Organ

Perth Concert Hall: Ronald Sharp organ

Jangoo Chapkhana plays the Ronald Sharp organ at Perth Concert Hall. The programme spans Buxtehude, Sweelinck, Bach, Balbastre, Langlais, Messiaen and Eben, and closes with Chapkhana’s own Variations on Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring.

Music for Trumpet and the King of Instruments

In the world of classical music, one of the most special and enduring combinations of instruments is that of the trumpet and the pipe organ. Dating back over a millennium, the pairing has produced a tradition of heroic and majestic music-making.

Magnificat

Douglas Lawrence plays a magnificent recital on the four-manual Rieger organ he designed for The Scots' Church, Melbourne, drawing out the instrument’s full range of colour and power.

North of the Yarra: Organs of Melbourne

Gordon Atkinson plays seven of Melbourne's finest organs, from the oldest surviving city instrument to the giant Town Hall organ, including St Patrick's Cathedral, The Scots' Church, St Paul's Cathedral and St Mary Star of the Sea, West Melbourne.

The Way of the Cross

Dupré's depictions of the fourteen Stations of the Cross, with his Variations sur un Noël, are played by Dr Robin Batterham on the 4/68 Rieger organ of The Scots' Church, Melbourne.

The Remarkable Norman Kaye

Move Records has gathered material for this CD paying tribute to the wonderful Norman Kaye. The main focus is the musician and organist, without forgetting his acting career.

Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields

Fifteen historic organs from the Ballarat region are heard on this disc, released to mark the 2005 Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields festival. A fully illustrated 16-page booklet surveys the builders, churches, instruments, music and performers.

Great Hall Grandeur

Amy Johansen plays the Rudolf von Beckerath organ in the Great Hall at the University of Sydney. Great Hall Grandeur presents one of Australia’s most beautiful and versatile pipe organs – among Beckerath’s last masterpieces – in the hands of one of the country’s finest concert organists.

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.

Organ at an Exhibition

West Australian organist Dominic Perissinotto’s first solo Move disc pairs Guilmant, Schumann and Mussorgsky on the Grand Organ of the Basilica of St Patrick, Fremantle.

Carillon and Organ

Enjoy the spectacular sound of organ and carillon as never before. Recorded at the University of Sydney, this disc features organist Amy Johansen and master carillonneur Jill Forrest in music drawn from the University's ceremonial life.

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.

The Star of the Sea

A superb programme of Italian and French organ favourites, shaped to draw on every resource of the celebrated George Fincham grand organ at St Mary's Star-of-the-Sea, West Melbourne.

Concert Organ Masterpieces

Masterpieces from the concert organ repertoire, played by Thomas Heywood on the restored Hill organ at St John’s Church, Toorak. The programme draws on his 1997 Grand Organ Concerts at the church.

Bolero: Music for Organ 4 Hands

Douglas Lawrence and Elizabeth Anderson play organ four hands on the Melbourne Concert Hall’s French-style Casavant. Bolero gathers favourites and rarities arranged or written for two players at one console.

Organ at the Opera

One of Move's all-time best sellers. Sydney City organist Robert Ampt and Amy Johansen play popular organ duets on the famous Ronald Sharp organ in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall.

Historic Organs of the Barossa Valley, Vol. 2

Christopher Dearnley and John Stiller play seven historic Lutheran church organs of South Australia’s Barossa Valley in the second volume of this survey.

Historic Organs of the Barossa Valley, Vol. 1

Christopher Dearnley and John Stiller give striking performances on six historic church organs of South Australia’s Barossa Valley. A 16-page booklet traces the instruments, their builders and the music.

Just Married: Organ Music for a Wedding

A compilation of history's most celebrated organ music, long popular at weddings. The insert notes usefully group the tracks as processionals, recessionals and music for the signing of the register.

Centenary Plus

Sydney City Organist Robert Ampt plays the restored William Hill and Son Grand Organ at Sydney Town Hall in a programme spanning more than a century of music linked with the instrument, from Handel and Bach to Koehne, Dubois, Best and Ampt.

