Full Stretch
Poulenc's Organ Concerto -
heard by ROBERT ANDERSON'... marvellous vitality ...'
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My own village organ-playing days on a couple of manuals were so youthful that I had to employ a supplementary brother down below to manage the pedals with his hands. No wonder I blench at the two-page specification of Willliam Neil's monster. I could also wish he had presented a more unified programme. To stop in the middle of a Widor organ symphony, as is natural when preluding or postluding in church, makes no sense in a recital such as this...
Copyright © 4 March 2014
Robert Anderson, London UK
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