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Melbourne Sounds Grand
Thomas Heywood plays the Grand Concert Organ at the Melbourne Town Hall
With an enormous range of colour, dynamics and glorious, exciting orchestral sounds, the Grand Concert Organ in Melbourne's Town Hall is a world-class instrument. In the grand concert organ tradition, brilliant young organist Thomas Heywood performs a diverse program of popular organ music particularly chosen for this instrument.
Includes Lemare's 'Toccata di Concerto', McKie's 'Romance in G', Bach's 'Fantasia and Fugue in C minor', Grainger's 'Colonial Song', Best's 'Concert Fantasia on a Welsh March', Cocker's humorous 'Tuba Tune', Thalben-Ball's Elegy, Walton's 'Coronation March' and Lemare's transcription of 'Home, Sweet Home'. The comprehensive 24 page colour booklet covers the music, composers, the hall, the organ and its specifications. Press quotes:
“Thomas Heywood plays the works with great drive and youthful zest ... the quality of the recording sound, the balance and the overall ambience are uniformly excellent.”
— Organ Historical Trust of Australia “the CD is worth having ... [Thomas] shows off this huge organ effectively ... [and] is an excellent performer ...”— The Delian, USA “Heywood's playing is in the venerable tradition of Town Hall recitalists and includes a certain amount of bravura necessary to bring off the many Edwardian and Victorian works on the program”— The Age - Green Guide Audio preview:
Trumpet Minuet download Track Listing:
Toccata di Concerto, Op. 59 (Edwin H. Lemare)
Sonata in D, KV 144 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (trans. L. Fullard)) Romance in G (William N. McKie) Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542 (Johann Sebastian Bach) Colonial Song (Percy Grainger, trans. O. Ross) Concert Fantasia on a Welsh March (William Thomas Best) Tuba Tune (Norman Cocker) A Song of Sunshine (Roland Diggle) Elegy (George Thalben-Ball) Coronation March: "Orb and Sceptre" (William Walton, trans. W.N. McKie) Home, Sweet Home (trans. Edwin H. Lemare) Catalogue Number: MD3120
Price: AU$26.00
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“In Thomas Heywood, Australia undoubtedly has a new virtuoso organist.”
(The Organ Club Journal, UK) “Heywood’s technique is immaculate, his projection of the music positively three-dimensional, and his obvious enjoyment of the task radiates through the notes, catching up the listener and carrying us along the way.” (Organists’ Review) Composers:
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