Par BLOW JOHN. Edited by Robert Klakowich The complete harpsichord music of John Blow is here made available for the first time, including eleven doubtful works and incipits of spurious ones. In this collection there are dances such as almands, corants, minuets, sarabands and jiggs, as well as extensive ground bass compositions that demonstrate the growth of a distinctive formal and technical idio…

Par BYRD WILLIAM. The Byrd Edition Volume 17. Edited by Kenneth Elliott Though Byrd's In nomine settings for consort were probably the first of his works to circulate widely, the dating of his consort music in general is problematical. The famous 'Browning' variations are probably an early display of the composer's mastery of the form. The only complete Fantasia à 4 is found in the Psalmes, Songs …

Par MACPHERSON STEWART. The three books are published separately, although the author firmly believed that melodic movement and harmonic progression should always be studied side by side. Book 3 describes more advanced harmony. The books employ exercises in counterpoint, in figured-bass harmony and in the roman-numeral inversion analysis./ Livre / Livre

Par CORP RONALD. Both as composer and conductor, Ronald Corp is steeped in the English choral tradition, and in A Spotless Rose he has traversed by his own path the hallowed ground of words immortalised by Herbert Howells. Corp’s own music, chordal yet contrapuntal, and likewise redolent in its modality of a distant past ‘of ancient seers’ foreshowing’, flows smoothly in flexible rhythm, each voic…

Par HALL ALEX. This stately and sonorous grace was written for a celebration held at Oundle School of the civil partnership of two friends of the composer, who points out that as one studied at Oxford and the other at Cambridge, he chose a text with no association to any particular college! Though appropriate in purpose to any occasion where a communal meal is shared with a sense of thankfulness, …

Book 8. Par BRADLEY DOROTHY / TOBIN RAYMOND. Will deal with more difficult pulse divisions, greater detail in requirements of touch contrasts, octaves moving against arpeggios, scale figures against chords, more complexity in part-writing and antiphonal movement, melody in both hands above or below accompaniment shared by the hands on half or quarter beat, more artistic use of pedal required. Guid…

Par BLOW JOHN. Edited by Barry Cooper The organ voluntaries, double or cornet voluntaries and psalm-tune settings by John Blow form a substantial corpus of material - 48 pieces in all - that sheds much light on the developing keyboard style of the late 17th century. Predominantly serious and contrapuntal, they bear witness to the technical mastery of their composer and to his role as an important …

Par OGDEN NIGEL. A jaunty and interesting piece with a flip and a flap of penguin! Nigel Ogden's work for Organ is a pleasing and entertaining piece that will help warm you up at any time of year!/ Répertoire / Orgue

The lively Tambourin by Rameau is among the most popular of baroque instrumental pieces, and in H. Samuel Sterling's idiomatic arrangement for double bass and piano it forms a welcome addition to the bassist's repertoire. Giordani's stately Larghetto is an ideal counterweight, and an exercise in sustained, expressive playing. CONTENTS: Giuseppe Giordani: Larghetto, Jean-Philippe Rameau: Tambourin.…

Par BEST WILLIAM. A prolific editor and arranger for the organ, Best also composed church music, carols, glees, piano music, orchestral pieces as well as works for the organ. Major works for the 'King of Instruments' include 'Four Concert Fantasias' of which 'Fantasia on a Welsh March' is number two in the set. Based on the Welsh tune 'Men of Harlech', it subjects the march to virtuosic treatment …