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SPARKLING PERFORMANCES
Organist Roy Massey visits Derby Cathedral,
heard by MIKE WHEELER
Roy Massey, former organist of Hereford Cathedral, remains a veteran of the recital circuit, still able to turn out sparkling performances such as the account of Dubois' Toccata in G that opened his programme (Derby Cathedral, Derby, UK, 9 July 2014).
He followed this with a delightful set of Polish dances by sixteenth-century monk Jana Zublina, though it was not made clear whether these were arrangements of traditional tunes or original compositions. Massey found some delightfully buzzy, nasal-sounding reeds for the first...
Copyright © 19 July 2014 Mike Wheeler,
Derby UK
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