Par GLADSTONE FRANCIS EDWARD. The organ sonatas of Francis Edward Gladstone (1845-1928) are fine examples of the developing English sonata tradition of the late-nineteenth century and early twentieth century. They exemplify a practical approach to the instrument with consistently moderate technical demands while also allowing the player scope for interpretation with the increasing availability of instruments that were conceived with a symphonic tonal palette in mind. As discussed in The Genesis and Development of an English Organ Sonata (2017), the English sonatas had an important pedagogical role jointly inherited from Mendelssohn?s very practical and popular approach to the instrument and the continued European legacy of the lesson-sonata tradition whereby in learning a piece you also learned the instrument and vice versa. / Date parution : 2022-05-31/ Recueil / Orgue

From This Day Forward is a practical anthology for the wedding organist as arranged by Mark L. Williams. Contents: Arioso from Contata No. 156 (Bach); Air from Water Music Suite (Handel); Andantino from Rosamunde (Schubert); Nocturne from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mendelssohn); O Perfect Love; Bist du bei Mir (Bach); Canon in D (Pachelbel); Largo from Xerxes (Handel); Where’er You Walk (Handel); A Nuptual Blessing; Pastoral Symphony from Messiah (Handel); Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring (Bach); He Shall Feed His Flock From Messiah (Handel); Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin (Wagner); Trumpet Voluntary; Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mendelssohn); TrumpetTune; Allegro Maestoso from Water Music Suite (Handel); March from Richard the First (Handel); Rondeau from Sinfonies de Fanfares (Mouret); Prelude to Te Deum (Charpentier); Rigaudon (Campra); Psalm 19 (Marcello); March Magnifique (Williams); Savior Like a Shepherd Lead Us (Bradbury); and Sing to God with Heart and Voice (Williams)

Edward MacDowell can be regarded as the first great American composer although he disliked the idea of being classified as any sort of musical nationalist. He composed a large number of orchestral works but it is the charming and unpretentious suite of musical miniatures Woodland Sketches that has survived as his best-known work with To a Wild Rose being the most popular.

Martin Luther. Par SCHNEIDER ENJOTT. On the occasion of the quincentenary of Reformation Day in 2017, the composer Enjott Schneider thoroughly studied Martin Luther the individual and all his contradictions. The result is a brilliant, demanding organ symphony which is perfect for concerts on the subject of Reformation and Martin Luther. The composer describes the five movements of the symphony as follows: '1st movement: Wir glauben all an einen Gott with its quintuplet-like beginning is very Gregorian in style, outlining the range of Lutheran emotionalism between the Middle Ages and the modern era. The irrationality of 'faith' ultimately has priority over any thought and evidence. At the beginning of the movement, sounds of knocking on wood remind of the nailing of the Ninety-Five Theses to the doors of churches in Wittenberg. The chorale melody sometimes hides with an almost rough medieval saltarello, referring to Luther's robustness and vitality with which he knew to carry away even common people. 2nd movement: In 1530, the electoral prince of Saxony presented to Luther at Coburg Castle the golden signet ring with the 'Luther rose' which became the symbol of his theology of grace. A white heart with black cross is fixed on a five-petalled rose. To him, 'white' is the colour of angels and ghosts, 'black' stands for the pain of crucification: 'The just shall live by faith, but by faith in the Crucified.' But the fact that the rose and the heart are the dominating symbols shows how Catholic Marian piety remained an ingredient of Luther's spirituality throughout his life. In line with the dominant five-petal structure of the rose, this movement was composed, to a large extent, in accordance with the floating, lyrical rhythm in 5/8 time. 3rd movement: The omnipresence of death and dying – from the plague and war to the never-ending dangers of daily life – was an essential part of the world view of that time. Fears ensued that might heighten into the grotesque, e.g. in the pictures of Hieronymus Bosch. The 'Danse macabre' was a popular motif in those years. Luther's chorale 'Mitten wir im Leben sind / mit dem Tod umfangen' from 1524 ('Enchiridion' from Erfurt) is based on the Gregorian chant 'Media vita in morte sumus' created in France around 750 and, with its idea of transience, inspired a simplistic air. 4th movement: The famous confession delivered at the Diet of Worms in 1521, 'I stand here and can say no more. God help me. Amen', are not Luther's words but the version later used as text for a pamphlet. However, it represents quite plainly the straightforwardness and inevitability of his mission. Musically, it was made into a 'perpetuum mobile', i.e. a dogged, ostinato and never-ending musical air. 5th movement: The 'Mighty Fortress', on the other hand, is one of the great symbols of Martin Luther which, with its shining C major key, embodies the Protestant ideology and willful nature of the Reformation unlike any other song. Heinrich Heine called it the 'Marseille anthem of the Reformation', Friedrich Engels the 'Marseillaise of the Peasants' Wars'. This disputability is not thought through to the end but rather interrupted: With a jubilant 'birdcall version' of the melody, the finale shows a rather chamber-music-like side of the 'ideals of freedom of Christians'.'/ Répertoire / Orgue

