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organ related concerts/recitals, books, recordings etc. Please send them to publications@scotsorgan.org.uk
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details. Andrew Caskie in the Robert Lightband I am very glad to have paid a return visit to the Kelvingrove last
Sunday, May 24th. Apart from
everything else Andrew is a very welcome, if not recent, member to the
growing numbers of highly gifted players from So next we have to get through the comparison stage of the civic
organs in The Glasgow Lewis has a better Great chorus, if only because of
the brighter voicing and the splendid quint mixture that crowns the entire
organ. The Great reeds are better too,
and, as in the Caird Hall, are enclosed in the second box, but voiced in the
much less smooth Lewis style. But
hereafter things become more difficult to compare, not least because the Andy does not volunteer for easy music. Elgar’s Imperial March cried out for a
bigger Full Swell and a solo Tuba, but it was very well played. Andy’s own edition of the Liebesfreud of
Fritz Kreisler was very effective indeed as was Lamare’s difficult
arrangement of the Overture form Rienzi.
Why did Wagner write so much in B when it is impossible to play on an
organ with a G or A compass? I don’t
think Wagner liked organists very much, but very few people liked Wagner for
that matter. The Allegretto, an early work by Vierne suffered most from
people being noisy, though the Caird Hall Swell Trumpet would soon have
sorted that out. On the other hand the
very difficult Final from Vierne’s Symphonie six was very exciting indeed and
completely quietened the hitherto militant hoards from Although Bach was supposed to have written the first 13 bars of
the Fantasia in C major completed by Stockmeier, there was little in it to
convince me that Bach wrote a single note.
But it did not spoil a thoroughly enjoyable recital. ************** OxRecs Digital is a company producing CDs of Choral,
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