Vincent Persichetti: Organ Music

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Tom Winpenny delivers these complex works with grit — Choir & Organ, September/October 2020, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st May 2020
Catalogue No: TOCC0549
Label: Toccata Classics
Length: 86 minutes

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Persichetti: Peace, Op. 166 No. 41

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Persichetti: Give Peace, O God, Op. 162

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Persichetti: Primal, Op. 68 No. 1

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Persichetti: Auden Variations, Op. 136

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Chorale. Semplice

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Var. 1, A bene placido

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Var. 2, Affabile

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Var. 3, Comodo

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Var. 4, Ben articolato

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Var. 5, Sostenuto

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Var. 6, Gentile

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Var. 7, Ben proclamato

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Var. 8, Cantilena

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Var. 9, Tranquillo

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Var. 10, Serioso

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Var. 11, Rigoroso

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Var. 12, Con agilità

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Var. 13, Risoluto

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Persichetti: Parable VI, Op. 117

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Persichetti: Do not go gentle, Op. 132

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Persichetti: Foundations, Op. 68 No. 4

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Persichetti: Dryden Liturgical Suite, Op. 144

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I. Prelude (By Whose Aid the World’s Foundations First Were Laid)

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II. Response (Give Us Thyself, That We May See)

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III. Psalm (From Sin and Sorrow Set Us Free)

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IV. Prayer (Make Us Eternal Truths Receive)

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V. Toccata (Inflame and Fire Our Hearts)

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The larger part of the organ music of the American composer Vincent Persichetti (1915–87) was composed towards the end of his life, with some of those pieces receiving their first recordings here. Several are based on hymn tunes, which can often be heard in the background – re-emerging in glorious affirmation in the Auden Variations. On occasion the language suggests a kaleidoscopic admixture of Hindemith and Messiaen, bristling with edgy flashes of colour; and Do not go gentle, an essay for pedals alone after the Dylan Thomas poem, is a statement of austere power. What these highly contrasted works have in common is complete textural clarity: Persichetti had been playing the organ since boyhood, and his writing for the instrument is that of a master.

Tom Winpenny is Assistant Master of the Music at St Albans Cathedral where his duties include accompanying the daily choral services and directing the acclaimed Cathedral Girls Choir. His many solo organ recordings include discs of music by Peter Racine Fricker (TOCC 0518), Malcolm Williamson (TOCC 0246) and John Joubert (TOCC 0398) for Toccata Classics.

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September/October 2020

Tom Winpenny delivers these complex works with grit

September/October 2020

The real reason to acquire this disc is that it includes a recording of what is Persichetti’s finest organ work: Auden Variations (1977)...Winpenny’s performances are compelling throughout, and the excellent 1962 Harrison & Harrison organ of St. Albans Cathedral is a terrific instrument for this era and style of music, despite the pieces being conceived originally for dryer American acoustics.

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