Nico Muhly's Patterns is a work in four sections for solo Organ. Patterns was commissioned by the American Guild of Organists for the 2014 Biennial National Convention in Boston Massachusetts U.S.A.'Patterns is composed in four sections each of which is sort of a rhythmic étude. The first (?Move Along?) is a perpetual motion machine with staggered and angular rhythms thrown between the pedals and the left hand. The second movement (?Palindromes?) is calmer and is centered around an idée fixe in the left hand while the right hand interjects and ornaments. The pedals here are a clumsy cousin constantly upturning the sense of rhythmic stability. The third movement (?Similar?) is all to do with ways to divide up the bar: seven eight six five four ? it?s all there. Then the finale (?Very Fast Music?) is a perpetual motion machine on its highest setting ? manic and hyper with hiccoughs offsetting the regularity of some of the rhythms.' - Nico MuhlyStephen Farr in the September/October 2015 issue of Choir & Organ writes that this work is 'full of filigree figuration and no little rhythmic complexity.'

Fast Cycles for Organ is a piece composed by Nico Muhly which appears on organist James McVinnie's album 'Cycles'. The song was commissioned by McVinnie and dates from 2009. A difficult piece it showcases both the talents of Muhly as composer and the organist who plays it. Fast Cycles draws from Muhly's cyclical composition style and has been called an 'obsessively driven toccata'. As the piece drives on the hypnotic qualities of the upper notes of the Organ contrast with the stark and foreboding pedal tones. The dynamics of the piece result in passages of soft beauty andexplosive ferocity climaxing in a closing salvo that is to be played 'as fast as possible'. An exciting piece Fast Cycles will no doubt show off the virtuosity of the organist who performs it. 

Nico Muhly's O Antiphon Preludes for Organ.First performed by James McVinnie during a Meditation for Christmas at Westminster Abbey on 19 December 2010.Duration: 25 minutes

This edition of the Organ Book by Nicolas de Grigny was edited by C. L. Koehlhoeffer. Featuring 43 pieces this book uses pedals and other techniques that would be known by advanced players. The scores of the Organ Book were first published in 1699 under another name before being republished under this name in 1711. J. S. Bach corrected these initial editions and his corrections are still taken into account in this book. Organ Book is a good representation of the Organ music of the Louis XIV period. Nicolas de Grigny was a French organist living in the areaof Rheims where he was the main Cathedral organist.

Alongside the organ music of François Couperin and Louis-Nicolas Clérambault Nicolas de Grigny?s only publication marks the apogee of Grand siècle organ music. The 1699 book contains a complete organ mass and alternatim settings of the five principal hymns for use at the more important feasts of the church year. How it was received at the time is unknown yet the publication was considered of sufficient value to have been independently copied by JS Bach and JG Walter and was also reprinted in 1711 by the Paris publisher Christophe Ballard.

Lemmens’s Fanfare in D is frequently performed and recorded. The thrilling dynamic contrasts mark it as a piece of his era while the continuous semiquavers in the right hand owe much to the work of Lemmens’s musical hero J S Bach.Jaak Nikolaas [Jacques Nicolas] Lemmens was a Belgian Organist and composer of the 19th century. He was widely acknowledged to be the best Organist of his time with particularly beautiful legato and pedal technique some of which can be discerned from his compositions for his work Organ School where this fanfare first appeared. He was instrumental in bringing the works of Bach to France and Belgium and was influential as an educator.

 L'Introduction, Variations et Finale sur ' La Légende de Saint Nicolas ' est une pièce de concert destinée à un grand instrument symphonique (un orgue néoclassique peut également convenir, à condition qu'il soit pourvu d'un nombre suffisant de jeux de fond),Elle rend hommage aux improvisations de Pierre Cochereau (1924-1984), dont elle reprend certains éléments formels et stylistiques, Il ne s'agissait pas d'imiter la musique de l'organiste de Notre-Dame de Paris, mais d'utiliser certains tics pour élaborer une composition originale, L'ensemble est conçu pour être enchaîné sans coupure : des respirations et des points d'orgue sont indiqués dans la partition, Il conviendra d'en modifier la durée en fonction de l'acoustique dans laquelle se trouve l'instrument,Les registrations sont des nuances générales, qui peuvent être adaptées aux possibilités de chaque orgue, du moment que la couleur voulue n'est pas fondamentalement altérée, Dans certains cas, plusieurs registrations sont possibles, laissées à l'appréciation des musiciens, Collection Organ Prestige / Orgue

Edition : Paris, (s.d. = 1685)Fac-similé d'un exemplaire conservé à la bibliothèque de Troyes, et ayant, comme le deuxième livre, probablement appartenu aux Siret. - Présentation de :Jean Saint-Arroman : L'exemplaire de TroyesPhilippe Lescat : Les obligations de Nicolas Lebègue / Orgue / 140 pages / niveau : 1 / Fac-Similés - Format: 23.5 X 32.5

Par MUHLY NICO. Written for Luca Myers & the Choir of Sidney Sussex, Cambridge. Postlude No 1 lasts for 3 minutes and takes inspiration from the composer’s anthem Cecidit Flos. / Date parution : 2023-07-31/ Répertoire / Orgue

Par WIDOR CHARLES-MARIE. Charles-Marie Widor 's Symphonies for Organ, Op. 42 No. 2. Charles-Marie Widor (b. Lyons 1844, d. Paris 1937) first began his studies in his hometown, but later pursued them in Brussels, taking lessons with Nicolas-Jacques Lemmens on the Organ, and composition lessons with François-Joseph Fetis. In 1868, he inaugurated the Organ at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. He also deputized for Saint-Saë ns at the Organ of La Madeleine, and then in 1870 he was provisionally nominated organist at Saint-Sulpice. It was not until 1933 that he relinquished this post in favour of his pupil Marcel Dupre. Followingthe death of Cesar Franck in 1890, it was Widor who was requested to direct Organ studies at the Paris Conservatoire, and he followed this by taking charge of the composition class in 1896. Among his very many students were figures such as Louis Vierne and Charles Tournemire. Widor was a founder member of the Casa Velasquez in Madrid and the American Conservatoire in Fontainbleu. He was an exceptional virtuoso who could be heard in concerts in France and throughout the whole world. He left numerous works, but it is above all his Organ music that is most performed today./ Répertoire / Orgue