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Herbert Howells - Six Pieces for Organ - Ben Bloor

Six Pieces for Organ by Herbert Howells performed by Ben Bloor. 0:11 - Preludio 'sine nomine', played on the 45 stop 1954 Downes/Walker organ of the London Oratory Church on Thursday 8th August 2024. 6:06 - Saraband for the morning of Easter, played at the London Oratory on Thursday 21st January 2021. 12:01 - Master Tallis' Testament, played at the London Oratory on Thursday 25th March 2021. 19:15 - Fugue, Chorale & Epilogue, played on the 66 stop 1954 Harrison and Harrison organ of the Temple Church, London in a live recital on Wednesday 8th May 2024. 29:34 - Saraband in modo elegiaco, played at the London Oratory on Saturday 3rd April 2021. 32:55 - Paean, played at the Temple Church, London in a live recital on Wednesday 8th May 2024. The Six Pieces for Organ by Howells were dedicated to Herbert Sumsion, organist of Gloucester Cathedral and were written in the early 1940s, in the midst of the Second World War. The music of the prelude 'without a name' lives up to its mysteriously ambiguous title, often with exposed held octaves which act as jumping-off points for various Howellsian expressive phrases. The second of the set, the Saraband bears all the hallmarks of its baroque namesake, including a strong second beat and plenty of gestural pastische. There are no overt references in the music to Easter Sunday, though the piece certainly evokes an appropriately joyful mood for the feast day. Master Tallis' Testament is the most well-known of the set, and pays homage to the great English Renaissance composer Thomas Tallis. Over the course of three discrete stanzas, with typically inventive scoring from Howells, the piece unfolds and displays the full palette of tonal colours available on a British organ. The fourth of the set begins with a ponderous fugue, the music full of longing and angst, eventually leading into a very forthright and confident chorale. This suddenly subsides as the fugue theme returns with an even more resignatory tone, over an uneasy bassline which hovers between G and F#. The 'Saraband in modo elegiaco' is, as the name suggests, an elegy - more expressively melancholic than the other more joyful saraband from earlier. In typical Howellsian fashion, the dynamics ebb and flow, eventually climaxing on full organ on a more hopeful C major chord. The Paean is a restless work, peppered with undeniable optimism. Ben Bloor is Organist at the London Oratory Church and School Organist at Westminster School. For more information, please visit https://www.benbloor.com Tipjar - https://tpjr.us/chiffchat Twitter - Ben Bloor:   / benjybloor   Facebook - Ben Bloor Organist:   / benbloororganist   Tiktok - @bloorganist:   / bloorganist   Website - https://www.benbloor.com/