A suave performance, Ben, of Bach's beautiful air from the third Orchestral Suite in this gorgeous transcription by Gordon Phillips: bravo! Did you know that when Gordon Phillips was a young boy, his family moved to West Bridgford, Nottingham, and he started piano lessons - but the turning point for him came when he heard Louis Vierne give a recital at the Albert Hall, Nottingham? Vierne played among other pieces the Widor Toccata and this so fired Gordon's imagination that he began to take organ lessons with the Nottingham City Organist, Bernard Johnson. When, aged 48, he was invited to become organist at All Hallows by the Tower in 1956, he relished the opportunity to design the new Harrison and Harrison organ, replacing the one that had been destroyed by enemy bombing in 1940. The organ was finished in 1957 and that autumn saw the beginning of Gordon's Thursday lunch-time organ recitals. By the time of his death in 1991, Gordon had given three thousand two hundred and sixty-eight recitals since the beginning of the series! In 1983, at the age of 75, he played the organ works of Bach in an eight hour marathon to raise money for All Hallows church (a prodigious feat of intellect as well as endurance for a man of that age). By all accounts he was a most delightful character: an outstanding musician, a mass of intellect, a generous man, a connoisseur of cigars, a scholar, a composer, editor, a man of sound common sense, a man of strong views and yet a man with a delightful sense of humour and a zest for life. His life was music and when interviewed for a music magazine, the questioner asked him: 'You in fact live music' - to which Gordon replied: 'I feel that to be a really good organist, one works ten hours a day and thinks music for the other fourteen'. Now . . . there's an example to follow!
it always thrills and it is so great to see how different musicians ntrpret it. Very refined Ben.
Bravo!
A suave performance, Ben, of Bach's beautiful air from the third Orchestral Suite in this gorgeous transcription by Gordon Phillips: bravo!
Did you know that when Gordon Phillips was a young boy, his family moved to West Bridgford, Nottingham, and he started piano lessons - but the turning point for him came when he heard Louis Vierne give a recital at the Albert Hall, Nottingham? Vierne played among other pieces the Widor Toccata and this so fired Gordon's imagination that he began to take organ lessons with the Nottingham City Organist, Bernard Johnson. When, aged 48, he was invited to become organist at All Hallows by the Tower in 1956, he relished the opportunity to design the new Harrison and Harrison organ, replacing the one that had been destroyed by enemy bombing in 1940. The organ was finished in 1957 and that autumn saw the beginning of Gordon's Thursday lunch-time organ recitals. By the time of his death in 1991, Gordon had given three thousand two hundred and sixty-eight recitals since the beginning of the series! In 1983, at the age of 75, he played the organ works of Bach in an eight hour marathon to raise money for All Hallows church (a prodigious feat of intellect as well as endurance for a man of that age). By all accounts he was a most delightful character: an outstanding musician, a mass of intellect, a generous man, a connoisseur of cigars, a scholar, a composer, editor, a man of sound common sense, a man of strong views and yet a man with a delightful sense of humour and a zest for life. His life was music and when interviewed for a music magazine, the questioner asked him: 'You in fact live music' - to which Gordon replied: 'I feel that to be a really good organist, one works ten hours a day and thinks music for the other fourteen'.
Now . . . there's an example to follow!
It's a fine arrangement.