{"id":3745,"date":"2017-08-13T12:02:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T11:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=3745"},"modified":"2017-08-13T12:02:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T11:02:02","slug":"stephen-page-at-church-in-the-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=3745","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Page at Church in the Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday 11 August 2017<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Viscount organ in Church in the Wood can sound quite different depending upon where you are sitting as the speakers are placed throughout the building, the choir being high up in the chancel. On this occasion I sat close to the font which seemed to be a good position both for impact and balance.<\/p>\n

Stephen Page opened with a breezy account of Herbert Murrill\u2019s Carillon <\/em>before moving on to two classical works. JS Bach\u2019s Prelude in G major BWV541 demonstrated the bright top work on the organ and some fine articulation. By total contrast, he then gave us the delicate intimacy of a Sonata for a musical clock<\/em> by Handel \u2013 the final movement deftly reflecting the familiar tones of the Harmonious Blacksmith.<\/em><\/p>\n

George Oldroyd\u2019s Liturgical Prelude No3 was in more romantic vein even if it maintained an obvious close connection with liturgical compositions.\u00a0 Stanley Vann\u2019s Hymn Prelude: Blaenwern<\/em> enabled Stephen to demonstrate the string sounds of the organ with its gently flowing meter, before two chorale-improvisations by Karg-Elert \u2013the first a less familiar but warmly enclosing O my soul, rejoice with gladness<\/em> before the popular Nun danket. <\/em>The range of tone which this organ can provide was clear in Ireland\u2019s charming Vilanella<\/em> which led into the more populist part of the evening, opening with a rousing Crown Imperial <\/em>by Walton.<\/p>\n

One of the benefits of an electronic organ is the variety of stops open to the designer and the next few pieces clearly showed the range available. C Armstrong Gibbs Dusk<\/em> included piano and\/or xylophone together with some theatre organ sounds, but it was Leslie Clair\u2019s Dance of the Blue Marionettes<\/em> which gave us the full Wurlitzer. But Stephen was able to top even this when Ketelbey\u2019s In a monastery garden <\/em>rang with tubular bells alongside the organ.<\/p>\n

The evening ended with a number of familiar community songs \u2013 though The Lost Chord\u00ad <\/em>seemed a little lost on some of the audience! \u2013 and an encore, more Walton in the shape of the Spitfire Prelude.<\/em><\/p>\n

All of the above was sandwiched between a summer evening stroll in the woods and a fish and chip supper. Who could wish for more?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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