Kevin Mayhew: Manuals Only: Organ: Instrumental Album

Here is an impressive collection of 50 pieces for the intermediate standard player. Featuring a mix of celebrated and less prominent composers there are plenty of choice pearls to be found.The contents range from preludes tointerludes and communion pieces to voluntaries with a selection for manuals only.The wide variety of styles and moods ensures that there is something suitable here for most occasions.

Music for Manuals-As publishers and church musicians ourselves we understand the financial restraints faced by many organists.So here's our contribution to the solution: several pieces for the price of one. Even if you use just one of thepieces in the set you are paying only the usual price of a single Organ piece. If you use two you're getting double value and if you use three four five or more you're quids in!Music For Manuals: Joyful Music -Set 2 includes 11 well-known pieces for the Organ repertoire: Gavotte (William Boyce) Gavotte from Suite No. 3 (Johann Sebastian Bach) Jubilato Deo (Norman Warren) Little Toccata(Elizabeth Hill) March (Richard Lloyd) March from the Occasional Oratorio (George Frideric Handel) Sortie (Robert Jones) Trumpet Voluntary (Jeremiah Clarke) Trumpeting Tune (JuneNixon) Two Trumpet Tunes and Air (Henry Purcell) and Use the Reeds (Colin Mawby).

50 further outstanding pieces for the intermediate standard player. Once again there is a good blend of recognisable and less well-known works from preludes to postludes and communion pieces to toccatas with a selection formanuals only. Most occasions are catered for from the wealth of styles and moods.

Essential music from across the centuries-The Organist's collection is a series which makes available a wide repertoire of music for the organ requiring only a modest technique. Book Thirteen: Music from across the centuries contains wonderful 15 pieces representing thechanges and evolution that has occurred through the different periods of music. Many of the pieces such as Brahms Waltz in B Minor are familiar and well known while others are fine examples and deserve to be remembered. Setfor Manuals and Pedals and as always they are beautifully presented and represent tremendous value also included is a thumbnail sketch history of each of the featured composers.

The Organist's Collection is a series which makes available a wide repertoire of music for the organ requiring only a modest technique. Book Nine: Music from across the centuries contains wonderful 14 pieces representingthe change and evolution that has occurred through the different periods of music. Many of the pieces are familiar and well known while others are fine examples and deserve to be remembered. Set for Manuals and Pedals and asalways they are beautifully presented and represent tremendous value also included is a thumbnail sketch history of each of the featured composers.

These 30 pieces were written by Herbert Howells as exercises and piano sight-reading tests. They are however much more than visual traps for the unwary. They are at times graceful surprising and touching and they are allinventive miniatures which represent a collection characteristic of the composer.Like the occasional pieces written for examination purposes by Ravel and Debussy these studies have a unique value. Adaptedslightly by Alan Ridout to make useful manuals-only pieces for organ this compilation is a must have for developing organ players or those experienced players who are looking for something a little different.