Though Deepening Trials

“Press on, press on...!” The four notes associated with those words are the motive that opens this piece, ties it together, and finally closes it. Driving it forward is the persistent pulsing of quarter-note chords in the left hand. Eighth-note flourishes (moments of grace and be…

Keep the right hand legato, even when moving from the Swell manual to the Great. Make a normal phrase break when returning to the Swell (at the end of the cantus firmus phrase). Make the breaks between repeated notes in the left hand consistent—steadily pulsing but never chop…