Dr David Pitches plays Johann Krebs Toccata in E Major

Dr David Pitches rehearsing for a charity recital for http://www.medair.org

At Hammerwood Park we like to provide encouragement for enthusiastic musicians, making available a facility for practice, informal and formal performance and it is an honour to welcome such musicians as Dr David Pitches who has such talents in so many and varied aspects of his life.

The organ at Hammerwood Park served in its original 3 manual form at Londonderry Cathedral for a dozen years. Upon arriving at Hammerwood we enlarged it to 5 manuals to provide a concert instrument on which to promote the widest organ repertoire in order to get the music to be appreciated and celebrated more in its own right, as a discouragement to the destruction of organs by bulldozers and property developments - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MW1oOTiFoOk

Encouraging young people to play the organ is the way to promote the instrument and for this reason we invite grandparents and parents to bring children free to concerts.

The organ is singularly the most difficult instrument to play http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oLS9W8DTPhc requiring parallel thinking and preparation in contrast to all other instruments which merely require thought of a serial sequence. At the very conception of playing, the instrument requires one to conceptualise every passage and the stops required for the interpretation of that section. With multiple manuals, pedal board and stops one has to be firing on all cylinders and watching all directions, skills appropriate for Jumbo Jet aircraft flying or high speed express train driving, exploration into quantum physics and problem solving. Organists therefore tend to be high achievers and promotion of the learning of the instrument is beneficial to society.

Please can you visit http://www.medair.org to see if you can contribute to Dr Pitches' work in his other life as a medical doctor serving in the Congo?

All organists are welcome to play or practice at Hammerwood whether occasionally or regularly whenever they want by arrangement. If you would like to come and hear amazing musicians, please keep an eye on http://www.hammerwood.mistral.co.uk/concerts.htm

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[zebroid246]

holy crap this gave me shudders. so amazing

[bachsuonalcitofono]

@OrganPianoMusic Yess, hope that those socks were clean and weared for not more than a day!

[OrganPianoMusic]

@bachsuonalcitofono that's a very special challenge! :D

[bachsuonalcitofono]

krebs in socks! :)

[DietrichBrauer1]

Version von Peters. Sehr gut gespielt.... Ein wenig zu dicke Regiestrierung im Pedal m.E.

[MrMudNugget]

my god you are good :D

[therappingrabbits]

....wow

[Fisherdec]

what a piece..

[Elcomunisto]

virtuoso desde los pies hasta la caveza! jajaja verdad muy bueno.