Toccata for Concert Organ

Hi All,
Here's an organ piece I wrote almost 2 years ago now. I do hope you enjoy it.

The GPO Organ version is at:-
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ndwnemenzii/toccata in C minor.mp3
(about 5Mb)

regards,
-john s.

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ps
the entire line (ending ".mp3") is needed to get the gpo version

Hello John,

Nice organ piece! It kept me interested the whole times, especially knowing that I would not be able to predict when, after staying for a long time on eseentially one chord, the piece would then move off through a chord progression, taking the listener somewhere else. The same thing held true for movement in other dimensions of the music, such as texture (how "thick" the notes are).

The relatively extended ending was entertaining and made sense in the context of the full piece. (Sometimes long extended endings can be annoying, but such was not the case with this piece.)

It sounded to me that the GPO organ did good justice to the composition. We're you happy with the GPO performance? Have you heard of played yourself a live performance of this?

Cheers
-- Mark

Hi Mark,
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Yes I was very happy with it. My "metric" is simply "does it sound good enough to be enjoyable as an organ in it's own right". Nothing except a real one can be as good I think but the gpo is easily fine enough to use for compositional work and to listen to imho.

It was some time ago but took a bit of fiddling about to get the VST hosting bit to work. Not helped by (from memory) some of the manual pitches being an octave out! I'm sure with work, the gpo organ could be made even better and it would be nice to have had a few "canned" setups rather than having to build ones own, manual by manual. Which is what I did but in the end used a rather simple arrangement.

I really like the Bass pipes :-)

As to live performance - no - I have only ever tried to play the Organ a couple of times. It would be great to learn to play the bass register - maybe someday if "things" allow :-)

I live near Nottingham here in the U.K. and there is a recently renovated and wonderful concert organ in the city. Have have been to several concerts there.

http://www.binns.info/index.html

The organ Repertoire is vast of course so I guess no chance of anyone actually wanting to perform my work. But never mind because I love composing anyway.

cheers
-John