Organ - Difficult
SKU:
PL.8704
Composed by
Leslie Betteridge.
General. Sheet music.
Paraclete Press #8704.
Published by Paraclete
Press (PL.8704).
...At a stroke
this refreshed my jaded
palate for organ music,
after a long and
fruitless period of
truffle-hunting. I wanted
to go on playing it over
and over again (a rare
feeling nowadays) and
that only partly in order
to get it right... juicy,
neo-Vierne harmonies and
exciting figuration, a
truly beautiful clarinet
melody with ravishing
accompaniment in the
quiet, slower middle
section and a powerful
final cadential passage.
Every bar bespeaks
superlative craftmanship,
refined taste and not a
little inspiration, while
using entirely
conventional and
traditional means and
without sacrifice of
freshness or dignified
popular appeal. There's
not a lot of it
about....--from review by
Michael Bell
(inOrganists'
Review).
