Performer: Gillian Weir
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Priory
Catalogue: PRCD866
Release: 2006
Size: 354 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Ives: Variations on ‘America’
Dandrieu: Livre de Noëls (Excerpts)
02. No. 3, Or nous dites Marie
03. No. 30, Puer nobis nascitur
04. No. 29, Offertoire “Où s’en vont ces gais Bergers”
05. Bach: Prelude & Fugue in C major, BWV547
Grison: Pièces d’orgue, Book 2
06. Toccata in F Major
07. Reger: Fantasie und Fuge in D Minor, Op. 135b
08. Dupré: Variations sur un Noël, Op. 20
Bovet: 3 Préludes hambourgeois
09. No. 1, Salamanca
10. No. 2, Sarasota
11. No. 3, Hamburg
The magnificent Festival Hall organ was frequently recorded during the LP era but this is the first CD dedicated to this landmark instrument. …Weir is the most rhythmic of organists and one can share her enjoyment of the Spanish dance elements in Bovet’s Preludes and the bell-like swing of Bach’s Prelude together with its majestic Fugue. Her performances of Ives’s witty variations. Grison’s dazzling Toccata and Dupré’s sparkling Noël Variations are characterised by imaginative colouring, wit and breathtaking virtuosity.