Chiswick

The singing this morning at St Andrew's was pleasing. We chanted Psalm 27, sang Martin Shaw's setting for 3 voices and Attwood's lovely "Turn Thy face from my sins". After a delightful lunch at Louise and Tom's, we went to the organ recital at Our Lady of Grace and St Edmund, Chiswick, which is a lovely church on the main road. David Scott introduced an excellent programme of Bach, Buxtehude, Byrd and Albinoni. The organ has an impressive Continental sound ideal for Buxtehude and he played very well. There was an appreciative and large audience which is unusual these days for an organ recital. We introduced ourselves to David and explained that the wedding will take place there in August and he knows St John's, Upper Norwood and its fine organ! We were sitting with SSG member Andrew Lubienski, organist at Shepherds Bush RC and he kindly invited us home for tea where we met his wife Louise. We listened to some of a Chiswick choir recording of Gerontius which was most impressive. When we got home we watched part 1 of "The Retreat" and "Songs of Praise" for Lent recorded at St Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield and featuring Nick Buxton who was in "The Monastery".