Samuel Wesley

Uh, and I did my Prayer to the Sun, which I also played in numerous other places, for example, Notre-Dame de Paris.

And, and, uh, then we did this big, um, Samuel Wesley duet, three movement.

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Piece which lasts for 20 minutes, and then we did together with the choir.

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Gelstanti Aušrale.

So it was like a, like a beautiful Baltic program with some inclusion of the, of the, um, of the classical organ repertoire, like, like, uh, Samuel Wesley.

And Vidas missed, you know, larger acoustics, but actually for me it worked quite well.

Artist who unfortunately passed away on October the 11th in California.

Samuel Wesley who passed away in 1837 at the age of 71 from complications from mental illness and head trauma he was known as the English Mozart he was a child prodigy who became one of a Great Britain's best organists and composers of the late Georgian era Leon Bollman passed away in 1897 at the age of 35 from lung disease.

He was a French post-romantic composer and organist.

Jess Thomas passed away in 1993 at the age of 66 from a heart attack.

So let's get started with our introit, Si Iniquitatis, Psalm 929.

O Lord, if you were to take into account our iniquities, who would withstand the test? We hear this in a beautiful setting by the English late Georgian composer Samuel Wesley, who was a contemporary of Mozart and was called by some the English Mozart.

The singers are the men of the Portland Organ Liturgical Choir, Cantoris in Ecclesia.

Sing,

ye great artists, Iniquitat es hoster servalis, See Iniquitades Iniquitat ens observa veris Domine.

Domine.

That was today's intro to Si Iniquitatis by Samuel Wesley.

Now we shall begin Palestrina's Mass Ordinary with the Kyrie, the Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy.

At home he is guiding and molding lives.

Do not be concerned at my death, murmured Samuel Wesley on his dying bed.

God will then begin to manifest himself in my family.

The world has erected no monument above Samuel Wesley.

He has been forgotten, as completely forgotten as though he had been a king of England or a millionaire.

But the influence of his character will not perish.