Scenes in Kent, Op. 23 (Suite for Organ)

note the mp3/player is the whole suite
Frederic Herbert Wood (1880-1963) served as organist of Blackpool Parish Church for 45 years. A Doctor of Music from Durham University, his colourful organ suites depicting the English countryside remain among the most vivid pictorial writing in the English organ repertoire. His music has largely vanished from print, making each performance an act of preservation.
Scenes in Kent, Op. 23 (1924) is a suite in four movements, each painting a scene from the Medway valley and its surroundings in richly evocative musical detail. Wood included his own photographs of each location in the original Stainer & Bell publication.

This recording combines four individually uploaded YouTube performances into a single complete suite (this has taken me almost a year!!!):
the timestamps will jump in the recording, the links take you to YT

[00:00] I - Aylesford Bridge, on the Medway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnQZCw62tUI


[03:34] II - Allington Lock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl8s7D8zg8M


[05:46] III - Orchard Blossom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9l5kdXNKXU


[10:03] IV - Rochester Bells
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id9bmGgPYCA

This suite was previously uploaded to the Concert Hall by Agnus_Dei on the Peterborough Cathedral Hill sample set - a landmark recording in my opinion!! And he continues to upload Wood's music (THANK YOU DAVID)

https://www.contrebombarde.com/concerthall/music/37623


Instrument: BIS - St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol (Harrison & Harrison, 1912). Sample set by Richard McVeigh for Beauty in Sound.
https://www.beautyinsound.co.uk/products/st-mary-redcliffe