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D'Arcy Trinkwon _ St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol : 2000 recital

Back in November 2000 I gave a concert at St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, in aid of the Children’s Hospice South West. The church's famously opulent Edwardian organ, with 4 manuals and some 70 stops, is complete with an array of bewilderingly heavy high-pressure English reeds - including two 32’ reeds -, and a mass of power which surely make it one of the loudest organs in England, and probably anywhere! However, there is also a wealth of beautiful soft stops and orchestral colour. Bach: Toccata & Fugue in D minor, BWV565 Dupré: Variations sur un Noël, Op.20 Widor: Andante sostenuto from Symphonie Gothique, Op.70 Franck: Choral No.3 in A minor Langlais: Feux d’artifice (‘Fireworks’), Op.111 Liszt: Fantasia & Fugue on Ad nos… (I presented the Bach in an unashamed Romantic manner befitting the instrument; trying to make it sound anything approaching 'authentic' would be pointless...) The beautiful church of St Mary Redcliffe was a favourite of Elizabeth I, who apparently made several visits - and I was fascinated to learn very recently that Russ Conway, who grew up in Bristol, was so in awe of this organ and its power that he several times ‘broke in’ (his words: he spoke in depth of this in a documentary I watched) to the organ to play the hell out of it; one wonders just what his effusive honky-tonk style would have sounded like reverberating around, and thumping out in, the neighbourhood on the myriad of corpulent diapasons and fat trombas... Apparently when Jeanne Demessieux went to give a recital there (in the ‘50s I think) she spent only a very short time at the organ - then asked to go a see the famous suspension bridge!