Richard, Caroline, and Little Hugo, & the kitties - Merriest of Christmases through Christmastide, a blessed New Year 2022, safety, health, and all of the Father's richest blessings be upon you, within you. The light of Christ shines from your house in your wishes and energies. So many love you and appreciate your efforts that enrich God's Kingdom in our presence through organ, choir and solo singer sacred & classical music!
Wow! Such a wedding venue AND music program! Exaltation from the heavenly realms indeed! Such memories to hold in your heart! J.Mazzola, Reston, VA USA
Thank you very much, Richard and Caroline, for contributing to the joy of organ music intersecting with faith through the Beauty in Sound broadcasts. Now we listeners have another enjoyable Christmas Day tradition to add to others like watching the Queen's Message. Watching your Christmas Organ Music for Christmas Day offering will be an annual event! Merry Christmas from Ottawa, Canada!
Thank you so much, Richard and Caroline, I am massively impressed with your performances. Your phrasing and registrations are spot-on, respecting the tradition, the composers, and the location (large cathedrals require not too fast playing). Also I like your introductions, how you play it and why, with snippets of history. Much meaning is embedded in the lyrics and the music provides structure and emotion. With J.S.Bach: Soli Deo Gloria. From a very crisp, snowy Christmas morning in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Thank you Richard and Caroline for your contibution. I love to hear just about everything you present. A year after this was posted, I am listening to it in foot hills of the Great Dividing Range in Jamieson, Victoria, Australia, a place like others in the world, some might refer to as God's country, with today's blue sky, birds fluttering about and churping, kagaroos grazing and me with my reverent heart, thanks to your delivery of the music brought to us by many great composers who have gone before us. Music really can set the mood. Merry Christmas for 2022.
Thank you for this Christmas recital from an unusually very wet Santa Maria in California. Have a great and happy New Year when it comes. God bless Fr Aidan-Peter Rossiter CJ
0:27 JS Bach - Chorale Prelude on ‘In dulci jubilo’ BWV 729 3:38 GF Handel - Pastoral Symphony from ‘Messiah’ 7:00 Louis-Claude Daquin - Noel ‘Grand Jeu et Duo’ 13:32 JS Bach - Chorale Prelude on ‘Wachet auf, ruft ins die Stimme’ 17:31 Archangelo Corelli - Pastorale from ‘Christmas Concerto 21:52 Herbert Sumsion - Prelude on ‘The holly and the ivy’ 27:01 June Nixon - Away in a Manger 29:59 Noel Rawsthorne - In the bleak mid-winter 33:48 Noel Rawsthorne - Of the Father’s love begotten 36:09 Noel Rawsthorne - Noel Nouvelet 38:39 Gordon Phillips - Prelude on ‘O little town of Bethlehem’ 40:56 John Jordon - Sing Lullaby 44:55 William Lloyd Webber - Interlude on the Coventry Carol 48:27 JS Bach - In dir ist Freude btw - which organ is being played - Dudelange? Rotterdam? Nancy? I'd love it if you could include the organ(s) being used in the description. :-)
Thank you very much for the beautiful concert. Very professionally played and lovingly implemented. Merry Christmas and all the best for 2023 from me too. I'm looking forward to the next videos. Greetings from Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
What a marvelous program! Thank you for adding to our Christmas celebration here in Reston, VA USA. I NEVER cease to be amazed & inspired by your music, programs, family, & all you BIS people in cyberspace. 😀
It's 8pm Christmas Day, here in Central Alberta, Canada, and a chillly minus 30, really enjoyed your show today, The Daquin was great fun to listen to. Thank you. H & RC
@@anneprice5078 Sorry it disappeared. We don't understand how this lot all works. Hubby is an organ-nut, moved a Casavant from Howard/McBride Edmonton to St. Matthews in St Albert. Regards HC
Merry Chistmas to Richard, Caroline, Hugo, Nala and Bobbie and to everyone in the BIS community!🎄❤ Lovely! Skilfully played as usual Richard and great selection of organ pieces and hymns! It's funny even though I'm Swedish, Christmas would not be complete without a number of British Christmas hymns, In the Bleak Midwinter, Away in a Ma'nger etc. Always thought "O little town of Betlehem was a Swedish hymn as I grew up with it in Swedish. It called O Bethlehem du lilla stad in Swedish!
