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

Arranged for the organ on the basis of the original string orchestra version-The composer pianist choir director and teacher Sir Charles Hubert Parry (1848-1918) was one of the most remarkable figures of the British music scene at the turn of the century. Among his most charming compositions are two suites for String Orchestra. The well-known organist and composer Wolfgang Stockmeier has arranged 'English Suite' for the Organ while keeping close to the original. The arrangement can be performed on the organ with brilliant effect transferring the atmosphere of the English late Romantic era onto the Organ.

Kaija Saariaho’s Maan Varjot was jointly commissioned by Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal Orchestre National de Lyon Southbank Centre and the Philharmonia Orchestra. The world premieretook place in Montreal on 19 May 2014 given by the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal with Olivier Latry (Organ) conducted by Kent Nagano. The French premiere took place during June 2014 given by the Orchestre National de Lyonwith Olivier Latry (Organ). The UK premiere took place at the Southbank London on 26 June 2014 given by the Philharmonia Orchestra with Olivier Latry (Organ) conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.

The Festival Toccata is relatively well-known among the works of Fletcher and is popular as a wedding piece and for encores. The brilliance of Festival Toccata’s surface disguises the fact that one does not need to be a virtuoso to play it well and effectively.Percy Fletcher was an English composer conductor and Orchestrator of prodigious output who made his career in the lively world of the London music theatre of the years of the late 19th and early 20th century. He was music director at many theatres including His Majesty’s Theatre for the last seventeen years of his life. He was the Orchestrator and conductor for the big budget spectacular theatre piece Chu Chin Chowwhich ran for five years a record that remained unbroken for forty years. In addition to his myriad works of light music Fletcher also wrote a serious church cantata The Passion of Christ as well as the delightful children’s work The Walrus and the Carpenter.

Thema Variationen und Fuge-Inspired by Benjamin Britten's The Young Person’s Guide To The Orchestra Harald Feller wrote this work for Organ and narrator. By combining musical technical and tonal possibilities of the Organ he wants to arouse the listener's interest and enthusiasm for Organ music and make it accessible to a wide (not just young) audience.This work of about 20 minutes' duration can also be performed without narrator.

The greatest French organist of his day Widor (1844 1937) composed 10 organ 'symphonies'—actually solo compositions usually consisting of 6 or 7 short movements that treat the organ as a kind of self-contained orchestra. Series II includes Symphonies 6-8 Symphonie Gothique and Symphonie Romane frequently performed today. Also includes a glossary of French terms.

Partie d'orgue-The Organ part for a Concerto written for Orchestra Timbales and solo Organ.

Organ Accompaniments- This companion volume provides organists with new dedicated three-stave accompaniments to twenty-four of the twenty-eight choruses in the main Sacred Choruses volume. In every case these organ transcriptions made by John Rutter are based directly on the original orchestral versions and willfacilitate church performances without orchestra.

Organist and composer A.Herbert Brewer?s swaggering Marche Héro que became famous at the funeral service of Earl Mountbatten of Burma in 1979 and has remained popular since then.Organ virtuoso and composer Edwin Lemare was the world?s highest-paid Organist at the height of his career in the early 1900?s drawing bravos from ctritics and the crowds who queued around the block to hear this most famous of Organists. His Grand Cortège is Orchestral even Wagnerian in style with bold chromatic colourings.Frank Cordell?s Khartoum Fanfare and March features melodic British military themes and was a part of the film?s soundtrack.John Addison's Charge of the Light Brigade also fromthe film develops its military themes with élan.March for ?The Phoebe? was written by Percy Whitlock in honour of a naval cruiser launches in 1939 which was adopted by the Country Borough of Bournemouth where the composer was Municipal Organist.John Ireland?s Epic March was originally written for Orchestra in response to a BBC commission for a patriotic march. It is here transcribed for Organ.

Par MUHLY NICO. Muhly's organ concerto co-commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, Gustavo Dudamel, Artistic and Music Director, The Philadelphia Orchestra and Southbank Centre. Premiered on 23 February 2018 by James McVinnie (organ) and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by James Conlon, at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles. / Date parution : 2023-10-31/ Répertoire / Orgue

Heathcote Dicken Statham (1889-1973) was a British organist composer and conductor of international renown. His best-known work is the 1944 magnum opus Rhapsody On A Ground for solo Organ.Statham studied at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge and the Royal College of Music in London. He then become organist at Calcutta Cathedral and later Norwich Cathedral where he stayed for almost 40 years. He also conducted the London Symphony Orchestra throughout the Second World War earning a reputation for musicianship of the highest standard.

Commissioned by the Sonnig Foundation Idylles D'Apocalypse is a spectacular work by Danish composer Ib Nørholm. It was composed in 1980 and this is the full score for Organ and Orchestra. It varies greatly in mood with the beginning and end of this piece representing moods of a peaceful character while the middle section depicts Lucifer's plunge into Hell.

The Clarinet Quintet in A K. 581 is Mozart’s only completed Clarinet Quintet. It was written in 1789 for the clarinettist of the Viennese Imperial Court Orchestra Anton Stadler and is often named after him. Originally written for Basset Clarinet and String quartet it has been arranged for many different ensembles since. It is one of the composer’s most admired works with its idyllic flowing melodies and sumptuous harmony making it one of the highlights of the classical era. The Larghetto is the second movement written in sonata form. It has been arranged for Organ by the Henry Coleman (1888-1965) who was organist at PeterboroughCathedral from 1921-1944. Published 1953.