Henry Purcell: Festive Voluntary

An easy-to play, but very impressive voluntary by English composer Henry Purcell (1659?-1695), arranged for organ by Lani Smith.
This is one of the organs that I play as an organist. It is in the pilgrimage church in Maria Limbach in Lower Franconia, not far from Bamberg. The organ was built in 1756 by the famous Franconian organ builder Johann Philipp Seuffert (1693-1780) from Würzburg and is still basically intact. The church is no less famous, it was designed by Balthasar Neumann.
The stops I use here are: Prinzipal 8, Copel 8 (like a stopped diapason), Octav 4, Superoctav 2, Quint 3 and Mixtur IV (1ft.). This combination of stops produces the typical baroque sound of the organ.

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Music

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• purcell
• festive
• voluntary
• matthias
• rascher
• maria
• limbach
• seuffert
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• organ

[virgiliodui]

Maravilhosa interpretação. Obrigado por todos os seus vídeos.

Um abraço.

Virgilio

[Messjuh1]

@virgiliodui Thank you for your kind words.

[organnut]

Beautiful Church with grand acoustics. Fabulous organ played by a very accomplished organist. Thanks for sharing your awesome talent Matthias, for all of us on Youtube. Merry Christmas, Happiness and prosperity for 2010.

Best Regards,

Roy

[Messjuh1]

Thanks, Roy, Merry Christmas to you, too.

[advisorC101]

Such a lovely church and a very nice organ you have there.

Where can I get this transcription?

[Messjuh1]

It's from a collection called "Festliche Musik für den Kirchenorganisten" published by De Haske Publications BV (Netherlands). It may be pretty difficult to get outside Germany. If you like, you can give me your email address and I will send you the scanned sheet music as pdfs.

[8ftbourdon]

Hi! I just wanted to say what a wonderful job you did playing this piece. I am a big fan of your music and of Purcell's. Can you please send me the PDF copy of the music? My e-mail address is Jeffrey.Windoloski@my.mcphs.ed­u

THANK-YOU

[kkrommer]

@Messjuh1 kkrommer@gmail.com. I live in the USA and if you can send a PDF copy, that would be awesome! Thanks.

[ChrissysVideokids]

Sehr gute Musik, paßt zur Kirche und zum Instrument, sehr exact gespielt...schön...hört sich unten "live" mit dieser Akustik bestimmt toll an...

[Octavin2]

perfect!

[passacaglia28]

Very nice!