Скачать или смотреть Prelude and Postlude for August 29th, 2021 (14th Sunday after Pentecost)

0:00 Prelude on “Slane” (Healey Willan)
3:50 Trio on “Royal Oak” (Mary Beth Bennett)
5:27 Postlude on “All Things Bright and Beautiful” (Thomas Hewitt Jones)

Today’s hymns are both quite traditional. “Slane” is an Irish melody and used for “Be thou my vision” and “Lord of all hopefulness” among other favorite hymns, and given a quiet and rich setting by the English-Canadian composer Healey Willan, with the melody alternating between tenor and treble by the line. The second and third are both tunes used for the text “All things bright and beautiful” — “Royal Oak” is somewhat more common in the US and the tune named after the text is more common in the UK, but both are used in both places, somewhat depending on the denomination. Mary Beth Bennett gives us a short trio with a rhythmically interesting center section, and Thomas Hewitt Jones gives us a fanfare-like pull-out-all-the-stops postlude, which I always think are a great deal of fun to play and to listen to as well.