Par GLADSTONE FRANCIS EDWARD. The organ sonatas of Francis Edward Gladstone (1845-1928) are fine examples of the developing English sonata tradition of the late-nineteenth century and early twentieth century. They exemplify a practical approach to the instrument with consistently moderate technical demands while also allowing the player scope for interpretation with the increasing availability of instruments that were conceived with a symphonic tonal palette in mind. As discussed in The Genesis and Development of an English Organ Sonata (2017), the English sonatas had an important pedagogical role jointly inherited from Mendelssohn?s very practical and popular approach to the instrument and the continued European legacy of the lesson-sonata tradition whereby in learning a piece you also learned the instrument and vice versa. / Date parution : 2022-05-31/ Recueil / Orgue

Josef Rheinberger (b. 1839 d. 1901) was a prolific composer in almost every field but he found in the Organ the medium best fitted to his genius and temperament. This seems to be proved by the fact that his reputation as an Organ composer has grown and is now firmly established whereas his position in other branches has declined. His twenty sonatas and his numerous shorter pieces (about a hundred) make up one of the most important contributions to the Organ repertory. It may indeed be claimed that in the maintenance of a high level of quality and interest throughout a long series of works of both large and small scale his position as an Organ composer issecond only to that of Bach. Sonata No. 19:The G minor Sonata is one of a small proportion of the twenty - No. 15 in D is another - concerning whose merits players are divided. It does not meet one half-way. It is the longest of the twenty: some monotony inevitably results from the use of the key of G for all its movements : its difficulties are of the ungrateful type : and the vigour of its first movement is often rough-even harsh. Yet it appears to be among the favourites of those who know it well; the late Dr. G. J. Bennett (a pupil of Rheinberger's and a devotee of the Sonatas) placed it among the best of the later numbers. Sonata No. 20:In spite of some inequalities No. 20 makes a worthy end to a fine series. Rheinberger's failing health at the time of its composition is no doubt responsible for a few moments of indecision especially in the Finale. The invention shows little if any falling off. In all the sonatas there are few better themes of the broad diatonic type than that which opens the first movement ; and the pleasant tunes of the Intermezzo and Pastoral and the swinging subject of the Finale are in the true Rheinberger vein. But the lack of a substantial fugal section is felt: it might well have come as a central portion of the Finale which

Par CAROL HENRI. La registration à l'orgue est une science et un art. Notre souhait serait d'éclairer et guider en premier lieu l'élève d'orgue : mais aussi celui qui aime cet instrument, soit au disque, soit au concert, soit - bien entendu - à l'église ou au temple, car c'est là, en fait, sa place privilégiée. Nous avons dit 'guider'. Devant une oeuvre d'art (dans un musée, par exemple), le guide suscite l'admiration pour telle oeuvre, tel détail - mais même (et surtout) s'il s'adresse à des connaisseurs, il s'en tiendra là et laissera à chacun le soin de partager (ou non) cette admiration. Le goût - qui suppose un choix - ne s'impose pas. Il se forme ! Que de fois avons-nous entendu dire à propos des jeux de mixtures : 'Qu'allez-vous faire de tous ces 'sifflets' (sic) ?', ou bien, à propos d'un orgue néo-baroque : 'La perfection d'harmonie de cet instrument permet de jouer Franck, Vierne et Messiaen !' Voire... C'est dire combien la registration à l'orgue est un sujet dans lequel il convient d'entrer... sur la pointe des pieds ! Sujet délicat entre tous. Noélie Pierront nous dit (dans L'Orgue, #100, p. 132) : 'Il me semble impossible d'aimer l'orgue sans essayer de rassembler une bibliothèque consacrée à notre instrument. De Dom Bedos aux jeunes contemporains, en passant par A. Pirro, F. Raugel, A. Cellier et leurs émules, que d'ouvrages passionnants, parfois rarissimes !' Depuis longtemps, en effet, les théoriciens se sont penchés sur le problème de la registration - qu'il nous suffise de citer : 1608 : Arte organica, Integnati 1613 : Melopeo, Cerone 1619 : Organographia, Praetorius 1636 : Harmonie universelle, Mersenne 1768 : Musica mechanica, Adlung 1766/1770 : L'art du facteur d'orgue, Dom Bedos, né à Caux-en-Biterrois. D'autres encore, dont les noms figurent dans la bibliographie, continuent aujourd'hui recherches ou synthèses en parlant de ces ouvrages de base. Des revues comme L'Orgue ou La Tribune de l'orgue - entre autres apportent régulièrement en leurs articles des éclairages nouveaux ou instructifs. Le côté 'facture' n'étant pas notre propos, nous nous sommes bornés à étudier l'essentiel du matériel sonore et des moyens mis à la disposition de l'organiste pour en tirer le meilleur parti. Maître des possibilités que lui offre la console et - bien entendu - maître de la technique et des styles d'interprétation indispensables à telle ou telle page (faire 'des pieds et des mains' ne suffit plus, il faut aujourd'hui 'jouer des coudes'), il peut ainsi redonner une 'vie sonore' aux notes de la partition. Sa science de la registration devient alors un art ! Pensé et écrit pour mes élèves, je dédie ce petit travail à M. Fernand Bertrand, directeur de l'académie Rainier III de Monaco, qui m'a confié sa classe d'orgue. / classique / Répertoire / Orgue

