{"id":3702,"date":"2017-07-29T10:17:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T09:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=3702"},"modified":"2017-07-29T10:19:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T09:19:54","slug":"jeremy-meager-at-church-in-the-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=3702","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Meager at Church in the Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Church in the Wood, Friday 28 July 2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Church in the Wood have had their new Viscount organ in use for some time now but Saturday was the first time that Jeremy Meager, the Managing Director of Viscount Organs, had come down to perform and put the instrument through its paces.<\/p>\n

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He chose an eclectic range of works, which aimed to please the audience with familiar pieces and include a variety of styles to demonstrate the flexibility of the registration. He opened with a rapidly paced rendition of Nimrod<\/em> from Elgar\u2019s Enigma Variations<\/em> and moved on to Bach\u2019s Prelude & Fugue in E flat BWV 572. This brought us some fine top flutes and a splendidly articulated fugue.<\/p>\n

The gentle tones of Malcolm Archer\u2019s Elegy<\/em> gave way to a bombastic account of Handel\u2019s Overture to the Occasional Oratorio<\/em> before returning to the lyricism of Bach\u2019s Bist du bei mir <\/em>BWV508. The first half ended with Vierne\u2019s familiar Carillon de Westminster.<\/em><\/p>\n

The second opened with a Trumpet Tune \u2013 though not one of the more familiar wedding choices. This one was by Tambling and showed us the brashness of the organ\u2019s trumpet stop. Franck\u2019s reflective Prelude, Fugue and Variations<\/em> followed with the dynamic changes during the fugue impressing. S S Wesley\u2019s Choral Song<\/em> is equally familiar though not the accompanying fugue which, on this occasion sang with aplomb.<\/p>\n

R Goss-Custard\u2019s Chelsea Fayre <\/em>is a real lollipop and moved us gently into Parry\u2019s Chorale Prelude on Eventide<\/em> \u2013 better known to most as Abide with me. <\/em>This brought us to the inevitable concluding item \u2013 the Toccata from Widor\u2019s 5th<\/sup> Symphony. Jeremy Meager raced through this to the delight of the audience, even if some of the notes seemed to get lost along the way.<\/p>\n

As an encore he played Herbert Sumsion\u2019s Ceremonial March<\/em> \u2013 about as English and CoE as one could wish. He has promised to return and will obviously be very welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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