Par SCHROEDER HERMANN. Concerto da chiesa' is the last organ work by Hermann Schroeder (1904-1984). It was composed a few months before his death. The premiere was performed by Clemens Ganz, then organist at the Cathedral of Cologne, in memory of the esteemed teacher and college colleague. The work marks the end of a tirelessly prolific life with more than one hundred organ works of various characters, genres and possibilities of use in liturgy and concerts. The title 'Concerto da chiesa' reveals that this is a work for concerts, not for being used in services. The three-movement composition is an unmistakable 'Schroeder' work: emphasis of linearity according to high baroque standards, conciseness and sometimes impulsive gestures of the themes and rhythms, layers of parallel chords within a freely tonal modern harmony, not forgetting the plasticity of form and the motor functions which are surprisingly energetic for an eighty-year-old./ Répertoire / Orgue

As publishers and musicians ourselves we understand the financial restraints faced by many choir directors. Even if you use just one of the pieces in the set you are paying only the usual price of a single choral piece. If youuse two you're getting double value and if you use three four five or more you're quids in! Music For Organ: Joyful Music - Set 1 includes seven pieces for the Organ: Easter Alleluia (Colin Mawby) Lord of Majesty (Richard Lloyd) Lumen Christe (Noel Rawsthorne) Marche-Sortie (Théodore Dubois) Postludio Festivo (Sigfrid Karg-Elert) Resurrexit! (Andrew Gant) and Toccata fromSuite Gothique (Léon Boëllmann).

The organ part and reduced score Symphony No. 4 - An Organ Symphony (2008) by Poul Ruders. Full score: WH31186 Orch. parts are available on hire: hire@ewh.dk Preface / Programme Note When introducing a large-scale symphonic work not only as a symphony but as an organ symphony it would be impossible not to think of and perhaps compare it with Camille Saint-Saëns’s famous SYMPHONY NO. 3 popularly known as the Organ Symphony. Well that is a risk I am prepared to take – and live with the consequences.Saint-Saëns however listed his work as a symphony avec/withorgan. The organ only appears in two out of the four sections of thepiece. In my symphony the instrument plays a far more significant part and is featured in all four movements. But it is not a concerto for organ and orchestra rather a symphony with organo obligato - a symphony with an organ part of a soloistic nature. So an Organ Symphony it is. The first movement PRELUDE is exactly that: a foreplay to what is in store for the rest of the symphony. It is slow (very slow!) and predominantly hushed: the organ and the orchestra wake up side-by-side getting to know one another.The second movement CORTÈGE is a slowly moving processional and it evokes extreme solemnity and austerity. Later on the music takes flight and the atmosphere lightens considerably a far more playful music emerging.This leads to the third movement ETUDE an exercise in instrumental virtuosity and technical challenge.The fourth and last movement is called CHACONNE but I could just as well have named it passacaglia (the definition of those two terms seems to blur even among the learned). Bearing in mind the last movement of Johannes Brahms´s SYMPHONY NO.4 which is universally agreed on as being a passacaglia I chose to avoid the Wrath of the Gods and opted for

As publishers and musicians ourselves we understand the financial restraints faced by many choir directors. Even if you use just one of the pieces in the set you are paying only the usual price of a single choral piece. If youuse two you're getting double value and if you use three four five or more you're quids in! Music For Organ: Recessionals - Set 1 includes eight pieces for the Organ: Carillon (Malcolm Archer) Finale (Alan Viner) Finale from Music for the Royal Fireworks (George Frideric Handel) Grand Sortie (Andrew Fletcher) Pageant (Philip Moore) Toccata (Stanley Vann) Toccatino (Robert Jones) and Trumpet Voluntary (Jeremiah Clarke).

Music for Manuals-As publishers and church musicians ourselves we understand the financial restraints faced by many organists.So here's our contribution to the solution: several pieces for the price of one. Even if you use just one of thepieces in the set you are paying only the usual price of a single Organ piece. If you use two you're getting double value and if you use three four five or more you're quids in!Music For Manuals: Joyful Music -Set 2 includes 11 well-known pieces for the Organ repertoire: Gavotte (William Boyce) Gavotte from Suite No. 3 (Johann Sebastian Bach) Jubilato Deo (Norman Warren) Little Toccata(Elizabeth Hill) March (Richard Lloyd) March from the Occasional Oratorio (George Frideric Handel) Sortie (Robert Jones) Trumpet Voluntary (Jeremiah Clarke) Trumpeting Tune (JuneNixon) Two Trumpet Tunes and Air (Henry Purcell) and Use the Reeds (Colin Mawby).