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Organ Miniatures

A collection of 33 short organ works on the 1882 T.C. Lewis organ at St George’s Uniting Church, East St Kilda. The programme samples music written for small pipe organs and harmoniums, from Baroque chorales to twentieth-century miniatures.

Rhys Boakorgan No photograph: Ingrid Austin Ingrid Austinorgan No photograph: Merrowyn Deacon Merrowyn Deaconorgan No photograph: Colin Jenkins Colin Jenkinsorgan No photograph: John Maynard John Maynardorgan
  • CatalogueMD 3292
  • Released2004
  • Playing time76 minutes 5 seconds

Listen & tracks

2 of 33 tracks have a preview · 33 works · 76:05

  1. 1 Flute Piece William Hine 1:43
  2. 2 In dich hab ich gehoffet, Herr Johann Christoph Bach 1:58
  3. 3 Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein Johann Christoph Bach 1:39
  4. 4 Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern Johann Christoph Bach 1:30
  5. 5 Trumpet Voluntary Thomas Sanders Dupuis 1:54
  6. 6 Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist, BuxWV 209 Dieterich Buxtehude 3:03
  7. 7 O welt, ich muss dich lassen Johann Gottfried Walther 2:53
  8. 8 Andante Tranquillo Christoph Willibald Gluck 1:41
  9. 9 Ayre Arcangelo Corelli 1:40
  10. 10 Premier livre d'orgue, Suite du premier ton, No. 1 Pierre du Mage Plein Jeu 2:28
  11. 11 Fugue in C Major, BuxWV 174 Dieterich Buxtehude 3:06
  12. 12 Sonatina, K.279/189d Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 7:21
  13. 13 52 Easy Chorale Preludes, Op. 67: No. 33 Max Reger O welt, ich muss dich lassen 1:23
  14. 14 Herzlich thut mich erfreuen, Op. 122 Johannes Brahms 2:35
  15. 15 O wie selig seid ihr doch, ihr Frommen, Op. 122 Johannes Brahms 2:05
  16. 16 Il est né le divin Enfant Léon Roques 1:15
  17. 17 L'Organiste, FWV 41-42: III César Franck Andantino :59
  18. 18 Pavane Emmanuel Chabrier 3:25
  19. 19 Le roi s'amuse Léo Delibes Passepied 2:25
  20. 20 12 Pieces pour orgue Théodore Dubois Offertoire 3:12
  21. 21 Prelude 3 Carl Nielsen 1:03
  22. 22 Prelude 5 Carl Nielsen 1:24
  23. 23 Prelude 22 Carl Nielsen :36
  24. 24 Church Prelude I Alfred Ernest Floyd 3:01
  25. 25 Church Prelude III Alfred Ernest Floyd 2:15
  26. 26 Trumpet Voluntary Gordon Young 1:43
  27. 27 A Fragment Moneta Eagles 2:01
  28. 28 The Silver Stars are in the Sky Robert Ampt 2:55
  29. 29 Carol of the Birds Robert Ampt :52
  30. 30 Paean – A Song of Triumph Soorjo Alexander William Langobard Oliphant Chuckerbutty 3:38
  31. 31 Introit in D Minor Alan Ridout 1:46
  32. 32 Merifield Janet Correll 2:41
  33. 33 Christus Gordon Young 3:55

In addition there are pieces which sound convincing on large or small organs. The chosen instrument has a fairly standard stop list, yet a resourceful tonal design. Not every work depends on specific colours, and many remain musically enjoyable on other keyboards.

Until the mid-nineteenth century, English and Italian organ practice, and cultures shaped by those tastes, centred on modest one- and two-manual instruments, either without pedals or with only an octave of bass notes. France, Germany and Holland produced monumental liturgical works over some five centuries, yet quality miniatures were written there as well.

Nineteenth- and twentieth-century mainstream organ composers, especially in France and Germany, assembled complete collections for the harmonium. The twentieth-century Baroque revival renewed interest in one-manual chamber organs and encouraged living composers to write for them.

Organists:

Ingrid Austin

Merrowyn Deacon

Rhys Boak

Colin Jenkins

John Maynard

The Organ

Built in 1882 by T.C. Lewis, the organ in St George’s Uniting Church, East St Kilda, shows Lewis at the height of his achievement. He had already completed large instruments for St Mary’s Cathedral, Newcastle upon Tyne, St Peter’s, Eaton Square, London, Glasgow Public Hall and Ripon Cathedral, and later major organs for St Paul’s Cathedral Melbourne, Southwark Cathedral and Glasgow Art Gallery.

In 1935 Frederick Taylor added a string division he called Choir and built a new console with tubular-pneumatic action. George Fincham and Sons added the Choir Clarinet in 1948. Australian Pipe Organs converted the action to electro-pneumatic and partially restored the instrument in 1996.

Artists

Photograph of Rhys Boak

Rhys Boak

organ

Rhys Boak is a Melbourne organist and accompanist, active as a recitalist on historic instruments and with Australian choirs. He is organist and manager of music at St Michael's Church, Melbourne.

