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.
