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WILLAN
Organ Works Patrick Wedd (organ) [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jan/2006 ] James Healey Willan was born on 12th October, 1880, in Balham, a suburb of London. Willan’s father was a pharmacist, and no one else in the family was a professional musician. His parents, however, recognised and encouraged their son’s evident... |
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WILLIAM McCLELLAND
McClelland: Where the Shadows Glides - Songs, Solo Piano and Choral Works Krista River (mezzo) Thomas Meglioranza (baritone) Donald Berman,Blair McMillen (piano) David Enlow (organ) / The New York Virtuoso Singers, Harols Ro [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 22/Jul/2022 ] Internationally acclaimed composer William McClelland has written a wide variety of music in many styles and forms, but the works in this program have all been inspired by poetry. The choral works evoke the atmosphere of time and place in settings of... |
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MESSIAEN
Livre du Saint-Sacrement Paul Jacobs (organ) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] "if it's only the Livre du Saint-Sacrement you are looking for then this bargain release can hold its own amongst the best." (MusicWeb International Nov 2010) |
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OQUIN / PARKER / ROUSE / IVES
Organ Concertos Paul Jacobs (organ), Nashville Symphony, Giancarlo Guerreo (conductor) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 23/Aug/2024 ] The organ concerto tradition goes back to the 17th century and the Baroque era, but composers have constantly adapted this age-old genre to their own expressive ends - this recording provides ample evidence of its appeal today. |
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IVES
A Concord Symphony (with Copland: Organ Symphony) Paul Jacobs (organ) / San Francisco Symphony / Michael Tilson Thomas [ San Francisco Symphony / Hybrid SACD - released 23/Aug/2011 ] "The live recording...is absolutely stunning, with the organ clearly spaced in Davies Hall, allowing Paul Jacobs to be in the foreground, and yet an integral part of the orchestra, as the composer intended." (BBC Music Magazine) |
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LENNOX & MICHAEL BERKELEY
Berkeley, Michael - Concerto for Organ and Orchestra; Viola Concerto / Berkeley, Lennox - Voices of the Night, Op. 86; Symphony No. 2 Paul Silverthorne, viola; Thomas Trotter, organ; BBC National Orchestra of Wales; Richard Hickox [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 27/Jan/2004 ] 'The fourth volume of the invaluable Chandos Berkeley series repeats the successful formula of the previous issues... like the others in this series, this is a disc to return to for ever-increasing rewards.' International Record Review |
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RHEINBERGER
Rheinberger - Organ Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 Paul Skevington, organ / Amadeus Orchestra / Timothy Rowe, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Aug/2005 ] |
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VINCENZO PETRALI
Petrali: Organ Music Paulo Bottini (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Nov/2020 ] Vincenzo Petrali (1830-1889) was an organist-composer active in the north of Italy. Acclaimed in his own time as a master improviser, the equal in this regard to French contemporaries such as Guilmant and Widor, he left a small, beautifully crafted... |
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HEINRICH IGNAZ FRANZ von BIBER
The Rosary Sonatas Pavlo Beznosiuk (violins) David Roblou (harpsichord/organ) Paula Chateauneuf (Theorbo) Richard Tunnicliffe (viola da Gamba) & Timothy West (reader) [ Avie / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2013 ] |
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WILLIAM MATHIAS
Mathias: Choral Music Peter Foggitt (piano), Michael Papadopoulos (organ & Piano) & Tom Winpenny (organ) / St Albans Abbey Girls Choir, The Lay Clerks of St Albans [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Sep/2016 ] "This is a fine introduction to Sergei Bortkiewicz's piano music. The playing is impressive, technically assured and quite simply beautiful." MusicWeb |
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ANTHONI van NOORDT
Van Noordt: Organ Works, Vol. 1 Peter Ouwerkerk (organ) [ Naxos Organ Encyclopedia / CD - released 12/Oct/2003 ] By the mid-seventeenth century in Amsterdam the Dutch Golden Age was at its height. For many decades the city was considered the trading centre of the world. |
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TOURNEMIRE / VIERNE / MESSIAEN / DUPRE / DURUFLE
French Organ Music Petur Sakari (organ) [ BIS / CD - released 31/Dec/2013 ] The French organ tradition is one of the strongest and proudest in all of 20th-century music. Pétur Sakari - at the age of only 21 - gives proof of a mastery of the organ and a musicianship which promise great things to come. |
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WILLIAM LAWES
Lawes: The Royal Consort: Three Consorts to the Organ Phantasm, with Elizabeth Kenny (theorbo), Daniel Hyde (organ) [ Linn Records SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 20/May/2015 ] BBC Music Magazine Awards 2016 Finalist - Chamber / Gramophone Magazine award nomination 2016 - Baroque Instrumental |
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PHILIP GLASS
Analog: etoile Polaire, Dressed Like and Egg, Mad Rush Philip Glass (electric organ) [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 1/Nov/2006 ] Analog contains three seminal works in Glass's musical history. |
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HERBERT HOWELLS
Howells: Organ Music Philip Kenyon (Charterhouse Chapel Organ) [ Herald / CD - released 2/Feb/1988 ] Charterhouse Chapel organ was built by Harrison & Harrison for the new chapel which was consecrated in 1927. It is a three-manual instrument and very typical of its period. |
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LOUIS VIERNE / JEAN-PIERRE LEGUAY
Grandes Messes du XX siecle Philippe Lefebvre, Jean-Pierre Leguay (Grand Organ) / Maitrise Notre-Dame de Paris / Nicole Corti [ Editions Hortus / CD - released 15/Mar/2008 ] "Yet another highly stylish and well presented release from the French label, Editions Hortus. As with everything produced by Hortus this is highly recommendable." (MusicWeb) |
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PHILIP GLASS
How Now & Strung Out (Glass' debut concert - 19 May 1968) Philips Glass (organ) Dorothy Pixley Rothchild (amplified violin) [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 20/Feb/2014 ] Recorded on 19 May, 1968 at the Filmaker's Cinematheque, 80 Wooster St, New York City. |
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MARCO ENRICO BOSSI
Organ Works (Incls Theme and Variations & Piece heroique) Pier Damiano Peretti (organ) [ Naxos Organ Encyclopedia / CD - released 10/Dec/2009 ] Shortly before he undertook his last concert tour to America, the freelance concert organist Marco Enrico Bossi received encouragement from his friend Puccini: 'They will get to hear how the organ really should be played!' This disc presents a... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach - Organ Music Volume 4 Piet Kee (organ of Martini Church, Groningen) [ Chandos Chaconne / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] "This is playing of heart-warming humanity and spiritual equilibrium, combining deep thought with complete spontaneity. Kee's control of the long, singing line goes hand in hand with a poetic command of Baroque instrumental articulation." Gramophone |
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WILLIAM BYRD
Fitzwilliam Virginal Book Volume 2 Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord, organ & virginal) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Dec/2012 ] Second volume of a unique project: the first complete recording of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book! The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book is the largest surviving collection of Elizabethan and Jacobean keyboard music, comprising more than 300 works, written by... |