{"id":1825,"date":"2014-07-15T09:30:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T08:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2014-07-15T09:34:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T08:34:28","slug":"summer-organ-concerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=1825","title":{"rendered":"Summer Organ Concerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/french-flag.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1827 alignright\" alt=\"french flag\" src=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/french-flag.jpg\" width=\"176\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/french-flag.jpg 176w, https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/french-flag-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px\" \/><\/a>All Saints, Hastings<\/span><\/p>\n<p>James Lloyd Thomas, 14 July<\/p>\n<p>Bastille Day \u2013 and a programme of French music to celebrate the occasion. If in the end this was not quite the celebratory event that the choice of works promised, there was a much to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>The most successful work was Messiaen\u2019s <i>Joie et Clarte<\/i> from <i>Les Corps Glorieux. <\/i>Finely chosen registration, and succinct articulation and rhythms brought the work boldly to life. Before this, movements from Couperin\u2019s <i>Messes pour les Paroisses<\/i> seemed overlong if brightly registered, and Franck\u2019s Second Choral lost its way in the telling with little sense of shape or direction.<\/p>\n<p>The first half ended enthusiastically with the conclusion of Guilmant\u2019s Sonata No1.<\/p>\n<p>There were times when James Lloyd Thomas seemed to be fighting with the Willis. It is not an easy instrument to master, and, watching him on the large screen, there were many times he appeared hesitant about his next move &#8211; a hesitation which affected both phrasing and choice of registration.<\/p>\n<p>Dupre\u2019s <i>Prelude in F minor <\/i>worked well but the following Fugue rambled in its melancholic way.<\/p>\n<p>The Willis really does not do very fast, and both Alain\u2019s <i>Litanies<\/i> and the concluding Dubois Toccata<i> <\/i>suffered from the pace at which they were played. Exciting certainly, but a lack of clarity and some garbled phrasing.<\/p>\n<p>A programme which appeared on paper to be stimulating and apt turned out to be something of a curate\u2019s egg. Perhaps a final splash of the <i>Marseilles <\/i>would have sent us out singing?<\/p>\n<p>Next week &#8211; Daniel Cook from Westminster Abbey playing Bach, Widor and Stanford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Saints, Hastings James Lloyd Thomas, 14 July Bastille Day \u2013 and a programme of French music to celebrate the occasion. If in the end this was not quite the celebratory event that the choice of works promised, there was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=1825\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1830,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions\/1830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}