Composer: Peter Racine Fricker
Performer: Tom Winpenny
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0518
Release: 2019
Size: 1.15 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Intrada, Op. 64
5 Short Pieces, Op. 83
02. No. 1, Little Toccata
03. No. 2, Meditation
04. No. 3, Scherzino
05. No. 4, Varied Ostinato
06. No. 5, Ceremony
07. Pastorale
08. Toccata, Op. 55 “Gladius Domini”
09. Choral for Organ
10. Praeludium, Op. 60
11. Trio
12. Recitative, Impromptu & Procession, Op. 92
13. Ricercare, Op. 40
The London-born Peter Racine Fricker (1920–90) was once a prominent figure on the British musical landscape but slipped from view after he took up a teaching post in California in 1964. This first-ever survey of his organ music reveals a vigorously contrapuntal style, one which reconciles a taste for crunchy dissonance with a strong sense of melodic direction, its moods ranging from angular elegance to fierce climaxes swirling with energy and glittering with light. The organist here is Tom Winpenny, Assistant Master of the Music at St Albans Cathedral and one of Britain’s brightest young stars in the organ firmament.
Tom Winpenny, currently Assistant Master of the Music at St Albans Cathedral, was formerly Sub-Organist at St Paul’s Cathedral, and during this time he performed with the Cathedral Choir at the American Guild of Organists National Convention, performed in Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with Valery Gergiev and the London Symphony Orchestra, and played for many major state occasions. He has also broadcast regularly on BBC Radio and been featured on American Public Media’s Pipedreams.