What a perfectly lovely present! Thank you Richard and Caroline, Hugo, Nala and Bobbie! Wishing you all and all the BIS community a blessed Christmas day - from Virginia, USA!
Basking in the early morning after Christmas, blessed once again by Beauty in Sound. Truly a special Christmas gift to the world. Happy ongoing Christmas season from Minnesota USA.
Thank you Richard and God bless you! I'm listening to this concert in Poland, in January 2022. You've got an adorable baby, his smile is a blessing in your life and work, I'm sure :-) Christmas is still on in Christian church and the New Year is still new. I wish you and yours all the best! Of course, as I am interested in organ music, I'm going to listen to some other of your videos :-)
Thank you for your time and the music! And I love the looks your son was giving you. It reminds me of when my oldest was that age 12-13 years ago. Cherish the time. It goes quickly!
I have just found your channel...thank you so much for the extraordinary blessings you've brought us in our home in Ohio USA. I am truly grateful, and so appreciate the gift you're sharing with us all!! Merry and blessed Christmas
This is glorious! Thank you so much, Richard, Caroline and gorgeous Hugo. Happy Christmas, from here in south London, to you and to everyone watching. 🎄⭐🕯 Both our church organists are unwell just now, sadly, so I have really missed hearing organ music this Christmas. You are the tops!
Happy Christmas! Happy Boxing Day! Thank you from Ellicott City, Maryland, USA. Thanks to your family for sparing you the time to make our Christmas Day so much more wonderful for your playing. Oh, love the holiday sweater and socks...you certainly set a festive mood.
Thank you for each video, which become ongoing gifts throughout the year. To see Hugo is a delight. Bless you all and Happy Christmas and Epiphany. I see you understand about the splitting of tunes for those Christmas favorites. I had to do this for a congregation in Mexico of mixed British and Americans. DJ in Knoxville TN
Lovely lovely, merry Christmas!! It truly is an impressive organ you've had assembled. I am looking forward to much more content from you (and Hugo and Caroline :-)
Yet another wonderful selection! I was also excited about the Daquin piece; I've been focusing a lot on Noel variations over the last few years from Daquin, Balbastre, etc. Sounded great! Merry Christmas and a happy New Year! Greetings from Pittsburgh, USA!
Thank you so much for creating such beauty to herald the Nativity of our Lord. Can you please share the registration you used for the arrangement of Handel's "Pastoral symphony"?
Such a beautiful program of organ music!!! Thank you for searching out some new fresh arrangements. Where can I find the arrangement of 'In the bleak midwinter' and 'Of the Father's Love Begotten' that you played? Also 'O Little Town of Bethlehem'. Thank you kindly - Brenda Cadwell
Nice Christmas concert selections. Your new organ looks like you could have the St. Sulpice organ play on it. A question: have read a bit about Hauptwerk. Haven't seen any videos on how the "sample sets" are recorded, who does it, choices on locations, etc. Just curious. Have a Happy New Year. From Chicago, U.S.A.
I'm enjoying your excellent Christmas music. I've a question about the console. Are there blank stops near the bottom for future expansion? Just wondering about that. That's a wonderful baby you have there. I'm sure he is going to be an excellent organist like his Dad. I'm listening from snowy Manitoba, Canada.
The empty stops are there for larger Hauptwerk sample sets. I have a physical stop for every virtual stop in Hauptwerk, and therefore I needed my organ to be large enough to fit even the largest of sample sets.
it's a "digital" instrument - it's a computer running software called "Hauptwerk" connected to the console (keyboards and pedal). This software allows sample sets of organs from around the world to be loaded into the computer and then played from the console.
Richard, Caroline, and Little Hugo, & the kitties - Merriest of Christmases through Christmastide, a blessed New Year 2022, safety, health, and all of the Father's richest blessings be upon you, within you. The light of Christ shines from your house in your wishes and energies. So many love you and appreciate your efforts that enrich God's Kingdom in our presence through organ, choir and solo singer sacred & classical music!
