Organs in the U. K.

NEW! Organists William Saunders and Peter Crompton split this program down the middle, with Saunders playing the first eight tracks, and Crompton playing the last six. This recording features English and French music played on the Grand Organ of the Royal Hospital School in Holbrook. The accompanying booklet contains information on each piece performed and a history of the organ at the Royal Hospital School. It also contains a stoplist, and provides in-depth biographical information on both performers.

Total Playing Time: 67:39

Produced by Regent Records, Ltd.

NEW! Timothy Byran-Wigfield plays The Organ of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in this 2-disc set. The included booklet provides notes on the music performed, an organ stoplist, and biographical information on the performer.

Disc One Total Playing Time [79:02]

Disc Two Total Playing Time [79:36]

Produced by Delphian Records Ltd. 2009

NEW! Released May 2013 Wagner at the Organ is the first recording by a British organist entirely devoted to Wagner's music. Jonathan Vaughn brilliantly plays well-known works on the 1911 Harrison and Harrison organ of St. Mary Redcliffe in Bristol. Arthur Harrison considered this organ to be of his finest work! The enclosed booklet provides information on the performer, the organ, and its specifications, and information on the pieces performed.

Total Playing Time: 74:43
Produced by Regent Records
Released May 2013

Released in 2008 This 3-disc set contains the Complete Organ Voluntaries of William Russell. John Kitchen performed them July 22-25, 2008 on the Organ of St. James's Church in Bemondsey, London. William Russell gave extremely precise performance instructions, which Kitchen follows accurately. The St. James organ, built in 1829, is a perfect instrument for the performance of Russell's works.


Total Playing Time (3 CDs) [3:06:42]

Produced by Delphian Records Ltd.

Released March 2013 Recitalist Philip Scriven plays the organ of Cranleigh School Chapel, Surrey, UK. The four-rank organ was donated and recently built by Mander Organs in 2011, and allows students to gain knowledge of the organ and its repertoire. The enclosed booklet provides a wealth of information on the organ, performer, and offers program notes and a stoplist.

Total Playing Time: 78:50

Produced by Regent Records

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This 3 CD set contains all of the major original organ works of Liszt, together with a selection of virtuoso arrangements and transcriptions of Liszt’s orchestral and piano works by Camille Saint-Saëns, Max Reger, Edwin Lemare, Nicolas Kynaston, and Peter King.

New From the OHS Vault! This program has been selected to demonstrate the beauty of Bach's music and the particular qualities of the organ at St. Matthew's Westminster. Most of the program comprises of works based on Lutheran Hymns or chorales which form the musical mainstay of the Lutheran liturgy, and which demonstrate this instrument's strengths and character. This program is based on an evolving sense of the liturgical year.

Isabelle Demers performs a collection of old and new compositions from Bach to Prokofiev and Reger. The New and the Old is Isabelle's debut CD Recorded in the Chapel of St. Augustine, Tonbridge School, England on a 1995 Marcussen & Søn.

D’Arcy Trinkwon plays a varied repertoire celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Mighty Schulze Organ in Doncaster Minster. Internationally acclaimed for his virtuoso organ playing, Trinkwon brilliantly demonstrates the adaptability of the largest organ built in England by a foreign maker.

The Winchester Cathedral boys and girls choir with lay clerks perform a selection of Christmas songs from this past summer featured especially for this Christmas. The Winchester Cathedral Choir is accompanied by Simon Bell on organ, Frances Kelly on harp, and under the direction of Andrew Lumsden.

NEW VOLUME 2! Various artists play various cathedral organs of England.

Trumpeter John Coulton joins Organist David Dunnett in a stunning performance from Norwich Cathedral. Both organist and trumpeter give sensitive, insightful treatment to the 400+ years of repertoire.

featuring The Choir of St. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh.

Designed by Ralph Downes, this 1950s organ built by Walker & Sons for the London (Brompton) Oratory was the first British church organ to draw in radical fashion on classic European influences. Patrick Russill, who succeeded Downes at the Oratory, plays.

David Hill performs organ favorites on the famous 1932 Henry Willis organ at Westminster Cathedral, London.

Colorful transcriptions played with great skill and fine musicianship!

Organist Andrew Arthur and trumpeter Anthony Aarons perform music fit for a king on this disc of early music. Almost all of the composers on this disc held court positions.

Robert Houssart plays a grand program on the recently overhauled organ at Gloucester Cathedral

Andrew Bryden shows the Salisbury Cathedral organ to fine advantage

Two CDs for the price of one! Christopher Bowers - Broadbent plays the Organ of Truro Cathedral, and John Winter plays the Organ of Truro Cathedral.

