Listen & tracks
2 of 16 tracks have a preview · 10 works · 77:44
-
Zwey Fugen für zwey Personen auf einem ClavierGeorge Frideric Handel 2 movements8:51
- 1 Prelude–Largo 3:55
- 2 Fuga–Allegro 4:56
-
3 A fancy Thomas Tomkins 2:25
-
4 A verse Nicholas Carlton 3:39
-
5 Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Serenade 4:35
-
6 Fugue in E minor, Op. posth. 152, D.952, für Orgel zu vier Händen Franz Schubert 3:13
-
Duet for OrganSamuel Wesley 3 movements18:30
- 7 [Allegro] 6:12
- 8 Andante 4:38
- 9 Fuga–Alla Capella 7:40
-
Canon Two in OneBenjamin Cooke 2 movements4:08
- 10 Canon Two in One 1:24
- 11 Aria 2:44
-
Sonata in C major, K.19dWolfgang Amadeus Mozart 3 movements11:06
- 12 Allegro 3:42
- 13 Menuetto 3:11
- 14 Rondo 4:13
-
15 Praeludium und Fuge für Orgel zu vier Händen Johann Georg Albrechtsberger Adagio and Fuga 5:47
-
16 Bolero Maurice Ravel (arranged from Ravel’s transcription for four hands on piano) 15:30
The Melbourne Concert Hall boasts a grand pipe organ in the French style. The programme features arrangements of classical favourites for four hands, among them a tour-de-force reading of Ravel’s Bolero, Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik, preludes and fugues by Handel, and Wesley’s Duet for Organ.
Recorded on the Casavant Frères grand concert organ, it ranges from the earliest extant music for two players at one keyboard (Tomkins and Carlton) through Handel, Mozart, Schubert and Wesley to Ravel’s famous dance, prepared from the composer’s own four-hand piano transcription.
Reviews
wonderfully innovative.
well recorded ... a resounding effect.
a banquet of goodies
Artists
Douglas Lawrence
organ
Melbourne organist Douglas Lawrence is Director of Music at The Scots' Church and Teacher of the Organ at the University of Melbourne. He founded the Choir of Ormond College and directed it from 1982 to 2006.
Elizabeth Anderson
organ
Elizabeth Anderson has performed on eleven international concert tours to Europe, Japan and Singapore, and is a regular guest lecturer and performer at universities and music schools throughout Australia.
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger
composer
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger composed a prelude and fugue for two players at one organ.
George Frideric Handel
composer
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) was a German-born Baroque composer who settled in London and became a naturalised British subject. He is celebrated for his operas, English oratorios, organ concertos and orchestral works.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He wrote over 600 works, many of them pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic and choral music, and remains among the most enduringly popular of classical composers.
Maurice Ravel
composer
Many consider Maurice Ravel a major composer for the piano as well as a genius of orchestration. It remains a surprise how few works make up his total output for the instrument: all his piano compositions can be performed in under two and a half hours.
Franz Schubert
composer
Franz Schubert (1797–1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. In only thirty-one years he left a vast body of work, including over six hundred Lieder, and remains among the most frequently performed composers.
Nicholas Carlton
composer
Benjamin Cooke
composer
Thomas Tomkins
composer
Thomas Tomkins (1572–1656) was a Welsh-born composer of the late Tudor and early Stuart period, a leading voice in English sacred music, madrigals and keyboard writing.
Samuel Wesley
composer
Samuel Wesley wrote organ music that still sits naturally on historic instruments: an Air for the Organ, a Fantasy, and a Duet for four hands that holds its place beside Handel and Mozart in recital programmes.
Digital booklet
Digital booklet Notes, texts and credits — read online or download the PDF Download the PDFPerformers
- Douglas Lawrence · organ
- Elizabeth Anderson · organ
Technical credits
-
Recording Engineer
Martin Wright
Vaughan McAlley
-
Editing Engineer
Vaughan McAlley
-
Mastering Engineer
Martin Wright
-
Venue
Melbourne Concert Hall
-
Credit
Howard Birnstihl
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 77 minutes 44 seconds
- Release date
- 1996
- Categories
- Classical, Organ
- Genre
- Organ
- Musical work copyright
- © 1996 Move Records
- Sound recording copyright
- ℗ 1996 Move Records
- Catalogue
- MD 3180
- EAN
- 9314574318029
More to explore
The Choir of Ormond College Live
A live retrospective for the Choir of Ormond College’s twenty-first year, gathering concert recordings from 1985 to 2000 under Douglas Lawrence, from Britten’s Festival Te Deum and Fauré’s Requiem to Bach, Palestrina, Poulenc and lively encores.
Beatus Vir
Recorded live on their 1999 European tour, the Choir of Ormond College under Douglas Lawrence presents small-scale sacred works in up to eight parts by Palestrina, Gesualdo, Handl, Gabrieli, Monteverdi, Stanford and Rheinberger.
Kodály Missa Brevis
Recorded on their 1997 European tour in Northern Italy and Germany, the Choir of Ormond College sings Kodály’s Missa Brevis, with works by Tye, Howells and Bach.
Music from Heaven
The Choir of Ormond College, directed by Douglas Lawrence, in a highly acclaimed programme of unaccompanied sacred works by Allegri, Byrd, Poulenc, Britten, Barber and J.S. Bach.
Gold
The Australian Chamber Choir, directed by Douglas Lawrence, performs works by eight Australian composers. From Gordon Kerry’s Shakespeare setting to Malcolm Williamson’s English Eccentrics, the programme turns individual voices into pure gold.
Keys to Heaven
The Australian Chamber Choir opens with the first recording of Agata della Pietà’s cantata Ecce nunc, written in eighteenth-century Venice by an orphan of the Ospedale della Pietà and reconstructed by Elizabeth Anderson. Sacred works by Palestrina and Allegri complete the programme.