Wachet Auf! I love this too. This was played in my all-Bach wedding in Riverside Church NYC
Wow! Such a wedding venue AND music program! Exaltation from the heavenly realms indeed! Such memories to hold in your heart! J.Mazzola, Reston, VA USA
I'm still here. Listening to Away in a Manger. Haunting...
What a way to start Christmas Day here in rainy California
To Richard, Caroline, Hugo, Nala and Bobbie. Have a Happy and blessed Christmas . From Sue.
I had lessons with Gordon Phillips in c. 1980-81 during my time in London. He was a good teacher, and so full of anecdotes.
Vivian Crawford- Jamaica: To God be the Glory.Thank you Richard and encore for In dulci jubilo.
Merry Christmas from Charlottesville, Virginia, US
Thank you very much, Richard and Caroline, for contributing to the joy of organ music intersecting with faith through the Beauty in Sound broadcasts. Now we listeners have another enjoyable Christmas Day tradition to add to others like watching the Queen's Message. Watching your Christmas Organ Music for Christmas Day offering will be an annual event! Merry Christmas from Ottawa, Canada!
Merry Christmas to all watching!
Merci ...de Québec, Canada !
I listened to this again today while writing some emails to family and friends. Love your music!
Merry Christmas and thank you for the beautiful music. Greetings from Ukraine
Thank you so much, Richard and Caroline, I am massively impressed with your performances. Your phrasing and registrations are spot-on, respecting the tradition, the composers, and the location (large cathedrals require not too fast playing). Also I like your introductions, how you play it and why, with snippets of history. Much meaning is embedded in the lyrics and the music provides structure and emotion. With J.S.Bach: Soli Deo Gloria.
From a very crisp, snowy Christmas morning in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Thank you Richard and Caroline for your contibution. I love to hear just about everything you present. A year after this was posted, I am listening to it in foot hills of the Great Dividing Range in Jamieson, Victoria, Australia, a place like others in the world, some might refer to as God's country, with today's blue sky, birds fluttering about and churping, kagaroos grazing and me with my reverent heart, thanks to your delivery of the music brought to us by many great composers who have gone before us. Music really can set the mood. Merry Christmas for 2022.
Thank you for this Christmas recital from an unusually very wet Santa Maria in California.
Have a great and happy New Year when it comes.
God bless Fr Aidan-Peter Rossiter CJ
Thank you and blessings to you, Caroline and baby Hugo. xxxxx
0:27 JS Bach - Chorale Prelude on ‘In dulci jubilo’ BWV 729
3:38 GF Handel - Pastoral Symphony from ‘Messiah’
7:00 Louis-Claude Daquin - Noel ‘Grand Jeu et Duo’
13:32 JS Bach - Chorale Prelude on ‘Wachet auf, ruft ins die Stimme’
17:31 Archangelo Corelli - Pastorale from ‘Christmas Concerto
21:52 Herbert Sumsion - Prelude on ‘The holly and the ivy’
27:01 June Nixon - Away in a Manger
29:59 Noel Rawsthorne - In the bleak mid-winter
33:48 Noel Rawsthorne - Of the Father’s love begotten
36:09 Noel Rawsthorne - Noel Nouvelet
38:39 Gordon Phillips - Prelude on ‘O little town of Bethlehem’
40:56 John Jordon - Sing Lullaby
44:55 William Lloyd Webber - Interlude on the Coventry Carol
48:27 JS Bach - In dir ist Freude
btw - which organ is being played - Dudelange? Rotterdam? Nancy? I'd love it if you could include the organ(s) being used in the description. :-)
Dudelange Surround 😊
@@caroline.balfour thanks! :-)
Merry christmas to Richard and his family and ofcourse all listeners. Greetings from Nijkerk, the Netherlands.
Noël X de Louis-Claude D'Aquin. You played it beautifully. So light and precise.
Merry christmas from Cali , Colombia
Thank you, Richard and gorgeous Hugo!
Thank you for this wonderful music today! 🇨🇦
Thank you for a beautiful concert!!!
Marvelous!!!! Thank you so very much. Merry Christmas to the family and the entire BiS community. See you at VC!!!
