Orgelnoten

Sounding heaven and earth is an organ piece inspired by Prayer, a sonnet by the metaphysical poet, George Herbert.

Larsen's flowing meditation on the 'Veni creator' tune was written as the Pentecost entry for a multi-composer anthology based on the liturgical year. It was given one of the highest rankings in a sur...

The work explores both conventional Sonata forms and the flexibility of performance practice for which Finnissy is renowned. The piece was designed to interact with some of the materials of the first...

Hermann Schroeder (1904-1984) komponierte die 1. Orgelsonate im Jahre 1957. Wie viele seiner Zeitgenossen (Ahrens, Bornefeld, Hessenberg, Pepping) schrieb er seine Orgelmusik unter dem Einfluss Bachs...

Ursprünglich gehört 'Viatore' zu den äusserst erfolgreichen Werken von Peteris Vasks für Streichorchester. Die jetzt erschienene Bearbeitung übersetzt den unaufhaltsam flimmernden originalen Streicher...

The Orgelbüchlein Project is a long running project to complete Bach's unfinished collection of organ music. McDowall has composed music for 'ghost' Chorale 119 (336) BWV 258 as her contribution to co...

The Flea was commissioned as a work 'suitable for singing in an informal setting and easily memorised'. It is a free and humorous setting of John Donne's poem in which the poet attempts to seduce his...

Sacred and hallowed fire was commissioned by Harrison & Harrison as part of their 150 years celebration of organ building. It is one of a trilogy of works for organ by McDowall which draws from the po...

This four-movement suite for organ is based on the divisions of the church year, and references plainsong and other hymns relevant to the seasons. Drawing on a wide range of colours and textures, the...

A powerful, dissonant setting of texts by Michelangelo, dealing with love, life and death. Powers was inspired by the idea that a block of marble contains the finished sculpture within it.

Larsen's fantasia on the familiar hymn-tune boasts richly atmospheric organ writing and is well-suited to weddings or services focussing on fellowship or reconciliation.

Larsen writes, '. . . I have loosely transcribed bell patterns from a field recording of Russian bells . . . the Communist persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church included the removal and destructi...

James Whitbourn's Apollo tells the story of the first manned flight to the Moon (the year before the first lunar landing). A wealth of imaginative textures depicts such dramatic events as countdown, i...

Bednall's creation, rooted in the tradition of French organ improvisation, tenderly evokes the mysterious beauty of Wells Cathedral's remarkable 'Jesse Window'. The radiant music ebbs and flows calmly...

Commissioned for the 40th birthday of the organist Paul Walton, Walton's Paean is a work of great verve, with compelling rhythms, exciting harmonies, and catchy melodies propelling the celebratory mus...

This powerful piece, dating from 2010, shows off the full resources of any organ it is played on. Its driving rhythms and exhilarating, often bitonal, harmonies recall such French organist-composers a...

Howard Skempton is admired for the concision of his musical language, and Nature's Fire is illustrative of his style, deploying its base material with great deftness to achieve a musically effective s...

St Asaph Toccata was commissioned by Symphony Hall, Birmingham, as part of the Bach to the Future Series. The composer writes: 'The original title for the piece was Toccata Machine as I had an image o...