Скачать или смотреть Samuel Felsted - Voluntary No. 4 in G minor (ca. 1780)

This organ piece is part of a set of six voluntaries, being the earliest collection of organ pieces surviving from the Caribbean colonies. It is not known where the composer Samuel Felsted (1743-1802), a native-born resident of colonial Jamaica received his training, or whether he was self-taught. He lived his entire life in Kingston, serving as organist at St. Andrew’s Parish Church.

His music, though slightly old-fashioned for its time, fits comfortably within the eighteenth-century British style. Felsted’s surviving pieces include a set of organ voluntaries and an oratorio based upon the story of Jonah, the earliest such work known to have been composed in the New World.

Though living in Jamaica, Felsted maintained strong relations with the United States, becoming a member of the esteemed American Philosophical Society. This concert took place at the Moody Music Building at the University of Alabama on April 10, 2015