O, Praise ye the Lord!

This marvelous hymn should ofcourse not be played on a French organ.
But since I do not possess a British organ, only the one in Hauptwerk and I don't think that is up to this, I thought that The British and the French, who have always had the greatest of admiration for each other and love each other to bits, brothers in arms, chums for life and all that kind of rot, would not mind.

So here are my last two contributions on St. Omer for the moment. I'll certainly come back regularly to this marvelous sampleset, but for the time being I'm going to explore other roads.

I tried to give it a Frenchy // British touch, which is not easy being Dutch!

Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet (27 February 1848 – 7 October 1918) was an English composer, teacher and historian of music. Parry's first major works appeared in 1880. As a composer he is best known for the choral song "Jerusalem", the coronation anthem "I was glad" and the hymn tune "Repton", which sets the words "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind". He was director of the Royal College of Music from 1895 until his death and was also professor of music at the University of Oxford from 1900 to 1908. He also wrote several books about music and music history. Some contemporaries rated him as the finest English composer since Henry Purcell, but his academic duties prevented him from devoting all his energies to composition.…