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Judith Bingham: Organ Music

Tom Winpenny (Organ of St Albans Cathedral)

The Dmitri Ensemble, Graham Ross

Judith Bingham: Organ Music
Tom Winpenny opens an illuminating window on Bingham's richly-coloured, programmatically-driven engagement with the 'king of instruments'...Winpenny knows the St Albans instrument like the back...

Judith Bingham: Organ Music

Tom Winpenny (Organ of St Albans Cathedral)

The Dmitri Ensemble, Graham Ross

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Tom Winpenny opens an illuminating window on Bingham's richly-coloured, programmatically-driven engagement with the 'king of instruments'...Winpenny knows the St Albans instrument like the back...

About

Organ music holds a special affection for leading UK composer Judith Bingham, and the repertoire on this second Naxos recording reflects a cross-section of her themes and work both recently composed and newly arranged.

Experienced broadcast performer Tom Winpenny is joined by the acclaimed group, The Dmitri Ensemble, for the atmospheric concerto Jacob’s Ladder, while the rebuilt St Albans Cathedral Organ is an ideal instrument for works such as the improvisatory Annunciation I and radiantly charming Hope, recorded, as was all the music on this album, in the composer’s presence.

Contents and tracklist

I. Leaving home under a cloud
Track length4:09
II. Anxiety Dream
Track length1:58
Entr'acte: Falling into a deep sleep
Track length3:03
III. Jacob's Ladder
Track length3:20
Prelude. The road to Emmaus
Track length5:20
Voluntary: Et cognaverunt eum
Track length3:56
Vol de nuit (Version for organ)
Track length4:21
Gothick
Track length1:55
I. Infancy
Track length2:57
II. Betrothal
Track length2:43
III. Annunciation
Track length3:03

Awards and reviews

September 2011

Tom Winpenny opens an illuminating window on Bingham's richly-coloured, programmatically-driven engagement with the 'king of instruments'...Winpenny knows the St Albans instrument like the back of his hand, coaxing an array of voluptuous and apposite sounds. But he's also alert to the fluidity of her narratives, and, when called upon to do so, serves up virtuoso flair with incorrigible panache.

Awards Issue 2011

The organ-writing may not be entirely idiomatic but the string scoring is highly accomplished, and there is a real sense of commitment behind Graham Ross's sharply focused direction...Tom Winpenny brings assurance with some adept handling of Bingham's complex organ-writing...his advocacy of this music will do much to consolidate Bingham's reputation as a distinctive and assured writer for the instrument.

September 2011

Bingham has injected new life into the repertory of an instrument that has been perhaps unjustly neglected by contemporary composers...The organ of St Albans Cathedral, newly restored, sounds splendid, and it has been realistically captured by Naxos.
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