Me playing the beautiful 4 manual Compton organ at St Martin in the Bullring Church situated in Birmingham city centre, West Midlands.
Im playing the hymn 'You are the centre of my life' from the new Methodist hymn book 'Singing the Faith'. This hymn makes use of the organs softer sounds and in the first verse can be heard the Cor Anglais stop on the solo division which Compton installed when they rebuilt the organ in 1955. In the second verse I use the Clarinet - also a 1955 addition.
I have also chosen this hymn as I thought it would be apt with Birmingham being in the centre of England!
With the church located in the centre of the city near the busy ringway, hearing noise from traffic is unavoidable when playing the organ in this softer mode.
Many thanks to the officials at St Martin's for allowing me access to this wonderful instrument which is a wonderful example of 3 superb organ builders.
NOTE: this is purely my interest in order to make sure that these fine organs are archived forever and I do not make any monetary profit by this video being on dailymotion.
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