Echo Voluntary in G

This voluntary was written for the large English organ of the early 1700s, which had three manuals and could be used for echo effects. In this case the manuals were used for Cornet, Echo Cornet and Bass line. The organ at Ansbach was built a few decades later and it has the resources to fit this voluntary.

This piece does not appear in the collected organ works of John Blow (ed Watkins Shaw 1958) because the manuscript was only discovered two years later in the former Nanki Music Library in Tokyo and it was published in 1971. The manuscript is heavily marked up with ornaments which are peculiar to the time. Blow and Purcell wrote up differing tables of ornaments and the surviving copy of Blow's version is incomplete.

For details of the sample set: https://forestpipes.de/?page_id=1793