The Oxford Organ Library

With exuberantly rhythmic textures skilfully wrought within a septuple metre, John Rutter's Toccata in Seven offers a lively new take on the toccata. The music moves from a jubilant opening to a more...

'Celebration' ist ein spannendes Werk für Orgel solo. Ausgelassene Rhythmen überwiegen in den äußeren Abschnitten (einschließlich einer spielerischen Anspielung auf Waltons 'Crown Imperial') und umrah...

Georgi Mushel's Toccata, edited for publication by Noel Rawsthorne, is very much in the spirit and style of a Ukrainian Cossack dance; the feel is improvisatory, with contrasting sections allowing dif...

Elegy, with its warmly expressive tenor-range melodies, is highly suitable for use at funerals, while the cascading joy of Festive Bells makes it perfect as a wedding recessional. Both pieces have tha...

'Fiducie', which can be translated as 'Faith', voices the vitality of Rotterdam, as witnessed in the recovered hope of the inhabitants after the bombardment of 14 May 1940. Ostinato patterns and energ...

The syncopated Toccatina is influenced by pop music as well as the music of South America, while the use of repeated notes is derived from Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. The piece will be effective on any...

Perfect as a showpiece voluntary, Herbert Murrill's vibrant 1949 Carillon for organ is a miniature toccata that sets agile passagework above purposeful chords, with flashes of brilliance from the peda...

The tragically early death of Kenneth Leighton robbed cathedral music of one of its most individual voices. This piece is a compositional showcase: textural inventiveness, motivic cunning, and bristli...

For solo organSt 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...

These short contemplative pieces are based on plainsong themes, and make ideal pre- or post-service material.

The tragically early death of Kenneth Leighton robbed cathedral music of one of its most individual voices. This piece is a compositional showcase: textural inventiveness, motivic cunning, and bristli...

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...

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...

This famous march was commissioned for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. The stirring music, skilfully conveyed in this arrangement, offers everything from sweeping melodies to playful syn...

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...

An arrangement for organ of this popular march, first performed at the coronation of King George VI.

Composed for performance at degree ceremonies at the University of Portsmouth, this work captures the joy and excitement of such occasions, partly through the incorporation of a quote from Thomas Rave...

A Gaelic Blessing is one of John Rutter's best-loved choral works, and now, thanks to the composer's own highly sensitive arrangement, it is available to organists to play as a gently expressive inter...

The initial marking 'Sparkling' is a good description of this piece's effervescent Toccata-like figurations and striking harmonies. The plainsong theme appears in longer note values either in the peda...

William Waltons lebhafte Kantate Belshazzar's Feast wird hier von dem renommierten Organisten David Briggs und dem Schlagzeuger David Bending für Stimmen, Orgel und Schlagzeug bearbeitet. Drei Interpr...

This virtuosic transcription will make a thrilling voluntary or recital piece. After a characteristic opening fanfare, a broad Elgarian theme takes centre-stage; the central section is a bustling fugu...

Dieses kraftvolle Stück aus dem Jahr 2010 zeigt das ganze Potenzial der Orgel, auf der es gespielt wird. Die treibenden Rhythmen und die beschwingten, oft bitonalen Harmonien erinnern an französische...

Die Schottische Legende von Amy Beach erinnert mit ihrer wehmütigen Melodie an Schottland. Sie ist mit schottischen Schnapsgläsern verziert und vermittelt eine volkstümliche Atmosphäre, die jedoch dur...

Robert Gowers gut durchdachtes und spielbares Arrangement von Sousas berühmtem Marsch wird auf so ziemlich jedem Instrument funktionieren. Es wird eine willkommene Ergänzung des Repertoires des Organi...