An organ recital in progress: part 65

Dear SMM Community,
 

The next part of my online organ recital is here, and I hope that you enjoy it. I offer up these musical meditations as part of our parish efforts to find ways to keep you connected at this time. Recorded on my house organ, the instrument is a musical facsimile of the great 'Father' Willis organ at Salisbury Cathedral.

Today, I present Samuel Wesley's God rest you merry.


English cathedral organist and composer Samuel Wesley (1766-1837) was the son of the Methodist hymn writer Charles Wesley, and nephew of the founder of the Methodist Church, John Wesley. A child prodigy, he later came to be known as “the English Mozart”. Samuel Wesley was the father of the great Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876).



With best wishes,
Andrew Adair
Director of Music