Oxford Hymn Settings for Organists | Score review
These final volumes from OUP’s hymn-based series offer an impressively broad, practical, and musically rewarding resource for liturgical players
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William Byrd: Complete Fantasias for Organ
The real springboard for this recording is the St Teilo organ – a reconstruction of what an English Tudor organ may have sounded like
Clive Osgood: Stabat Mater
Rupert Gough’s excellent Royal Holloway Choir steal the show, with their clear, fresh tone
Dietrich Buxtehude Complete Organ Works III
The Treutmann organ is beautiful, but it lacks the clarity and spatial contrast essential for Buxtehude’s music
Organ Music in New England: Cultivating a Living Tradition
This recording offers a rare opportunity to hear the probable sounds of an early 19th-century American organ, with Murphy-Mancini excelling in the earlier works
Johann Sebastian Bach: Six Sonatas for Organ, BWV 525-530
This organ has so much character, and the music is beautifully projected in the playing
Machaut – a lover’s death
Refined, delicate, and instinctive performances bring Machaut’s polyphony to life
The Music of Malcolm Arnold
Anyone looking for unexplored choral repertoire by this British master should investigate this recording
Elgar: The Kingdom
Temple possesses something of a hotline to the drama embedded within the music, producing a powerful account of the score that is always forward moving, never inert
I will lift up mine eyes
These girls melted my heart with their exquisite programme, filled with love and enthusiasm for the music
Heavenly Light: Eton Choirbook Reconstructions I
There is something touching about this aural glimpse into the unknowable
Masaaki Suzuki plays Bach Organ Works, Vol 7
Fluency of line is a commendable characteristic of Suzuki’s playing, with very relaxed tempi in the Leipzig chorales
Wisdom & Strength
The evident pleasure they derive from recent music radiates in the warmth of the voices and tender phrasing, with forthright, exciting sonorities as required
Benedict Sheehan: Ukrainian War Requiem
Prepare to be moved, shaken, stirred by this tremendous tribute to the fallen and to Ukraine’s precious cultural diversity and perilous situation
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