Spiral Bound-Forty exceptional pieces for organ carefully chosen from across Europe and perfect for special occasions services or purely for pleasure.Adagio from Sonata no. 1 Felix MendelssohnAdagio no. 2 Christian HeinrichRinckAdagio no. 3 Christian Heinrich RinckAdagio no. 4 Christian Heinrich RinckAdagio no. 10 Christian Heinrich RinckAllegro from ?Magnificat? Alexandre GuilmantAndante no. 1 Albert Lister PeaceAndantetranquillo Edward John HopkinsAndante tranquillo from Sonata no. 3 Felix MendelssohnAve Maria Alexandre GuilmantBénédiction nuptiale Camille Saint-SaënsChorale prelude on ?Herr Jesu Christ dich zu uns wend? JohannSebastian BachChorale prelude on ?Herzlich tut mich verlangen? Johann Sebastian BachChorale prelude on ?Herzlich tut mich verlangen? Johannes BrahmsChorale prelude on ?Liebster Jesu wir sind hier? Johann SebastianBachChorale prelude on ?O Welt ich muss dich lassen? Johannes BrahmsChorale prelude on ?O wie selig seid ihr doch ihr Frommen? Johannes BrahmsCommunion in Ab Alexandre GuilmantElegy Charles Harford LloydElegyCharles Hubert Hastings ParryFestive prelude Sigfrid Karg-ElertGrand Choeur in G Théodore SaloméIch dank dir lieber Herr Sigfrid Karg-ElertInterlude in F Herbert BrewerMarch in G Henry SmartMarch-SortieThéodore DuboisMelody in G Alexandre GuilmantNoël Ecossais Alexandre GuilmantPastorale in F Johann Sebastian BachPostlude Alexandre GuilmantPostlude in D minor Anton BrucknerPrayer in Bb AlexandreGuilmantPrelude César FranckPrelude in C Anton BrucknerPrière Notre-Dame from ?Suite Gothique? Léon BoëllmannVesper voluntary no. 1 Edward ElgarVesper voluntary no. 2 Edward ElgarVesper voluntary no. 3Edward ElgarVesper voluntary no. 5 Edward ElgarVoluntary John Ebenezer West

30 pieces for small Organ Op.18 No.1 and Organ Sonata Op.18 No.2. Hugo Distler studied Organ with Günther Ramin and composition with Hermann Grabner in Leipzig. He then worked as cantor and organist at St. Jacobi in Lübeck and taught composition and organ at the Stuttgart Musikhochschule from 1937 onwards. In 1940 he took up the same position at the Berlin Musikhochschule and also became director of the Berlin Cathedral Choir in 1941. Considerably influenced by the Lübeck Stellwagen Organ at St. Jacobi he championed the characteristic pre-Baroque and Baroque sound of the Organ and the forms which best suited it. His stylisticpreference was for a specifically neo-Baroque functional-objective type of sound. This 3-volume critical edition with previously unpublished works includes the forewords of the first editions facsimiles a critical commentary for each volume as well as a list of sources. - First Urtext edition of Hugo Distler’s Organ works. - Includes previously unpublished works. - Reflects the latest state of research. - Detailed foreword critical commentary (Ger/Eng) facsimiles and tips on performance practice.

