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John Alcock (1715-1806): Organ Voluntary No. 10 in D Major

James Davis Chamber Organ (c.1790) in Moorlinch Church, Somerset (via Hauptwerk) @0:16 Andante vivace @2:24 Vivace John Alcock was organist of Lichfield Cathedral -- until he resigned in protest. I made a two-part documentary dedicated to the life of this rather interesting character:    • John Alcock (1715-1806): Organ Voluntary N...   ,    • John Alcock (1715-1806): Organ Voluntaries...   . The voluntary heard here is the final item in a collection Alcock published in 1774. Each voluntary of that collection is dedicated to a particular stop of the organ, except this last one. It was the custom in 18th-c. England to provide a fugue (or more than one) at the end of a collection like this. So Alcock gives us a virtuoso sample of his contrapuntal art (after all, he held the degree of Doctor of Music of Oxford University, and in both of his known portraits wears his doctoral robes). The fugue is preceded by an equally sprightly first movement. A fugue and its introductory movement would, in 18th-c. England, always be played with Full Organ. This voluntary was included by C.H. Trevor in his well-known anthology, "Old English Organ Music for Manuals". Trevor, however, omitted the plentiful ornamentation. I play from the modern edition by Greg Lewin. Also by Alcock on this channel:    • John Alcock (1715-1806): Organ Voluntary N...   (this video also contains information about the organ built for Lichfield Cathedral by Samuel Green in 1789, the only 18th-c. English cathedral organ to be extant). a_osiander(at)gmx.net . http://andreas-osiander.net .   / andreas.osiander