Listen & tracks
1 of 22 tracks have a preview · 18 works · 70:12
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1 Martial Air Henry Purcell 1:45
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2 Minuet Henry Purcell 1:33
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3 Trumpet Tune Henry Purcell 1:06
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4 Largo George Frideric Handel 3:41
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5 March from Judas Maccabeus George Frideric Handel 3:28
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6 Toccata from Symphony No. 5 Charles-Marie Widor 5:28
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7 Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, BWV 147 Johann Sebastian Bach 3:55
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8 Sonatina, BWV 106 Johann Sebastian Bach 2:12
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9 Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 Johann Sebastian Bach 8:42
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10 Air on a G String, BWV 1068 Johann Sebastian Bach 4:25
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Abdelazar (The Moor's Revenge)Henry Purcell 2 movements3:38
- 11 Rondo 1:57
- 12 Minuet 1:41
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13 Chaconne in G minor Louis Couperin 3:00
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14 Chaconne in D minor Louis Couperin 2:51
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15 Adagio in F minor Arcangelo Corelli 1:51
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16 Benedictus Max Reger 4:31
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17 Tuba Tune in D major C. S. Lang 2:04
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18 Finale from Sonata No. 6 Felix Mendelssohn 3:27
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Suite Gothique, Op. 25Léon Boëllmann 4 movements12:35
- 19 Introduction et Chorale 1:59
- 20 Menuet Gothique 2:52
- 21 Prière à Notre-Dame 4:27
- 22 Toccata 3:17
A feast of riches! This disc gathers many of the best-loved and most often played works from the organ repertoire, heard on the organ of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne.
Among the highlights are Purcell's Abdelazar – The Moor's Revenge, Handel's Largo and March from Judas Maccabeus, Widor's Toccata from Symphony No. 5, Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring and Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Couperin's Chaconnes, and the Finale of Mendelssohn's Sonata No. 6. The booklet includes a full organ specification, historical notes on the instrument, and comprehensive musical commentary.
Reviews
…It is simply a collection of short and very popular pieces, including several that were written originally for other instruments, played splendidly as organ solos by Douglas Lawrence, and very well recorded… The recording quality is excellent and has an ambience that is absolutely characteristic of the cathedral.
Don't miss this one!
all popular works and is full of favourites.
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.
Johann Sebastian Bach
composer
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) was a German composer and organist of the late Baroque. His sacred and secular music for choir, orchestra, organ and solo instruments remains among the foundations of the Western concert and church repertory.
Léon Boëllmann
composer
Léon Boëllmann’s organ music, above all the Suite gothique and its hard-driving Toccata, sits at the centre of the late Romantic French repertoire. The writing favours clear forms, dramatic minor themes and the full colour of the instrument.
Arcangelo Corelli
composer
Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713) was an Italian Baroque violinist and composer. His sonatas and concerti grossi helped establish the violin’s pre-eminence and fixed models of the sonata and concerto that spread across Europe.
Louis Couperin
composer
Louis Couperin (c. 1626–1661) was a French Baroque composer and keyboard player whose brief career shaped the French organ and harpsichord schools. Some two hundred works survive only in manuscript.
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.
Felix Mendelssohn
composer
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847) was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. His works include symphonies, concertos, oratorios, piano music and chamber music.
Henry Purcell
composer
Henry Purcell (c. 1659–1695) was an English organist and composer of the middle Baroque. His sacred music, theatre songs, instrumental works and the opera Dido and Aeneas shaped a distinctly English Baroque style.
Max Reger
composer
Max Reger's organ music packs Bach's counterpoint into dense late-Romantic harmony: chorale preludes, toccatas and the Benedictus that still stills a nave. His chamber miniatures carry the same concentrated craft into violin and piano.
Charles-Marie Widor
composer
Charles-Marie Widor wrote ten organ symphonies that treat the instrument as a full orchestra, from the blazing Toccata of the Fifth to the plainsong-haunted Gothique and Romane. His Mass for two choirs and two organs is rarer ceremonial splendour.
C. S. Lang
composer
Digital booklet
Digital booklet Notes, texts and credits — read online or download the PDF Download the PDFPerformers
- Douglas Lawrence · organ
- Rod Junor · chorale (jesu, joy of man's desiring) · track 7
Technical credits
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Producer
Martin Wright
Nick Alexander
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Venue
St. Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne
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Credit
Athol Shmith
David Wilson
Howard Birnstihl
John Maidment
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 70 minutes 12 seconds
- Release date
- 1987
- Categories
- Baroque, Classical, Organ
- Genres
- Organ, Baroque, Romantic & Impressionist
- Musical work copyright
- © 1987 Move Records
- Sound recording copyright
- ℗ 1978 and 1987 Move Records
- Catalogue
- MD 3020
- EAN
- 9314574302028
More to explore
The Rieger at Scots'
So just what does one play to demonstrate the resources of a large, beautifully voiced new organ? Douglas Lawrence sets out the wide tonal palette of the Rieger at The Scots' Church, Melbourne, completed in 1999.
Pachelbel, His Canon and Much More
Douglas Lawrence plays the Ronald Sharp organ in the Ormond College Chapel, Melbourne, in favourite Baroque organ works by Pachelbel, Buxtehude, Scheidt, Camidge and Greene.
Bach Byrd Britten
The Choir of Ormond College, directed by Douglas Lawrence, presents Bach, Byrd and Britten. Bach’s motet Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden and Byrd’s Mass for Four Voices stand beside Britten’s Five Flower Songs and A Ceremony of Carols.
A Baroque Collection
Douglas Lawrence plays Baroque organ masterworks on Jürgen Ahrend’s acclaimed instrument in Monash University’s Robert Blackwood Hall, a programme spanning Zipoli to Buxtehude.
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.