Composer: John Gardner
Performer: Tom Winpenny
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata Classics
Catalogue: TOCC0724
Release: 2024
Size: 1.12 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Intrada & Finale, Op. 241
01. I. Intrada
02. Intermezzo, Op. 13
Organ Sonata, Op. 204
03. I. Allegro moderato
04. II. Adagio
05. III. Allegro molto
06. Hymn Tune: Bicclescombe
07. 2 Variants on “Bicclescombe”, Op. 134
08. Prelude in G Minor, Op. 96
09. Prelude in C Major, WAB 129 “Perger Präludium”
10. Fantasia & Fugue on a Prelude of Anton Bruckner, Op. 185
5 Hymn Tune Preludes, Op. 44
11. No. 1, Old Hundredth
12. No. 2, Dundee
13. No. 3, Darwall’s 148th
14. No. 4, Down Ampney
15. No. 5, Veni Creator Spiritus
16. Piece for Organ, Op. 10
Intrada & Finale, Op. 241
17. II. Finale
The music of the English composer John Gardner (1917–2011) – basically tonal and always impeccably crafted – is characterised by rhythmic vivacity and harmonic immediacy. His musical fingerprints come from his love of jazz, Renaissance and Baroque procedures and his mastery of imitative counterpoint; his use of established musical forms invests them with a quirky and distinctive harmonic idiom. This first album of two collecting his entire output of organ music presents not only his sly humour but also the staggering contrapuntal craftsmanship of his fugue on a theme by Anton Bruckner – one of the monuments of recent British writing for the organ.