Composer: Judith Bingham, Andrew Carter, Edward William Elgar, Herbert Norman Howells, John Ireland, Simon Preston, Thomas Tallis, William Turner Walton, Percy Whitlock
Performer: Benjamin Sheen
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: CRD
Catalogue: CRD3541
Release: 2022
Size: 1.31 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Walton: March for the History of the English-speaking Peoples
02. Ireland: A Downland Suite: II. Elegy. Lento espressivo (Arr. for organ by Alec Rowley)
03. Elgar: Cockaigne Overture, Op. 40 ‘In London Town’
04. Bingham: St Bride, assisted by angels
05. Whitlock: Fantasie Choral No. 1 in D flat major
06. Preston: Alleluyas
07. Tallis: Veni Redemptor genitum
08. Howells: Master Tallis’s Testament (from Six Pieces)
09. Whitlock: Organ Sonata in C minor: Scherzetto
10. Carter: Lacrimae
11. Elgar: Imperial March, Op. 32
CRD is releasing a single disc of British Organ Music on the Dobson Organ of Saint Thomas Church, Fifith Avenue, New York City, played by noted concert organist Benjamin Sheen. This collection contains a swath of organ music from composers such as William Walton, John Ireland, Thomas Tallis and including World Premiere recordings of an arrangement of an Elgar piece ‘In London Town’ by Benjamin’s father, Graham Sheen, as well as a World Premiere recording on Larcrimae by Andrew Carter, written in the memory of John Scott.