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Jean Roger-Ducasse - Pastorale - Ben Bloor

Pastorale by Jean Roger-Ducasse performed by Ben Bloor on the 45 stop 1954 Downes/Walker organ of the London Oratory Church in a live recital on Monday 31st October 2022. Very much a one-hit wonder on the organ, Jean Roger-Ducasse was extremely self-critical, and destroyed much of his work, a trait he had in common with Maurice Duruflé. Nevertheless, his Pastorale for organ is a wonderfully broad canvas of colourful emotions. Starting very simply with a compound-time melody on the flutes (similar to Bach’s take on the piece’s title), it eventually blossoms to include a bucolic episode on the clarinet. Eventually, the storm starts to take hold and the peaceful opening tune is transformed into a virtuosic tour-de-force, with swirling pedal semiquavers and lightning bolts in the stabbed chords of the manual parts. Order is finally restored, via some ponderous, meandering chords and the work melts into the background once more. Ben Bloor is Organist at the London Oratory Church, School Organist at Westminster School and a Junior Fellow at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Twitter - Ben Bloor:   / benjybloor   Facebook - Ben Bloor Organist:   / benbloororganist   Tiktok - @bloorganist:   / bloorganist   Website - https://www.benbloor.com/