Thank you very much for the beautiful concert. Very professionally played and lovingly implemented. Merry Christmas and all the best for 2023 from me too. I'm looking forward to the next videos. Greetings from Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Daquin! I love to play these
What a marvelous program! Thank you for adding to our Christmas celebration here in Reston, VA USA. I NEVER cease to be amazed & inspired by your music, programs, family, & all you BIS people in cyberspace. 😀
It's 8pm Christmas Day, here in Central Alberta, Canada, and a chillly minus 30, really enjoyed your show today, The Daquin was great fun to listen to. Thank you.
H & RC
Hi Helena from another Albertan
Sure is chilly brrrr
Christmas Cheers 🎍
@@anneprice5078 Sorry it disappeared. We don't understand how this lot all works. Hubby is an organ-nut, moved a Casavant from Howard/McBride Edmonton to St. Matthews in St Albert.
Regards
HC
@Helena Chapman
Thank you for sharing
Bundle up!
Wishing you a happy 2022 :-)
The more I hear of classical organs, the more I love my Mighty WurliTzer!
Merry Chistmas to Richard, Caroline, Hugo, Nala and Bobbie and to everyone in the BIS community!🎄❤
Lovely! Skilfully played as usual Richard and great selection of organ pieces and hymns!
It's funny even though I'm Swedish, Christmas would not be complete without a number of British Christmas hymns, In the Bleak Midwinter, Away in a Ma'nger etc. Always thought "O little town of Betlehem was a Swedish hymn as I grew up with it in Swedish. It called O Bethlehem du lilla stad in Swedish!
What a perfectly lovely present! Thank you Richard and Caroline, Hugo, Nala and Bobbie!
Wishing you all and all the BIS community a blessed Christmas day - from Virginia, USA!
Thank you from New Zealand. Wss able to watch this Boxing Day afternoon. Lovely photo of Hugo with Richard. Organ music was great.
Merry Christmas and thank you for the beautiful music - from a stormy and wet Johannesburg, South Africa.
Also listening from Cape Town, SA.
Basking in the early morning after Christmas, blessed once again by Beauty in Sound. Truly a special Christmas gift to the world. Happy ongoing Christmas season from Minnesota USA.
What a truly generous Christmas gift….(Eyes tearing up in joy right now)!
Btw, listening in south central Pennsylvania (USA)
The most beautiful organ programme for Christmas. Elegant. Simply lovely. Thank you, family.
What organ is this. This is amazing! Wonderful! ❤
Thank you Richard and God bless you! I'm listening to this concert in Poland, in January 2022. You've got an adorable baby, his smile is a blessing in your life and work, I'm sure :-) Christmas is still on in Christian church and the New Year is still new. I wish you and yours all the best! Of course, as I am interested in organ music, I'm going to listen to some other of your videos :-)
Those flutes on the Great are amazing!
Thank you Richard. I am from Brazil. I hope you and your beautiful family a very Happy New Year !!
A year later, thank you again, a beautiful way to end 2022, Happy New Year. Ontario.
Advent and Christmas blessings from Milwaukee Wisconsin!
Thank you so much and Merry Christmas from Phoenix Arizona.
Thank you Richard! The selections were beautiful. Merry Christmas to you, Caroline and Hugo!
Great program. Enjoyed in Atlanta
Thank you for your time and the music! And I love the looks your son was giving you. It reminds me of when my oldest was that age 12-13 years ago. Cherish the time. It goes quickly!
Still keeping the Christmas spirit going.
Clark, NJ USA. Your son is getting big. Merry Christmas!
I have just found your channel...thank you so much for the extraordinary blessings you've brought us in our home in Ohio USA. I am truly grateful, and so appreciate the gift you're sharing with us all!! Merry and blessed Christmas
MERRY CHRISTMAS. 🤗❤🌹🕊🌲👏❤
Merry Christmas Richard, Caroline and Hugo!
Best wishes from Chile, South América!
Happy Christmas
The Grand Jeu was great fun!
I love you music. Portland Oregon USA!
This is glorious! Thank you so much, Richard, Caroline and gorgeous Hugo. Happy Christmas, from here in south London, to you and to everyone watching. 🎄⭐🕯
Both our church organists are unwell just now, sadly, so I have really missed hearing organ music this Christmas. You are the tops!
Pray both organists will feel better soon! BIS is a real gift!
Listening from Cape Town
Merry Christmas form Poland !
