By J. William Greene. For organ. Collection. 24 pages. Published by Concordia Publishing House

Organ - Intermediate

SKU: GI.G-8394

Arranged by Robert J. Powell. Christmastide, Christmas Vigil, Christmas Night, Christmas Dawn, Christmas Day. Tune Name: Nesem Vám Noviny, Angelus Ad Virginem, Stowey, Fum, Fum, Fum. Sacred. 16 pages. GIA Publications #8394. Published by GIA Publications (GI.G-8394).

UPC: 785147839460.

Six Carols of Christmas is a wonderful collection of short, easy-to-prepare organ pieces based on the folk songs of distant lands. They are flexible enough to use at any moment in the liturgy, whether prelude, interlude, or postlude. These carols require moderate skill and are best played on a 2-manual organ. CONTENTS: Come, All Ye Shepherds (Czech) - Gabriel to the Virgin Came (Irish) - How Far Is It to Bethlehem? (English) - On December Five and Twenty (Catalan) - The Babe in Bethl’em’s Manger Laid (English) - To Bethl’em I Would Go (Czech).

Composed by J. William Greene. Sacred. Collection. Published by Concordia Publishing House (CR.97-7781).

Organ - intermediate

SKU: ST.H449

Composed by John Norris. Arranged by John Norris. Organ music. Sixteen celebrated pieces for a perfect wedding. Selected and arranged for organ by John Norris.. Score. Stainer & Bell Ltd. #H449. Published by Stainer & Bell Ltd. (ST.H449).

ISBN 9790220221286.

A well-known teacher and compiler of Stainer & Bell's Opera Gala series, John Norris has created Wedding Gala with an ear to giving church organists a mix of favourites and exciting discoveries to brighten the routine of music for the service of holy matrimony.

No album would be complete without the traditional wedding music of Mendelssohn and Wagner, and it can be found here in this collection alongside other classics of the wedding repertoire by Jeremiah Clarke, Bach and Handel. But there's also a thoroughly contemporary leavening, with arrangements of Sydney Carter's One More Step and Lord of the Dance, both firm favourites, plus Musorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Charpentier's Prelude, adding a note of splendour.

But the real bonus is for lovers of English music, with Elgar's Chanson de Matin and 'The Call' from the Five Mystical Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams, seldom found in comparable collections. And there's also a rare new discovery: the ravishing Chosen Tune by Herbert Howells, transcribed from his Three Pieces for violin and piano, Op. 28, and available as an organ piece for the first time.

Each piece is comprehensively registered by the arranger, and the collection as a whole will be welcomed by all organists of intermediate standard as a source of new material not only for liturgical use but also for recitals.