Join our Assistant Organist James Anderson-Besant for a recital from St John's College Chapel, featuring J.S. Bach's 'Prelude and Fugue in B minor' (BWV 544), Max Reger's 'Consolation', and César Franck's 'Choral no.3 in A minor'.
Brilliant performance of all three pieces musicality of all to perfection in every area of musicianship. Thankyou James have been saddened not to be able to be at St Johns of recent times .
Your playing is superb. So much better than those chaps at Kings who sit at the console with a brass stair rod up their rectum and attempt to play everything without moving their hands and fingers but waiving their arms about like a cross between a Dutch windmill and Robert Quiney so very well done.
Such enriching times I spent back in the 1980s in the College Chapel listening to the organ played by George Guest and organ scholars such as Andrew Lumsden and Adrian Lucas. This chap is very good, I'm sure, but I couldn't take any more after the B minor. A breathless frenzy of notes that was much too wearing on the ear. People like George Guest and his contemporary, George Thalben-Ball, always made the organ sound like a musical instrument. All too often, today's players make it sound like a racket. Why would anyone want to listen to it now? Still, good of the College to trouble to post this.
