Partitions difficile pour Orgue

Contemporary English composer and Organist Arthur Wills was Director of Music at Ely Cathedral when he composed this pair of works. He is a prolific composer who has toured extensively as a recitalist...

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 workis...

Bolcom used the musical papers and sketches from the late William Albright as the basis for this composition, which serves as a memorial to Albright. It was commissioned by the American Guild of Organ...

Alba is one of Bennett's serialism-tinged works that also touches on medieval rhythmic modes. He based the work on the Tema Seriale from Cantata Academica by Benjamin Britten, to whom Alba is dedicate...

The Fantasia for Organ has been described as both 'fleshy in its Romanticism' and also, by the composer, as 'quite severe in parts', an apt combination for the vast changes of the beginning of the pos...

The Toccata, Chorale and Fugue for Organ incorporates many influences of its time (1957), including Romanticism, Baroque inspirations and some twelve-tone features. There are alternate endings for the...

The composer wrote of this work, 'Although purely abstract in design, the work attempts to give musical expression to the individual's struggle fo belief in the miracle of the resurrection…The form of...

The Grand Fantasia (The Storm) uses the drama of a physical storm to represent an emotional one. The opening ominous chords lead to thundering chords and a programmatic representation of a storm that...

Dans son école d'improvisation à l'orgue en deux volumes, Iris Rieg présente une immense richesse de possibilités pour trouver des harmonies colorées sur la reine des instruments d'une manière très cr...

This composition is bursting with exuberant musical humour. It is demanding, both technically and musically, and only accessible to good organists. Those who are able to master the piece, however, are...

Drwenski muss ein glühender Verehrer Joh. Seb. Bachs gewesen sein, denn Drwenskis Werk ist voll mit kontrapunktischen Finessen und mit Freude am barocken Spiel mit der Form. Dabei bedient er sich aber...

En 1850, à l'occasion d'une représentation de gala du "Prométhée délivré" de Herder au Hoftheater de Weimar, Liszt écrivit quelques parties chorales et aussi une ouverture, qu'il retravailla en 1855 e...

These variations on Picardy (an old French Carol) have been written to show the different colours of the Organ. We have included the first page with performance instructions, and the first and last pa...

I. Allegro, II. Andante, III. Scherzo, Schnell, Trio Langsamer und ruhiger, IV. Finale Bruckners sogenannte Nullte, die aber richtigerweise eigentlich schon seine 2. Sinfonie ist, entstand im Jahre 1...

Improvisation on Norske Folketone. In the quodlibet in particular, in which all three chorales are to be heard simultaneously, it is necessary to produce greater transparency by means of careful regis...

This organ piece contains the contrapuntal combination of two songs: an old Tuscan folk song (Dormi mia bella) and the madrigal 'Matona, mia cara', which had been used before by Orlando di Lasso for a...

Toccata-like piece ending with the chorale on the Old 104th. One of a set of 3 pieces written to celebrate a fellow organists significant milestone of being an organist for 45 years (the other two bei...

Makes a good pre-service Prelude.

A fine and fairly long final voluntary. One of three pieces written for a friend and fellow organist to celebrate his 45th year of being an organist... the other two being, 'Elegy' and 'Postlude on th...

Reviews: "Well-written, with only one slightly awkward pedal passage in the allegretto section, technical problems are moderate….." - CMQ Magazine

A rousing and cheerful Tuba Tune for the Organ written for Dr Christopher Newton and St Bart's Church in Armley, Leeds, West Yorkshire.

Our first release of 2020 and the second in our 'Northern Edition' Series (the purpose of the series is to extend the range of music from Northern England from composers both past and present). These...