Written at the deathbed of Arthur Sullivan’s brother Fred in 1877 and setting words by Adelaide Anne Proctor The Lost Chord was immediately successful and became the biggest sensation of any song in its decade. Of all the drawing room ballads of the Victorian era The Lost Chord has remained alive in the popular imagination. This arrangement for solo Organ is true to the original without overplaying its drama and restores the eponymous 'lost chord’ to the Organ from whence it originally came. Composer Arthur Sullivan is known the world over for his operatic collaborations with W S Gilbert including H M S Pinafore and The Pirates of Penzance among many others. ButSullivan was also a composer of a host of other works among them operas Orchestral works ballets and hymns and church pieces.

This nondenominational sampler presents well-known organ pieces for use in funeral services. It is aimed primarily at semiprofessional organists who have to play on the usually modest instruments found in cemetery chapels.The volume contains organ pieces both with and without chorale cantus firmus. It has been compiled by two professional church musicians one Catholic and the other Lutheran thereby reflecting present day musical practice at funerals.The volume includes many pieces often requested at funerals such as the ?Pie Jesu? from Fauré?s Requiem Mozart?s ?Ave verum? and Brahms?s ?In Peace and Joy I Now Depart?.The pieces arepresented in simplified form without the use of the pedals. However their compositional quality remains untouched and the stylistic breadth extends to church songs with popular music styles thereby offering organists a very wide selection.Page turns within a given piece have been avoided wherever possible. In addition to a table of contents and thumbnail biographies there is an explanatory preface.- Nondenominational collection of organ pieces frequently played at funerals- Easy level of difficulty- Designed also for small instruments without pedals

A special celebratory collection of wedding music for manuals. From Wagner's Bridal Chorus and Mendelssohn's Wedding March to pieces by Bach Purcell Handel and others many of which are suitable for a variety of other formal and informal occasions.

Serious organists will welcome this new work from one of America's foremost contemporary writers. Recipient of the Fullbright Scholarship for music composition David Carlson adds to several important Operas and other works thisnew composition for the king of instruments - a heroic and challenging piece.

This new series has proved very popular so here is another outstanding collection of classical favourites arranged for the Organ by Richard Lloyd. Includes: Pachelbel's 'Canon in D' Debussy's 'Clair de Lune' Copland's 'Fanfare for the Common Man' Satie's 'Gymnopédie No.1' and more. 

Josef Rheinberger (1839-1901) was a prolific composer in almost every field but he found in the organ the medium best fitted to his genius and temperament. This seems to be proved by the fact that his reputation as an organ composer has grown and is now firmly established whereas his position in other branches has declined.His twenty sonatas and numerous other short pieces make up one of the most important contributions to the organ repertory. It may indeed be claimed that in the maintainance of a high level of quality and interest throughout a long series of works of both large and small scale his position as an organ composer is second only to that of Bach.

Franz Liszt composed his lyrical-meditative organ fantasia on the Ave Maria von Arcadelt in Rome in 1863. In contrast to his major virtuoso works this charming genre piece can even be easily played on smaller (double-manual) instruments even without swell-organ and reeds. The 'Liszt organ' at the village church of Denstedt near Weimar which was built by the Peternell brothers in 1859/60 and has survived in its original state may be used as an example. It did not become known until in 1927 that the Ave Maria attributed to Jakob Arcadelt (around 1505-1568) was a revised version by the composer Pierre-Louis-Philippe Dietsch (1808 1865) who used the melody of Arcadelt'schanson Nous voyons que les hommes which he then harmonized into his own Romantic four-part choral setting and to which he added the sacred text as a contrafactum. Our separate edition wants to make this rather 'poetic' yet quite easy-to-play organ work without any major technical difficulties accessible to a large circle of interested people.

