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Dunblane Cathedral Organ Recital #5 - 15 August 2020

Welcome to the last of our online recitals from Dunblane Cathedral during the summer of 2020. This short season finishes with Matthew Beetschen, Master of Music at Dunfermline Abbey, and a recital for all tastes on the Cathedral's world renown Flentrop organ. Programme Toccata in F major (BuxWV 157) - Dietrich Buxtehude (c1637-1707) Bergamasca (from Fiori musicali, 1635) - Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) Voluntary in G major (Adagio-Allegro) - John Stanley (1713-1786) Benedictus (op.59 no.9) - Max Reger (1873-1916) Gabriel’s Oboe (from “The Mission”) - Ennio Morricone (1928-2020) Church bells beyond the stars (2013) - Cecilia McDowall (born 1951) Folksong Prelude No.2 - Peter Warlock (1894-1930) Matthew Beetschen - Biography Matthew Beetschen was Director of Music at Dunblane Cathedral from 1992 to 2014 and is delighted to be returning to play the fabulous Flentrop organ today. Matthew was born in Kent, and educated at Bristol University after which he was Sub-Organist of Leeds Parish Church before moving to Scotland. Since 2016 has been Master of the Music at Dunfermline Abbey, and in addition to his duties there has a busy teaching, examining and performing schedule. Programme notes This is hopefully a sunny major key programme (though with some clanging church bells along the way) to cheer us in these challenging times. After the bright, full organ sound of Buxtehude’s North German music we move to Italy for a set of variations by Frescobaldi, based on a folk melody (possibly) from Bergamo. This is a chance to use a different organ sound for each of the 7 short sections. Thence to England for a Handelian-style voluntary by the blind organist John Stanley - featuring in the faster section one of the most wonderful of the Flentrop’s stops: the Cornet. Softer, celestial sounds in the first part of Max Reger’s Benedictus build to a thrilling climax in the second “Hosanna in the highest” section, before the quiet opening theme is reprised at the end. The highly prolific Oscar-winning film composer Ennio Morricone died just a few weeks ago on 6 July so it was impossible not to include his theme music from “The Mission”. Then to music by London-born (though with a Scottish background) composer Cecilia McDowall. Commissioned by the Edinburgh Society of Organists in 2013 it is inspired by lines from the poem Prayer by the 17th century metaphysical poet George Herbert: Softness, and peace, and joy, and love, and bliss, Exalted manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest, The milky way, the bird of Paradise, Church-bells beyond the stars heard, the soul’s blood, The land of spices; something understood. The composer marks the first section “bright and bell-like”, the middle “expressive” and the final “bold and resonant”. And finally, just to cleanse the palate, one of Peter Warlock’s Folksong Preludes (in fact his only works for keyboard). You may recognise the Scottish melody Bunessan on which it is based. It felt somewhat strange performing this recital alone with a microphone in the Cathedral. My very best wishes to everybody at Dunblane, and I do hope to see you in person (even perhaps to share soup with you!) sometime soon. Matthew