Cradle Song-Vuggesang / Cradle Song for Organ solo by Peter Bruun (2016). The piece is based on Martin Luther's hymn 'Vom Himmel Hoch'. Dedicated to Vibeke Vanggaard. 'Peter Bruun's cradle song Vuggesang is an inventive and refreshingly unconventional set of variations on 'Vom Himmel Hoch'. There are some fascinating textures here and the whole thing is a far cry from a dutiful neo-classical perusal of stock partita motifs - the crystalline final variation which disappears into nothing in the final bars is especially striking. Numerous rhythmic complexities throughout the score will need thought but the piece will reward thediligent.' - Stephen Farr Choir & Organ Magazine 'Organ music makes up only a small part of Danish composer Peter Bruun’s (b. 1968) varied output. Nonetheless  Vuggesang (‘Cradle Song’) from 2016 is idiomatically and sympathetically written for the organ: a series of five variations on Luther’s hymn Vom Himmel hoch that affords variety of texture colour and mood. A clear head is needed to negotiate some of the rhythmic complexities but this is a fine work for the Christmas season that will reward performer and listener.' - Sunday by Sunday  

Freie Orgelwerke - BuxWV 136-153, 158. Par BUXTEHUDE DIETERICH. This edition is the result of Harald Vogel?s many years of practice as an organist and musicologist. The music text is based on a reevaluation of 17 th - and 18 th -century manuscripts containing the free organ and keyboard works by Buxtehude. They originated during a transitional phase between the traditional letter tablature and the staff notation still in use today. Since many works have survived only in transcriptions for staff notation, the editor was confronted with a high error rate, which he carefully analyzes in the ?Einzelanmerkungen?. During the preparation of the edition, the editor always kept sight of the performance practice, but still, the image of the sources is never distorted (e. g. by superfluous rests, beaming not conforming to the sources and the unhistorical adjustment of time signatures) and stays very close to the compositional notation, the letter tablature. The flexible use of three staves and the differentiated distribution of the voices on the staves allow for an approximation in reading conventions of historical notation with its resulting information about hand division. Grouping the free organ repertoire into works with obbligato pedal and works for manuals, this edition is organized in two volumes. The first subvolume (I/1, EB 9304) contains the Preface and the Preludes, whereas the second subvolume (I/2, EB 9305) contains Toccatas, Ostinato works, alternative versions and a comprehensive Critical Commentary (in German only). Volume II (EB 9306) contains Buxtehude?s free organ and keyboard works (manualiter) with the corresponding texts (Preface and Critical Commentary). Until 1971, Harald Vogel worked on a dissertation (with Georg von Dadelsen, Hamburg) on ?Die Fuge um Bach?. Besides the description of the ?inclusion? of triple measures into the C notation and the irregularities of the ?voice mutation? in the polyphonic structures, this also included a discussion about the justification of the ?inner textual criticism?. With the inner textual criticism, deviations in parallel passages are unified. The North German fugue style, reaching a peak in Buxtehude?s work, is characterized by a constant diversity of details in subject and polyphonic progressions. One of the ?indicators of the fantastic style? is the dissolution of the polyphonic structures at the ends of the fugues, evident in Buxtehude?s work. In this edition, a musical text is presented that avoids the uniformity of detail not conforming to the sources. However, there are many examples of transcription and cursory errors, which are analyzed in a methodical systematic manner. About the editor: As an organist, professor, organ expert, and scholar, Harald Vogel has rendered outstanding services to the interpretation of early music and especially to historical performance practice concerning the organ for decades. He has received numerous awards, including an ECHO Klassik as Instrumentalist of the Year (2012), honorary doctorates from Luleå University of Technology (Sweden, 2008) and Oberlin College (USA, 2014), as well as the Buxtehude Prize of the City of Lübeck (2018). Harald Vogel is the author and editor of numerous scholarly publications and editions. Through his lifelong performance practice, he can look back on an extensive discography, including the complete recording of Buxtehude?s organ works, which he recorded in various locations with historical organ instruments of the North German organ building tradition in Scandinavia, North Germany and the Netherlands. / Date parution : 2022-10-12/ Recueil / Orgue

