Modern and Contemporary Music. Par . Now finally in English too: The third part of the organ method Historical Performance Practice in Organ Playing follows on from part two with contributions by Guy Bovet (on Jehan Alain), Hans-Ola Ericsson, Anders Ekenberg, Markus Rupprecht (Olivier Messiaen), Hans Fagius (Maurice Duruflé), Jeremy Filsell (Marcel Dupré), Bernhard Haas (Arnold Schönberg, Ernst Krenek, John Cage, György Ligeti, and others, plus the latest developments) and Armin Schoof (neoclassicism). As in the first two parts of the organ method, here too a representative selection of composers is discussed. Alongside mainly personal recollections (e.g. from Hans Fagius) there are analytical essays (including by Jeremy Filsell). Bernhard Haas has organised one section of his text as an introduction to the playing techniques and aesthetics of new music, beginning with pieces which are easy to play. This English edition contains new chapters by Kevin Bowyer (The Development of New Organ Music in Britain / Contemporary Organ Music in North America). Laukvik?s organ method Historical Performance Practice in Organ Playing has now become established as a standard work. It is aimed at organists who want to incorporate the latest thinking on historical performance practice into their interpretations of works. The three volumes provide a practical introduction in a detailed, scholarly and comprehensible form, by giving organists as precise a picture of the interpretative traditions and aims of previous and modern/ contemporary eras as possible. The editions are aimed not only at organists, but also at organ teachers who are looking for a manual to use in their teaching. / Date parution : 2022-05-03/ Recueil / Orgue

Eleven pieces for solo Organ from the 19th to the 21st century. Selected and edited by Martin Neary. 'An imaginative kaleidoscope of attractive pieces. There is much to enjoy in this wide-ranging collection.' - John Scott LVO Organist and Director of Music Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue New York 'A valuable collection for organists. The fact that it is published in aid of such an important cause makes it all the more appealing.' - James O'Donnell Organist & Master of the Choristers Westminster Abbey Visiting Professor of Organ Royal Academy of Music 'Containing stimulating music for professional and amateur alike thisbeautifully produced volume is one of the highest quality and useful Organ albums to have been released in years. You should buy a copy - you won't regret it.' - Jonathan Vaughn (Choir & Organ - March/April 2011) Produced in association with the Organists Charitable Trust with the support of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust this is a collection of 11 pieces for solo organ (ABRSM Grade 6-7). Featuring previously-unpublished works by Howells and Rutter and new works by Philip Moore and three 'rising stars' David Bednall Iain Farrington and Thomas Hewitt Jones. Selected and edited by Martin Neary.  

