Organ Music
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Saint-Saëns: Organ Music Volume 3
Andrew-John Smith (Organ of La Madeleine, Paris), with Adrian Bending (tubular bells)
Smith convincingly suggests that Saint-Saens intended this allegedly unplayable piece [Fantaisie pour orgue-Aeolian] for the self-playing instrument in the Grosvenor Gallery in London' New Bond... —
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Andrew-John Smith's clever programming alternates the Three Preludes and Fugues, Op 99, with the three Fantaisies and other works. Wisely, he begins and ends the CD with the loudest and most... —
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in Andrew-John Smith [Saint-Saens has] an advocate who understands just how to lift from the printed page and project this remarkably rigorous yet beguiling music. The combination of this artist... —
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Buxtehude - Complete Organ Works Volume 5
Christopher Herrick (Aubertin organ of Mariager Klosterkirke, Denmark)
Outstanding competition and the revisiting of material must in no way prove a barrier to anyone with even a vague interest in Buxtehude's organ music, for this is a simply splendid disc...Above... —
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Buxtehude - Complete Organ Works Volume 1
Christopher Herrick (organ of Helsingør Cathedral, Denmark)
Herrick displays great energy and a keen ear for registrational variety —
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Herrick's playing and imaginative use of the organ's resources are first-rate, and he's backed up by a superb recording from Hyperion. —
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Bach: Organ Cornucopia
Christopher Herrick (Metzler organ of Pfarrkirche St Michael, Kaisten, Switzerland)
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Organ Fireworks XI
Christopher Herrick (organ). Lay Family Concert Organ (C B Fisk Organ Company Opus 100), Eugene, McDermott Concert Hall, Morton H Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, Texas
Christopher Herrick, playing on the Lay Family Concert Organ in Dallas, Texas, gives his recital an American slant...Widor's robust piece provides a link with various Parisian organists, among... —
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The organ of St Paul's Cathedral might not be the most idiomatic of instruments for this generous compilation, but John Scott produces entrancing colours to complement the authority of his awesomely... —
