Priory
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Peter Sykes's organ arrangement, rather like Holst's two-piano version, effectively highlights the work's dissonant harmonies. As performed by Simon Johnson on the Grand Organ of St Paul's Cathedral,... —
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For lovers of organ sound this disc is an absolute treasure. Perpignan's sumptuous Cavaillé- Coll isn't an organ of memorable solo stops but of deliciously blended, exquisitely balanced choruses.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2002, Editor's Choice
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…Liszt's Ad nos… is magisterial, its 30-minute span commandingly paced, its grandeur and rhapsody held in equilibrium. As for the concluding Toccata by Marcel Lanquetuit, move over Widor!... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2005, Editor's Choice
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The Complete Organ Works of Charles Villiers Stanford Vol. 4
Daniel Cook (organ of Westminster Abbey)
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The English Orpheus - Choral & Instrumental Music by Henry Purcell
Orpheus Britannicus & Chapel Choir of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Andrew Arthur
Making the most of Purcell’s deeply elegant music requires a particular sensitivity to linear shape, lyrical articulation and clarity of texture, not least in order to draw upon the pungency... —
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The Complete Organ Works of Charles Villiers Stanford Vol. 5
Daniel Cook (organ of Westminster Abbey)
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A populist programme that does a little bit more than merely provide a superb sonic souvenir for the Abbey’s countless visitors —
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At the going down of the sun... Music for Remembrance
Stephen Mannings, Liverpool Cathedral Choir, Liverpool Cathedral Brass Ensemble
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Gillian Weir: Organ Master Series, Volume
Gillian Weir (Gerald Woehl Bach Organ of the Thomaskirche, Leipzig)
Gillian Weir's latest disc of Bach, recorded on the organ in the composer's own church, captures a lucid and spacious ambience —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2005, Instrumental Choice
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