Instrument : organ Nombre de Pages : 62 This School of Organ Playing presupposes a certain technical facility on the piano. The pedal exercises at the beginning are rudimentary and should be practiced in all keys, gradually accelerating the tempo. The studies are graded according to their polyphony, beginning with simple two part exercises, followed by those in three and more parts. This acquaintance with the strict principles of polyphonic music, and the introduction to effective part writing, with a knowledge of harmonic form and architectonic values, provide the essential background for the correct performance of polyphonic music, especialle the fugue. The most important musical forms have been used to illustrate the various possibilites of registration and its relationship to style (colourful, individualistic and smooth playing). The studies are so arranged that earlier technical points, etc. are constantly reviewed, through comparison of style and form, in order to fix, or refreshen, the ideas in the student's mind. It is very important that the evolution of organ music from vocal music should be made clear to the student the very beginning, both musically and intellectually. He will be shown the technical evolution of organ music during the centuries and thus prepared for an artistic execution and interpretation of old and new words, especially for the incomparable art of our great Johann Sebastian Bach. Content : Grundlagen des Pedalspiels - T.L. da Vittoria: Bicinium: Bonum erat - A. Zoilo: Bicinium: Quare fremuerunt - Melius illi - W. Dietrich: Übung in e-Moll - G.P. Telemann: Largo - J.K.F. Fischer: Übung d-Moll - G.P. Telemann: Kanon - J. Pachelbel: Magnificat peregrini toni Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn - T.L. da Vittoria: Accedentes principes - J.K.F. Fischer: Übung in g-Moll - W. Dietrich: Pedalübung - S. Scheidt: Vater unser im Himmelreich VI. Versus Choralis in Basi - H.L. Haßler: Crucifixus - J.K.F. Fischer: Praeludium D-Dur - J. Pachelbel: Übung in a-Moll - W. Dietrich: Übung in As-Dur - R. Schwarz-Schilling: Kanon a 2 - Kanon a 3 - G. Aichinger: Stabat mater - J. Pachelbel: Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt - J.K.F. Fischer: Praeludium fis-Moll - H.L. Haßler: Benedictus - J. Pachelbel: Was mein Gott will, das gescheh' allzeit - T.L.da Vittoria: Exclamans Jesus - S.Scheidt: Warum betrübst du dich, mein Herz IX. Versus. Choralis in Basso - D. Zipoli: Pastorale - J. Pachelbel: Vom Himmel hoch - J.S. Bach: Pedal-Exercitium - J.K.F. Fischer: Fuga g-Moll - J. Pachelbel: Komm, Gott Schöpfer, heiliger Geist - J.K.F. Fischer: Praeludium und Fuga cis-Moll - W. Dietrich: Pedalsolo - Übungen für mehrstimmiges Spiel in einer Hand: J.K.F. Fischer: Praeludium und Fuga e-Moll - H.L. Haßler: Da Jesus an dem Kreuze stund - M. Praetorius: Es ist ein Ros entsprungen - S. Scheidt: Vom Himmel hoch - M. Praetorius: Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist - B. Resinarius: Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist - S. Scheidt: Psalmus: Da Jesus an dem Kreuze stund - J.K.F. Fischer: Praeludium und Fuga h-Moll - J.S. Bach: Vom Himmel hoch - O Welt ich muß dich lassen - Herzlich tut mich verlangen - D. Buxtehude: Ach Herr, ich armen Sünder - J.S. Bach: Trio c-Moll - W. Dietrich: Pedalsolo/Trillerübung - J.S. Bach: Allein Gott in der Höh' sei Ehr' - J.K.F. Fischer: Praeludium und Fuga e-Moll - J.L. Krebs: Trio für 2 Manuale und Pedal

Martin Luther. Par SCHNEIDER ENJOTT. On the occasion of the quincentenary of Reformation Day in 2017, the composer Enjott Schneider thoroughly studied Martin Luther the individual and all his contradictions. The result is a brilliant, demanding organ symphony which is perfect for concerts on the subject of Reformation and Martin Luther. The composer describes the five movements of the symphony as follows: '1st movement: Wir glauben all an einen Gott with its quintuplet-like beginning is very Gregorian in style, outlining the range of Lutheran emotionalism between the Middle Ages and the modern era. The irrationality of 'faith' ultimately has priority over any thought and evidence. At the beginning of the movement, sounds of knocking on wood remind of the nailing of the Ninety-Five Theses to the doors of churches in Wittenberg. The chorale melody sometimes hides with an almost rough medieval saltarello, referring to Luther's robustness and vitality with which he knew to carry away even common people. 2nd movement: In 1530, the electoral prince of Saxony presented to Luther at Coburg Castle the golden signet ring with the 'Luther rose' which became the symbol of his theology of grace. A white heart with black cross is fixed on a five-petalled rose. To him, 'white' is the colour of angels and ghosts, 'black' stands for the pain of crucification: 'The just shall live by faith, but by faith in the Crucified.' But the fact that the rose and the heart are the dominating symbols shows how Catholic Marian piety remained an ingredient of Luther's spirituality throughout his life. In line with the dominant five-petal structure of the rose, this movement was composed, to a large extent, in accordance with the floating, lyrical rhythm in 5/8 time. 3rd movement: The omnipresence of death and dying – from the plague and war to the never-ending dangers of daily life – was an essential part of the world view of that time. Fears ensued that might heighten into the grotesque, e.g. in the pictures of Hieronymus Bosch. The 'Danse macabre' was a popular motif in those years. Luther's chorale 'Mitten wir im Leben sind / mit dem Tod umfangen' from 1524 ('Enchiridion' from Erfurt) is based on the Gregorian chant 'Media vita in morte sumus' created in France around 750 and, with its idea of transience, inspired a simplistic air. 4th movement: The famous confession delivered at the Diet of Worms in 1521, 'I stand here and can say no more. God help me. Amen', are not Luther's words but the version later used as text for a pamphlet. However, it represents quite plainly the straightforwardness and inevitability of his mission. Musically, it was made into a 'perpetuum mobile', i.e. a dogged, ostinato and never-ending musical air. 5th movement: The 'Mighty Fortress', on the other hand, is one of the great symbols of Martin Luther which, with its shining C major key, embodies the Protestant ideology and willful nature of the Reformation unlike any other song. Heinrich Heine called it the 'Marseille anthem of the Reformation', Friedrich Engels the 'Marseillaise of the Peasants' Wars'. This disputability is not thought through to the end but rather interrupted: With a jubilant 'birdcall version' of the melody, the finale shows a rather chamber-music-like side of the 'ideals of freedom of Christians'.'/ Répertoire / Orgue

