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Arthur Wills - Variations on a Carol (I sing the birth)

from Michael Dudman at Newcastle Christ Church Cathedral (Vol​​​.​​​2) by Michael Dudman

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VARIATIONS ON A CAROL I Sing the Birth The music of Arthur Wills has already been sampled in this recording in his Fanfare. Wills was associated with the music at Ely Cathedral for more than thirty years. Just as the music of Louis Vierne seems inseparable from Notre-Dame so there is in the minds of many musicians a link between the music of Wills and "the ship of the Fens". His lifelong interest in French organ music has been a powerful influence also, and in the Preface to the Variations on a Carol the composer explains that the variations are to be interpreted as a tribute to the French classical organ composers who delighted in short, song-like pieces which were conceived in terms of specific and piquant timbres. Many of Wills' variations employ delicate registrations. Exceptions include the discordant tenth variation for the pedals alone and the following and final variation., This eleventh variation, a jagged polyrhythmic fugato, contains one of the most thrilling moments in modern organ music when the theme, heard in augmentation is thundered out in the final measures.

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from Michael Dudman at Newcastle Christ Church Cathedral (Vol​​​.​​​2), released July 27, 2022

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