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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS / FRANCIS POULENC
Celebrating the Organ Thomas Trotter at the Organ of Auckland Town Hall, with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Arvo Volmer [ Atoll / CD - released 20/Jun/2010 ] "Three cheers (and more) for Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's new Celebrating the Organ CD." (William Dart NZ Herald) |
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LUDWIG THUILLE
Searching: Works for percussion duet Alasdair Beatson (piano) with David Dunnett (organ) [ Champs Hill / CD - released 2/Feb/2015 ] O Duo's own composition from 2011, Searching, represents a journey spent - as the title might suggest - 'searching' for something, and the emotions and feelings which this journey throws up - sadness, longing, excitement, anticipation among others. |
JOHANN KRIEGER
Krieger: Complete Harpsichord and Organ Music Alejandro Casal (harpsichord/organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] Johann Krieger (1652-1735) was an important composer of the German keyboard school, and together with Buxtehude, Böhm, Muffat, Pachelbel, Kuhnau and Lübeck he paved the way for the great Johann Sebastian Bach. Krieger was for most part of his life... |
BONNET / VIERNE / LANGLAIS / FRANCK / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Fete - French Organ Music Andrew Cantrill, organ of St. Paul's Cathedral, Wellington [ Morrison Trust New Zealand / CD - released 15/Jul/2002 ] A cross-section of music from a fascinating and intense period of creativity in French organ music, the programme's title work is Jean Langlais' brash and celebratory Fête. |
SAINT-SAENS
Organ Music Volume 2 Andrew-John Smith (organ) [ Hyperion / CD - released 16/Sep/2011 ] "The preludes and fugues make a sharply contrasted trio: the first and last, in D minor and C, are grand in scale and conception; the second, in G, is much more compact and relaxed. Smith makes full use of the resources of the Madeleine instrument to... |
Anu Komsi (soprano), Marzi Nyman (organ)
Duke Ellington: Sacred Concert (LP) [ Alba / LP - released 14/May/2020 ] Duke Ellington wrote the Sacred Concert in the mid-1960's and performed the work with his orchestra and various soloists between 1966 and 1974 at Churches around the USA and Europe. Ellington never wrote a score of Sacred Concerts, and it wasn't... |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Complete Organ Works Tom Winpenny ('Father' Willis organ of Hereford Cathedral) [ Naxos / CD - released 23/Sep/2022 ] The organ was a formative part of Edward Elgar's musical upbringing, and for a time he was organist at St George's Catholic Church in Worcester. The symphonic scale and distinctive themes of the First Sonata contrast with the more liturgical... |
JOHN GARTH
Garth: Accompanied Keyboard Sonatas Op.2 & Op.4 The Avison Ensemble, Gary Cooper (harpsichord, fortepiano, organ) [ Divine Art / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2014 ] The brilliant music of John Garth places him amongst the greatest of English baroque composers yet he was almost totally forgotten until recently. T |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Verbum caro factum est - a Christmas Greeting Bach Collegium Japan Chorus / Masaaki Suzuki (direction), Masato Suzuki (organ) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Oct/2018 ] "The performances are typically classy, and punctuated by a selection of Daquin's 'Noels' for solo organ, played with peppery registrations by Suzuki" BBC Music |
SIR PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
Maxwell Davies: Sacred Choral Works Michael Bonaventure (solo organ) / Choir of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, Matthew Owens [ Delphian / CD - released 12/Jun/2006 ] In the 1960s few would have predicted that Peter Maxwell Davies would eventually write a set of Evening Canticles; yet religious texts have always been of fundamental importance to the composer, as this disc vividly demonstrates by bringing together... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Water Music / etc (with Mozart: Epistle Sonatas) Boyd Neal Orchestra, Philomusica of London, Thurston Dart (organ & conductor) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] Handel orchestral favourites from the 1950s in a winning combination of old-school polish and unaffected stylistic refinement. With this and several other albums, Eloquence celebrates the art of Thurston Dart, the harpsichordist, conductor and... |
LOUIS VIERNE
Vierne: Organ Symphonies Nos. 3 and 6 Bruno Mathieu (organ) [ Naxos The Organ Encyclopedia / CD - released 30/Apr/2006 ] "The Naxos pairing is also more than worth its modest price. Burno Mathieu is a pupil of Marie-Claire Alain, and a splendid organist in his own right." Penguin Guide |
J. S. BACH / HOWARD HANSON
Cameron Carpenter - Bach & Hanson Cameron Carpenter (International Touring Organ) [ Decca / CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ] The "extravagantly talented" (The New York Times) American organist Cameron Carpenter releases his first album on Decca Gold, a recording of J.S. Bach's The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 juxtaposed with his own transcription of Hanson's 2nd Symphony. |
J. S. BACH
All You Need Is Bach Cameron Carpenter (organ) [ Sony / CD - released 1/Jul/2016 ] "The fluidity, assurance, and unabashed bravura one usually enjoys from Carpenter's live performances make themselves felt in his first all-Bach release, recorded in Berlin's Jesus-Christus Kirche." (ClassicsToday) |
FAURE / WALFORD DAVIES / WALTON / TIPPETT / PURCELL / GIBBONS / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Canterbury Tradition Choir Of Canterbury Cathedral, David Flood, with Michael harris (organ) [ York Ambisonic / CD - released 2/Feb/2013 ] David Flood was the organist and master of the cathedral choristers at Canterbury Cathedral, a position he held for 32 years from 1988 to 2020. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists. In 1978, he was appointed assistant organist at... |
MEINRAD SCHUTTER / CHRISTIAN HENKING / LEOS JANACEK
Bap Nos - In Memoriam Meinrad Schutter Cappella Nova, Raphael Immoos, with Susanne Doll (organ) & Vera Schnider (harp) [ Guild / CD - released 2/Feb/1996 ] The Swiss composer Meinrad Schütter would be celebrating his 100th birthday in 2010. Reason enough and about time to finally introduce this highly original composer to an interested, international audience. |
ELGAR / PARRY / WESLEY / COCKER / WHITLOCK / LEMARE / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Carlo Curley - Organ Imperial Carlo Curley (organ of teh Church of St Mary redcliffe, Bristol)) [ Decca Argo / CD - released 16/Dec/2006 ] Carlo Curley was the resident organist at the Alexandra Palace in the 1970s and was the first classical organist to perform a solo organ recital at the White House for President Jimmy Carter. He also played before several European heads of state and... |
ANTHONI van NOORDT
Van Noordt: Works for organ Vol 2 Cees van der Poel (organ) [ Naxos Organ Encyclopedia / CD - released 1/May/2004 ] "The playing is stylistically intelligent and seems exemplary. This disc, at budget price, surely merits the highest recommendation." - Organists' Review (Michael Overbury), February 2000 |
The Choir of Belfast Cathedral / Directed by Philip Stopford with Ian Barber (organ)
The Complete New English Hymnal (Vol 22) [ Priory / CD - released 1/Dec/2005 ] Recorded in Belfast Cathedral on 6th, 7th and 8th June 2005 |
