Prelude: Intrada........................John Ireland (1879-1962)
Offertory: Voluntary, Op 14 #3..............Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Postlude: Postludium in G....................Sir John Stainer (1840-1901)
Today's organ music includes selections written by English composers who would have, in their formative years, played small tubular pneumatic action pipe organs like the Estey at New Providence. This music fits the New Providence organ quite well.
Ireland studied at the Royal College of Music in London and later taught there as well as composing. Benjamin Britten was one of his students. Ireland was organist in London churches throughout his career.
Elgar, famous for his Pomp and Circumstance marches, wrote his Vesper Voluntaries in 1890, and they were the predecessor to his Enigma Variations.
As a boy Stainer sang in the choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral (1847–56). Named organist at St. Paul’s in 1872, Stainer served in that prestigious position until 1888 and was professor of music at the University of Oxford from 1889 to his death.
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