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J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach. (J.S.): L'Oeuvre D'Orgue Volume 2 : Sonate En Trio / Pastorale en fa majeur BWV 590 / etc Michel Chapuis (organ) [ Auvidis Valois / CD - released 10/Dec/1998 ] Michel Léon Chapuis (15 January 1930 - 12 November 2017) was a French classical organist and pedagogue. He was especially known as an interpreter of the French and the German Baroque masters and dedicated to historically informed... |
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de CABEZON / de HEREDIA / de ARAUXO / CABANILLES / BACH / SOLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Montserrat Torrent - Organ Recital Montserrat Torrent (organ) [ Ermitage / CD - released 2/Feb/1997 ] Montserrat Torrent was appointed as organ teacher at Conservatorio Municipal de Barcelona. She started her career performing in Europe, United States of America and South America, focusing on the organ as a popular music instrument. |
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EDWARD ELGAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elgar: Enigma Variations / Organ Sonata Organ of The Temple Church, London / Keith John (organ) [ Hyperion / CD - released 26/May/2006 ] 'a technically brilliant performance that employs the instrument's full range of colours and sonorities' (BBC Music Magazine) |
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HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: Full Anthems / Music on the Death of Queen Mary Oxford Camerata; Jeremy Summerly, conductor with Laurence Cummings, organ [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] 1001 Classical Recordings you must hear before you die. - "I would say that any disc which offered such a 24-carat Purcell selection in performances even half as good as these would be hard to resist." - Gramophone |
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HANDEL / ROSEINGRAVE / CHILCOT / HAYES / etc
English 18th-Century Keyboard Concertos The Parley of Instruments / Paul Nicholson (harpsichord/fortepiano/organ) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 10/Sep/2009 ] 'A delightful project' (The Times) |
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 "Organ" / Carnival of the Animals (with Poulenc: Model Animals - Suite) Maurice Durufle (organ) / Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Georges Prêtre [ EMI Classics Encore Collection / CD - released 2/Feb/2001 ] Original recording from 1964 & 1967 |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Transports de joie Philips Walsh (organ of the Wellington Cathedral) [ Trust / CD - released 30/Sep/2007 ] There can be few places in the world where so much organ music has been written within such a small geographical area. The modern French organ school, with César Franck as its undisputed founder, exists largely within the boundaries of the twenty... |
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Pieter-Jan Belder (harpsichord/virginal/organ)
Byrd: Complete Harpsichord and Organ Music [ Brilliant Classics / 9 CD Box Set - released 3/Nov/2023 ] Byrd's vocal works would have assured him a place in history as the greatest English composer of his generation. Yet he was also the outstanding composer of his time in the realm of instrumental music - indeed, probably the first musician to achieve... |
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Reginald Dixon (wurlitzer organ)
Rhapsody In Blue [ Pickwick / CD - released 27/Jun/2008 ] Born in Sheffield, Reginald had hopes of becoming a concert pianist but at the age of fourteen was told by his doctor that he would have to give up either the piano or school - Reginald chose to give up school. The following year he became a church... |
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TECWYN EVANS / ANDREW BALDWIN / HELEN CASKIE / TIMOTHY HURD / etc
New Zealand Organ Music Richard Apperley (organ) [ Organism / CD - released 6/Dec/2012 ] This groundbreaking disc features organ music by some of New Zealand's most talented composers recorded on a variety of significant instruments around Wellington, performed by Richard Apperley, Assistant Director of Music at the Wellington Cathedral... |
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FRANZ LISZT / JULIUS REUBKE
Organ Works Robert Costin at the Organ of Wellington Town Hall [ Atoll / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] "Displaying consummate control he expertly demonstrates the range and luxuriant tone colours of the Norman and Beard organ at Wellington." (MusicWeb May 2009) |
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BRAHMS / WAGNER / DUPRE
The Organ of Westminster Cathedral Robert Quinney (organ) [ Signum / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2007 ] "This is a great recording - I've no hesitation in saying it's one of the best organ CDs you'll ever hear" The Gramophone |
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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs and other British Choral Anthems Roderick Williams (baritone) with Julia Smith, Elizabeth Limb, Rachel Limb & Kate Jurka (soprano) / Martin Ford (organ) / Vasari Singers, Jeremy Backh [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Oct/2022 ] Featuring Vaughan Williams' masterly and intensely personal Five Mystical Songs, this album reflects on the sources of inspiration of some of his sacred choral works, alongside gems of 19th- and early-20th-century English church music. |
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FRANCIS POULENC
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Poulenc: Concertos / Choral Works / Orchestral Works Pascal Roge (piano/harpsichord) Sylviane Deferne (piano) Peter Hurford (organ) / Orchestre National de France, Philharmonia Orchestra, Charles Dutoit [ Decca / 5 CD Box Set - released 14/May/2007 ] "The excellence of the performances is matched by first-rate and meticulously balanced Decca sound." Penguin Guide |
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THOMAS ARNE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Arne: The Six Organ Concertos Roger Bevan Williams (organ) / Cantilena, Adrian Shepherd [ Chandos Chaconne / 2 CD - released 22/Aug/1989 ] Recorded: 12-13 April 1987 |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Italian cantatas Sabine Devieilhe (soprano) Léa Desandre (mezzo) / Le Concert d'Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord, organ and conductor) [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 15/Nov/2018 ] "Desandre, a superb vocal actress, delivers bold musical rhetoric…You might think you know these cantatas, but this is a performance to make you think again" BBC Music Award Finalist 2020 |
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SIMEON TEN HOLT
Canto Ostinato XXL Sandra & Jeroen van Veen (piano duo), Elizabeth & Marcel Bergmann (piano duo) & Aart Bergwerff (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 14/Aug/2005 ] Canto Ostinato by Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt is becoming one of the most important, iconic, and most frequently performed piece of Minimal Music of our time. This particular performance is the longest ever, lasting more than 4 hours. It uses... |
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GIOVANNI MARIA TRABACI
Trabaci: Keyboard Music (Book II, 1615) Sergio Vartolo (harpsichord and organ), Andrew Lawrence King (harp) [ Naxos Early Music / 3 CD Box Set - released 11/Nov/2008 ] In the appendix to his Scherzi Musicali Claudio Monteverdi wrote his own self-defence to the criticisms made against him by the theorist Artusi, though he had it signed by his brother Giulio Cesare. There he clearly speaks of a 'second practice' of... |
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BACH / MOZART / CLARKE / HANDEL / GUILMANT / etc
Simon Preston: The Argo Organ Recordings Simon Preston (the organ of Westminster Abbey) [ Australian Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 5/Dec/2017 ] From 1962 (when he made his Royal Festival Hall debut) to 1967, and again from 1981 to 1987, Simon Preston held posts at Westminster Abbey, initially as sub-organist, then as organist and master of the choristers. These recordings were made during... |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Motets / Ave Maria / Psalm XIII St Bride's Choir / Robert Jones with Matthew Morley, organ [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] Brahms was to write choral music throughout his life, the earliest published work being the Ave Maria dating from 1858, a gentle work for female voices with discreet organ accompaniment. |