 No photograph: Ingrid Austin

Ingrid Austin

organ

 No photograph: Merrowyn Deacon

Merrowyn Deacon

organ

 No photograph: Colin Jenkins

Colin Jenkins

organ

Colin Jenkins is an organist who has recorded for Move on the 1882 T.C. Lewis organ at St George’s Uniting Church, East St Kilda.

 No photograph: John Maynard

John Maynard

organ

 Photograph of Robert Ampt

Robert Ampt

composer

Robert Ampt is the Sydney City Organist and Organist/Choirmaster of Sydney's German Lutheran Church. An active recitalist, teacher and composer for the organ, he has written children's introductions to the instrument and an extensive history of the Sydney Town Hall organ.

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Johann Christoph Bach

composer

Johann Christoph Bach (1642–1703) was a German composer and organist of the Baroque period. He served at Eisenach as organist of St George's Church and at the ducal court, and left a body of sacred vocal works and organ music.

 Photograph of Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms

composer

Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) was a German composer and pianist of the Romantic period. His music for piano, chamber ensemble, orchestra, and voice remains central to the concert repertoire.

 Photograph of Dieterich Buxtehude

Dieterich Buxtehude

composer

Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637–1707) was a Danish-born organist and composer of the middle Baroque, long based at Lübeck. His organ works remain central to the standard repertoire.

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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.

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Théodore Dubois

composer

Théodore Dubois (1837–1924) was a French composer, organist and pedagogue. Sacred and organ works form the part of his large output that still reaches the concert platform, above all the oratorio Les sept paroles du Christ and the Toccata in G.

 Photograph of Alfred Ernest Floyd

Alfred Ernest Floyd

composer

Alfred Ernest Floyd's sacred writing serves the church year and the organ loft: the carol Cold and Dark is Holy Night, Church Preludes for small instruments, and hymnody from Advent through All Saints.

 Photograph of César Franck

César Franck

composer

César Franck’s music carries the weight and colour of the Romantic organ loft into symphony, chamber music and song. The Violin Sonata, Symphony in D minor, organ Chorales and Pièce héroïque, and the serene Panis angelicus remain central to the repertoire he shaped.

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Christoph Willibald Gluck

composer

Christoph Willibald Gluck stripped opera of empty display and put drama first. His reform works, from Orfeo ed Euridice to Iphigénie en Tauride, fuse Italian melody with French theatrical force in music of noble simplicity and human passion.

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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.

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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.

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Johann Gottfried Walther

composer

Johann Gottfried Walther (1684–1748) was a German organist, composer, music theorist and lexicographer of the Baroque era. He is remembered for his organ works and for the first major German dictionary of music.

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Emmanuel Chabrier

composer

Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894) was a French Romantic composer and pianist whose free-spirited musical language helped open the way for later French modernism.

 No photograph: Soorjo Alexander William Langobard Oliphant Chuckerbutty

Soorjo Alexander William Langobard Oliphant Chuckerbutty

composer

 No photograph: Janet Correll

Janet Correll

composer

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Léo Delibes

composer

Léo Delibes wrote French Romantic ballets and operas that put melody, colour and theatrical grace at the centre of the score. Coppélia, Sylvia and Lakmé still define him; so do lighter mélodies and salon miniatures built for charm rather than weight.

 No photograph: Thomas Sanders Dupuis

Thomas Sanders Dupuis

composer

 No photograph: Moneta Eagles

Moneta Eagles

composer

Moneta Eagles is a composer of short works for the organ. Her music includes the reflective Eclogue and the brief A Fragment.

 No photograph: William Hine

William Hine

composer

 No photograph: Pierre du Mage

Pierre du Mage

composer

 No photograph: Carl Nielsen

Carl Nielsen

composer

Carl Nielsen’s music moves with rhythmic drive and clear, singing lines that keep shifting key underfoot. From the youthful Violin Sonata to spare organ preludes and the folk-tinged miniatures of The Mother, the writing feels vital, open-air and unmistakably his.

 No photograph: Alan Ridout

Alan Ridout

composer

Alan Ridout (1934–1996) was a British composer and teacher. His prolific output spanned church, orchestral and chamber music, much of it written for amateurs, students and children.

 No photograph: Léon Roques

Léon Roques

composer

Léon Roques (1839–1923) was a French composer, accompanist and transcriber, remembered above all for chamber and keyboard arrangements of late Romantic and early twentieth-century French music.

 No photograph: Gordon Young

Gordon Young

composer

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Performers

Technical credits

  • Recording Engineer Martin Wright
  • Editing Engineer Vaughan McAlley
  • Venue St. George's Uniting Church

Details

List price
$25.00 AUD
Total playing time
76 minutes 5 seconds
Release date
Categories
Classical, Organ
Genres
Organ, Baroque, Romantic & Impressionist
Musical work copyright
© 2004 Move Records
Sound recording copyright
℗ 2004 Move Records
Catalogue
MD 3292
EAN
9314574329223

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