Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Harold Darke plays Darke - Meditation on 'Brother James's Air'


Here is Harold Darke playing one of his pieces on the same organ as the piece I posted last night, the one he played as the organist at St. Michael's, Cornhill.  It's always interesting to hear a composer play their own music and, especially in this case, for an instrument they probably had in mind when they wrote it.

Darke is probably best known for his quite beautiful setting of the Christmas song In The Bleak Midwinter, which seems to have been recorded a trillion times.  If this turns into a series I probably won't post that one because you either know it to death or you can find it with no problem. 

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