|
BACH / FAURE / WIDOW / BONNET / VIERNE / HANDEL / etc
Organ Transcriptiona and French Romantic Music Ian Tracey (organ of the Liverpool Cathedral) [ Priory / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2005 ] Recordings made in 1983 (Transcription) and 1985 (French Music) |
|
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Grand Organ of Durham Cathedral (concert recorded in 2013) [plus free Blu-ray & CD] James Lancelot (Grand organ of Durham Cathedral) [ Priory DVD Blu-ray + CD / 3 Blu-ray Disc/DVD - released 1/Sep/2014 ] This is Priory's 12th DVD in its series "The Grand Organ." The stunning camera work and sound in stereo or 5.1 surround has led to high critical acclaim and critics have hailed the series as "the greatest in the history of recorded organ music."... |
|
MARCEL DUPRE
Organ Music Vol 2 John Scott (organ of St Paul's Cathedral) [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Apr/2009 ] 'Stunning ... a revelatory performance, reaching into the very heart of a work in which "there are dark forces at work"' (Gramophone) |
|
DURUFLE
Complete Organ Music John Scott (St Paul's Cathedral organ) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/May/2014 ] 1001 Classical Recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - 'Recordings and performances are splendid. Scott's playing is technically immaculate and his interpretations are intense and moving' (Gramophone |
|
MARCEL DUPRE
Dupre: Organ Music John Scott (St Paul's Cathedral organ) [ Hyperion Dyad / CD - released 25/Sep/2006 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - 'The whole presentation is masterly - superb playing and superb engineering' (Gramophone) |
|
ALEXANDER KASTALSKY
Kastalsky: Requiem Joseph Charles Beutel (bass-bar), Anna Dennis (sop) Cathedral Choral Society, The Clarion Choir, Chamber Choir of St. Tikhon's Monastery [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] Alexander Kastalsky was a student of Tchaikovsky and a mentor to Rachmaninov, becoming director of the Moscow Synodal School until the Bolshevik regime banned all sacred music. |
|
HANDEL
4 Coronation Anthems / Foundling Hospital Anthem / Utrecht te Deum / Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne HWV74 Judith Nelson, Shirley Minty, James Bowman, David Thomas / Choir Of Winchester Cathedral, The Brandenburg Consort, David Hill [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] "the choir sing most beautifully throughout and of the soloists, John Elwes is particularly sensitive to Handel's setting of charitable texts." (Gramophone on the Foundling Hospital Anthem) |
|
DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE
Buxtehude: Organ Music Vol 7 Julia Brown (organ, Saint Cecilia Cathedral, Omaha, Nebraska) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Jan/2008 ] "A good cross-section of Buxtehude's music in good, unforced, performances, well recorded." (MusicWeb Feb 2008) |
|
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Great European Organs Vol 68 Keith John (organ of Fulda Cathedral) [ Priory / CD - released 6/Oct/2007 ] Recorded in Fulda Cathedral, Germany on 5th and 6th March 2001 |
|
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Grand Organ of Coventry Cathedral (concert recorded in 2014) [plus free Blu-ray & CD] Kerry Beaumont (Grand organ of Coventry Cathedral) [ Priory DVD Blu-ray + CD / 3 Blu-ray Disc/DVD - released 10/Aug/2015 ] The superb Harrison and Harrison Organ is under the spotlight in a recital with a theme of the damage to the city in World War 2 and the reconsiliation thereafter. |
|
Korallerna/Lund Cathedral Boys
Ave Maria [ Proprius / CD - released 28/Jan/2008 ] |
|
TOMAS LUIS DE VICTORIA
Missa Gaudeamus Lay Clerks of Westmionster Cathedral / Matthew Martin / with Thomas Wilson (organ) [ Hyperion / CD - released 5/Aug/2009 ] 'An elaborate musical mosaic, the appeal of which owes much to the atmospheric depths of the Westminster acoustic, beautifully captured on this recording' (Financial Times) |
|
LIVERPOOL CATHEDRAL CHOIR
Choral music from Liverpool Cathedral (Incls 'How lovely is thy dwelling place') Liverpool Cathedral Choir / Ronald Woan (director) [ Priory / CD - released 27/Apr/2008 ] Recorded in Liverpool Cathedral in 1977 |
|
LIVERPOOL CATHEDRAL CHOIR
Choral music from Liverpool Cathedral (Incls 'All people that on earth do dwell) Liverpool Cathedral Choir / Ronald Woan (director) [ Priory / CD - released 20/May/2008 ] Recorded in Liverpool Cathedral, 26-28 March 1982 |
|
WIDOR / MENDELSSOHN / WALTON / WHITLOCK / GRAINGER / etc
Mighty Voice Luke Bond (Truro Cathedral organ) [ Regent / CD - released 20/Oct/2015 ] A new recording of the famous Father Willis organ in Truro Cathedral - regarded by many as Willis' finest organ, and one of the finest organs in the UK. The first new solo recording of this instrument in over eight years. The debut solo... |
|
PARRY
Choral Masterpieces - Songs of Farewell / I Was Glad / Jerusalem Manchester Cathedral Choir / Christopher Stokes [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] "Christopher Stokes and his 25-voice Manchester Cathedral Choir (15 boy-and-girl trebles joined with 10 altos, tenors, and basses), along with organist Jeffrey Makinson and the Naxos production team, give lovers of this music the spacious cathedral... |
|
SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT
Tippett - Choral Works Martin Jones (piano), Graham Ashton (trumpet) / hrist Church Cathedral Choir, Medici String Quartet, Stephen Darlington [ Nimbus / CD - released 25/Oct/2003 ] "This release contains temptations that put it well ahead of its rivals." - Nicholas Williams, BBC Music Magazine |
|
RICHARD ADDINSELL
The Film Music of (music from 'Goodbye, Mr Chips'; 'Dangerous Moonlight'; 'Blithe Spirit'; etc) Martin Roscoe (piano) Chetham's Chamber Choir / Manchester Cathedral Choir / BBC Philharmonic; Rumon Gamba [ Chandos Movies / CD - released 25/Feb/2003 ] 'this generously-filled CD is undoubtedly the best single-CD selection now available.' - Gramophone |
|
MAX REGER
Reger Organ Works, Vol. 10: Fifty-Two Easy Chorale Preludes Nos 39 - 52 Martin Welzel (Johannes Klais Organ, Trier Cathedral) [ Naxos Organ Encyclopedia / CD - released 10/Nov/2010 ] "..even at its most basic level it lifts your spirit while urging you to turn up the volume and simply revel in Reger's music." (10/10 ClassicsToday) |