Londonderry Air

[Rev Tony Newnham]

Hi

I'd intended to do something for this month's challenge - now it's almost the end of the month! How time flies. Anyway, I know I've posted this before, but hopefully you will enjoy Noel Rawsthorne's prelude on the Londerry Air, played by me on my Viscount Envoy 35 digital organ.




Enjoy

Every Blessing

Tony

[kens]

Hi!
Some very tricky chords there. A good arrangement well played. Ken S.

[JohnT]

Hi Tony. One of my all time favourites. Loved your performance and arrangement of sounds. Thanks. Keep safe and well. John

[Jon D]

Hello there Tony,
That was nice to hear and see well played I enjoyed my pleasant listen my good friend.

Jon D.

[Rev Tony Newnham]

Thanks for the positive comments.

[Hugh-AR]

Tony,

Again, you are playing my favourite instrument, your Viscount Envoy 35 digital organ. It has such a wonderful 'Church Organ' sound. I had two uncles who were vicars, and they always had an organist playing for their church services. Listening to you reminds me very much of those days.

Most of us who have 'home organs' have very basic pedals that hardly give you much more than an octave, and it's a real pleasure to watch your technique of using 'toe and heel' to play on a full pedal board that comes right under your stool. Having all this as an 'inset' in your video is a brilliant idea!

Most of us who play keyboards just form chords with our left hand, so to see all the notes and harmonies being played 'live' with both hands is quite something. You are very talented! Listening to you playing, there were harmonies I was not expecting. I suppose this is the 'arrangement' you have in the sheet music in front of you.

You put such feeling into your playing too. I did see how you were using your right foot on the Expression Pedal to 'pull all the stops out' as you got towards the end.

So really enjoyed that, as a piece of music .. and glad you didn't just put it up as an MP3!

Hugh

[Rev Tony Newnham]

Hi Hugh

Thanks for your comments. I started piano lessons when I was around 6 or 7, and added church organ lessons for a few years in my early teens, so I was taught organ "properly", and the techniques are useful on more basic instruments too. I had a legacy that enabled me to buy the Viscount a few years back, and it's my main practice instrument for playing in church as well as recording. Arguably, the Viscount organs using their "Physis" technology are the best sounding classical instruments around at present (the "Physis" technology uses real-time computer physical modelling rather than samples, and is used in their mid-range organs and the "Regent" custom- built range here in the UK)

Yes, that setting is an arrangement and that's where the slightly unusual harmonies come from.

Thanks again

Every Blessing

Tony