The Festival Toccata is relatively well-known among the works of Fletcher and is popular as a wedding piece and for encores. The brilliance of Festival Toccata’s surface disguises the fact that one does not need to be a virtuoso to play it well and effectively.Percy Fletcher was an English composer conductor and Orchestrator of prodigious output who made his career in the lively world of the London music theatre of the years of the late 19th and early 20th century. He was music director at many theatres including His Majesty’s Theatre for the last seventeen years of his life. He was the Orchestrator and conductor for the big budget spectacular theatre piece Chu Chin Chowwhich ran for five years a record that remained unbroken for forty years. In addition to his myriad works of light music Fletcher also wrote a serious church cantata The Passion of Christ as well as the delightful children’s work The Walrus and the Carpenter.

Francis Jackson's Festival Toccata arranged for Organ.Dr Francis Jackson CBE is a British organist and composer. He was born in Malton Yorkshire and received his early education as a Chorister at York Minster under his precursor the legendary Sir Edward Bairstow. Jackson succeeded Bairstow as Organist of York Minster in 1946 a post he held until his official retirement in 1982. His extensive output of sacred and secular music includes canticles anthems hymn tunes organ pieces two acclaimed monodramas an overture a concerto a symphony and solo songs. Jackson's creative output has continued since his retirement.

Sacrificium a été commandé par le Festival International d'orgue de Saint-Albans pour ce qui est devenu un des concours d'orgue plus influents dans le monde. C'est un travail de 8 minutes exigeants qui défiera les artistes interprètes ou exécutants avec une abondance de contraste matériel tout en laissant l'espace pour l'interprétation individuelle. Casken fait référence à l'histoire d'Alban qui a sacrifié sa vie pour sauver un autre Christian, devenant ainsi le premier Martyr britannique dans sa note de programme et plus spécifiquement la Loi de l'échange de capes et tromperie qui a conduit à l'exécution d'Alban. Cette idée de prendre une nouvelle apparence est apparente dans la musique comme thèmes récurrents subissent des transformations, progressivement devenir absorbées dans nouvelles textures musicales. / Orgue

Noël Lee (américain né à Nankin, Chine, le 25 décembre 1924) a composé Mosaïques, sa seule oeuvre pour orgue, en 1989. Commande de Pierre Lacroix, c'est Yves Castagnet qui la créa au Festival de Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges le 9 juillet 1989. Cette oeuvre dodécaphonique et néo-classique virtuose développe des rythmes, des sonorités et des thèmes extrêmement variés. En 1997, Noël Lee l'a trans- crit pour deux pianos et percussion. Les suggestions de régistrations, établies par Dominique Merlet et CarolynShusterFournierpourunorgueàtroisclaviers,peuventêtreadaptéesàdesorguesàdeuxouàquatre claviers. Dans les passages sans barres de mesure, l'altération ne vaut que pour la note à moins de répéti- tion immédiate. Les notes accentuées pourront être doublées, soit à la pédale, soit sur le premier clavier. / Orgue

Réflexions sur la composition 'Zwischenklänge' en ce qui concerne le thème de 'l'étranger':- Une musique qui ne se repose jamais, qui est en mouvement et mutation constante, ses tons presque tremblante, sur la piste, dans une tension constante.- Musique qui se déroule sa beauté dans le 'entre', dans le appoggiatures, dans le flash-comme l'émergence et la disparition des couleurs harmoniques.- La musique comme un evolvement du temps, en attendant, animée, éruption, ou de retrait.La composition 'Zwischenklänge' a été décerné tje 11ème Prix de composition de musique sacrée contemporaine de l'Union européenne Church Music Festival de Schwäbisch Gmünd. - La première a été donnée le 27 Août 2012 par le Summereder Romain (Vienne). / Orgue

Commandée par le Festival International d’Orgue de León en Espagne cette composition devait d’une manière ou d’une autre avoir un lien avec un chant populaire castillan de mon choix.J’ai retenu p

