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Fantastic Feats - St Paul's Cathedral Organ Concert
Simon Johnson
Part of the St Paul's Cathedral Fantastic Feats Organ Festival 2019
Add to my Calendar 06-06-2019 18:30 06-06-2019 20:30 36 Fantastic Feats - St Paul's Cathedral Organ Concert Fantastic Feats: 7246 pipes ranging in size from 10 metres to the size of a small pencil, all controlled from a console of five keyboards, a pedalboard and over a hundred pistons: the organ of St Paul’s Cathedral has always been a fantastic feat of engineering and one of the world’s most spectacular technological marvels. But it is in music that it becomes truly alive and transcendent. The dexterous digits and fantastic feet of one of the world’s organ-playing masters puts the great machine through its paces St Paul's Cathedral, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
St Paul's Cathedral
St Paul's Churchyard
City of London
London
EC4M 8AD
England
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach – Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542
Simon Johnson – Get up into the city and go!
Cesar Franck – Symphony in D Minor
Herbert Howells – Psalm Prelude Set 2 No 1 (1939): Psalm 130 (Verse 1) 'Out of the deep have I called unto Thee, O Lord'
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – Fantasia and Fugue, Op.188
Performers
Simon Johnson – organ
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Programme Note
Fantastic Feats: 7246 pipes ranging in size from 10 metres to the size of a small pencil, all controlled from a console of five keyboards, a pedalboard and over a hundred pistons: the organ of St Paul’s Cathedral has always been a fantastic feat of engineering and one of the world’s most spectacular technological marvels. But it is in music that it becomes truly alive and transcendent.
The dexterous digits and fantastic feet of one of the world’s organ-playing masters puts the great machine through its paces
