Edited by C.H. Trevor this book selectively compiles 27 intermediate standard pieces for organ. Although the pieces have suggestions for registration on an organ of two (and sometimes three) manuals all the pieces can be played effectively on a one-manual instrument with appropriate stops. The pedals can be used at the player's discretion. Composers such as Purcell Handel Charpentier Chauvet and Franck all appear in this edition which boasts music spanning 200 years and more.

Volume two in this series continues to highlight Elgar's great organ works. Includes the famous Nimrod from Enigma Variations and Prelude And Angel's Farewell from The Dream Of Gerontius.

Eight challenging and unique pieces for Organ by contemporary composers including Thiman Lloyd Webber and Eldridge. An excellent source of unusual and less familiar repertoire for the adventurous Organist.

Dorian' Toccata and Fugue in D minor (538) Prelude and Fugue in A minor (551) Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor (582) Fugue in C minor on a subject by Legrenzi (574) Prelude in A minor (569) Edited by Sir Frederick Bridge and James Higgs.

(Arrangements of Violin Concertos by Antonio Vivaldi) Concerto No 1 in G major (592) Concerto No 2 in A minor (593) Concerto No 3 in C major (594) Concerto No 4 in C major (595) Edited by Sir Frederick Bridge and James Higgs.

A special celebratory collection of wedding music for manuals. From Wagner's Bridal Chorus and Mendelssohn's Wedding March to pieces by Bach Purcell Handel and others many of which are suitable for a variety of other formal and informal occasions.

Thomas Hewitt Jones' Carnival. Composed 2010. Written for Martin Neary President of the Organists Charitable Trust. These five short works are all extracted from the excellent Little Organ Book from the Organists Charitable Trust edited by Martin Neary and first published by Novello in 2010. This is a wonderful resource of 11 mainly new works by British composers all of moderate difficulty and well-defined character. Iain Farrington’s Bluesday is full of delicious harmonies with a bold climax framed by a gentle beginning and ending. David Bednall’s Fanfare is a joyful work that would bea good recital opener or festival voluntary with a chance to unleash the big reeds. The simplicity of the title of Howells’s Cradle Song belies a richness and warmth that make this a moving miniature. John Rutter’s evening prelude from 1979 on the plainsong hymn Te lucis ante terminum is tender and clear with some surprisingly plangent harmonies. Thomas Hewitt Jones’s Carnival is an outburst of festivity and bravura. All these pieces are very much worth playing though organists interested in more than two of them would be better served purchasing a copy of the original anthology which is still very well priced (Little Organ Book Novello 9781849386814 £9.95). - Sunday by Sunday

Here is the keenly-awaited sequel to David Sanger's Beginner's Tutor Play The Organ. Volume two continues the course of study commenced and can be used to equal advantage by those who began with the first volume and those who already have a basic keyboard facility and music reading ability. Manual-playing pedalling co-ordination national styles of Baroque organ playing and hymn playing techniques are all subjects dealt with in depth. Advice on registration improvisation plus exercises and studies and over sixty pieces.

For Chamber Organ-Commissioned for the 1990 Peterborough Festival and first performed by Nicholas Danby in July 1990. These preludes were composed for a new instrument by Kenneth Tickell and Co. recently installed in Peterborough Cathedral. Possessing one keyboard 5 stops (no 16-foot) no pedals and no swell-box dynamic levels can be realised by changes in registration only. The cresc. and dim. markings in brackets apply only when performance on a larger organ is envisaged. Duration c. 13 minutes.

Op.1-Work for Organ originally published in 1850 and reprinted here by Novello in 1910.

Mendelssohn produced an early work for Organ in 1837 but it was a London music publishing firm who commissioned the first of his mature Organ works. The second half of the commissioned pieces are published in this volume. Mendelssohn himself saved all his manuscripts and they have survived in libraries in Berlin and Krakow providing the subtitle of this book.Eleven movements are included here all written in 1844 and 1845. What were originally commissioned as ‘Voluntaries’ were changed at the composer’s request to ‘Sonatas’. Whether one considers these movements as drafts and sketches or as distinct musical entities in their own right the works are not identical tothe final printed versions. For those who appreciate or study the Mendelssohn Organ oeuvre this volume is of immense interest.While the Organ never completely fell from grace as the instrument of church and religious music it is the editor’s belief that in the century dividing JS Bach from these works of Mendelssohn fashion and church practice had greatly diminished its importance and few works of real note were produced. Mendelssohn was introduced to the Organ early in his prodigious career and found a warm audience for his Organ performances in Engand to which he returned nine times over nearly twenty years.