George Dyson

Prelude and Postlude for Organ

This pair of Organ works is clearly in Dyson's later style, when he displayed a leaner, more modern aesthetic that is still tuneful and approachable. Twentieth century composer and educator George Dyson was a writer of ambitiousand critically well-received works that, due to their unfashionably accessible, late Romantic style, were allowed to languish and are now in the process of reassessment and renewed performance. However, Dyson's works for unisonVoice and church music in particular his two settings of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis have remained active in the Anglican repertoire.