The focus of this recording is the organ, restored in 2012 incorpor-ating work by Joseph Alley (1834) and Hutchings (1889). This is a rare opportunity to hear the probable sounds of an early 19th-century American organ. The album narrates a story of evolving American church organ music starting with the Washington March by Edward Little White (one time organist to the Religious Society). The style of organ and music is 18th-century English but Murphy-Mancini’s programme includes much more modern fare too, like Daniel Pinkham’s
 In the Isles of the Sea or David Hurd’s characterful Partita on ‘Detroit’. Organist and instrument excel most though in the earlier works, exemplified in the fine Double Fugue on ‘God save the Queen’ for the Full Organ by John Knowles Paine – composed during his studies in Germany

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