I attend organ concerts too infrequently. This was a lunchtime concert at Wesley, but in the church with the organ. It’s not a big organ by international standards but worthy by Canberra standards. It’s bliss to sit and hear those deep weighty pipes contrasting with with diminutive whistles. Those tones, absolutely not percussive, fat and weighty, flighty or playful. It’s common enough to hear Bach in this context, and that’s always a pleasure regardless. In fact, this concert was called Bach and beyond, starting with a Bach organ piece and ending with his famed Toccata and Fugue in Dmin. We all know that one. In between were various pieces, Graeme Koehne To his servant Bach God grants a final glimpse and Louis Verne and Dulcie Holland. All worthy and interesting pieces related or otherwise to the Bach theme. But the tones got me and do as I listen back to my recording. The huge sharp tone of Louis Verne Carillon that matches in tone with the opening bars of the T&F Dmin. The pensive and gentle tones of the Koehne and much of Dulcie Holland Arioso. It feels like an indulgence to close eyes and listen to such organ, lovely and inviting but also with consternation at times.
Callum Tolhurst-Close (organ) performed in the church at Wesley.
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