William Humphreys Dayas: Complete Organ Music

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Release Date: 26th Feb 2016
Catalogue No: TOCC0285
Label: Toccata Classics
Length: 65 minutes

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Dayas: Organ Sonata No. 1 in F major, Op. 5

Work length20:54

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Jan Lehtola

I. Präludium

Track length6:57

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II. Andante

Track length5:17

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III. Introduczione (Quasi fantasie). Poco più Andante

Track length2:37

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IV. Fuge. Allegro moderato

Track length6:03

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Bird: Thème varié in C Minor, Op. 27 (Arr. W.H. Dayas for Organ)

Work length14:07

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Jan Lehtola

Thema. Andante ma non troppo

Track length1:31

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Var. 1, Poco allegro

Track length1:18

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Var. 2, Poco più allegro

Track length0:50

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Var. 3, Allegro

Track length1:00

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Var. 4, Più moderato

Track length1:21

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Var. 5, Allegro moderato

Track length1:21

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Var. 6, Andante ma non troppo

Track length1:36

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Var. 7, Moderato maestoso

Track length1:16

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Fuge. Moderato

Track length3:54

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Dayas: Organ Sonata No. 2 in C minor, Op. 7

Work length30:38

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Jan Lehtola

I. Maestoso - Allegro

Track length10:26

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II. Adagio - Allegretto - Adagio

Track length6:57

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III Maestoso - Allegro energico

Track length4:11

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IV. Fuge (Moderato) - Più allegro - Allegro - Molto allegro

Track length9:04

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At the beginning of the twentieth century the American William Humphreys Dayas (1864–1903) was the leading professor of piano at the Royal Manchester College of Music. He was an important figure: he studied with Liszt, was friends with Busoni and became a major pedagogue, holding teaching posts in Helsinki, Wiesbaden and Cologne before he came to Manchester in 1895. Although Dayas left only a handful of compositions, two of them are major organ sonatas – passionate, Lisztian works that have remained completely unknown until now.

Dayas also arranged for organ the Thème varié for piano four hands by another forgotten American composer, Arthur H. Bird (1856–1923), a further important addition to the late-Romantic organ repertoire.

Although no official reason for Dayas’ early death was given, reading between the lines of contemporary accounts suggests that he may have been an alcoholic.

Dr Jan Lehtola is one the most successful and progressive Finnish organists of his generation. He has appeared with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tapiola Sinfonietta, the Lahti Symphony, Tampere Philharmonic and Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestras and the St Michael Strings. The conductors with whom he has worked include Kent Nagano, Juha Kangas, Sakari Oramo, Muhai Tang and Osmo Vänskä, amongst others, and the composers who have written for him include Kalevi Aho, Thierry Escaich, Naji Hakim, Paavo Heininen and Pehr Henrik Nordgren. This is his first for Toccata Classics.

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