This is a marvellous collection of pieces by Henry Purcell newly arranged for the Organ by concert organist Martin Setchell. Purcell's music is perfectly suited to the Organ and a number of his pieces have long been popular with players. This volume brings together a range of well-known pieces - trumpet tunes the Rondeau from Abdelazer Dido's Lament and movements from The Fairy Queen - and combines these with a wonderful selection of lesser-known pieces from across Purcell's work. There are sprightly tunes and hornpipes from the stage works lovely reflective songs and airs and a wide range of dances and chaconnes. The result is a set of pieceswith wise and varied church and concert use perfectly accessible to intermediate players and making a valuable addition to any organist's repertoire. Martin Setchell is Associate Professor of Music University Organist and tutor in Organ at the University of Canterbury School Of Music New Zealand. He combines his university teaching and research career with a busy and international schedule of recitals and concerts as soloist accompanist and continuo player on Organ and Harpsichord.

Henry Purcell had a marvelous natural ability for counterpoint which was especially evident when combining pungent English counterpoint with expressive flexible and dramatic word settings. His Organ Music is no less a showcase for his melodic abilities and in this edition a feast of intelligent keyboard writing lies. This compilation contains six works plus an appendix by John Blow including the Voluntary in D minor for double organ.

Henry Smart (1813-1879) was an English organist and composer who was highly rated among his English contemporaries. March in G is a delightful and spirited piece which directs the performer to play Allegro moderato e pomposo and is one of his many effective and melodious compositions for Organ.

Henry Purcell spent almost half his life as Organist of Westminster Abbey but surprisingly wrote very little organ music himself. Bryan Hesford has rectified this with this volume of pieces arranged and transcribedform other sources. The pieces have been chosen with a view to introducing students to independent part-playing at a technical standard somewhat simpler than that of JS Bach.

English Organist and composer Henry Smart was one of a family of accomplished musicians active in the 19th century. During his lifetime Smart was widely considered to be one of the premiere composers in British history but that popularity was not sustained in the years since his death. He is best known now for the hymn tune Regent Square which is sung to Angels From the Realms of Glory.This Organ Postlude In C reveals Smart to have been an accomplished composer with an excellent understanding of his instrument and undoubtedly of the musical tastes of his era.

Throughout his musical career Sir William Henry Harris (1883-1973)was engaged as Organist of New College Oxford Christ Church Cathedral Oxford and St. George’s Windsor.

Henryk Mikolaj Górecki's career spans more than 40 years dating from the post-Stalinist era of the mid 1950s and embracing a catalogue of more than 70 acknowledged works. It was not however until the phenomenal success of histhird symphony Symphony of Sorrowful Songs Op 36 which brought the composer world-wide renown through its numerous performances and recordings that his music reached an extended audience outside his native Poland. Since thenthe directness and emotional impact of his music have established him as one of the major figures of contemporary music.

A commemorative selection of pieces-Seven wonderful pieces from the great English composer Henry Purcell.

Throughout his musical career Sir William Henry Harris (1883-1973)was engaged as Organist of New College Oxford Christ Church Cathedral Oxford and St. George’s Windsor.

Selected from Musica Britannica Volume 69. Edited by Barry Cooper.This collection of sixteen pieces by John Blow (1649-1708) taken from the complete organ music published in Volume 69 of Musica Britannica is an authoritative introduction to the work of the leading Restoration English composer of organ music. More organ music from this period is ascribed to Blow than to all his English contemporaries put together including Henry Purcell. In compiling this anthology the editor has incorporated both the best examples from the corpus and those that were most popular in the composer's lifetime while illustrating the variety of styles he used. Most of the pieces may be played ona single manual but there are also 'double voluntaries' (for two manuals) and 'cornet voluntaries' (for two or three manuals). The collection includes advice on ornamentation and a comprehensive editorial note.