You don't say anything about the nature of the instrument that you're
playing. But surely any approach you take that has musical integrity
can be defended -- considering that this piece has been played
successfully as a sort of neo-Baroque work (cf. the recordings of Biggs
and Noehren) and as a Romantic fantasia (the recording by T. Murray in
Woolsey Hall), and many of us aim for something in between.

But since you ask:  it's such a major movement and you're playing it
already this coming Sunday. I'd say follow your own instincts and
delight your folks without reference to what others do!

But maybe the rest of the brothers and sisters of The List will have
better advice. (I'm answering now because your post is an hour old and
I happen to have had a phone call from Australia this evening, so am
very much conscious of how few North American responses you're likely
to get before your day's practice session is over!)

  "The sun that bids us rest is waking
Our brethren 'neath the western sky."

R.E.


On Aug 31, 2004, at 11:13 PM, Richard Apperley wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> For those who don't know me (which will be most of you I am sure!) I am
> the Sub Organist at the Wellington Cathedral of St Paul, New Zealand.
> For my post-evensong voluntary this Sunday I am playing the first
> movement of the first Hindemith sonata. I was hoping for some advice
> about registration in this work - I have only heard it once before,
> oddly on an eight rank neo-baroque organ, all unenclosed. My thoughts
> are that it should begin with fairly solid 8's and 4' on the Gt coupled
> through to 16' 8' 4' foundations and oboe from the swell. Does this
> sound right to everyone else? And at the change of tempo it seems to
> need flutes, with a little bit of soloing on a light Gt diapason. The
> rest of the work seems to mirror this registration, and the starting
> one. I would be very interested to hear your thoughts on this....!
>
> Many thanks,
> Richard Apperley
> --
> Richard Apperley
> Sub Organist, Wellington Cathedral of St Paul
>
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