An Easter Key Change 🧀

[christopherritz]

I'm hearing Eb to E. The transition chord was really well placed. This adds such power and enthusiasm. Bravissimo!

[LindsayWilson]

The answer is -absolutely!
The icing on the cake.
Superb playing of one of the greatest Easter hymns.
Wonderful organ - could it be the next BIS sample set. Please!!
This world needs a new English Cathedral sample set, preferably a Willis.

[DaveLowrance]

I love key changes like this in a triumphant hymn! What a lift!

[jonathanhunt]

Yes. Done yesterday at St Paul's Cathedral, up a semitone after each verse. Brilliant.

[peterhalliday]

Done that sort of thing myself many times, particularly to hymns such as this one! Great!!

[helenbooth]

This reminds me a lot of the Lincoln cathedral, but wherever it is, the organ player is great at their job.

[ThePipeorganLover]

Love it 😍 so beautiful played. Would love to hear the full version though.

[musicartforthesaintswhocry]

May the Grace of God be upon you all always 🙏

[davidhamilton]

When done well, modulations, are wonderfully uplifting. Much like Nigel Tufnell's amp in Spinal Tap, it takes it to 11 😊 There is a fabulous performance of Kingsfold by Michael Hey on YouTube, which includes a fabulous modulating bridge from E minor to F minor. I've nicked this lock, stock, and barrel.

[CMRobaina]

Absolutely! Key changes add great interest to grand hymns. And moving from a "flat" key signature (Eb) to a "sharp" key signature (E) adds brightness besides what results from a change in organ registration.

[lukefowler]

I think I'm going to steal this. I also wrote a last-chorus harmonisation which has a plagal cadence in the flattened-mediant major on the final "victory" (as standard harmonisations have either the submediant minor or first-inversion tonic, which I feel sound a bit weak on that word).

[Quedel]

In Germany its an Christmas-hymn, "Tochter Zion" from 1820, as wikipedia says, it becomes a new france-text 1885 for easter and since 1923 with another text its known in english. They key-change makes it powerful. I love it!

[Toby-tqnb]

Richard, are you going to the Olivier Latry Recital in Winchester Cathedral on the 27th?

[AlvaroMateus-hxjg]

When i play the organ like you i am near of God❤

[TheAweibel]

I'm surprised you haven't done key changes. Some hymns just beg for it to emphasize text. We had an elderly visiting organist playing one Christmas morning that I was cantoring and she pulled it off without my knowing ahead of time. Kept me on my toes!😄 Mormon Tabernacle choir does it often when different voice parts take the melody.

[pauline_f]

I was trying to play a song called The Distortionist on the guitar once and realized that, whatever easy key I picked to play it in, it always got weirdly hard after a bit...Until I realized the song changes key several times during the same verse 😭 Key changes and so blursed 😂

[FastTrackMusicOfficial]

This looks like Lincolnshire Cathedral

[SuperKasper]

I have played the pipe, irgaan in church, but they were little children compared to this, one.

[paulgoodman]

If it's a recital - well done. To support congregational singing, thumbs down.

[carryfreak]

Modulations are so important especially for Sundays, like Easter, which is coming up tomorrow. Sadly, the organist at our church, refuses to modulate ever, and she tends to use rather milk, toast registration for all the hymns.