STILL. LEBENOrganist Eva Feldbc:ek had been asking me for a long time to write for the organ without the use of iron blocks extra stopping assistants etc .... unusual difficulties that belonged to my earlier organ music. I setmyselfthe task of Miting a ''handier'' kind of music for the organ.Once I had finished STILL. LEBEN I didn't think I had achieved what I was looking for. True the two movements did not involve odd things but 'handy' isn't really the word for them either. So I wrote the three movements in COUNTERMOVE to tidy up even more.And since I didn't think that was enough either I wrote the really simple pieces under the title IN TRIPLUM.Thethree series (eight pieces in all 2 + 3 + 3) sound very different but they all take their point of departure from the nature and tonal resources ofthe organ.Everywhere there is polyrhythm or hierarchical layering polychromaticism diatonics and melody (the last of these only sparingly and in some of the movements).Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

This collection will make you stand up and salute. Carolyn Hamlin has taken three powerful hymns of faith Eternal Father Strong to Save God of Our Fathers and My Country 'Tis of Thee and strengthened their impact on celebrating our country. Appropriate for any patriotic concert or worship service. Medium difficulty.

The Christmas Organist is a cornucopia of 30 seasonal pieces for Christmas services and concerts including favourites such as Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus and Vivaldi’s Gloria in Excelsis aswell as preludes and other Christmas pieces which take their inspiration from popular carols. A truly outstanding collection.

Lewis Carroll from 'Alice in Wonderland' and inspiration for this lively and fun piece of light organ music. ' . . . suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself 'Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!' (when she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this but at the time it seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat pocket and looked at it and then hurried on Alice started to her feet for it flashed across her mind that she had never beforeseen a rabbit with either a waistcoat pocket or a watch to take out of it and burning with curiosity she ran across the field after it and was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.'

Book 1-Sonata No. 1 Op. 5Two Preludes Op. 52Two Meditations Op. 57A Quiet Voluntary Op. 70Basil Harwood's organ music takes a chronological journey through the composer's creative years. This journey begins with the Organ Sonata No. 1 in C sharp minor op. 5 and ends with Quiet Voluntary for Evensong op. 70 composed in 1946 when the composer was eighty-seven. In the intervening years came many and varied compositions often demanding an instrument of ample resources together with a player equal to their somewhat formidable technical demands. Displaying a fine sense of craftsmanship they represent an important contribution to the organ repertoire.Unjustly neglected in the years since the composer's death it is hoped that these six volumes will continue the ever-growing interest in Basil Harwood's music.

The organ part and reduced score Symphony No. 4 - An Organ Symphony (2008) by Poul Ruders. Full score: WH31186 Orch. parts are available on hire: hire@ewh.dk Preface / Programme Note When introducing a large-scale symphonic work not only as a symphony but as an organ symphony it would be impossible not to think of and perhaps compare it with Camille Saint-Saëns’s famous SYMPHONY NO. 3 popularly known as the Organ Symphony. Well that is a risk I am prepared to take – and live with the consequences.Saint-Saëns however listed his work as a symphony avec/withorgan. The organ only appears in two out of the four sections of thepiece. In my symphony the instrument plays a far more significant part and is featured in all four movements. But it is not a concerto for organ and orchestra rather a symphony with organo obligato - a symphony with an organ part of a soloistic nature. So an Organ Symphony it is. The first movement PRELUDE is exactly that: a foreplay to what is in store for the rest of the symphony. It is slow (very slow!) and predominantly hushed: the organ and the orchestra wake up side-by-side getting to know one another.The second movement CORTÈGE is a slowly moving processional and it evokes extreme solemnity and austerity. Later on the music takes flight and the atmosphere lightens considerably a far more playful music emerging.This leads to the third movement ETUDE an exercise in instrumental virtuosity and technical challenge.The fourth and last movement is called CHACONNE but I could just as well have named it passacaglia (the definition of those two terms seems to blur even among the learned). Bearing in mind the last movement of Johannes Brahms´s SYMPHONY NO.4 which is universally agreed on as being a passacaglia I chose to avoid the Wrath of the Gods and opted for

8 beautiful arrangements of classic hymns: All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name * All Through the Night * Come Ye Thankful People Come * Have Thine Own Way Lord * Joy to the World * A Mighty Fortress Is Our God * Precious Lord Take My Hand * Shall We Gather at the River.

