Composer: Jehan Alain, Jean Yves Daniel-Lesur, Jeanne Demessieux, Maurice Duruflé, Auguste Fauchard, Naji Hakim, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Matthew Martin, Charles Tournemire, Arthur Wills
Performer: Ben Bloor
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Ad Fontes
Catalogue: AF011
Release: 2024
Size: 2.75 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Wills: Carillon on “Orientis partibus”
02. Downes: Paraphrase on “O filii et filiæ”
Hakim: Mariales
03. No. 3, Antienne
Karg-Elert: Cathedral Windows, Six Pieces on Gregorian Tunes, Op. 106
04. II. Ave Maria
05. VI. Lauda Sion
Duruflé: Prélude, adagio et choral varié sur le theme du “Veni Creator”, Op. 4
06. II. Chorale varié
07. Alain: Variations sur l’hymne ‘Lucis Creator’, AWV 29
08. Alain: Postlude pour l’office de complies, AWV 13
Tournemire: L’orgue mystique, Cycle de Noël, Op. 55
09. No. 11, Purification B. Mariae Virginis. Diptyque
10. Daniel-Lesur: In paradisum
Demessieux: 12 Chorale Preludes on Gregorian Chant Themes, Op. 8
11. No. 1, Rorate caeli
12. Martin: Prelude on “Conditor alme siderum”
13. Fauchard: Le Mystère de Noel
Prizewinning performer Ben Bloor makes his debut recording on the iconic instrument with which he is so well acquainted: the Walker organ of the London Oratory, designed by Ralph Downes in 1954. The carefully constructed programme is one close to his heart: music centred around Gregorian chant, and takes in a liturgical year of plainsong-based works from 20th-and 21st-century France, Germany and England. The instrument’s fantastic breadth of colour finds its home in well-trodden favourites by Duruflé and Demessieux, but also in gems recorded here for the first time, including a new commission based on the Advent hymn, Conditor alme siderum, by Matthew Martin.