Partituras para órgano

Larsen's fantasia on the familiar hymn-tune boasts richly atmospheric organ writing and is well-suited to weddings or services focussing on fellowship or reconciliation.

Larsen writes, '. . . I have loosely transcribed bell patterns from a field recording of Russian bells . . . the Communist persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church included the removal and destructi...

The tragically early death of Kenneth Leighton robbed cathedral music of one of its most individual voices. This piece is a compositional showcase: textural inventiveness, motivic cunning, and bristli...

James Whitbourn's Apollo tells the story of the first manned flight to the Moon (the year before the first lunar landing). A wealth of imaginative textures depicts such dramatic events as countdown, i...

Bednall's creation, rooted in the tradition of French organ improvisation, tenderly evokes the mysterious beauty of Wells Cathedral's remarkable 'Jesse Window'. The radiant music ebbs and flows calmly...

Commissioned for the 40th birthday of the organist Paul Walton, Walton's Paean is a work of great verve, with compelling rhythms, exciting harmonies, and catchy melodies propelling the celebratory mus...

This powerful piece, dating from 2010, shows off the full resources of any organ it is played on. Its driving rhythms and exhilarating, often bitonal, harmonies recall such French organist-composers a...

Howard Skempton is admired for the concision of his musical language, and Nature's Fire is illustrative of his style, deploying its base material with great deftness to achieve a musically effective s...

St Asaph Toccata was commissioned by Symphony Hall, Birmingham, as part of the Bach to the Future Series. The composer writes: 'The original title for the piece was Toccata Machine as I had an image o...

From the collection The Oxford Book of Ceremonial Music for Organ, Book 2, this rousing piece is arranged by Robert Gower from Whitlock's orchestral Wesssex Suite, which evokes aspects of summer by th...

From the collection The Oxford Book of Ceremonial Music for Organ, Book 2, this arrangement of the overture to Handel's Saul is created by W. T. Best and Robert Gower. Suitable for players of intermed...

From the collection The Oxford Book of Ceremonial Music for Organ, Book 2, this joyful piece is evocative of a fanfare, and is suitable for players of intermediate to advanced ability.

From the collection The Oxford Book of Ceremonial Music for Organ, Book 2, this attractive chorale prelude is suitable for players of intermediate to advanced ability.

Originally written for solo piano, Amy Beach's folk-influenced piece is here arranged for organ by Robert Gower. Featuring a lilting melody and serene atmosphere, it is suitable for players of interme...

From the collection The Oxford Book of Ceremonial Music for Organ, Book 2, this theatrical piece was arranged for organ by the composer, from his orchestral score for the music-drama Gold. Suitable fo...

From the collection The Oxford Book of Ceremonial Music for Organ, Book 2, this rippling Toccata is Gigout's best-known work, and is a favourite encore piece. Suitable for players of intermediate to a...

French's quasi-lullaby setting of Thomas Hardy's The Oxen opens by alternating between a tutti refrain and solo verses, with an atmospheric syllabic accompaniment, before building to a tutti final ver...

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Perfect for celebrating Pentecost, this joyous anthem on the theme of the Holy Spirit centres around the Veni Creator Spiritus plainchant, fragments of which have been skilfully developed to create an...

From the collection The Oxford Book of Ceremonial Music for Organ, Book 2, this magnificent fugue is popularly credited to J. S. Bach, though some eighteenth-century sources ascribe it to his pupil Jo...

Singing Children is an upbeat, optimistic piece featuring scat-like vocalizations, extended unison passages, syncopations, and intuitive harmonies. The composer has adapted a song from the Elizabethan...

Marked 'light and flowing', Quartel's setting of Sara Teasdale's poem 'Peace' features slow, sustained vocal writing over a piano part with continual moving quavers. The harmonic palette is rich and w...

This gentle carol sets the text of Isaac Watts' popular 'Cradle Song' to the music of Charles Villiers Stanford's lullaby, 'Golden slumbers, kiss your eyes', from his Six Songs (op. 19), written in 18...

This work was awarded the British Composer Award for Liturgical Music in 2003, but is published for the first time in 2013. The Roman Catholic Liturgy includes an antiphon to the Magnificat at Vespers...

From the collection Bach Transcriptions for Organ, in its original form the trio texture of this Largo is very similar to the slow movements of the organ trio sonatas. The violin lines from the trio s...