200 fabulous arrangements-How about this for a mouth-watering concoction: Take 200 of the most regularly used hymn tunes ask the top church music composers to work their magic on them and gather them together in one bumper collection. Last VerseExtravaganza for Organ will delight Organists and congregations alike.

These four pieces could be considered a set of variations though the composer has spoken of them rather as photographs of the same object taken at different angles. The work as a whole is based on 'Tiento' by the Renaissance composer Antonio de Cabezon. Erkoreka suggests that his piece offers a new vision of the earlier piece. There is also a version for accordion.

200 fabulous new arrangements-How about this for a mouth-watering concoction: take 200 of the most regularly used hymn tunes ask the top church music composers to work their magic on them and gather them together in one bumper collection. What you have isLast Verse Extravaganza..

Ã?dition Originale-This volume in the series ?Les Éditions Originales Durand · Salabert · Eschig? contains Maurice Duruflé?s works for Organ taken from the editions in Durand catalogue.  The original engravings are reproduced giving musicians a valuable record of how these major works were first published whether in the composer?s lifetime or posthumously. With Olivier Messiaen Maurice Duruflé formed part of an illustrious generation of composers who received the decisive imprint of Tournemire either through his teaching or through his immense cycle L?Orguemystiquer. In his catalogue Organ music naturally has a major place. He did not force his own nature into any new aesthetic as he championed modality such as medieval music has codified it asserting that ?I have always inhabited Gregorian chant which is obviously a fairly well-behaved language?.

10 Orgelwerke Aus 4 Jahrhunderten-New Music on old instruments and new organ literature in dialogue with historical Iberian works. The present edition contains a collection of works composed for an authentically rebuilt historical Spanish organ and covering a wide range of styles which adds new sounds to the purely Baroque repertoire.With works by José Blasco de Nebra Francisco Correa de Arauxo Antonio de Cabezón Pedro de Araujo and new compositions by Guy Bovet Michael Kapsner Pavel Klimashevsky Zsigmond Szathmáry and Alfred Müller-Kranich.The new Spanish organ of the Hochschule für Musik Mainz as an authentically rebuilt historical instrumentfrom the workshop of the organ builder Joaquín Lois from Tordesillas in Castile shall both adequately reproduce early music and be a source of inspiration for contemporary music. For this reason the Hochschule für Musik Mainz commissioned five composers to write modern compositions according to the motto 'Early music in dialogue with New Music' which are a valuable addition to the repertoire of historical instruments of the 'Siglo de Oro'.Certain specifications had to be taken into account: e. g. a limited pitch range half stops for treble and bass registers the short octave as well as a mean-tone temperament. In addition each composition is based on a work of the Iberian organ literature; sometimes the work found its way into the new composition sometimes it only served as an inspiration.The pieces can also be played on a modern organ although there is a special charm in playing and hearing them played on an appropriate historical instrument. Encompassing a broad range of styles the resulting collection adds new sounds to the purely Baroque repertoire.

One Hundred Special Arrangements-In Hymns For Occasions Colin Mawby has taken 100 of the most widely used hymn tunes and worked his magic on them. These are not just last-verse treatments but complete mini re-compositions for each tune. There is anintroduction (the sort that always sounds impressive but which contains enough of the hymn tune to act as an encouragement to the congregation) the standard harmonisation a short interlude before the last verse and a last-versearrangement of great beauty and originality followed by a fitting few bars of conclusion. Colin Mawby's approach to this well-loved music is unique: he brings new life to the hymn tradition in a style and quantity that noother composer has yet attempted.

Par GRIGNY NICOLAS DE / KOEHLHOEFF. This edition of the Organ Book by Nicolas de Grigny was edited by C. L. Koehlhoeffer. Featuring 43 pieces, this book uses pedals and other techniques that would be known by advanced players. The scores of the Organ Book were first published in 1699 under another name before being republished under this name in 1711. J. S. Bach corrected these initial editions, and his corrections are still taken into account in this book. Organ Book is a good representation of the Organ music of the Louis XIV period. Nicolas de Grigny was a French organist living in the areaof Rheims, where he was the main Cathedral organist./ Recueil / Orgue