Composer: Gerald Hendrie
Performer: Tom Winpenny
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata Classics
Catalogue: TOCC0731
Release: 2024
Size: 1.19 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
6 Concert Studies
01. No. 1, Brillantemente
02. No. 2, Allegro deciso
03. No. 3, Allegro ritmico
04. No. 4, Allegro molto
05. No. 5, Allegramente
06. No. 6, Comodo
Pastorale & Fughetta
07. I. Pastorale
08. II. Fughetta
Trio Sonata
09. I. Allegro comodo
10. II. Pastorale
11. III. Moderato
Sonata “In Praise of Reconciliation”
12. I. Introduction
13. II. Fugue
14. III. Commemoration
15. IV. Exsultate
The organ music of Gerald Hendrie – born in England in 1935 but resident in France since 1996 – encompasses a huge range of influences, among them the organist-composers who went before him (not least Franck, Dupré and Messiaen), dodecaphony, mediaeval plainchant and modality and jazz. The resulting works are as varied as the styles that fed into them, from grandiose to gentle, from severe to whimsical, from lyrical to lively. The mighty, 25-minute Sonata: In Praise of Reconciliation uses whimsical references to two cities bombed in the Second World War – the ‘Coventry Carol’ and the ‘Dresden Amen’ – to make a monumental plea for peace.