SANDY MACPHERSON - "ALPEN RUHE" and "DOWN THE MALL" - BBC COMPTON THEATRE ORGAN скачать в хорошем качестве

SANDY MACPHERSON - "ALPEN RUHE" and "DOWN THE MALL" - BBC COMPTON THEATRE ORGAN

FRANKLIN ENGELMANN introduces SANDY MACPHERSON who plays his Signature Tune "ALPEN RUHE" (Macpherson) and the March "DOWN THE MALL" (Belton), on the original COMPTON 4/23 + Melotone and Grand Piano BBC THEATRE ORGAN, installed in St. George's Hall, just a stone's throw from Broadcasting House. The organ was opened in 1936 by QUENTIN MACLEAN, HAROLD RAMSAY, REGINALD PORTER-BROWN and REGINALD FOORT who was appointed as the first BBC Theatre Organist. The instrument was one of the finest Theatre Organs built by the JOHN COMPTON ORGAN CO. LTD., and it was broadcast by the majority of Cinema Organists of the day and regularly by REGINALD FOORT and SANDY MACPHERSON, who later took over as Staff Organist and quickly popularised himself with such programmes as "At Your Request" and "From My Postbag" from which this first item is an extract. Unhappily the organ and St. George's Hall were destroyed by enemy action in the Blitz of September 1940, a few months after this recording was made. BBC Recording from the ComptonLodgeStudios Archive Collection. Video uploaded by ComptonLodgeStudios, South Street, Ynyshir in the Welsh Rhondda Valley.