The Oxford Book of Lent and Easter Organ Music brings together a superb array of repertoire for use from Ash Wednesday through to Pentecost providing a comprehensive volume for this extended liturgical period. The pieces—largely based on well-known hymn tunes—vary in style and length suiting a range of purposes from processionals and interludes to voluntaries and recital works. A range of t…

Organ-Siseby Orgelbog for Organ was composed by Jesper Madsen in 1992-93 for the Marcussen & Reuter's Siseby organ in Haderslev Domkirke.

Alongside the organ music of François Couperin and Louis-Nicolas Clérambault Nicolas de Grigny's only publication marks the apogee of Grand siècle organ music. The 1699 book contains a complete organ mass and alternatim settings of the five principal hymns for use at the more important feasts of the church year. How it was received at the time is unknown yet the publication was considered of suf…

The Oxford Book of Christmas Music for Organ, Bk 2. The second Oxford Book of Christmas Organ Music comprises a diverse collection of seasonal organ music, covering the Church's year from Advent to Epiphany. The music is stylistically varied, and the pieces are drawn internationally from across the centuries with a mixture of established repertoire set alongside newly commissioned works.

Par GLAZOUNOV ALEXANDER. Glazunov' s compositions are often noted for their distinctive emotionality and underlying heroic mood. This also applies to the known organ works of this Russian master, all of which bear the characteristic traits of the Russian symphonic style: epic breadth and monumentality as well as a close proximity to folk music, all combined with supreme contrapuntal skill. This …

Par FRANCK CESAR. Although Franck's output for the organ was small, it was influential. This volume contains his best-known works for organ, including Six Pieces (Liszt ranked them with the masterpieces of Bach), Trois Pieces?including the well-known 'Piece Heroique'?and the Trois Chorals, perhaps Franck?s finest organ works. Reproduced directly from authoritative Durand edition in an oblong forma…

The Trois Impressions shows Karg-Elert both at his most Romantic and his most impressionistic. The movements’ nocturnal names Harmonies du Soir Claire de Lune and La Nuit are in French as the work is dedicated to Alexandre Guilmant the great French Organist of Trinity church in Paris. Sigfrid Karg-Elert was a German composer active in the early twentieth century whose broad output is ecl…

3 Organ Chorales - In Memoriam Kjartan Hoydal was composed by Sunleif Rasmussen in 2016 based on melodies by Jógvan Waagstein. 'This is the only published work for solo organ by Rasmussen though an earlier piece (A Light is Lit 1993) is scored for organ with electronics. As with all his music the titles of these three ‘chorales’ (perhaps better described as fantasias) – Break…

for Organ-A dramatic and deeply chromatic work for the Organ based upon the sketches of the late composer William Albright. Bolcom has incorporated many of Albright's original sketches and ideas into this unnerving work that exploits the endless textural and sonic potential of the Organ to the full. The writing is complex and challenging forming a remarkable unison between the characterful ideas …

For this Organ concluding voluntary Hugh Blair choose two carols that sound authentically old and one A Virgin Unspotted which dates from the 17th century. The short piece includes a delightful reworking of God Rest You Merry Gentlemen and a gently rocking Good King Wenceslas in 6/8. Hugh Blair was an English Organist conductor and composer of some perspicacity. Elgar’s cantata The Black Kn…