Judith Weir's The Wild Reeds for Organ.'The Wild Reeds is a ten-minute partita made up of an original theme followed by six variations which are played continuously. The theme was partlyinspired by folk music for outdoor wind instruments from eastern Europe rugged yet delicate at the same time. Another important inspiration has been the Organ sonorities which result from unusual divisions of the octave producing strange chords and ghostly harmonisations of melodies. Above all The Wild Reeds has been written for Thomas Trotter (who personally commissioned this music and gave much valuable advice during its composition) in honourof his remarkable thirty years as Birmingham City Organist.' - Judith Weir

Hilary Tann's Embertides is a four-movement suite for Organ based on the roughly equal divisions of the church year - Advent Lent Whitsun and Michaelmas - which in turn hark back to earlier secular traditions.Throughout there are short references and hints to plainsong and other hymns relevant to the seasons. Drawing on a wide range of colours and textures the composer creates an evocative and varied suite of pieces perfectly suited for both recital and church performance; as such the work will be welcomed by a wide range of players.

Max Reger composed the present work in 1899 for the 'Schönberger Orgelalbum' which served as a means of funding the new organ in Schönberg im Taunus. Other renowned organ composers of the time also contributed works to this project such as Guilmant Rheinberger and Widor. Reger referred to his piece as a 'little work' that is 'intentionally not difficult' – yet he succeeded in creating a highly skillful piece that was hailed as a confirmation of Reger's artistry at the organ and enjoyed great popularity from the very start. 

Ten festal tunes for weddings and other special occasions.For the average parish organist who is fairly competent with pedals.

Beginning and intermediate organists can sample a wide variety of composers and styles with this excellent collection. Ranging from Palestrina's 16th-century Ricercare to latter-day works such as Sigfrid Karg-Elert's Improvisation on 'Nearer My God to Thee ' it spans more than four centuries of music.Selected from authoritative sources by musicologist and organist Rollin Smith this compilation features such famous works as J. S. Bach's Pastorale BWV 590; Couperin's Chaconne in F; and Handel's Concerto No. 13 'The Cuckoo and the Nightingale.' Other well-known selections include compositions by Brahms Gounod Haydn Liszt Mendelssohn Vierne andWidor.Dover Original.

This is a wonderful collection of popular and some less well-known pieces. It contains three movements from The Carnival of the Animals the slow movement and the famous Maestoso section from the 'Organ' Symphony (No. 3) the meltingly beautiful aria 'Softly awakes my heart' from the opera Samson and Delilah the opening section of the Danse Macabre and several other pieces illustrating the range of Saint-Saëns' compositional style. All the pieces are immensely playable and have been chosen to suit the needs of both church and concert organists.

Preludes Toccatas Fantasias and Fugues II/Early Versions and Variants to I (Vol. 5) & II (Vol. 6)-Johann Sebastian Bach's Complete Organ Works in revised editions.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?.The present volume is an updated edition of Series IV Volume 6 of the ?New Bach Edition? (NBA) prepared by Dietrich Kilian in 1964. The discovery of new sources and a reassessmentof existing handwritten copies have brought about changes to the contents of the volume which now includes the ?Fantasia in C minor? (BWV 1121) the ?Fantasia in G major? (BWV 571) the ?Fugue in G major? (BWV 577) and the C major version of the ?Toccata and Fugue in E major? (BWV 566). On the other hand the ?Prelude in G major? (BWV 568) as well as the alternative versions of the ?Fugue in C minor? (BWV 574a) and the ?Prelude in A major? (BWV 536a) have been discarded as presumably spurious.Besides the new compilation and corrections of the musical text the volume also contains a detailed Foreword by Peter Wollny with observations on each work and the extant sources. Page turns have been re-examined and improved.In collaboration with the Bach Archive Leipzig and its ?Bach? digital database links are provided to all the major sources. The website http://links.baerenreiter.com enables readers to access the relevant page in the source simply and conveniently via short URLs. The links stored there are examined for their validity on a regular basis.Contents:BWV 551 563-566 (version in E major) 569-571 573-575 577-579 and 1121 / Early versions and variants to I (Vol. 5) and II (Vol. 6): BWV 532a 533a 535a 543a 545a 549a 566 (version in C major) and 574b.New detailed Foreword (Ger/Eng) by Peter Wollny on the works and their sources.New contents reflecting the current state of source evaluations.Links to sources in ?Bach digital?.Complete new engraving and revised page-turns.