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 Basil Harwood's A quiet voluntary for Evensong.


Basil Harwood (1859-1949) was organist at St. Barnabas Pimlico and Ely Cathedral, and latterly organist at Christ Church Oxford as well as precentor at Keble College Oxford. A quiet voluntary for Evensong incorporates the hymn tune Vienna, with a nod to the office hymn text Lucis Creator optimae (Blest Creator of the light).



With best wishes,
Andrew Adair
Director of Music