Thank you for this lovely ministry! Sending Christmas greetings from St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Duluth, Minnesota.
Happy Christmas! Happy Boxing Day! Thank you from Ellicott City, Maryland, USA. Thanks to your family for sparing you the time to make our Christmas Day so much more wonderful for your playing. Oh, love the holiday sweater and socks...you certainly set a festive mood.
This is lovely - enjoying it in India
Love Hugo!! so sweet. Thank you from Gloucester, MA
Thank you! from Stellenbosch, South Africa. You need to do a prgoramme on the Endler Hall organ, It is a Marcussen Organ, which works well on Bach.
Especially like the Sumsion. I've only played random bits of his. This was lovely. Merry XPmas! from West Virgina, USA.
*Thank you Richard and Caroline* 🎹
Beautiful music :-)
Warm thoughts from Canada 🍁
God bless, have a wonderful holiday season!
Loved the program Richard. I even got my girls to listen although the highlight was…, Hugo! Merry Christmas to all 🎄🎅🏻❄️
Beautiful! Thank you!
Thank you for each video, which become ongoing gifts throughout the year. To see Hugo is a delight. Bless you all and Happy Christmas and Epiphany. I see you understand about the splitting of tunes for those Christmas favorites. I had to do this for a congregation in Mexico of mixed British and Americans. DJ in Knoxville TN
Merry Christmas from Redding, CA. Got to love organ music ever since Vratislavia Cantans in the 70-ties. Thank you for beautiful pieces of history!
what a lovely baby. God Bless
Missed the premiere, but watched the replay. Beautiful album. Loved the ending with Hugo. Happy Christmas to you and the family.
Merry Christmas to you!!
Merry christmass
Great job from Montreal, Canada
Lovely lovely, merry Christmas!! It truly is an impressive organ you've had assembled. I am looking forward to much more content from you (and Hugo and Caroline :-)
Yet another wonderful selection! I was also excited about the Daquin piece; I've been focusing a lot on Noel variations over the last few years from Daquin, Balbastre, etc. Sounded great! Merry Christmas and a happy New Year! Greetings from Pittsburgh, USA!
Thank you so much for creating such beauty to herald the Nativity of our Lord.
Can you please share the registration you used for the arrangement of Handel's "Pastoral symphony"?
Such a beautiful program of organ music!!! Thank you for searching out some new fresh arrangements. Where can I find the arrangement of 'In the bleak midwinter' and 'Of the Father's Love Begotten' that you played? Also 'O Little Town of Bethlehem'. Thank you kindly - Brenda Cadwell
When Oliver Messiaen will be included? The statue of Our Lady of Walsingham on the top is very nice! Ave Maria!
Beautiful.
Thank you and Merry Christmas from Bonn, Germany!
Very good.
Thank you and Happy Christmas!
Nice Christmas concert selections. Your new organ looks like you could have the St. Sulpice organ play on it. A question: have read a bit about Hauptwerk. Haven't seen any videos on how the "sample sets" are recorded, who does it, choices on locations, etc. Just curious. Have a Happy New Year. From Chicago, U.S.A.
I'm enjoying your excellent Christmas music. I've a question about the console. Are there blank stops near the bottom for future expansion? Just wondering about that. That's a wonderful baby you have there. I'm sure he is going to be an excellent organist like his Dad. I'm listening from snowy Manitoba, Canada.
The empty stops are there for larger Hauptwerk sample sets. I have a physical stop for every virtual stop in Hauptwerk, and therefore I needed my organ to be large enough to fit even the largest of sample sets.
Fantastic! Which subwoofer are you using?
What organ is being used? Merry Christmas
Hi Richard- Thank you. The organ looks as though it has a lot of blank stops. Can you advise what they are for? Thank you
What organ is this ? Is this Digital? It is Walker? Well??
it's a "digital" instrument - it's a computer running software called "Hauptwerk" connected to the console (keyboards and pedal). This software allows sample sets of organs from around the world to be loaded into the computer and then played from the console.
What determines whether you wear organ shoes or socks only?
I have a question for you. Where your organ stops are in it seems like there are push buttons. Am I correct??
Im from Sweden. Not so far!
Happy Christmas from Denver, Colorado, USA. Many thanks for this lovely music.