Organists and keyboard players in search of appropriate music for the Christmas season will welcome this rich selection of noels or carols by three renowned 18th-Century French organ composers Louis-Claude Daquin Jean-Francois Dandrieu and Claude-Benigne Balbastre. Each composition is a set of variations on a French carol popular in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The music is highly ornamented in the French classical style and moderate to advanced in difficulty. Reprinted from authoritative editions.

Suitable for intermediate and experienced organists this appealing collection features 43 organ works in slow tempo. Its tremendous variety includes pieces by such celebrated composers for organ as J. S. Bach Guilmant Vierne and Widor as well as works by Brahms Couperin Mendelssohn Mozart Schumann Saint-Saëns and others.

A major influence on Bach ? who once walked 200 miles to hear him perform ? Buxtehude is among the great names in Organ music and the study of counterpoint. Born five decades after Heinrich Schütz the 'father of German musicians ' and a little less than half a century before Bach he bridged the era between the founder of Protestant Baroque music and its greatest master. This collection of church chorales attests to Buxtehude's reputation as an outstanding composer of sacred Vocal music.For his texts the composer drew upon scripture as well as church hymns and contemporary or medieval sacred poetry. Albert Schweitzer in his famous biography ofBach observed that Buxtehude's chorale preludes are 'chorale fantasias of the most varied kinds from the simplest to the most ingenious. In the simple ones the melody goes its way quietly just embellished here and there with a few ornaments and accompanied by interesting and always ingenious harmonies. . . . In the large chorale preludes Buxtehude tears the melody in pieces throws the fragments into the flood of a brilliant animated fantasia.'Authoritative and modestly priced this treasury of Buxtehude's works offers organists a source of endless satisfaction and inspiration.Reprint of the Breitkopf & Härtel Leipzig 1903 edition.

Seasonal classics gathered in this compilation of traditional and classical organ works for use in church and recital compiled and edited by Rollin Smith. These yuletide favourites by twenty-four different composers including Bach Brahms Franck Pachelbel and others. All set for Organ solo with an informative section of notes on the music offers background on each of the selections.

Description Widely regarded as the culmination of French romanticism on the organ, Widor's symphonies include some of the most frequently performed and recorded works in the modern organ repertoire. Most of these symphonies - so called to emphasise the orchestral wealth of timbres offered by the new French organs - were written specifically to exploit the capacities of the modern Cavaille-Coll organ, especially the rich-toned five-keyboard instrument at St-Sulpice in Paris. Presented here in two inexpensive (this being the first), well-made volumes they offer a splendid resource for organists and all music lovers. Songlist Adagio Allegro Allegro Cantabile Allegro Vivace Andante (Sonata G.1) [Torelli, Giuseppe] Andante Cantabile Andantino Quasi Allegretto Finale Fugue Intermezzo Op.1 No.2 [Borodin, Aljeksandr Porfirjevic] Marche Pontificale Marcia Meditation Minuetto Pastorale [Pace] Prelude Scherzo [Goldschmidt, Berthold] Symphony No. 1 In C Minor, Op. 13, No. 1: Symphony No. 2 In D Major Op. 13, No. 2: Symphony No. 3 In E Minor, Op. 13, No. 3: Symphony No. 4 In F Minor, Op. 13, No. 4: Symphony No. 5 In F Minor, Op. 42, No. 1: Toccata

Unsurpassed examples of French classic organ composition: majestic Messe pour les Paroisses, and Messe pour les Couvents.

Contenu :
Six Pièces
Fantaisie in C major, Op. 16
Grande Pièce Symphonique, Op. 17
Prélude, Fugue et Variation, Op. 18
Pastorale, Op. 19
Prière, Op. 20
Final, Op. 21
Trois Pièces
Fantaisie in A major
Cantabile
Pièce Héroïque
Trois Chorals
Choral No. 1 in E major
Choral No. 2 in B minor
Choral No. 3 in A minor