The Fountain Reverie features soft rippling arpeggios with a contrasting middle section. As with the Festival Toccata published at the same time the brilliance of Fountain Reverie disguises the fact that one does not need to be a virtuoso to play it well and effectively and it plays well on many different Organs.Percy Fletcher was an English composer conductor and Orchestrator of prodigious output who made his career in the lively world of the London music theatre of the years of the late 19th and early 20th century. He was music director at many theatres including His Majesty’s Theatre for the last seventeen years of his life. He was the Orchestrator and conductorfor the big budget spectacular theatre piece Chu Chin Chow which ran for five years a record that remained unbroken for forty years. In addition to his myriad works of light music Fletcher also wrote a serious church cantata The Passion of Christ as well as the delightful children’s work The Walrus and the Carpenter.

Londonderry Air also known as 'Danny Boy' is known throughout the world as an anthem of Irish identity. It was collected in County Derry in the 1850’s and though claims have been made as to its authorship has always been attributed to ‘anonymous.’This arrangement by J Stuart Archer a British Organist composer and arranger of the early 20th century introduces the famous melody in the lower ranges before giving it full play above the harmonies.

This volume, edited by Andreas Rockstroh, completes the organ music series for key times and occasions during the church year. As a collection of relatively easy 19th century works, it presents a rich assortment of compositions and arrangements for worship and concerts and is entirely oriented towards the actual practice of church music, addressing both part- and full-time organists.- Preface and biographical notes on composers (German/English)- Wide variety of both chorale-based and non-chorale based organ music from the 19th and early 20th centuries- High practical relevance - A treasure trove of inspiration that belongs on every organ stand! / Orgue

The Fantasia for Organ has been described as both ‘fleshy in its Romanticism’ and also by the composer as ‘quite severe in parts’ an apt combination for the vast changes of the beginning of the post-War era.York Bowne was a British composer whose fifty-year career musical career spanned much of the 20th century. Bowen was not only a prolific composer he was also a pianist conductor Organist Violinist and Horn player. He premiered many important works and his own music was featured many times at the Proms among other concert series. Sir Henry J Wood believed Bowen had never received proper recognition and Camille Saint-Saens regarded him as the ‘finest of Englishcomposers’ early in his career. His compositional style changed little throughout his life so that his later oeuvre was less celebrated than his earlier works as music fashion had moved on.

Joseph Haas (1879-1960), a pupil of Max Reger, is regarded as one of the most important figures of early 20th century German Catholic church music. The forty chorale preludes, all in fughetta form, are published here for the very first time. / Orgue