wish I had your flair!❤
Magnificent Graham. I was thinking of you last night when tuning into the BIS composition recital. Well done for being accepted for publication. Well deserved.
Thank you very much! Listening to the other compositions that were featured in the Festival upload, I felt heavily outclassed! I must have just scraped through . . . !
Thrilling to the core. I love this.
Thank you - I'm honoured!
It's awesome how a Twist-ed mind can unravel into such a cogent work as this! No need to question where it comes from -- just let it flow -- stay out of the way, and stand there with a big bucket to harvest the outpouring! (i.e. keep up the great work! ;-)
Haha! Thanks very much. When it flows, it flows; fortunately, most of the time, not a note seems keen to escape, keeping me just about sane!
@@grahamtwist Oh wait! - you want sanity too? Isn't a sane composer an oxymoron? (jk!) Whatever -- you never fail to impress and reward your hearers -- I'm always looking forward to your works and performances.
Wonderful as always Graham my friend!🤗👍👏👏👏👏
Many thanks, Peter. A different direction for me, so glad you enjoyed the piece!
You're so welcome! I understand that but you play it so beautiful!🤗👍
A wonderfully crafted piece, Graham. The contrasts in moods and textures and the harmonies in the music are most appealing. Bravo on another very fine composition! Please may I have a copy of the score?
Thank you so much, Paul. A copy is on its way!
I’m glad this will be published as it deserves to be! Great performance too! I’d like my copy please.
Many thanks for watching and leaving a comment, James - much appreciated. I'm guessing I only just made it through as I have heard thirteen of the other successful entrants now and they are all amazing compositions. It's so exciting to think that the King of Instruments is still inspiring the creation of such diverse and wonderful music - a real comfort in my old age! (Your copy of the score is on its way across to the other side of the world!)
What a fabulous composition. Today I played a “Guilmant-style” piece that you crafted. But this is more Vierne or even Messiaen. Fantastic to listen to. But I’m afraid my skills are just enough to play the pedal part of this piece. Nevertheless I like the two sides from you as composer. The intimate mediations and the extravert big pieces. Well done dear Graham!
Thanks, Rien. I don't know where it comes from - I need to come to you for professional counselling!
Wow. So many elements in this piece take us listeners to places surreal and unexpected. You truly stepped out of your "comfort zone" on this one and did so with great success, Graham! I'm also thrilled to hear it will be published in the BiS upcoming collection. Kudos all around and back again!!!
Many thanks, Christopher. Yes, it was a new direction for me . . . but I couldn't totally break free of my old habits! Time to return to my 'comfort zone'!
Dear Graham, I have been hearing from you on and off and now here I find your channel. I am very happy and excited. A certainly difficult composition to play but just great! I'm sure I'll hear a lot of great things from you, you've shared a lot of videos, thanks for that and many greetings! Roland
Thank you very much for watching and leaving such a kind comment - I appreciate your support!
Congratulations on this new brillant composition Graham ! You clearly desserve to be one of the finalists of the Bis compétition ! As you see, my piece has been denied... So I get better, and try next year ! Good evening dear friend !
Thanks, Rémi - you are always a winner in my eyes!
@@grahamtwist you are so kind 😊🙏
Ik more than happy to try out your newest trio Rémi!
@@RienSchalkwijk I send you this tomorrow, I schedulded to record it for next thursday ! I'm sure you will appreciate. Good evening buddy !