An organ recital in progress: part 90

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 John Ambrose's Fantasia.


English composer and organist John Ambrose (fl. 1520-1545) was Clerk at King’s College, Cambridge. His Fantasia (surviving untitled in manuscript form at Christ Church, Oxford) is understood to be the earliest example of solo English Cathedral organ music.



With best wishes,
Andrew Adair
Director of Music