🎵 ORGAN RECITAL from ROMSEY ABBEY | I LOVE this 1858 Walker organ!!!

Please join the live audience as I share with you an Organ Recital that I gave in Romsey Abbey on 29th June 2021. Due to COVID and lockdown restrictions, this is the first recital that I gave since 2019 - it was very strange seeing actual faces in my audience rather than just a few cameras!
I really hope you enjoy this programme as much as I enjoyed giving it! :)
00:00 | Introduction from Richard
01:07 | Bach - Prelude and Fugue in E-Flat 'St Anne' BWV 552
18:06 | Saint-Saëns - The Swan (from 'Carnival of the Animals')
Guilmant - Organ Sonata No. 1 in D minor
22:05 | I - Introduction et Allegro
33:08 | II - Pastorale
40:05 | III - Allegro
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[@dotmurphy7279]

Richard thanks for the recital. You make the organ talk the way Louis Armstrong made a trumpet talk.

[@beautyinsound]

Thank you!

[@erikthenorviking8251]

Stunning!! Thank you...

[@jamesreed7671]

Absolutely magnificent!

[@VoxAngelica8]

Love it! And especially great on my favorite part of the symphony!

[@tomparsons6177]

Great music, audience and chats. Thanks so much

[@dnbeckmann]

So Pleased! to see you performing with an audience. Lovely stuff! Thank you!

[@diannemills5594]

What a wonderful recital. Just finished watching this afternoon New Zealand time. Blessings.

[@maffettdowd9651]

552 is by far my favorite and you hit it out of the ballpark, Richard. Bravo on a marvelous recital.

[@grahamcasey9188]

Love it ...

[@smoothsilk47]

I so much enjoyed hearing you play Richard, its so special hearing a 100% natural organ recital in a lovely setting! Thanks so much!

[@danielmkubacki]

Cool Recital!

[@carolynclark1724]

Beautiful recital Richard! The Fugue in St Anne's always brings me to tears-one of my favorite prelude and fugue. The organ and pipes are just as beautiful.

[@donaldsaunders3075]

Bravo Sir Richard 🎼🎹

[@bobmartin5894]

Richard,Thank You for sharing this Marvelous Masterpieces with us,and sharing it with your buddy.

[@ralphchou4719]

This will be a double treat - watching and listening to Richard play and listening for the audience's reaction. Looking forward to it!

[@ralphchou4719]

And this was indeed a great performance with an appreciative audience. Thanks for making the recording available so we could share it online.

[@marcosmonardes6406]

Bellísima música gracias 😊

[@alessandrofranco6023]

Great recital!! Listening and watching from Brazil. The Pastorale (Guilmant) translate how Richard loves the organ. Thanks for this precious moment. Bravo ! Brilhant performace!

[@terryr.sublimeorganmusic]

Your registration and performance of the Guilmant showcased the instrument. Very engaging! 👏👏👏🎹🎶

[@davidhamilton1981]

Wonderful. I will need to attend one of your recitals in the not too distant future!

[@beautyinsound]

You'd be more than welcome!

[@terenceocallaghan5639]

Brilliant performance Richard 👍Bravo

[@robertjentges3544]

Perfekt 😊🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@diannemills5594]

Watched this again Saturday 1 April. This is my favourite organ recital thank you. Blessings 😊🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@rbk2745]

Hey, this organ...what a "beauty in sound". 😀 Very well played too, thanks.

[@beautyinsound]

Thank you 😊

[@georgemurphy2579]

Once again, thank you for your logical, family- oriented, and professional approach to our wonderful world 🌎 of the organ!

[@stephenfox2612]

Listening and watching from Adelaide South Australia. .Again this morning the service was a celabrationu, with masks, but it isn't the same without organ.and hymns. Great recital. Thank you Richard.

[@mattleach958]

Actual live audiences are indeed rather surprising. I still don't play live at church. Just being careful for everyone. The advantage is that I am able to join live on BiS with our good friends. Thank you very much indeed, as always, Northern California Coast.

[@jerrymartin79]

Really looking forward to this. Was sad that geography didn’t permit in-person attendance. Absolutely thrilled by this wonderful surprise!!! 😊

[@jerrymartin79]

… and this did not disappoint! Quite the contrary. A thrilling recital, the music alive in a new way (no doubt spurred on by alive audience!) - such a privilege to share this! Thank you!!

[@PortsladeBySea]

Beautiful Abbey and equally beautifully played organ. I bet Hugo was immensely impressed 👼🍼🎹🎶🥳

[@beautyinsound]

Hugo loves this organ! He insists on playing it every time he comes!