Alan McGuinness, Organist and Master of the Choristers at St. Asaph Cathedral, celebrates the tenth anniversary of the cathedral organ’s latest restoration.

Roger Fisher plays works of Hollins, Elgar, Bach, Whitlock, and others on the 1933 Rushworth & Dreaper organ at The Reid Memorial Church, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Francis Jackson plays works ranging from the Baroque period to the twentieth century on the 1875 Thomas Harrison organ in the chapel of Castle Howard in North Yorkshire, England.

Royal Festival Hall
Gillian Weir plays the newly refurbished and famous 119-rank organ designed by Ralph Downes for London's prime concert hall and built by Harrison & Harrison.

Two more of Ian Tracey’s famous recordings from Liverpool Cathedral are released on CDs. BACH: Sinfonia, Cantata 29; Badinerie FAURÉ: Pavane CLARKE: Trumpet Voluntary SAINT-SAËNS: Danse Macabre SOLER: Minué (Concerto 6) ALBINONI: Adagio in g and many others

Peter Crompton plays the huge 1933 Hill, Norman & Beard 4m Organ of the Royal Hospital School Priory, Holbrook, Suffolk, in England.
VIERNE: Final (Sym.1) HOWELLS: Psalm Prelude Set 1, No. 1 MATHIAS: Toccata Giocosa THALBEN-BALL: Elegy BRAHMS: Es ist ein 'Ros WIDOR: Toccata (Sym. 5.) YON: Humoresque MUSHEL: Toccata CHOVEAUX: Introduction & Toccata SATIE: Gymnopédie MULET: Tu est Petra

The two cathedrals in Liverpool, Anglican and Roman Catholic, are featured with three towering organists playing: Jeanne Demessieux, Noel Rawsthorne, and Flor Peeters. The organ at the Anglican Cathedral is the largest in England and both are described in the CD booklet. These famous recordings were originally issued on the audiophile Ryemuse label in 1966 and are now on a Priory CD. Click the headline for titles and to order.

Michael Bonaventure, virtuosic proponent of new music for the organ, presents here a luminous recital of premiere recordings, a rare invitation into this phantasmagorical sound world. The composers were born 1944-1962. The works are played on the 1897 Hope-Jones/1953 Willis 4-63 at McEwan Hall in Edinburgh. Click the headline for titles and to order.

Clive Driskill-Smith plays the Dutch organ in the school hall, the Tickell organ in Lower Chapel; the Snetzler and Hill organs in College Chapel. Click the headline for titles and to order.

Neil Wright plays the restored 1904 Cavaillé-Coll 2-17 of Farnborough Abbey of St. Michael, where the Empress Eugénie commissioned a mausoleum and monastery to bury the Emperor Napoleon III and the Prince Imperial.

British organist Paul Derrett plays unusual repertoire on the 1962 Harrison & Harrison 4-93 in Coventry Cathedral, which many believe to be the greatest one-off achievement by an English organbuilder in the 20th century.

compiles appropriate music for Christian services as performed by many unidentified organists and choirs as compiled from recordings produced by Priory Records during the past decade. A 24-page booklet gives texts as well as suggestions for the service. The set is intended to aid anyone who must plan a funeral, including those who plan their own. There is much beautiful music here, too, simply for listening. Click picture for repertoire

A leading interpreter of nineteenth and twentieth century works, Christopher Herrick ably performs an interesting program of mostly nineteenth century works on the 1878 T. C. Lewis (Brixton) organ at Ripon Cathedral, North Yorkshire. From the 'Father' Schmidt organ of 1690 are retained three stops and a carved wooden hand which the organist would have used to relay the beat to the choir.

Organist, composer, and OHS member Lucius Weathersby plays African and African-American composers on the restored 1864 “Father” Willis organ at St. Michael & All Angels Church, Great Torrington, Devon, England. Click ikon for repertoire

On the famous 3-70 organ of Gloucester Cathedral, David Briggs plays Cochereau, Dukas, Tchaikovsky, Alain, Bach, Haydn, and Franck.

Paul Derrett, plays the 1910 William Hill organ at Chester Cathedral, incorporating most of the 1844 Gray & Davison that preceded it.

Dearnley shows the many facets of the organ in this famous cathedral.

David Hill plays at Winchester Cathedral.

Haileybury Chapel is a UK co-educational public school. Its fine domed chapel was opened in 1877 and now houses a 1998 Klais organ of two manuals and pedal with 30 stops.

This 1974/1978 recording of Francis Jackson at York Minster has been remastered, and is now released on CD for the first time. Of Dr. Jackson's interpretation of the French works, Robin Vaughan of The Times (UK) raves, "He exults in the unabashed exuberance of much French organ music."