Robert Saxton's Passacaglia On The Name John McCabe for Organ.Commissioned by George Vass for a concert in celebration of the life and work of John McCabe CBE.First performed in Faversham Church Kent on 28th June 2015 by Edward Kemp-Luck.Duration: 6 mins ca.A review in the June 2016 edition of Organist's Review calls this piece a 'beautifully produced work' that features 'the pleasing disorientation of false relations' and is 'as inventive as it is impressive.'A similarly glowing review in the August-October edtion of The Organ magazine calls thispiece 'a very impressive short work indeed; brilliantly imagines and written for the instrument...one can only urge this music on all recital organists - it is a splendid piece and would surely make a counterpart to an original McCabe organ work in the same programme - the Johannes-Partita especially.'

The works include An Air composed for Holsworthy Church Bells by S S Wesley Allegretto by C H Lloyd The Chimes of Cloucester Cathedral by C Lee Williams Cloister-Garth by Herbert Brewer Procession from Air Berceuse and Procession by Herbert Sumsion and John Sanders’s own Toccata representing a procession of Organists at Gloucester Cathedral from 1865 to 1994.Organist composer educator Choral director and administrator John Sanders who died in 2003 was a tireless musician whose influence extends into the future through his engagement with generations of aspiring musicians. The tone of his life is evident from this volume whose works are topped and tailed by hiscomments on the composers and on the history and development of the cathedral Organ itself.

Toccaten und Fugen/Einzelwerke - mit CD-ROM-Bach: Complete Organ Works Vol. 4 - Toccatas (And Fugues) contains the famous D-minor Toccata BWV 565. The editor of this volume the Swiss organist Jean-Claude Zehnder has amply proven his mettle as a Bach specialist here. Of particular interest in this book is the Canzona in d BWV 588. Written before 1707 this early work is found in a contemporary copy by Johann Gottlieb Preller with embellishments fingerings and a closing cadenza; this version is printed in the Appendix.The enclosed CD-ROM* contains early versions further ornamented versions and pieces that can clearly no longer be attributed to Bach.*Important Note for MAC usersThe version of the Edirom program delivered on CD can only run on Apple computers under the current operating system Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).The installation of the Bach volume on Intel-based 64-bit-capable processors with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) systems is only possible with an update which you can download here (c. 150 KB).Due to outdated Java versions older operating systems (Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger) unfortunately cannot be supported.

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.

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

A classic text on Organ technique. Sir John's book first published in 1877 quickly became the classic for beginners- so popular that publishers Schirmer Ditson and Presser each issued its own 'Americanized' edition in the early twentieth century. In addition to the seven Organ pieces of the original edition including five of Stainer's own works and two pieces by Guilmant three additional works round of this Dover edition. This edition is a slightly expanded republication of the edition first published by G. Schirmer New York in 1909 edited by F. Flaxington Harker. Introduction to this Dover edition by Rollin Smith.

With more enthusiasts than ever since its heyday the Harp is an instrument which has successfully demonstrated its staying power and its important role both in music and beyond! John Marson’s Book of the Harp is a uniqueand definitive work distilled from a wealth of experience: a lifetime's study and research and an outstanding professional career. He traces the development of the harp from its earliest origins thousands of years B.C. to theinvention of the pedal harp in the eighteenth century and the harps of the twenty first century. He examines the writings of many forgotten exponents of the harp including inventors players and composers and provides a fullycomprehensive view of every model make and modification to the present day!The Book of the Harp is a rich source of information entertainment and anecdote on everything from strings tuning principles offingering and tone production historical influences designs techniques and methods to the harp's literary associations and those with the theatre and cinema its Celtic and religious symbolism virtuoso players and itsappearance in the poetry of Milton and novels of Jane Austen. Both historical and practical The Book of the Harp is an authoritative source of entertainment and a fascinating study for student professionalmusician and interested reader alike. John Marson has enjoyed a glittering career during which he has been principal harpist of the London Symphony Orchestra the BBC Symphony Orchestra Professor of Harp at the Royal College ofMusic and soloist and freelance.

The Keyboard compositions of John Lugge are being published here as a complete work for the first time. They consist of what appears to be a collection of Organ pieces at Christ Church Oxford (Ch. Ch. MS 49) and three pieces for the virginal - two of them in Paris at the Bibliotheque du Conservatoire de Musique (Bibliotheque Nationale MS Reserve 1186) and one at Christ Church Oxford (Ch. Ch. MS 431 f.5). We published the Volun­taries separately in 1956 (Novello & Company Limited) but in halved note-values as required at that time. The virginal pieces were published in 1957 (Schott & Company Limited) in the original note values.

Sir George Thalben-Ball was organists of the Temple Church in London for over sixty years. Also a music advisor to the BBC his compositions include Elegy Tune In E In The Style Of John Stanley Variations On Psalm And Hymn Tunes and Variations On A Theme By Paganini For Organ Pedals.

Commissioned for the 26th International Organ Festival at St Albans 2011 and funded by the RVW Trust.Duration: 7.45 Performance notes Registration: the performer is free to determine the entire registration scheme except at bar 60 where a solo reed is mandatory.Pitch: manual passages at bars 25 32 38 are written for a solo 4' stop (s). The Pedal is at 16' (ad lib 32') unless otherwise indicated (bars 31 37 where a solo 8' is required).III - Sw.II - Gt.I - Pos/Ch Composer's note Esperanza is named after Camp Esperanza (Camp Hope) the location of the mission to rescue the thirty-three miners trappedunderground for seventy days in 2010 at the San Jose Mine in Chile a rescue that was televised live and was one of the most moving and inspiring things I have ever seen. By the most extraordinary coincidence I had already done a good deal of sketching for this Organ piece before this all happened and had determined on a 'darkness-to-light' kind of piece - so the coincidence as well as my feelings of elation were both too strong to ignore.The piece persues a course from a fairly knotty slow beginning (heralded by a few chords that recur at the very end) full of rising themes (another coincidence - the material had already been sketched before the miners were trapped underground) and reaching a loud climax the quick toccata-like second section bursting vigourously out of the tension which is created at the beginning of the work.

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.

A collection of popular organ music for weddings. Includes 'Bridal Chorus' (Wagner), 'Wedding March' (Mendelssohn) and 'Alla Marcia' (Ireland). / Orgue

Mand lion was commissioned for the 1982 Dublin International Organ Festival by RHM Foods. It was first performed on the 27th June 1982 by Pete Sweeney at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin.The piecetakes its name from the Greek word for ‘handkerchief' a word that is also used in iconography to refer to an Ikon ‘not made by hands’ which is equivalent to the idea of the shroud. Mand lion is a meditation uponIkons and upon the changing image of the face of Christ.Tavener recommends that this piece should be played freely and with great ‘sweep’.