Graham Barber performs works of the Christmas season on the Schulze organ which now resides at St. Bartholomew's, Armley. The 1868 instrument has an interesting and lively history. It began as a gift of a young, wealthy Englishman to his wife; Edmund Schulze installed the instrument in the couple's "Organ House", a chalet out in front of the main house which would seat some 800 people. When the wife took ill and could no longer play the instrument, it was sold to two sisters, who loaned the instrument to St. Peter's Church, Harrogate.(Once again, the instrument was moved by Edmund Schulze.) A certain Vicar's ungratefulness would cause the ladies to have the instrument removed from the church and sell it to a wealthy benefactor of St. Bartholomew's, where the instrument was installed by Edmund's brother Eduard Schulze. There the instrument has remained intact, virtually unscathed by modernizations or changes in taste. Johann Sebastian Bach In dulci jubilo BWV 729 Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme Flor Peeters How lovely shines the morning star Op. 68 No. 7 The star proclaims the King is here Sigfrid Karg-Elert Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme Op. 65 No. 33 Aus meines Herzens Grunde (Pastorale) Op. 65 No. 2 Max Reger Weihnachten, Op. 145 No. 3 Garth Edmundson Vom Himmel hoch (Toccata-Prelude IV) Percy Whitlock Carol (No. 1 of Four Extemporisations for Organ) Francis Jackson Scherzetto Pastroale Op. 20 Marcel Dupré Lumen ad revelationem Op. 48 No. 6 Jean Langlais La Nativité Op. 2 No. 2 Petr Eben A Festive Voluntary: Variations on "Good King Wenceslas" Previously issued as a cassette: PRC 232 Total playing time 59:12