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Bolero – music for organ 4 hands

Douglas Lawrence and Elizabeth Anderson, organ duet. 'Bolero' features arrangements of classical favourites for four hands performed on the Melbourne Concert Hall Organ.

The Melbourne Concert Hall boasts a grand pipe organ in the French style. Features arrangements of classical favourites for four hands in a program which includes a tour-de-force reading of Ravel's Bolero, Mozart's 'Eine Kleine Nacht Music' and 'Menuetto', preludes and fugues by Handel, Wesley's 'Duet for Organ' and more.

Press quotes

“wonderfully innovative.”

Soundscapes

“well recorded ... a resounding effect.”

— Bill Hoffmann, Canberra Times

“a banquet of goodies”

— Bruce Steele, Organo Pleno

Artists

Photograph of Douglas Lawrence

Douglas Lawrence

Melbourne organist Douglas Lawrence is Director of Music at The Scots' Church and Teacher of the Organ at the University of Melbourne and was the founding director of Choir of Ormond College, a position he held from 1982 to 2006.

Photograph of Elizabeth Anderson

Elizabeth Anderson

Elizabeth Anderson has performed in no less than eleven international concert tours to Europe, Japan and Singapore. She is a regular guest lecturer and performer at universities and music schools throughout Australia.

Audio previews

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Track Listing

    Zwey Fugen für zwey Personen auf einem Clavier George Frideric Handel

  1. Prelude-Largo
  2. Fuga–Allegro
  3. A fancy Thomas Tomkins
  4. A verse Nicholas Carlton
  5. Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525 Serenade Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  6. Fugue in E minor, Op. posth. 152, D.952, für Orgel zu vier Händen Franz Schubert
  7. Duet for Organ Samuel Wesley

  8. [Allegro]
  9. Andante
  10. Fuga-Alla Capella
  11. Canon Two in One Benjamin Cooke

  12. Aria
  13. Sonata in C major, K.19d Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  14. Allegro
  15. Menuetto
  16. Rondo
  17. Praeludium und Fuge für Orgel zu vier Händen Adagio and Fuga J. G. Albrechtsberger
  18. Bolero Maurice Ravel

Performers

Composers

Photograph of George Frideric Handel

George Frideric Handel

George Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, and concertos. Handel's music was well known to such later composers as Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.

Photograph of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers.

Photograph of Maurice Ravel

Maurice Ravel

Many consider Ravel as a major composer for the piano as well as a genius of orchestration. But it is always a surprise to discover how few works make up his total output for the instrument. All his compositions for piano can be performed in under two and one half hours.

Photograph of Franz Schubert

Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. Today, Schubert is admired as one of the leading exponents of the early Romantic era in music and he remains one of the most frequently performed composers.

Where to listen

Bolero – music for organ 4 hands is available for streaming through Spotify and Apple Music. It can also be purchased through the iTunes Music Store.

Bolero – music for organ 4 hands is available as a CD. It can be purchased online through Buywell Music or the Australian Music Centre which both offer online ordering.

Product details

Catalogue number
MD 3180
List price
$25.00 AUD
Recording Engineer
Martin Wright
Vaughan McAlley
Editing Engineer
Vaughan McAlley
Mastering Engineer
Martin Wright
Release date
Musical work
copyright
© 1996 Move Records
Sound recording
copyright
℗ 1996 Move Records
Categories
Classical, Organ
Barcode
EAN 9314574318029

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