This collection will be of great use for your Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany services! Starting with Advent\'s \"O Lord How Shall I Meet Thee\" (Valet will ich dir geben), continuing with Christmas favorites \"In the Bleak Midwinter\", \"Still, Still, Still\", and \"Angels We Have Heard on High\", an Epiphany standard \"As With Gladness Men of Old\" (Dix), it also includes a Christmas work for trombone (or trumpet) and organ, the peaceful \"Infant Holy, Infant Lowly\". All of these were written on a two manual instrument and are easily playable. The trombone work is aimed at a younger, less experienced musician, with a very supportive organ part. There are full recordings and videos of each on my YouTube channel of OrganGuyPhil. I hope you enjoy playing these holiday works!

I needed a short, easy, joyful postlude to play after an Epiphany service on a very simple one-manual organ with a very limited, non-standard pedalboard, so I wrote this postlude (duration 2 minutes) on the melody Dix "As with Gladness Men of Old.."
(On a two manual organ, I'd be tempted to play the chorale sections on a different manual)
Please visit www.simonpeberdymusic.com where you will find plenty more new organ pieces and a whole lot more.

Apologies for the quality of the recording at the moment - if anyone wants to record it, please send me an mp3!

This is an outstandingly atmospheric piece of music, the final part of Holst's choral work 'Ode to Death'. Holst composed this work in response to the First World War. He dedicated it to his musical friend Cecil Coles and "the others" who were killed in that war. The breath-takingly beautiful tune is supported by other-worldly harmonies and an unusual 7/4 rhythm to create music of immense presence. It works really beautifully on the organ: a wonderful piece for recitals, meditative services, remembrance or to play on your own for the sheer reward offered by this exceptional music. Also a great piece for demonstrating different solos and effects of the organ, including a great outlet for the Vox Humana, solo Flute and quiet Strings. Even bells, if you're lucky enough to have a set on your instrument!

ISBN 9780787765927.

For more than thirty years, George Emlen was music director of the legendary \"Christmas Revels,\" a musical and theatrical presentation that explores Christmas music and perspectives from a different world culture each year. Drawing on his deep knowledge and love of the repertoire, Emlen arranged carols from ten different countries as organ solos. This unique Christmas collection is sure to provide something fresh for your seasonal repertoire. The arrangements stand alone as voluntaries or can be combined into varied groupings as concert suites.

Song List: Improvisation for Palm Sunday: Valet Will Ich Dir Geben Prelude on "When Jesus Wept" Carillon Hosanna! Hosanna! Were You There When They Crucified My Lord? (Were You There?) Fantasy Prelude on an Easter Hymn (Christ Is Erstanden) At the Lamb's High Feast We Sing (Sonne Der Gerechtigkeit) The Old Rugged Cross Jesus Christ Is Risen Today (Easter Hymn) Christ Hath Burst His Prison! (St. Kevin) Come to Calvary's Holy Mountain (Albert) O Saving Victim, Opening Wide the Gate of Heaven (O Salutaris Hostia)