Par LEGUAY JEAN-PIERRE. 'Dans ma Sonate IV, peu de tissages polyphoniques serrés - davantage que la tendreté soyeuse : une écriture aérée, transparente, une limpide crudité des timbres qui laisse passer le clair, une certaine économie de registrations incluant des effets de mutations obtenus par les dispositions des accords. L'oeuvre avance d'un pas léger, l'oreille au vent, l'humeur souriante.' Trois parties dans cette sonate : A l'entour, construite sur une immuable flute de 4' et un non moins immuable do# à la pédale. Chant d'aurore lui succède, avec le 'chant lumineux' de plusieurs flûtes. La troisième, Récif, est construite en contraste avec les deux premières, heurtée, succession de paroxysmes et de silences./ Répertoire / Orgue

The Funeral March is composed in C and proceeds at a grand and stately pace. The Flute duet provides an excellent contrast to the majesty of the piece.Handel’s great oratorio of 1739 Saul was conceived on a grand scale to tell the Old Testament story of King Saul David the slayer of Goliath and Saul’s son Jonathan. By the end both Saul and Jonathan have been killed and this moving funeral march marks that sombre moment in the oratorio. Saul is considered one of Handel's greatest works with particular praise for the Choral writing and for this funeral march.

Volume 3 in our successful ?Enjoy The Organ? series offers attractive Organ pieces from the 17th to 20th centuries suitable for performance on smaller instruments and capable of producing impressive results with a limited amount of practice time.Among the pieces in Volume 3 are Juan Cabanilles' ?Batalla Imperial I?; Johann Baptist Vanhal's ?Sonatina in F major?; Robert Schumann's ?Adagio? from op. 70; Gabriel Fauré's ?Cantique de Jean Racine? op. 11; and Pietro Yon's ?Humoresque?.These pieces are intended primarily for the amateur organist but will also appeal to professional church musicians whowill find the collection useful as literature for sight reading and as a starting point for improvisation.Contents:Batalla Imperial I [Juan Cabanilles]Andante - Poco vivace [Johann Georg Albrechtsberger]Sonatina F major [Johann Baptist Vanhal] Adagio from op. 70 [Robert Schumann]Offertoire [Antoine-Édouard Batiste]Cantique de Jean Racine op. 11 [Gabriel Fauré] Humoresque Toccatina for flute stops [Pietro Yon]- Geared towards amateur church musicians and organists.- Collection of easy-to-play concert pieces for Organ.- Also effective on smaller instruments.- Already published Enjoy the Organ 1 (BA 11207); Enjoy the Organ 2 (BA 11208).

Arranged here for Organ the Centenary Collection celebrates the life and works of the British organist and composer William Lloyd Webber. Born in 1914 by the age of 14 Lloyd Webber had already become awell-known Organ recitalist giving frequent performances at many important churches and cathedrals throughout Great Britain. He won an Organ scholarship to Mercer's School later winning a further scholarship to the Royal Collegeof Music where he studied composition with Ralph Vaughan Williams and gained his FRCO diploma at nineteen. Parallel to his activities as an organist Lloyd Webber began to compose and from 1945 to the mid-1950s he wrotemusic in many different forms: Vocal and instrumental Choral and Organ Chamber and Orchestral. Some of his best known works include the oratorio 'St. Francis of Assisi' the Orchestral tone poem 'Aurora' the Sonatinas for Violaand Piano and Flute and Piano and numerous songs Organ pieces and Choral works. Showcasing Lloyd Webber as a composer who was true to himself and who fully embraced his signature style the music in the CentenaryCollection is romantic melodious and – above all – heartfelt.

Suite Française For Organ by Jean Langlais is a set of ten French pieces for Organ. Of increasing difficulty these pieces require an advanced knowledge of the instrument its technique and of the use of pedals. The book is divided in the following pieces: I. Prélude sur les grands jeux - Allegro II. Nazard - Moderato III. Contrepoint sur des jeux d’anche – Espressivo IV. Française - Allegro V. Choral sur la voix humaine - Andantino VI. Arabesque sur les flutes - Vivace VII. Méditation sur les jeux de fonds - Largo VIII. Trio - Moderato IX. Voix céleste – Vivo/Lento X. Final Rhapsodique - Vivo Jean Langlais was a French composer who contributed greatly to the Organ repertoire.

An anthology from four centuries in ten volumes. Edited by Robin Langley. / Orgue

Diane Bish has carefully selected some of her most loved organ selections and made them available in one wonderful collection. Songs include: Adagio in G minor (Thomaso Albinoni) ? Canon in D (Pachelbel) ? Overture (fromHandel's Royal Firework Music) ? Sicilienne (Theresia V. Paradis) ? and Apres Un Reve (Faure).