Organ Chorales from the Neumeister Collection-Organ Chorales from the Neumeister CollectionYale University Manuscript 'LM 4708'In 1985 Christoph Wolff working at Yale University discovered a collection of 82 chorales compiled by Johann Gottfried Neumeister (1756-1840) which contained 38 compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach. They reveal great stylistic variety whose forebears stem from the Northern German organ tradition. Already these early works comprising fantasias fugues fughettas and imitative techniques employing motifs from chorale melodies bear witness to Bach?s broad compositional spectrum.This newly published volume is an updated edition of Series IV/9 of the ?New Bach Edition? (NBA) edited by Christoph Wolff and based on this source.In addition to a newly added concordance and corrections to the musical text it also contains a detailed Foreword by Christoph Wolff with further information on the Neumeister Collection and hymnological details. The source of the complete Neumeister Collection has recently been made available on ?Bach digital? shedding light on the manuscript for the very first time.Links to major sources have been provided in collaboration with the Bach Leipzig Archive and its database ?Bach digital?. The desired page of the source can be accessed quickly and conveniently via URLs at http://links.baerenreiter.com. The links stored there are examined for their validity on a regular basis.Any complete scholarly critical edition of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach must incorporate new research findings in the interest of scholars and performers alike. Now all of Bärenreiter?s new performing editions of Bach?s organ works are being revised to reflect the current state of scholarship and to convey maximum fidelity to the sources by being linked to ?Bach digital?.- Links to relevant sources in ?Bach digital?- Detailed new Foreword about the Neumeister Collection by Christoph Wolff (Ger/Eng)- Complete new engraving

Transcriptions (1894 / 1901 / 1932) Complete Organ Works 10-New source material incorporatedExtensive trilingual Foreword (Fr/Eng/Ger) with detailed notes on performance practiceComprehensive Critical Commentary (Fr/Eng/Ger)Illustrations and facsimilesLouis Vierne (1870–1937) brought symphonic French organ music to its stylistic climax.Besides being a productive composer he also gained a reputation as a brilliant improviser at his place of employment the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and throughout the world.In 1928 Vierne one of the best-known organists of his day made one of the earliest organ recordings playing Bach works and his own improvisations in Notre Dame.Threeimprovisations released in 1929-30 were transferred to musical notation in 1954 by his pupil Maurice Duruflé. Another previously unpublished improvisation which was recently rediscovered among Vierne's posthumous papers was reconstructed and published in musical notation in 2005 by Duruflé’s pupil Jean-Michel Louchart (b. 1946). These four improvisations join Vierne's transcriptions of works by Johann Sebastian Bach César Franck and Serge Rachmaninoff in this volume bringing our complete edition of his organ works to a close.

Joan Cabanilles was cathedral organist in Valencia and the towering figure in Spanish organ music of the late 17th century. His brilliant and diverse musical language rooted in the traditional sounds of Spain has not managed to reach a large audience outside the Iberian peninsula although he is often called ?a musician of European stature?.The aim of this three-volume Urtext edition is to grant access to his most appealing works. To this end all available sources in the libraries of Astorga Barcelona San Lorenzo de el Escoreal Felanitx/Mallorca Jaca and Montserrat have been examined and newly evaluated.If Cabanilles?s oeuvre consists primarily of tientos organ hymns and versets the third and final volume contains three versos three pasacalles two galliards two toccatas and such special forms as Paseos de tercer tono Diferencias de Fol as and a Jácara.Final volume of the three-volume Urtext editionNew selection of pieces and musical formsExtensive trilingual Foreword (Ger/Eng/Sp) on the works sources and previous editions as well as notes on registration and contemporary organ building

