Par RUTTER JOHN. for solo organ A Gaelic Blessing is one of John Rutter's best-loved choral works, and now, thanks to the composer's own highly sensitive arrangement, it is available to organists to play as a gently expressive interlude or voluntary. / Date parution : 2022-03-05/ Répertoire / Orgue

The works include An Air composed for Holsworthy Church Bells by S S Wesley Allegretto by C H Lloyd The Chimes of Cloucester Cathedral by C Lee Williams Cloister-Garth by Herbert Brewer Procession from Air Berceuse and Procession by Herbert Sumsion and John Sanders’s own Toccata representing a procession of Organists at Gloucester Cathedral from 1865 to 1994.Organist composer educator Choral director and administrator John Sanders who died in 2003 was a tireless musician whose influence extends into the future through his engagement with generations of aspiring musicians. The tone of his life is evident from this volume whose works are topped and tailed by hiscomments on the composers and on the history and development of the cathedral Organ itself.

With more enthusiasts than ever since its heyday the Harp is an instrument which has successfully demonstrated its staying power and its important role both in music and beyond! John Marson’s Book of the Harp is a uniqueand definitive work distilled from a wealth of experience: a lifetime's study and research and an outstanding professional career. He traces the development of the harp from its earliest origins thousands of years B.C. to theinvention of the pedal harp in the eighteenth century and the harps of the twenty first century. He examines the writings of many forgotten exponents of the harp including inventors players and composers and provides a fullycomprehensive view of every model make and modification to the present day!The Book of the Harp is a rich source of information entertainment and anecdote on everything from strings tuning principles offingering and tone production historical influences designs techniques and methods to the harp's literary associations and those with the theatre and cinema its Celtic and religious symbolism virtuoso players and itsappearance in the poetry of Milton and novels of Jane Austen. Both historical and practical The Book of the Harp is an authoritative source of entertainment and a fascinating study for student professionalmusician and interested reader alike. John Marson has enjoyed a glittering career during which he has been principal harpist of the London Symphony Orchestra the BBC Symphony Orchestra Professor of Harp at the Royal College ofMusic and soloist and freelance.

Ireland's organ music belongs largely to the early years of his composing career (1902-1911). The 'Meditation' on John Keble's Rogationtide Hymn however was written in 1958 and was his very last composition. Edited by Robert Gower.

John Stanley (1713-1786) was a British composer conductor and organist. Having learnt to play the Organ at the age of seven he became the youngest person to ever obtain a B.Mus. degree from Oxford at the age of 17. He was appointed Master of the King’s Musick in 1779 and wrote many odes for the monarch. However most of his music has now been lost and only his Organ works have remained in popular use to this day.Prelude and Bell Allegro for Organ have been edited and arranged by the American composer Patrick Williams (b. 1939).

Five Hymn Tune Preludes (Op. 44) was composed in 1959. It is a collection of short works for solo Organ based on five of the most popular Anglican Hymn Tunes: Old Hundredth - Dundee - Darwall's 148th - Down Ampney - Veni Creator Spiritus. Each Prelude would be suitable for performance before or after a church service or the entire set could be used as a recital item. John Gardner (1917-2011) was a British composer and pedagogue. Best known for his setting of the Christmas Carol Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day he wrote a total of nearly 250 published works. He was Professor of Harmony and Composition at the Royal Academyof Music for over three decades and also taught at Morley College and St Paul’s Girls’ School.

Organ Accompaniments- This companion volume provides organists with new dedicated three-stave accompaniments to twenty-four of the twenty-eight choruses in the main Sacred Choruses volume. In every case these organ transcriptions made by John Rutter are based directly on the original orchestral versions and willfacilitate church performances without orchestra.

This work Jubilant March for Organ is one of many original works that Stainer composed for Novello. It suggests that the high esteem in which Stainer was held by his contemporaries for the excellence of his Organ playing was not misplaced and is quite a rare Stainer work by virtue of its non-religious nature.John Stainer’s life coincided almost exactly with the reign of Queen Victoria. From his humble beginnings as the son of a cabinet maker he rose through his own brilliant musical gifts application and vision to become one of the most celebrated musical persons of his time. He is still remembered for having reOrganized the St Paul’s choir and for raising musicalstandards among church musicians in general and for his pioneering musicological research into early music. His hymns and arrangements of carols retain some popularlity today as does his Passiontide oratorio The Crucifixion.

The Keyboard compositions of John Lugge are being published here as a complete work for the first time. They consist of what appears to be a collection of Organ pieces at Christ Church Oxford (Ch. Ch. MS 49) and three pieces for the virginal - two of them in Paris at the Bibliotheque du Conservatoire de Musique (Bibliotheque Nationale MS Reserve 1186) and one at Christ Church Oxford (Ch. Ch. MS 431 f.5). We published the Volun­taries separately in 1956 (Novello & Company Limited) but in halved note-values as required at that time. The virginal pieces were published in 1957 (Schott & Company Limited) in the original note values.