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| |  | Choral Evensong from Liverpool Cathedral
Daniel Bishop, Martyn Noble (organ) Choir of Liverpool Cathedral, David Poulter This is a glorious and stunning CD. The Choir of Liverpool Cathedral here makes its first recording under its director David Poulter. The singing is of a high order and in the glorious acoustics of this famous cathedral the boys and girls together with the gentlemen put together a grand Choral Evensong which includes two full voluntaries played by Daniel Bishop before the service starts and the C minor Prelude and Fugue of Bach at the end of the service. This CD represents the fine and unique heritage that is a typical choral evensong sung at its best in a British cathedral and heard every day throughout the UK. Includes Lessons and Creed. “Choral evensong is not often performed on such a grand scale as this...while the boys are direct and focused, even enthusiastically gutsy at times, the girls produce a consistently softer, reticent, less vital sound...this is a welcome release from a choir that ought to be recorded more often” International Record Review, February 2012 | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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| |  | Gothic ToccataThe Melbourne Town Hall Organ
Gothic Toccata is the first major recording of Australian organ works on an iconic Australian instrument. Pieces chosen to showcase the diversity of styles of 20th century and contemporary organ music, and the amazing plethora of colours which the Melbourne Town Hall organ is capable of producing. Calvin Bowman knows the instrument intimately. Drawing on an enormous tonal palette, he has carefully chosen registrations to suit each of the works. An outstanding instrument for organ music which is orchestral in effect (Hart), for transcriptions (Hill, Grainger and Batchelor), music which requires great clarity in terms of registrations (Brumby and Mills), and sheer unadulterated power (Schultz and Koehne). The Melbourne Town Hall organ is one of the largest in the world. Built in 1929, it was entirely rebuilt in 2001 and re-launched by Bowman with a work by Philip Glass in the composer’s presence. No less than eight world premiere recordings are included on the disc. Significant works by the Australian composers Fritz Hart, Alfred Hill, Phyllis Batchelor, Colin Brumby, Ross Edwards, Richard Mills and Andrew Schultz are being released commercially for the first time. The Batchelor and Hill pieces are special arrangements made especially for this recording by Bowman, and the Ross Edwards works were commissioned by him. A DMA graduate from Yale, Australian-born Calvin Bowman maintains an unusually diverse performance career which has taken him around the globe as organist, harpsichordist and pianist. This first release on Melba’s new sub-label, Melba:Pantheon, is also the first CD of the organ using Direct Stream Digital (DSD) technology, ideally suited to reproducing its wide dynamic and tone colour range. “This recital at Melbourne Town Hall delves into some obscure corners of Australian music, with Ross Edwards and Richard Mills proving especially rewarding. And it reclaims Sir George Thalben-Ball (of 'Elegy' fame) for his native country.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2009 *** “Post-Prae-Ludium per Donau [is] one of the most haunting and fragile of [Nono's] late works, in which the instrument is surrounded by electronic reflections and transformations of itself.” The Guardian, 18th October 2012 *** | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Restored to GloryReleased to celebrate the re-opening of Birmingham Town Hall and the restoration of its historic William Hill organ, international virtuoso and Birmingham City Organist Thomas Trotter presents a new recording of dazzling organ showpieces
The CD comes with a full colour commemorative booklet. “After some deliciously un-PC Handel, Trotter displays the kind of footwork that would have made Fred Astaire envious in Thalben-Ball's virtuoso Paganini Variations for pedals alone. …in GT-B's Elegy, Trotter reminds us what a meticulous, imaginative colourist he is. In Best's Fantasia on Men of Harlech and Lemare's Carmen Suite, his rhythmic panache and incisive attack send a shiver down the spine.” Gramophone Magazine, December 2007 | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Organ Spectacular from St Paul’s Cathedral
“If, as the disc’s title seems to suggest, the organ is the star first and foremost here, it’s apt. The St Paul’s organ has got guts and fire in its belly – despite being scheduled for a major overhaul. But then there’s attack and a sense of scale to the whole of this recital, with Huw Williams delivering organ playing writ large (I’m not sure, having said that, any organ could deliver music writ small)” Gramophone Magazine | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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| |  | Volume III - Lichfield
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Roger Fisher (organ), Andrew Fuller (cello), Simon Stiggear (treble), Michael Wakeham (baritone) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | The Organs of Oxford - Volume 1
Robin Kimber, Magnus Williamson, Nicholas O'Neill, James Dalton, David Burchell (organists) Performed on the organs of the Sheldonian Theatre, Magdalin College Chapel, Queen's College Chapel & New College Chapel | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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