Herbert Howells’ Paean for organ (written in May 1940) has notoriously fast metronome markings, which few organists follow. As an experiment, I’ve practised A LOT and tried to follow them…

The recording was made using the 2010 Metzler organ of the Annakirche in Düren (in the North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany), sampled by Piotr Grabowski.