Jesus lives! Thy terrors now - Chris Lawton at St Alban's Church, Becontree, London

Me playing the organ at St Alban's Church in Becontree, Essex.

The organ was built in 1933 by the famous John Compton Organ Company Ltd. Like most Compton instruments, the organ is fully enclosed and uses the 'extension' principal which in the case of this instrument, uses 4 'ranks' of pipes: Diapason, Hohl Flute, Salicional and Tromba. The specification reads:

PEDAL
Subbass 16'
Flute 8'
Trombone 16'
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal

GREAT
Contra Salicional 16'
Diapason 8'
Hohl Flute 8'
Salicional 8'
Octave 4'
Twelfth 2.2/3'
Fifteenth 2'
Swell to Great

SWELL
Hohl Flute 8'
Salicional 8'
Flute 4'
Salicet 4'
Echo Cymbale III
Trombone 16'
Tromba Minor 8'
Clarion 4'
Tremulant

ACCESSORIES
3 thumb pistons to Great
3 thumb pistons to Swell
2 reversible thumb pistons
3 ventil switches
1 balanced expression pedal - organ
1 balanced expression pedal - crescendo

For this first video im playing the hymn 'Jesus lives! Thy terrors now' to the tune 'St Albinus' which shows off the power of this instrument including the fine Tromba rank.

Many thanks to Reverend Penny Sayer for allowing me access to this wonderful Compton organ.

NOTE: this is purely my interest in order to make sure that these fine organs are archived forever and I do not make any monetary profit by this video being on dailymotion.

For more information on the John Compton Organ Company Ltd and to see me play other Compton organs, please click on the following link for my site dedicated to the John Compton Organ Company Ltd:

http://comptonorgans.yolasite.com/