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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...

From the collection The Oxford Book of Ceremonial Music for Organ, Book 2, this arrangement of the overture to Handel's Saul is created by W. T. Best and Robert Gower. Suitable for players of intermed...

From the collection The Oxford Book of Ceremonial Music for Organ, Book 2, this joyful piece is evocative of a fanfare, and is suitable for players of intermediate to advanced ability.

From the collection The Oxford Book of Ceremonial Music for Organ, Book 2, this attractive chorale prelude is suitable for players of intermediate to advanced ability.

From the collection The Oxford Book of Ceremonial Music for Organ, Book 2, this theatrical piece was arranged for organ by the composer, from his orchestral score for the music-drama Gold. Suitable fo...

French's quasi-lullaby setting of Thomas Hardy's The Oxen opens by alternating between a tutti refrain and solo verses, with an atmospheric syllabic accompaniment, before building to a tutti final ver...

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Perfect for celebrating Pentecost, this joyous anthem on the theme of the Holy Spirit centres around the Veni Creator Spiritus plainchant, fragments of which have been skilfully developed to create an...

From the collection The Oxford Book of Ceremonial Music for Organ, Book 2, this magnificent fugue is popularly credited to J. S. Bach, though some eighteenth-century sources ascribe it to his pupil Jo...

Singing Children is an upbeat, optimistic piece featuring scat-like vocalizations, extended unison passages, syncopations, and intuitive harmonies. The composer has adapted a song from the Elizabethan...

Marked 'light and flowing', Quartel's setting of Sara Teasdale's poem 'Peace' features slow, sustained vocal writing over a piano part with continual moving quavers. The harmonic palette is rich and w...

This work was awarded the British Composer Award for Liturgical Music in 2003, but is published for the first time in 2013. The Roman Catholic Liturgy includes an antiphon to the Magnificat at Vespers...

This reminiscent piece, originally from Three Children's Songs, has been arranged for mixed choir and suits a spring-time programme. Offprinted from Vaughan Williams for Choirs 2.

The music and style of d'Este's compositions are skilful in the art of polyphonic writing and the beautiful Sicut lilium inter spinas, written for five voices, is a fine example of this style.

Here Helvey has created a beautiful musical landscape for George Herbert's tender poem 'Virtue'. Each verse begins with a modal-sounding unison figure which flowers into expressive harmonies built on...

This Christmas miniature sets the popular Latin text rejoicing in the birth of the Saviour. A 'vivace' tempo marking and offset rhythms combine with Pott's uniquely striking harmonies and undulating p...

The Prelude and Fugue in C minor (1921) is characterized by a sense of drama and punctuated by bristling dissonances. The Prelude's ritornello-like alternation of chordal grandeur and rapid imitative...

Sun Dance is a slightly modified version of the fifth movement from the composer's Organ Dances. The music is for the most part celebratory in character, its spiky rhythms driven along by the pervasiv...

Suitable for concert use, this simple, delightful setting of a Yeats poem embraces nature's beauty and the secret joy of solitude. Soaring melodies, rich harmonic language, and a piano part that is bo...

I am the song is an imaginatively-conceived showpiece setting a fine and thought-provoking poem by Charles Causley.

Sing, my Child sets a joyful text celebrating the beauty found all around us in everyday life. Characterized by tight harmonies and a dynamic percussion line, the buoyant 7/8 metre of the opening driv...