A Very British Organ Roadtrip
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- I visit the pretty Wiltshire village of Alvediston to explore the church and its unusual organ. I hope you enjoy my travels.
Music in our smallest parish churches is as significant as that of our cathedrals.
Where should I visit next?
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Repertoire performed:
Abide with Me
Prelude in G Minor (Nicolaus Bruhns), composed 350 years ago but still significantly younger than the church!
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What a beautiful cat.😊
Indeed! Any man who loves cats is a friend of mine!!!
And Ben has a cat. Total approval.
Bravo! Beautiful playing! Lovely cat❤
Thank you, Ben. Your love for music and organs is so inspiring. I love organ music, my grandfather and uncle were organists in Lithuania. You're reviving your nation's spirit, God bless you!
Ben, how wonderful to spend part of my Sunday listening to your concerts!
I had to jump back in time from the electrical organ trip to see your cat. You have improved over the months with your videos I really enjoy.
I’ve just discovered this road trip. Lovely to see the old church and hear your great playing. Thank you.I will look out for more of your trips. Beautiful cat!
Wow! That was a fantastic village road journey trip.
Beautiful old organ, found in an equally beautiful ancient church, and beautifully played
I love visiting old churches, listening to church bells and organ music ❤️🎹🎶
My first trip to England was with the Association of Anglican Musicians in 1987. The post conference tour took us to Salisbury - indeed a very pastoral setting. A later conference included a tour of the Herbert Howells country side. We visited the small, parish churches and I even played briefly on one of the organs - a very cherished memory. In Lydney? there was also a fierce competition to see which church made the best scones. It was a real treat to visit and experience the "real churches" vs. the huge Cathedral museums.
Great video of your first country side church around Salisbury. Excellent beginning of “Morning Mood”. Love the pedal work in my favorite organ shoes-loafers!!!!!
One of our ushers at Holy Cross Episcopal in West Memphis, Arkansas was from the area and was a chorister at Salisbury Cathedral. During break some of the choristers immediately pulled out a deck of cards and started playing poker. They got more pence for singing for weddings than for funerals. I loved to hear him read. He has since moved back to Oaken Gates, Telford TFZ 6TL.
thank you so much,you the master of the organ,
Your music and the places where you play are excellent at prompting emotion in the listener.
As far as I understand, this prelude in G minor, which was only discovered in 1970, cannot be definitely attributed to Bruhns. It is more likely a composition by Arnold Matthias Brunckhorst. But whatever the truth may be, it is beautiful in any case and this rendition is just wonderful.
I loved 'stepping back in time'. And what an amazing piece of music, truely interesting. Thank you again for a wonderful video. I'm subscribed and looking forward to many, many more. 🧡🤠
Only 5 minutes - too short, Ben! A shame that you couldn't have shown your fans a better idea of the incredible setting of this wonderful church, approached up a track across the fields - and looking back across the little valley to The Crown pub . . . in Salisbury the village is known as 'Allavadistance' - a long driive for a few pints! And no mention of the perfectly simple grave of one of our more gentlemanly Prime Ministers, Sir Anthony Eden, who lived and died in the nearby litle Manor House. But what a cracking little organ! Thank you!
Unfortunately, the Crown burned down last year. It’s not certain that it will be rebuilt.
👍...Great sounds and playing.
charming...
The cat that's funny going with my hooman
Oooo - lovely chuffy voices mebe not acceptibe in a town, but heaven in a contry building.
All you need is a choir...
I’m sure it’s a great experience. I’ve tried a few in CCT churches; this one is in tune and everything works… Love the video
Thank you for this lovely video!
And may I make a request? In the future, could you tell us how you solved the registrational problem, or what registration you used? I was wondering if the Swell coupled down to the Great and that is why the great was based on a principle 4'? WHERE was the hymn? It is always nice to hear how a church organ sounds on repertoire, but also on congregational hymns.
The country side was lovely, feel free to give us more of that and a bit of the church yard and interior of the church if you are willing to. Some of us will likely never (or very rarely) experience one of these ancient, well night forgotten parish churches in the lovely English countryside.
Absolutely! Thank you for your comments. My next road trip goes online tomorrow…
I expected a full performance of "Eventide" (not one of my favourites, I'm afraid) and we get a wonderful Baroque prelude to say nothing of Grieg's "Morning Mood"! And I do love the Salisbury area anyway! Thanks so much! What a shame that most of Bruhns' music was lost!!
Your Road Trips are great, Ben. Thank you. Coincidentally, before I had watched this video, I had already decided to play Grieg's "Morning Mood" to open my organ "Gathering Prelude" at my small village church this Sunday, coupled with "It is Well with my Soul". You are always an inspiration, with your playing and soft-spoken intelligent wisdom.
discovered your channel quite by accident but its wonderful. I am a brass musician but how I wish I played keyboard and organ in particular; I have to lug my tuba around to gigs and rehearsals - you get to discover a new instrument wherever you go which must be scary and fun in equal measure?
Thank you for your replies .... I have found it in my music book !!
Thanks for listening :)
@@SalisburyOrganistAwesome, where did you study organ?!
👏🎯🔥
Thanks! I was an organ scholar at Oxford University 😀
We have quite a bunch of little organs with such "unsual" stoplists. In the case here, the Great is meant to play mostly with Sw to Gt, or octaviate. I started my carrer and practice in Germany on a Mühleisen with Sw Ged8 Gt Pt4 MixIII Ped 16. Such little 2nd keyboard are called "Práludiermanual" (play the prelude on the Sw, then accompany on the Gt). 4 stops, so reaaly economic for liitle congregations, but full sound and quite possibilities for emphasize the melody in soprano, tenor and even bass.
My conjecture is the lower manual is there for coupling everything together for plenum. Should play Handel organ concertos well. The last mixture demonstrated has quite the quintaton timbre. BTW, you have a beautiful cat, and you've lost 20 house points for not taking them along on your travels!
And at we know, Bill, cats are so very important these days. Yes, I think that Ben should bring his cat on his road trips, to help thoroughly investigate these lovely old churches. There might be mice amongst the pipes.
Thank you, Ben. i have just discovered your little road trips. Great, looking forward to more 😊
Thank you, next film goes online on Saturday!...
Pretty little Village Church with a charming Chapel Organ! Nothing like this in Canada!
How lovely but you better get cracking before they all
End up
On bonfires due to reordering and the happy claps
Wow! My first experience with Synesthesia, when you opened the door I could smell the inside of that Church like I had been there before. Can you tell what the Temperament of the organ is?
Was I hallucinating? At one point, the pedal board seemed coupled to the manuals.
Ben ... what was playing in the background as you were driving through the countryside.
thanks
@hughroberton9714
Hello Hugh. Ben may correct me, but I think that is Grieg's "Morning Mood".
A classic that I have always loved.
Correct! 😀@@mattleach958
The disappointment of your lovely feline (as seen at the very end of the video) is so very obvious. Maybe it is a great admirer of organ music or driving or both.