Les Corps Glorieux by Olivier Messiaen is a composition that exhibits his Roman Catholic faith. Written for Organ in 1939 it is a mix between Indian music and Gregorian Plainsong. This first volume includes the first three pieces of the whole composition: 1. Subtilité des Corps Glorieux 2. Les eaux de la Grâce and 3. L'ange aux parfums. This piece is divided in 7 sections:  1. Subtilité des Corps Glorieux 2. Les eaux de la Grâce 3. L'ange aux parfums 4. Combat de Mort et de la Vie 5. Force et agilité des Corps Glorieux 6. Joie etclarté des Corps Glorieux 7. Le Mystère de la Sainte-Trinité Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) was a French organist and composer passionate about Ornithology and one of the most important composers of his century. Inspired by Japanese music he had a very special way of composing and his work can be identified by its complexity its diatonic aspect its harmony with limited transposition its colour and its additive rhythms. He composed many works related to ornithology and birdsong including the 'Bird Catalogue' in 7 volumes and the 'Treatise on Rhythm Colour and Ornithology' in 7 volumes.

Rued Langgaard's Præludium over 'Jeg vil din Pris udsjunge' for Organ 2 Trumpets and 2 Trombones (1926) BVN194. Manuscript copy.  

Variazioni Per Organo is a work by Aulis Sallinen for Solo Organ commissioned by the Crusell Music Festival where the premiere took place. The piece lasts around 9 minutes.Nicholas Johnson in the September 2016 issue of Organists Review comments that he 'was very taken by the way that Sallinen combines his ideas' and that the composer is 'certainly an original compositional voice.'

John Rutter's Prelude - Te Lucis Ante Terminum for Organ. Duration: 1 1/2 minutes. This short (44 bars) contemplation is dedicated to the memory of Hilary Cornall and takes the form of a gently­ flowing Andante tranquillo with freq­uently-changing time-signatures but with a constant quaver pulse = 126. This gives the work a haunting quality as if ­in visual terms - quietly observing the passage of cloud across a balmy sum­mer sky. Tonally the music gradually descends from an implied A minor to G - the mode subtly indeterminate but undoubtedly final as the approach of evening. As with so much music by this composer the effect is simple but very touching the constantly flowing open fifths in the right hand adding the principal expression of movement. A most effective miniature. Although dated 2010 on the cover and title page the composer himself gives 2009 at the end of the final bar.' - James Palmer

Orgel og Messingblæsere-Hymne over 'Dejlig er Jorden' for Organ Trumpet and Trombone (1918) BVN 157a. Manuscript copy.  

Intended as pedal keyboard solos these organ pieces cover the range C1-F3. The first Étude-Caprice  Scherzando is a bouncy piece in arch form. The declamatory style of the second  Mesto forms a striking contrast: bass and treble registers set out distinct motives as though dialoguing in a play. In the second part of this movement a new motive  tenebroso is developed over a swaying ostinato in the lowest register. The third piece Giocoso is a badinerie (banter) with a Stravinskian theme. The last Étude-Caprice  Alla russa juxtaposes three strophes in toccata style.

On 23 June 2013 Peter Maxwell Davies’s Capstone for organ received its world premiere performance at the City of London Festival. Commissioned by St Paul’s Cathedral Capstone was performed atthe Cathedral by its organist Simon Johnson.

Herbert Howells ceased using opus numbers at about Op. 40 but each of the three Psalm-Preludes making up his second set is dated. Published in 1940 they were first performed as a set by William O. Minay at a recital for the Organ Music Society given in Christ Church Woburn Square in March 1939.

Organisazione Populare Nr.1 Op. 349 for Organ solo by Niels Viggo Bentzon. Manuscript copy.

Countermove I-II-III for Organ Solo was composed by Danish composer Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen in 1999.

Organisazione Populare Nr.4 Op. 352 for Organ solo was composed by Niels Viggo Bentzon. Manuscript copy.

Includes works by Kenneth Leighton Peter Dickinson John McCabe Desmond Ratcliffe and David Barlow.

Guy Weitz (1883-1970). Grand Choeur - Voluntary on a fifth mode Gregorian theme composed in 1959.