Click on this icon at the left of the description to download the clip. As a rough guide, 500k downloads in about 3 minutes. Try the Veni first - it is not to be missed!  1st class Choir, 1st class arrangement, 1st class organ.....
These first 12 were all recorded on the 4 manual PHOENIX ORGAN which was temporarily installed in The Church of Our Lady, Moneyglass to record a Christmas CD for Grosvenor Chorale. The clips marked <O> are taken from this recording and feature the choir.
Opening of BWV 547 (526k)	Pos mutations v Great chorus (528k)
Opening of Franck I (527k)	Vox Hum & Harm fl, + link (Franck I) (1766k)
a bit of Cocker (473k)	Solo Reeds in Hollins (454k)
end Elgar Enigma with Ulster Orch (1475k)	<O> Carter "Veni Emmanuel" last v (1392k)
<O> Sussex Carol - complete (1680k)	<O> "O little town of Bethlehem" last 2 v (1773k)
<O> Rutter "Christmas Night" last v (849k)	<O> Sir Christemas - complete (1480k)
Here's some music from the AFM catalogue - and archives! There are two of my own compositions, and more recorded in Cooke with the Cooke Singers, an ad hoc group which I used to direct. There are also some that have absolutely no organ at all ! These are excerpts from the commercial discs and are marked <CD>
Cooke Centenary Organ - a bit of THE Poulenc (501k)	A "REAL KLASS" ORGAN in Germany - perfection!! (524k)
CCO - Handel Bb Organ Concerto (2nd movt) (917k)	<CD> Christ Church Cath Choir - Coe Fen
The Day thou gavest (with Cooke Singers) (542k)	<O> Love came down @ Moneyglass (1657k)
Central Orb (with Cooke Singers) (920k)	<CD> Carrick College Choir - "The Rose" (662k)
Allegri Miserere (with Cooke Singers) (1291k)	<CD> Laganvale Band - "Summertime" (M Ruddock - Sop Crnt) (935k)
SGH Ps 150 (with Cooke Singers) (1078k)	<CD> Ballyholme Primary School - "Peaceful Night" (514k)
SGH Trompeta Celtica at St Paul's London (4221k)	<CD> RUC Male Voice Choir - "When the Saints" (835k)

I have done extensive tests into the relative merits of several on-line audio delivery packages, and think the best is still Layer 3 MPEG encoded files. Most browsers now have the wherewithal to play back mp3 encoded files, but if yours does not then you can go direct to www.nullsoft.com for the latest (or a MAC) version of WINAMP. This is a self-extracting zip, and just requires you to double-click on the file once you have downloaded it (save it to disk).  The player will install itself on your system and you will then be able to play back the audio files in all their splendour.  If possible, connect your PC up to some large speakers - this gives the best results. There is a lot of bottom end in all these clips, and they will play back at an unbelievable level of fidelity if your reproduction chain is up to it.  Not all of these audio files are at the highest stream rate, but I believe this is an acceptable compromise between size, download time and quality.

This site was built and tested using both Internet Explorer 5 and Netscape Communicator 4.6
and will display properly at screen resolutions of 800 x 600 & above (1024 x 768 is recommended)
There are some unresolved compatibility issues using Netscape.
©SGH Dec 2001 ©SGH Jan 2002