Bamboo Organ

Douglas Lawrence and the Manila Chamber Orchestra. Manila's suburb of Las Piñas boasts the world's only organ with pipes made from bamboo. Solo pieces and Handel's Organ Concerto in G minor show the instrument's range; a bonus disc interviews the restorer.

Melbourne Sounds Grand

Thomas Heywood’s first commercial recording presents the Melbourne Town Hall Grand Concert Organ in a grand-concert programme of virtuoso showpieces and transcriptions, chosen to display its orchestral colour, dynamics and power.

Maurice Duruflé: Organ Music

Sydney organist Edward Theodore, a pupil of Maurice Duruflé, performs the French master's complete organ works on the magnificent organ of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, in six pieces crowned by the celebrated Prélude, Adagio and Chorale Variations on the Theme of the 'Veni Creator', Op. 4.

Elgar Organ Sonatas

Recorded in 1984 for the fiftieth anniversary of Edward Elgar's death, this album presents both of his organ sonatas. June Nixon, long-time organist of St Paul's Cathedral Melbourne, plays the cathedral's Lewis organ with mastery and clear affection for the music.

A Recital of organ music from St. Paul's Cathedral Melbourne

The works on this recording span some eighty years of organ writing. Three come from the latter half of the nineteenth century; the remaining three were written in the first half of the twentieth.

Italian Organ Masters

Major master organist Sergio de Pieri offers an enjoyable and authoritative survey of Italian organ repertoire by lesser-known masters, from Renaissance dances and ricercari to Zipoli and Frescobaldi.

Sydney Opera House Concert Hall Grand Organ

Historic recordings from the 1979 inaugural recital series that launched the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall Grand Organ, Ronald Sharp’s vast mechanical-action instrument.

Festival of Organ Masterpieces

Douglas Lawrence plays favourite organ repertoire on the instrument of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, spanning nearly three centuries of transcriptions and original works.

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.

Reverberations

Originally issued on two LPs and even quadraphonic tape in the early 1970s, this double CD is a limited re-issue of Reverberations One and Two: contemporary works for organ, brass, voices, didjeridu and electronics.

Diapason

This CD marks 150 years of the Bishop Kelly Pipe Organ at St Patrick’s, Mentone. Built by Frederick Nicholson for Prahran’s Independent Church, it is among Australia’s most significant historic instruments. Christopher Trikilis and Dr Gordon Atkinson explore its colours for two and four hands, in music by Vierne, Walther, Hesse, Bonelli and others.

Anthony Halliday plays Saint-Saëns, Beethoven, Duruflé, Bach

Few Australian musicians match Anthony Halliday’s versatile splendour. This latest of his all-too-few organ CDs emphasises his gifts in transcribing orchestral works, recorded on the organ of St Francis’ Church, Melbourne.

Lobe den Herren

Anthony Halliday gives a varied organ recital on the historic instrument at Melbourne's Trinity Lutheran Church. The programme runs from grand Bach works through Mozart and a Bach–Vivaldi concerto to his own transcription of the finale of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.

Sketches of a Better Time

Extraordinarily popular with children, not least as a soundtrack for rollerblading and skateboarding, these light musical classics are performed live by former circus musician and well-known Sydney organist Peter Carroll-Held.

Organ of the Antipodes

Organists Rhys Boak and Ryoko Mori mark the centenary of a landmark Australian instrument: the 1906 George Fincham & Son organ at Malvern Presbyterian Church.

One Two One

Yoram Levy (trumpet) and Christopher Wrench (organ) explore the contrasting textures and styles of twentieth-century works by Genzmer, Tomasi, Persichetti, Duruflé and Hakim.

Transcriptions Baroque

Recorded in Trinity College Chapel, Melbourne, this disc pairs trumpeter Anthony Pope with organist Dominic Perissinotto across eight Baroque concertos. Four are heard on trumpet with organ accompaniment; the rest are solo organ transcriptions by celebrated organists of their day.

McJad Goes Organic

Those who knew the Melbourne jazz scene of the 1970s will fondly remember McJad, the free-improvising duo of trumpeter Keith Hounslow and pianist Tony Gould. This double CD pairs a new pipe-organ session with a bonus reissue of their original LPs: a true collector's item.