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

Par REGER MAX. The seven chorale fantasias by Max Reger are among the most important of organ repertoire ? masterpieces blending chorale melody and programmatic music based on the text of the chorales. Published on the occasion of the composer's 150th birthday, this fundamentally revised Urtext edition, in two volumes, is edited by the internationally renowned organist and Leipzig professor of organ Martin Schmeding. As one of the most influential Reger interpreters, Schmeding not only includes the latest research, but also addresses the need for a contemporary interpretation of the chorale fantasias on modern organs. The edition includes all the original dynamic and agogic indications (including continuation lines to cresc., etc., which are missing in many modern editions), as well as all the original registration and manual indications. Martin Schmeding's new edition provides for the first time an original musical text that combines the requirements of a modern Urtext edition with the demands of a practical edition. / Date parution : 2023-08-12/ Recueil / Orgue

Für Orgel. Par JOST CHRISTIAN. There is no other work more closely associated with the organ than Johann Sebastian Bach’s Toccata in D minor. During my compositional preparation, I repeatedly found myself returning to this work. I had a number of different formal models in mind, but felt myself gravitating towards the rhapsodic character of toccata form so that my new composition for organ ultimately became a toccata developing from a pedal point on the fundamental note ’D’. As is appropriate to the volume of a large modern organ, my concept focuses on symphonic tonal layers whose suggestive maelstrom originates from the inner strength of repeating elements and their register- like augmentation, culminating in the unleashing of polyrhythmic progressions. (Christian Jost)/ Répertoire / Orgue

Pachelbel was one of the great organ masters of the generation before J.S. Bach. Unsurprisingly interest in his music has remained constant and today he is widely considered one of the greatest and indisputably one of the most productive composers of all time. This new collection assembles a rich selection of the composer's organ works including 72 chorale settings and 48 nonliturgical works among them toccatas fugues preludes ricercares and fantasias. Reprinted here from the authoritative Breitkopf and Hartel edition edited by Max Seiffert these venerable compositions will be welcomed by organists at every level of accomplishment. Today's keyboard artist shouldnote that many of these works do not require a pedal and can be played on the piano or harpsichord as well as the organ.

38 original pieces on hymns and carols-Themed by season the books in the Oxford Hymn Settings For Organists series provide a wealth of new chorale preludes and hymn settings suitable for all church organists. With a host of accessible pieces these volumes are a must for every church organist's library. This volume contains new settings of many traditional Christmas hymns as well as imaginative new pieces written by a range of experienced Organ composers based in the US and the UK. The collection is varied with pieces in a wide range of styles. Practical concise settings for all parts of the church service - preludes postludes fanfares and communion settings - are included. Thepieces in Oxford Hymn Settings For Organists: Advent And Christmas are suitable for busy church musicians at intermediate level working in all major denominations. Some pieces also suitable for recital use and all feature registration suggestions that can readily be adapted to suit most instruments with pedals.

This work is one of the most important organ compositions of the end of the nineteenth Century. It was written in the years 1894/95 though the earliest fragments date back to 1890. These had their origins in improvised Magnificat versets played by Widor at the inauguration of the Cavaillé-Coll organ of St. Ouen in Rouen. This new edition of the Wiener Urtext edition is based upon the first edition (no manuscript scores have survived) and on further editions published during Widor’s lifetime.A recording made in 1932 of Widor’s own playing has been studied in conjunction with the printed source materials. The varied ending played on that recording isincluded as an alternative. It bears witness to the composer’s improvisational treatment of his own work and the spirit in which the whole composition was originally conceived.

When Reubke died in 1858 at the age of only 24 his achievements included two monumental works (a Piano sonata and an Organ sonata) and a few smaller compositions including a Trio for Organ. This Urtext edition brings together the two Organ works in a new edition: the Organ sonata is also known by the title of the 94th Psalm whose words inspired its content. The Sonata whose style and virtuosity show the influence of Liszt is one of the greatest Organ works of the whole Romantic period. The Trio a musically charming but technically less demanding piece should represent a welcome addition to the teaching repertoire forOrgan. The only original documents remaining for these works are the first editions. In this new edition we have attempted to correct obvious mistakes in the first impression and to offer cautious suggestions for improvements in dubious instances.