Complete theoretical and practical method for organ-playing in three parts. Par PEETERS FLOR. Flor Peeters, born in Belgium in 1903, is one of the most important organists and organ composers of the 20th century. After completing his studies at the famous Lemmens Institute in Mechelen, he worked there as a teacher of organ and improvisation before becoming professor at and director of the Royal Flemish Conservatoire of Antwerp. Until his death in 1986, Peeters gave concerts all around the world, held numerous master classes and received several awards and prizes for his achievements as a composer, organist and teacher. In his successful three-volume educational work 'Ars Organi', Peeters combines theoretical knowledge and practical exercises on all aspects of organ playing, starting with basic information on the instrument, manual and pedal exercises and two-part manual and pedal playing. While Vol. 2 contains exercises on three-part playing, Vol. 3 contains exercises on four and five-part playing as well as studies on demanding trio playing. Each learning stage is accompanied by pedal exercises and tips on articulation, touch, interpretation, registration and organ specifications - a valuable compendium for every organist. / Méthode / Date parution : 1954-11-20/ Méthode / Orgue

Complete theoretical and practical method for organ-playing in three parts-Flor Peeters born in Belgium in 1903 is one of the most important organists and organ composers of the 20th century. After completing his studies at the famous Lemmens Institute in Mechelen he worked there as a teacher of organ and improvisation before becoming professor at and director of the Royal Flemish Conservatoire of Antwerp. Until his death in 1986 Peeters gave concerts all around the world held numerous master classes and received several awards and prizes for his achievements as a composer organist and teacher.In his successful three-volume educational work 'Ars Organi' Peeters combines theoretical knowledge and practical exercises on all aspects of organplaying starting with basic information on the instrument manual and pedal exercises and two-part manual and pedal playing. While Vol. 2 contains exercises on three-part playing Vol. 3 contains exercises on four and five-part playing as well as studies on demanding trio playing. Each learning stage is accompanied by pedal exercises and tips on articulation touch interpretation registration and organ specifications - a valuable compendium for every organist.

Volume 3 in our successful ?Enjoy The Organ? series offers attractive Organ pieces from the 17th to 20th centuries suitable for performance on smaller instruments and capable of producing impressive results with a limited amount of practice time.Among the pieces in Volume 3 are Juan Cabanilles' ?Batalla Imperial I?; Johann Baptist Vanhal's ?Sonatina in F major?; Robert Schumann's ?Adagio? from op. 70; Gabriel Fauré's ?Cantique de Jean Racine? op. 11; and Pietro Yon's ?Humoresque?.These pieces are intended primarily for the amateur organist but will also appeal to professional church musicians whowill find the collection useful as literature for sight reading and as a starting point for improvisation.Contents:Batalla Imperial I [Juan Cabanilles]Andante - Poco vivace [Johann Georg Albrechtsberger]Sonatina F major [Johann Baptist Vanhal] Adagio from op. 70 [Robert Schumann]Offertoire [Antoine-Édouard Batiste]Cantique de Jean Racine op. 11 [Gabriel Fauré] Humoresque Toccatina for flute stops [Pietro Yon]- Geared towards amateur church musicians and organists.- Collection of easy-to-play concert pieces for Organ.- Also effective on smaller instruments.- Already published Enjoy the Organ 1 (BA 11207); Enjoy the Organ 2 (BA 11208).

This complete book on Organ pedalling by Anne Marsden Thomas supports organists from their first encounter with the pedalboard through to the achievement ofvirtuosity. In this comprehensive guide the technique of Organ pedalling is broken down into thirty seven chapters each of which introduces a different aspect of pedalling technique with clear explanations and colour photographs. There are hundreds of exercises mostly drawn from three centuries of organ repertoire many of which not only demonstrate the techniques but are also rewarding to play intheir own right. Pedalling for Organists aims to be comprehensive covering absolutelyevery pedalling technique. The profusion of exercises is intended to giveorganists of every standard – beginner intermediate and advanced - plenty of material for study and sight-reading. Each technique is described and followed by exercise material and where required this exercise material isfinely graded. This is the latest book from one of the church organists’ leading educationalists. Anne Marsden Thomas is well-respected for her teaching skills and dedication in helping the student organist. She has many books published with several set on Organ exam syllabuses.

Organ-Written in the French organ/ toccata style (in the style of Mulet's “Thou Art the Rock”) this is a joyful setting of a popular Christmas classic. While not easy this piece is not outside the reach of the averageorganist who may have experience with this style or with standard French literature. This challenging and rewarding selection is a “showstopper” for a Christmas organ concert or a wonderful postlude for Christmas Eveservices.