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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Simon Johnson plays the Organ of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London
Recorded in Stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound. Contains DVD and a CD of the recital sound track. Bonus Features include a tour of the organ and its history. This new DVD and CD from Priory is the fifth in a series of organ recitals filmed in Britain’s great cathedrals. The programme is designed around the history of the building, and contains in particular a poignant reminder of the blitz in 1940, with the music of Samuel Barber’s Adagio. Filmed beside the new nave console this is also the first recording since the instrument’s restoration; also seen are numerous pictures from inside and outside the Cathedral including the crypt and the whispering gallery, together with illustrations of the Great Fire of London. The music has been specially chosen to provide links with organists connected with St Paul’s, including Maurice Greene, Hubert Parry, Felix Mendelssohn and Georg Frederick Handel. Jeremiah Clarke’s famous Trumpet Voluntary was recorded to show off the west end royal trumpets – (and for hi-fi buffs listening in 5.1 surround sound these will be heard only from the rear speakers.) This we believe is Priory’s greatest DVD to date in terms of technical brilliance and recorded sound – every available trumpet and tuba combination has been demonstrated by Simon Johnson in this recital, and his visual ‘talk-through’ of Norman Cocker’s ‘Tuba Tune’ on one of the bonus features is fascinating both for students and general listeners alike. “One could not wish for a more genial or engaging guide than the Cathedral's organist, Simon Johnson. A brilliant and sensitive musician, his deeply satisfying programme more than does justice to the vast five-manual Willis/Mander organ and its awe-inspiringly cavernous acoustic...Spine-tingling sublime.” Gramophone Magazine, December 2010 “This is a remarkable demonstration of what is achievable on a DVD recording of an organ concert. The playing sparkles throughout, the sound and picture quality are immaculate and the camerawork is imaginative and engaging. However, the real triumph is the marriage of the audio and the visual...the programme has been planned in so much detail and with such thoughtfulness as to make the connections truly meaningful for the viewer.” International Record Review, March 2011 | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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| |  | The Historic Organ of the Reformed Church of Warsaw
Michal Markuszewski (organ) The purpose of this CD release is to present the first recordings of performances given on the historical organ of the Reformed Church in Warsaw. With a varied and contrasting track listing this release will appeal to the many organ fans around the country. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Mendelssohn and the organs in Leipzigoriginal works, transcriptions and improvisation
Bach, J S: | Chorale Prelude BWV654 'Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele' Cantata BWV106 'Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit' (Actus tragicus) Chorale Prelude BWV654 'Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele' Improvisation von Rudolf Lutz Chorale Prelude BWV720 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott' Improvisation von Rudolf Lutz St Matthew Passion, BWV244: Ich will bei meinem Jesu wachen | Gade, N: | Tone Piece in F major from Tre Tonestykker, Op. 22 | Lutz, R: | Choralbearbeitung über "Schmücke Dich, o liebe Seele" Improvisation Concerto sopra "Innsbruck, ich muß Dich lassen" Improvisation über Sonate im klassischen Stil nach Motiven des "Actus tragicus" Klänge aus dem Appenzeller Land Der Mond ist aufgegangen Albumblatt | Mendelssohn: | O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden Prelude & Fugue for organ in C minor, Op. 37 No. 1 Overture St. Paul Op. 36 Transkriptionen für Orgel von Martin Schmeding | Mozart: | Fantasia in F minor for a mechanical organ, K608 | Schumann: | Six Fugues on B-A-C-H, Op. 60 |
Rudolf Lutz & Martin Schmeding (organ) Mendelssohn was a master of improvisation on the organ and on this CD Lutz and Schmeding follow in his footsteps, performing on instruments closely linked to Mendelssohn. | |
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| |  | Mendelssohn - Complete Organ Works Volume 1Including newly discovered works
“Bate acknowledges Mendelssohn as a passionate improviser whose personal style won him many friends during his ten visits to Britain; if more passion might occasionally be welcome in these performances, Bate's scholarly approach and fastidious playing are reason enough for Mendelssohn devotees to collect the complete set.” BBC Music Magazine, June 2005 **** “In Jennifer Bate's impressive discography of British organ music she has taken pains to match each individual piece with an appropriate organ. Technically speaking, Mendelssohn may not have been British, but his magnificent Sonatas and Preludes and Fugues were all composed for the British market, so it is entirely fitting that Bate pays the same attention to detail over his music as she does over the genuine, home-grown article.
In this series, which will eventually stretch to five discs, Bate has recorded all 68 pieces contained in a newly published edition of Mendelssohn's complete organ works. It goes without saying that her playing is hugely impressive and impeccably stylish, the virtuoso passagework delivered with almost flawless precision.
The surprise at finding, among the six English organs chosen for this repertoire, Wimborne Minster, with its neo-Baroque organ, is quickly assuaged by Bate's intelligent use of stops included in the 1867 rebuild. Appropriately this instrument is used for the more contrapuntal pieces. For the First Sonata she uses the more opulent-sounding Walker instrument of St Matthew's, Bayswater, while the sumptuous Hill organ of St Stephen's, Bournemouth (here relocated from Dorset to Hampshire, where it was located when the organ was built in 1898), is ideal in the first three of the Four Studies.
Beyond the First Sonata and the Prelude and Fugue, the only piece here to have established itself in the repertory is the lovely Andante andVariations which here, played with disarming fluidity on the organ of All Saints, Margaret Street, provides a real highlight on a disc which is infinitely more rewarding than an initial glance at the track-listing might imply.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Romantic Organ Works
Boellmann: | Suite gothique, Op. 25 | Brahms: | Chorale Prelude Op. 122 No. 8 'Es ist ein Ros entsprungen' Chorale Prelude Op. 122 No. 5 'Schmücke dich, o Liebe Seele' Chorale Prelude Op. 122 No. 9 'Herzlich tut mich verlangen' | Franck, C: | Trois Chorals pour grand orgue, M. 38-40 Pièce héroïque, M37 | Gigout: | Pièces (10) pour orgue, 1892: Scherzo (No. 8) | Karg-Elert: | Nun danket alle Gott, marche triomphale, Op. 65 No. 59 | Liszt: | Prelude & Fugue on B-A-C-H, S260 | Mendelssohn: | Prelude & Fugue for organ in C minor, Op. 37 No. 1 Organ Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 65 No. 3 Prelude & Fugue for organ in D minor, Op. 37 No. 3 | Reger: | Introduction and Passacaglia in D minor | Schumann: | Four Sketches, Op. 58 : IV. Allegretto | Vierne, L: | Organ Symphony No. 1 in D minor, Op. 14: Final Pièces en style libre, Op. 31: No. 19, Berceuse | Widor: | Toccata from Organ Symphony No. 5 in F minor, Op. 42 No. 1 Organ Symphony No. 6 in G minor, Op. 42 No. 2: Allegro |
5 star BBC Music Magazine (Feb 2001) | | | (Sorry, download not available in your country) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Organ Music from the Baroque and Romantic Era
Hans Helmuth Tillmanns (Bruno Christensen organ in Søndre Sogns Church, Viborg, Denmark) | | | (also available to download from $10.75) | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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