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Howells: Psalm Preludes, sets one & two
Whitlock: Sketches on Verses from the Psalms

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Three Psalm Preludes, Set One

1. Lento, poco appenato (Ps.34:6)

2. Non troppo lento, ma sempre espressivo (Ps.37:11)

3. Lento serioso (Ps.23:4)

Seven Sketches on Verses from the Psalms

4. Pastorale (Ps.23:1)

5. Duetto (Ps.55:15)

6. Plaint (Ps.6:2)

7. Exultemus (Ps.81:1-3)

8. Préambule (Ps.23:2)

9. Intermezzo (Ps.37:38)

10. Sortie (Ps.68:25)

Three Psalm Preludes, Set Two

11. Lento, dolente (Ps.130:1)

12. Lento placid, teneramente (Ps.139:11)

13. Allegro (non troppo) ma giocoso (Ps.33:3)

Total playing time: 76:07

Messiaen: La Nativité du Seigneur

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La Nativité du Seigneur

1 La Vierge et l’Enfant

2 Les Bergers

3 Desseins éternels

4 Le Verbe

5 Les Enfants de Dieu

6 Les Anges

7 Jésus accept la souffrance

8 Les Mages

9 Dieu parmi nous

10 Verset pour la fête de la Dédicace

Total playing time: 66:58

Dyson: complete organ music

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Variations on Old Psalm Tunes

Book 1

1 Orlando Gibbons: Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go

2 Pry’s Psalter (1621): O Lord, turn not away Thy face

3 Thomas Campion: By the waters of Babylon

4 Scottish Psalter (1635): God moves in a mysterious way

Book 2

5 Ravenscroft’s Psalter (1621): O God, my strength and fortitude

6 Este’sWhole Book of Psalms (1592): O for a heart to praise

7 Scottish Psalter (1635): O God of truth

8 OrlandoGibbons: Song 22 Love of the Father

Book 3

9 Ravenscroft’s Psalter (1621): Hark, the glad sound

10 Orlando Gibbons: Song 24, O word immortal

11 Orlando Gibbons: Song 5, O Prince of Peace

12 Scottish Psalter (1615): I was glad

13 From ‘An Album of Praise’: Voluntary in D

14 – 15 Prelude and Postlude

16 – 17 Fantasia and Ground Bass

Total playing time: 70:26

The Magniﬁcent Organ

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1 Toccata and Fugue in D minor	Johann Sebastian Bach
2 Liebster Jesu wir sind hier	Johann Sebastian Bach
3 Concerto in A minor (1^st mvt)	Antonio Vivaldi, arr. J.S.Bach
4 Ach Gott erhör mein Seufzen	Johann Ludwig Krebs
5 O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort	Johann Ludwig Krebs
6 O Welt ich muss dich lassen	Johannes Brahms
7 Nun danket alle Gott	Sigfried Karg-Elert
8 Impromptu No.1	Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
9 Interlude	Henry Smart
10 Tuba Tune	Charles Sellars Lang

11 Lied (Song)	William Wolstenholme
12 Scherzo in G minor	Enrico Bossi
13 March on a theme by Handel	Alexandre Guilmant
14 Menuet gothique	Léon Böellman
15 Prière à Notre Dame	Léon Böellman
16 Carillon de Westminster	Louis Vierne
Total playing time 75:37

RECORDING AT ‘WARREN MINSTER’

I ﬁnd that Makin’s reverb system is very helpful when practising; the range of acoustical models and their adjustability make it possible
to prepare for performances in most venues that one might encounter. For recording purposes, however, I switch this off and record the
music in a completely ‘dry’ form. CD quality Wav ﬁles are taken direct from the organ’s Aux Out sockets and are edited on a computer
using Wave Pad. The ﬁles are then processed by t-Beat in one of Altiverb’s Convolution Reverb ecclesiastical venues. Makin’s sampled
organ pipes are thus returned to a real acoustical environment: St Etienne Cathedral in Caen, France was used for The Magniﬁcent
Organ and Messaien discs, whilst St Joseph’s Church in Utrecht, Netherlands was preferred for the Dyson complete organ works; most
recently King’s College, Cambridge was the chosen venue for Howells and Whitlock. Since the Makin samples are gathered from a variety
of sources the idea occurred to me of giving the assembled ranks and selected acoustic a notional home—hence ‘Warren Minster.’

Malcolm Pearce

Composer, Organist, Conductor

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