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…

Kaija Saariaho’s Maan Varjot was jointly commissioned by Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal Orchestre National de Lyon Southbank Centre and the Philharmonia Orchestra. The world premieretook place in Montreal on 19 May 2014 given by the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal with Olivier Latry (Organ) conducted by Kent Nagano. The French premiere took place during June 2014 given by the Orch…

The Place Of Understanding is a work by Nico Muhly for High Voice and Organ commissioned by The Hanson Institute for American Music of the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester. The work sets 2 texts by Christina Rossetti and from the Book of Job and lasts around 13 minutes. Muhly states that The Place Of Understanding is essentially an Organ solo piece with tenor commentary …

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.

Edward Bairstow's grand Prelude In C for Organ manuals and pedals. This is No.18 in the St.Martin's Organ Series.

Orgue / Die Ausgabe enthält festliche, stille oder meditative Orgelkompositionen, vor allem aber beliebte, für Orgel bearbeitete Vokal- und Instrumentalwerke Vorwort / Popular Organ music for weddings in easy arrangements for organ with and without pedalboard

Prelude Pastorale and Fugue is scored for solo Organ. Craig Seller Lang (1891-1971) was a British composer organist and musical pedagogue who was born in New Zealand. He studied at the Royal College of Music before becoming a teacher at Christ’s Hospital School. His compositions were mostly written with a student performer in mind. He is best remembered for his seminal educational Organ books…

Handel’s opera Scipio was produced in 1726 and remains one of his less frequently performed works. The original production was beset by the problems of the withdrawal of a solo singer and an extremely short time span for composition. Handel made changes in later productions but the most famous element of the opera remains this stirring March.The March was arranged for Organ by William Thomas …

Work for Organ dating from 1967. This is a choreographic score for performers' bodies on Organ pedals.

In Triptych For Organ the first movement Melody performed alone makes a tuneful voluntary while the second movement requires more technical accomplishment. In the third movement Final the composer incorporated the Westminster Chimes.Twentieth century French Organist and composer Jean Langlais was prolific both as a creator of new works and as a recitalist travelling throughout Europe and t…

In 1959 Howells wrote the Fancy and Toccata for a Chamber Organ in St Mary's Episcopal Church in Aberdeen after the main organ was bombed during the Second World War.