ORGAN RECITAL.
For Ms usual week-end organ r_ecilal> at the Town Hall last evening, the City Organist (Mr. Bernard F. Page) made selection from the' works oWßach, Scarlatti, Wagner, William Russell, Cbates, and^Cesar Franck. Bach's Choral Prelude, the opening number, was followed, by another old-world composition, the • delicate "Pa.storale" of Scarlatti. .'3lr. Page gave a studied interpretation of. each of these refreshing.'items. William Russell was represented !by'his'fVpluntary in G Minor," which is pervaded by' undoubted' influences oi Bach. Perhaps the. best received number was the Prelude to Act 111. of Wagner's opera, "Tristan and Isolde," but the most sat* isfying work was Cesar Franck's "Fantaisie in A," which was rendered by the organist with intimate expression. The only other item was an "Idyll by; Coates. /
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 79, 1 October 1923, Page 3
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125ORGAN RECITAL. Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 79, 1 October 1923, Page 3
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