Oxford Book of Lent and Easter Organ Music for Manuals Music for Lent, Palm Sunday, Holy Week, Easter, Ascension, and Pentecost

ISBN-13: 9780193517646 / Angielski / Nuty / 2018 / 80 str.

Opis

A diverse collection of seasonal organ music for manuals only, covering the Church's year from Lent to Pentecost. The pieces include a mixture of established repertoire, attractive new arrangements, and two newly commissioned pieces. The collection is technically accessible and provides approachable repertoire for all church musicians.

Recenzje

It is an excellent collection for organists who don't use their feet, for organists playing on an instrument without pedals, or as extra repertoire for organists who might otherwise be using pedals, since the quality of many of the pieces here is so high. Furthermore, as the compiler suggests, "organists who are at ease using the pedals will find it entirely possible to introduce these at times of their own discretion." . . . Palm Sunday introduces the first of the new pieces, a splendid Postlude on Sing Hosanna by Christopher Tambling. Other new pieces appear under Pentecost, with a Prelude on Hereford by Francis Jackson first heard at the funeral of his wife, Priscilla, and a Prelude on Skye Boat Song by Robert Gower himself . . . The range of music is extensive, the editing is performance-friendly, the music setting generous in lay-out, and the price is good value for 29 pieces and 76 pages.

O autorze

On retirement from a teaching career spent successively at St Paul's Boys' School, Barnes, Radley College, Oxfordshire, and Glenalmond College, Perthshire, (where he was also a Housemaster and Senior Tutor), Robert Gower worked as Organist at St Barnabas Catholic Cathedral, Nottingham, before moving briefly to the most northerly parish in the Church of England at Berwick-upon-Tweed. Returning to Scotland so as to be nearer to family, he is now Director of Music at Dundee Parish Church. Robert's commitment to English 20th-century repertoire is reflected through his founding and leadership of the Percy Whitlock Trust between 1981 and 2016 and in his longstanding Chairmanship of the Gerald Finzi Charitable Trust, from which he retired in 2022. He enjoys transcribing music for organ (with a wide range recently embracing both Leroy Anderson and Maxwell Davies) and in liturgical composition, completing a three-year cycle of responsorial psalms for the Church Music Society.