Description 27 scintillating works for Church or Concert performance. Songlist Capriccio, 'La Caccia' (Polibio Fumagalli) Carillon (Leo Sowerby) Carillon From 'Douze Pieces', Op.16 (Leon Boellmann) Carillons From 'Dix Pieces', Op.7 (Emile Bourdon) Carillon-sortie (Mulet) Fanfare D'orgue (Harry Rowe Shelley) Festival Toccata [Fletcher, Percy E.] Humoresque, 'L'organo Primitivo' (Pietro Yon) Les Carillons De Saint-paul D'orleans (Adolphe Marty) Rondo Con Imitatizione De' Campanelli (Giovanni Morandi) Roulade From 'Six Pieces', Op.9 (Seth Bingham) Scherzo (Gaston Dethier) Scherzo In E Major From 'Dix Pieces' (Eugene Gigout) Scherzo In G Minor Op.49 No.2 Toccata (Symphony No.5) [Widor, Charles-Marie] Toccata And Fugue In D Minor- Bwv565 (J.S Bach Ed. Lemare) Toccata From 'Suite Gothique (Leon Boellmann) Toccata In A Major Op.67, No.2 (Georges Macmaster) Toccata In B Minor From 'Dix Pieces' (Eugene Gigout) Toccata In B Minor From 'Suite De Morceaux' (Charles Tournemire) Toccata In D Minor From 'Trois Pieces' (Alphonse Mailly) Toccata In D Minor Op.108, No.1 (Albert Renaud) Toccata In E Major (Remigio Renzi) Toccata In E Minor (Joseph Callaerts) Toccata In G Major From 'Douze Pieces' (Theodore Dubois) Tu Es Petra From 'Equisses Byzantines' (Henri Mulet) Veritables Preludes Flasques

Veni Creator Spiritus-Prelude was commissioned by the Dunfermline Abbey Festival and first performed on 21 June 1987. Veni Redemptor-A Celebration was commissioned by the North Wales Music Festival and first performed on 26 September 1985 at St Asaphn Cathedral by John Scott.

Born in 1982 Jean-Charles Gandrille had composed his first work by age 10. As a prolific organist Gandrille composed significantly for his instrument  Reflets being no exception. Reflets won Gandrille first prize at the Composition Competition of the Comminges Festival in 2006. With a typical performance lasting around 15 minutes  Reflets is a highly modern work. The edition includes a helpful glossary of Organ sounds used in the piece. For all advanced organists Gandrille provides a challenging yet excitingand varied addition to the repertoire.

Thomas Hewitt Jones' Carnival. Composed 2010. Written for Martin Neary President of the Organists Charitable Trust. These five short works are all extracted from the excellent Little Organ Book from the Organists Charitable Trust edited by Martin Neary and first published by Novello in 2010. This is a wonderful resource of 11 mainly new works by British composers all of moderate difficulty and well-defined character. Iain Farrington’s Bluesday is full of delicious harmonies with a bold climax framed by a gentle beginning and ending. David Bednall’s Fanfare is a joyful work that would bea good recital opener or festival voluntary with a chance to unleash the big reeds. The simplicity of the title of Howells’s Cradle Song belies a richness and warmth that make this a moving miniature. John Rutter’s evening prelude from 1979 on the plainsong hymn Te lucis ante terminum is tender and clear with some surprisingly plangent harmonies. Thomas Hewitt Jones’s Carnival is an outburst of festivity and bravura. All these pieces are very much worth playing though organists interested in more than two of them would be better served purchasing a copy of the original anthology which is still very well priced (Little Organ Book Novello 9781849386814 £9.95). - Sunday by Sunday

One of the twentieth-century’s most outstanding organist-composers – ‘The English César Franck’. This is a warm and romantic work in three movements which can be programmed separately but together add up to a structure of sonata dimensions. Bairstow’s career spanned the whole strata of provincial musical life from choral society to music festival and encompassed Organ playing writing teaching conducting accompanying lecturing composing and adjudicating as well as looking after the busy musical life of York Minster where he served as Organist and Master of the Choristers from 1913 until his death in 1946.