‘Wonderful playing, wonderful venue, wonderful company, wonderful organs’ is what one customer said at the Sounds of the Summer held on Saturday 3rd May at Mixbury. For the sixteen time, Ian Tracey played a wonderful programme in which he played three instruments including the Makin Gigue, the Makin Thirlmere 2-36D and the Johannus LiVE III AGO to a packed audience with standing room only.
A registration clinic was one of the highlights of the day when Ian gave away plenty of tips of ‘how to’ on the Makin Thirlmere organ. During this session he played Noel Rawsthorne’s wonderful Prelude on Londonderry Air which is finally back in print and available from here in an excellent volume of wedding music priced at £27.99. Our plan is to produce a series of short ‘how to’ type videos this year.
This may well be the last outing for the Gigue at this event as it is hoped to sell it to a suitable church where the wonderful pipe façade can be included or indeed to a home customer who has a large barn! For more details about this splendid instrument, please contact us directly.
The day was interspersed with plenty of food and drink as provided gratis by ChurchOrganWorld with plenty of time for organists and organ lovers to discuss what they had just heard and to browse the vast volume of sheet organ music which was brought down from Shaw for the day.