Für Orgel. Par JOST CHRISTIAN. There is no other work more closely associated with the organ than Johann Sebastian Bach’s Toccata in D minor. During my compositional preparation, I repeatedly found myself returning to this work. I had a number of different formal models in mind, but felt myself gravitating towards the rhapsodic character of toccata form so that my new composition for organ ultimately became a toccata developing from a pedal point on the fundamental note ’D’. As is appropriate to the volume of a large modern organ, my concept focuses on symphonic tonal layers whose suggestive maelstrom originates from the inner strength of repeating elements and their register- like augmentation, culminating in the unleashing of polyrhythmic progressions. (Christian Jost)/ Répertoire / Orgue

STILL. LEBENOrganist Eva Feldbc:ek had been asking me for a long time to write for the organ without the use of iron blocks extra stopping assistants etc .... unusual difficulties that belonged to my earlier organ music. I setmyselfthe task of Miting a ''handier'' kind of music for the organ.Once I had finished STILL. LEBEN I didn't think I had achieved what I was looking for. True the two movements did not involve odd things but 'handy' isn't really the word for them either. So I wrote the three movements in COUNTERMOVE to tidy up even more.And since I didn't think that was enough either I wrote the really simple pieces under the title IN TRIPLUM.Thethree series (eight pieces in all 2 + 3 + 3) sound very different but they all take their point of departure from the nature and tonal resources ofthe organ.Everywhere there is polyrhythm or hierarchical layering polychromaticism diatonics and melody (the last of these only sparingly and in some of the movements).Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

This useful series is ideal for keyboard players who find themselves playing church organs for village services. Each volume provides a wide selection of material suitable for use as voluntaries for which pedal parts are not required.Volume 4 contains: BACH JS - Adagio from Organ Concerto in A minor BWV593, BATTISHILL - Voluntary, DANDRIEU - Basse et Dessus de Trompette from Magnificat in A, FELTON - Variations on 'Farewell Manchester' from Organ Concerto in A Major, FRANCK - Air Béarnais, FRESCOBALDI - Toccato Chromatica from Messa della Domenica, LISZT - Agnus Dei from Requiem pro Organo, MARTINI - Allegro from Sonata II, PACHELBEL - Magnificat-Fugue, STANLEY - Voluntary in E Minor Op.6 #9, TOURNEMIRE - Petite Fugue, WALTHER - Adagio from Organ Concerto in Bb Major, CHARPENTIER - A Trumpet Voluntary (Te Deum Prelude) / Orgue / niveau : Elémentaire / Recueil

Arranged by Kenneth Baker. Twenty-four popular songs arranged in the modern style. Suggested registrations and chord chart. Also lyrics and chord symbols. / Orgue

Spiral Bound-Forty exceptional pieces for organ carefully chosen from across Europe and perfect for special occasions services or purely for pleasure.Adagio from Sonata no. 1 Felix MendelssohnAdagio no. 2 Christian HeinrichRinckAdagio no. 3 Christian Heinrich RinckAdagio no. 4 Christian Heinrich RinckAdagio no. 10 Christian Heinrich RinckAllegro from ?Magnificat? Alexandre GuilmantAndante no. 1 Albert Lister PeaceAndantetranquillo Edward John HopkinsAndante tranquillo from Sonata no. 3 Felix MendelssohnAve Maria Alexandre GuilmantBénédiction nuptiale Camille Saint-SaënsChorale prelude on ?Herr Jesu Christ dich zu uns wend? JohannSebastian BachChorale prelude on ?Herzlich tut mich verlangen? Johann Sebastian BachChorale prelude on ?Herzlich tut mich verlangen? Johannes BrahmsChorale prelude on ?Liebster Jesu wir sind hier? Johann SebastianBachChorale prelude on ?O Welt ich muss dich lassen? Johannes BrahmsChorale prelude on ?O wie selig seid ihr doch ihr Frommen? Johannes BrahmsCommunion in Ab Alexandre GuilmantElegy Charles Harford LloydElegyCharles Hubert Hastings ParryFestive prelude Sigfrid Karg-ElertGrand Choeur in G Théodore SaloméIch dank dir lieber Herr Sigfrid Karg-ElertInterlude in F Herbert BrewerMarch in G Henry SmartMarch-SortieThéodore DuboisMelody in G Alexandre GuilmantNoël Ecossais Alexandre GuilmantPastorale in F Johann Sebastian BachPostlude Alexandre GuilmantPostlude in D minor Anton BrucknerPrayer in Bb AlexandreGuilmantPrelude César FranckPrelude in C Anton BrucknerPrière Notre-Dame from ?Suite Gothique? Léon BoëllmannVesper voluntary no. 1 Edward ElgarVesper voluntary no. 2 Edward ElgarVesper voluntary no. 3Edward ElgarVesper voluntary no. 5 Edward ElgarVoluntary John Ebenezer West

One of the most exciting sounds on any organ is the massive roar of a good pedal reed. Bombardes and Trombones exploits this thrilling noise and will give enormous pleasure to both player and listeners. Congregations will leavechurch with these wonderful deep notes resonating in their memories.

Book 3-Oxford Bach Books For Organ is a 5-volume graded series of Organ music composed by J. S. Bach and arranged by Anne Marsden Thomas. This varied collection includes the essential pieces in all genres including choral preludes fugues toccatas and trio sonata movements alongside several of the composer’s lesser known works.Each volume contains a general introduction for players with advice on registration tempo ornamentation touch and articulation fingering pedalling and more. There are also concise notes on each piece by the renowned Bach scholar Professor Russell Stinson - addressing source issues structure and symbolism and forthe chorale preludes information on the original hymn melody and text on which the piece based.An authoritative introduction to this cornerstone of the Organ repertoire Oxford Bach Books For Organ presents pieces in a highly practical format that is perfect for teachers and students.This third volume contains 11 pieces for the manual or pedal Organ suitable for musicians at a Grade 7-8 level.