[@craigdelaney8737]

👏👏👏😊 FANTASTIC!!!.. And at Intro' Allegro we see that Richard can DANCE! Man, the movement of His FEET!..😳 Dance, man Dance!!👍👏👏👏😘❣️ Great Show!😝😇🙌👏👏

[@monaandersen2123]

Bravissimo very well done Solei deo gloria

[@thedevilsreject23]

Bravo, loved the guilmant, the stop selection and tempting was fantastic and great to see a fellow organist who plays in just socks! Greetings from Swansea 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🙏 I love playing the guilmant. Would love to hear you also perform suite gothique sometime the whole work or just the toccata - there’s also a similar one called toccata by Jon kristian ffelestad (not sure on the spelling of it but it’s on KZbin under that title and with a free score too) I’ll post correct title and link.

[@monaandersen2123]

You got the svane to fly in music. Very very very romantic. Solie deo gloria

[@cromorno8749]

Basically this guy loves everything he plays on!

[@beautyinsound]

This guy loves most things he plays on 😉

[@caroline.balfour]

He does love the organ, it’s true!

[@cromorno8749]

@@caroline.balfour As well as me, but, each instrument is deeply different from another.

[@rossmorrow3013]

Well, it makes a change to some “young-ish or over the hill/missed the bus carmudgeon” yapping about this is wrong and that is wrong. I always remember from a U.K publication: “Organists are like out of condition athletes,…….always looking for another ‘Stop’” Richard is a really fine Organist and Raconteur and sells the instrument wonderfully! We will be most certainly needing ‘scores’ more Richard McVeighs’ to be out re-selling the glories of the pipe organ, even though, YES! they do cost a lot (every 50 odd years) to do a rebuild! how many A.V systems will a church have installed in that time frame, and the mind boggling somes of money to do the replacement, whereas the organ maybe needs the Swell drawstop machine releathered, then the weeping and wailing to £20,000 and it’ll outlive either the A.V system or the then youngsters who at any given time demand Churches to cough up a £100,000 to replace something only 8-10 years old. Keep going Mr McVeigh, and Very best wishes for tonight!

[@Goodchappy]

Really enjoyed that, lovely organ, such a good selection and well played.

[@johnfoster7596]

Richard, very interesting for the young one! But danger, he might become a great organist! :-)

[@beautyinsound]

He’ll be better than me!

[@dotmurphy7279]

Yes, he will probably take after his Mama. I wish you joy of watching him grow.

[@georgerobey9360]

for details of the main organ specification see: www.npor.org.uk/NPORView.html?RI=N11434 and the Nave Organ see: www.npor.org.uk/NPORView.html?RI=D07173

[@myshhh2778]

СпасиБо!!

[@monaandersen2123]

In every sats diffrent . It a very interesting toccata from miner to majer. Happening very much of music diffrent food. Solei deo gloria Solei deo gloria

[@flybdavis25404]

I love the way you played BWV 552! I’ll need to look through your videos but can you play ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic’??

[@beautyinsound]

I've played it a number of times, but I'll happily play it again if you request it. Send it through on email so we can add it to the list of requests :)

[@rowanlidbury]

All you fellow Sock players go wild..!

[@beautyinsound]

I'm wild for you.

[@ravijoshua2048]

Thank you for this wonderful recital. The Abbey has a very generous acoustic which makes the music "bloom"! I can't see any divisionals/ generals on the key slips. How does the player manage the register changes?

[@beautyinsound]

I'm so glad you enjoyed it! There are 10 generals on the organ which are controlled by those toe pistons. They're a bit awkward as they are in the following order: 10 9 8 7 6 (Swell pedal) 1 2 3 4 5

[@ravijoshua2048]

@@beautyinsound Thanks, Richard for the very prompt reply. Just wondered if it was usual for instruments of this size not to have thumb pistons. Cheers!

[@ds1868]

@@ravijoshua2048 This instrument was originally built by J.W.Walker in 1858 and inaugurated 1860, and has more or less been looked after by them ever since. The idea has been to preserve the original specification, and to keep away from modern electric 'aids'. It is a bit more demanding but the current trend is to preserve instruments the way they are and not chop and change.

[@gregturner2363]

Thank you. Loved the performance. Question: Referring to the device that displays the score, how does it know when its time to scroll up? It must have a microphone and some AI so that it can know where you are in the score. What is this kind of device called? Thanks so much.

[@mkcottawa]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aXLGmKdshpuVebs

[@beautyinsound]

It let me down on a number of occasions in the final movement of the Guilmant. Not sure why, but not great timing!

[@gregturner2363]

@@mkcottawa - Hopefully the Forscore people see this. It would be a very easy to add control telling the software if your on/off switch is on the bottom or top.