Aspiring Organists of discretion & elegance take note......This is your role model...........Dame Gillian Weir has musical sensitivity and perception that cannot be learned. It must be felt , after studying the music. Only then can you perform in this "personal" sense. A naturally brilliant musician, there are not many.. C.Thors-Smith . Australia.

I play Tournemire’s communion movement of L’Orgue Mystique every Sunday for Mass during communion and often the other portions as well. He is a phenom without equal.

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Thank you for posting this. Nicolas is a wonderful player, an all round lovely bloke and fantastic teacher.

splendid! wen wa this recorded. the announcer has a vintage BBC voice! Sinclair was a good friend of Elgar. Did you know that Murrill, as was as a notable musician, Was also a code breaker at Bletchley Park during the wasr.

Can't find episodes 3 & 4. Have they been uploaded? In this episode we have jumped from pre-war to the 1930s, missing out L'Orgue Mystique.. Strange. Does one of the subsequent episodes go back to this?

Incredible to hear Madame Tournemire speak! She sounds like Mrs Thatcher. I caught the tail end of one of these programmes back in 1989 and that was enough for me. Been a Tournemire devotee ever since. Great to hear them in full.

This wonderful! Do you have broadcasts of the great Arnold Richardson? His Argo discs are well-known, but it would be nice to hear more varied examples of repertoire, such as Bach. Thank you in advance.

Ian was one of my University music tutors. Glad to know that he's still hale, hearty and organing. Excellent musician.

Absolut fantastisch! - Herzlichen Dank.

I’m deeply touched by this recording. These are possibly the finest recorded performances of the Reger Dankpsalm and BWV 572. The placing and timing of each chord and note is masterful and I remember this is what he taught me all those years ago at the RCM 1979-83. I remember him so vividly and with the highest respect.

Am listening to this on the 45th anniversary of GOT, my father's 45th anniversary of his untimely death (5th June). I find it unbelievable that back in 1979, cassettes were the rage - now he is on KZfaq! Not sure what he would have thought about that!! Probably, he would have loved it!! CJT

when was this recorded x

enjoyed the first 2 programmes so much Please try and complete the remaining episodes when you can P S this remindes me of how good radio 3 used to be !

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One of the problems with this huge organ is that it can sound mushy.

Mind-blowing level of playing!

This is really interesting music. I did not know the organ music of Franz Schmidt until I heard this! His and Pach’s music sounds to me like Sebastian Bach with an advanced chromatic language. Whatever became of the Hill, Norman & Beard neoclassical organ heard here? I know that Lady Jeans’ home was demolished--when, I do not know. Do you have any other re rings by Lady Jeans?

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I've been looking for this recording for decades... A shame there's so much wow; but more of a shame that the end of the Wesley is cut off!!

Very bright and staccatoee. I liked it, but can he play lush orchestral pieces from Roger’s and Hammerstein?

Good to hear.

Was this one of (or) the first recordings in the UK of the Durufle Toccata ?

Enjoyable Recital which you could imagine had been recorded in a European Cathedral. For the Mendelshohn, I rather favour a more Romantic Registration though.

The Buxtehudre Prelude & Fugue in G Minor, I rate as his best with the three part fugue. One of my favourite organ pieces to listen to and play.

I have the original EP of this - bought at Lichfield! Superb playing and a lovely instrument too...

This is a reminder of the precise stereo produced by the BBC up to the early 1980s when they moved from using co-incident directional microphones (in the RFH usually AKG C24s set to figure of 8 patterns and later C414s) to spaced omni-directional microphones. It is also a reminder of what a superb player Ralph Downes was. Great to hear, also, the voice of Felix Aprahamian, writer of so many informative programme notes and someone who made such a contribution to London's musical life in the 1960s and 1970s. In the 1970s BBC Radio 3 frequently broadcast live symphony concerts from the RFH on Wednesday evenings, and since the microphones were in place and technical team present, broadcast the 5pm Organ Recital live also. I attended many of these recitals and came to know which organists registered using their ears and which by formula. Great days.

Sigh, Kynaston and his reputation for steamrollering through pieces purely to show his technique (with wrong notes, still) rather than adopt a better, slower tempo.

Sorry, that was for side 1 starting with Premier Livre D'orgue and the organist was David Lee. Side 2 starting with Concerto in A minor (Vivaldi) is the organ at The Phipps Residence Castleford Yorkshire and the organist is Michael Phipps.

I have an original vinyl with a compliment slip from J W Walkers and sons. This was made in St Bartholomew's Church Dublin. I also have the complete details of the 3 organs involved as specified by Walker Organs with the history of the original organ from 1887 which was built by Gray and Davidson Ltd to the specification of W.H. Vipond Barry who was the organist at this church for 54 years. I can send a pic if you want.

She was also in London with great legends such as George Thallben-Ball and Sir William McKei.

Sixty seconds was enough.

Extraordinary on a number of levels. Thank you!

Is this the last video? I've really enjoyed this page, a reminder of LP's l once owned and broadcasts l listened to every week until the BBC cancelled it.

Buxtehude at his best.

22:19 is when Grier's sonata begins

Another LP I still own with no means to play it, so thanks for uploading. And here is where I get flamed! I witnessed first hand the development of the old pipe organ over many years and attended the inaugural recital on the new Makin. Although the pipe organ had some fine parts, I always thought that the Makin was the much better balanced instrument, if likely to be less long lived! Yes, it wasn't Durham Cathedral, but few instruments are! I think that some naysayers will never accept an electronic instrument: I am not of their persuasion. Sorry. Just enjoy the playing. I believe few would disagree that Geoffrey was one of, if not the, best of his generation. But then, I am biased as he was my father's best friend and I spent many happy hours in Christchurch back in the day.

This is the instrument that was in John Pilling's house. He was of course the founder of Makin. Geoff Tristram, my godfather, was a superb player! I still have this LP with no means to play it!

I love his harpsichord concerto now I love his organ concerto too thanks for sharing

Great to hear Wayne's playing and thoughts from over 20 years ago. I like his thoughts on not following the given registration indications literally.

Lovely to hear Handel and Albrechtsberger played on modern orchestral instruments. The period instrument cult has deprived us of some gorgeous sounds. It's a pity that Asthmatics Anonymous seem to have decided to visit Downpatrick just in time for this recording

Simply brilliant, an outstanding organ and excellent programme.

Who was the presenter?

Fabuleux... magnifique présentation... et le tutti à la fin... ''Notre-Dame-de Cochereau'', as they say ! ... (since 1990)

Note to channel: Your numbering gets one out at the Dupré in the Description. Thanks for your work!

Kynaston is one of the world's greatest players!

C'est toujours la même chose lorsqu'un vrai maître explique quelque chose et que les étudiants ou les invités éclatent immédiatement de rire exaltés à chaque petit bout d'humour du maître, aussi insignifiant soit-il. Restez tranquille et apprenez. Et respecte la dignité.

For those more recent Proms fans wondering, this performance was the first half of 1983's Prom 11, 2 August. It was paired in the second half with the BBC Symphony Orchestra (Günther Herbig) playing Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 Eroica. I shouldn't be sorry to hear Radio 3 rebroadcast that!

Fabulous! I remember hearing this in my teens when it was first broadcast and being wowed by the Reger - by far the best performance of it I've ever heard.

My Music Teacher, a great man.