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Release Date: 05/12/2009 Label: Hyperion Catalog #: 67734 Spars Code: n/a Composer: Guy Weitz, Derek Bourgeois, Johann Christian H Rinck, Otto Emanuel Olsson, William Lloyd Webber, Edwin Lemare, Percy Aldridge Grainger, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Maurice Duruflé, William Mathias Performer: Christopher Herrick
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| Notes & Reviews | Back to Top | ||||
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| Christopher Herrick continues the Scandinavian leg of his endlessly popular Organ Fireworks series with a disc of music performed on the great organ of Västerås Cathedral in Sweden. The programme is, as ever, a tempting pot-pourri of pieces from around the world, some popular, some rare; some light-hearted and some serious, and demonstrating all facets of virtuoso writing for the organ. Highlights include a contribution from a Swedish composer: Otto Olsson's magnificent Introduction and Allegro 'Credo in unum Deum'. Duruflé's Choral Varié on Veni Creator is a work of immense grandeur and majesty, and the performance shows Herrick to be a master of the classic French idiom. The present day is represented by Derek Bourgeois, one of the most prolific of living composers writing for the organ. Vaughan Williams' Prelude and Fugue in C minor displays a gritty, truculent brand of counterpoint that anticipates the dissonance and fury of his Symphony No 4 in F minor. William Mathias's Recessional is a classic 'Organ Fireworks' number: an athletic display of quick-fire semiquavers alternating with march-like passages with a tramping bass, and ending with a colourful, crashing explosion of notes. Praise for ORGAN FIREWORKS Volume 12 CDA67612 'The unfailingly superb Christopher Herrick ... this instrument is just right for this music, and the sumptuous Hyperion sound captures it all with great clarity ... these are fireworks good and proper, lit with unerring precision and vividly displayed ... Herrick has come up with performances of the two great French show-pieces which are so perfectly suited to the instrument that these wonderful performances stand as yardsticks ... you have, for my money at least, the most glitteringly splendiferous set of Fireworks so far' (International Record Review) | |||||
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| Works on This Recording | Back to Top | ||||
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Grand choeur by Guy Weitz | ||||
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Performer:
Christopher Herrick (Organ)
Period: 20th Century Written: England |
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Length: 4 Minutes 19 Secs. |
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Prelude and Toccata by Derek Bourgeois | ||||
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Performer:
Christopher Herrick (Organ)
Period: 20th Century |
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Length: 9 Minutes 4 Secs. |
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Variations for Organ on "Ah vous dirai-je, Maman", Op. 90 by Johann Christian H Rinck | ||||
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Performer:
Christopher Herrick (Organ)
Period: Romantic |
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Credo symfoniacum, Op. 50: 1st movement, Introduction and Allegro "Credo in unum Deum" by Otto Emanuel Olsson | ||||
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Performer:
Christopher Herrick (Organ)
Period: 20th Century Written: 1925; Sweden |
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Length: 13 Minutes 46 Secs. |
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Dedication March by William Lloyd Webber | ||||
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Performer:
Christopher Herrick (Organ)
Period: 20th Century Written: 1953; London, England |
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Length: 5 Minutes 51 Secs. |
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Toccata and Fugue for Organ in D minor, Op. 98 by Edwin Lemare | ||||
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Performer:
Christopher Herrick (Organ)
Period: Romantic Written: by 1920 |
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Length: 8 Minutes 2 Secs. |
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Room Music Tit Bits: Handel in the Strand by Percy Aldridge Grainger | ||||
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Performer:
Christopher Herrick (Organ)
Period: 20th Century |
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Length: 3 Minutes 52 Secs. |
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| Notes: Arranger: Wolfgang Stockmeier. | |||||
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Prelude and Fugue in C minor by Ralph Vaughan Williams | ||||
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Performer:
Christopher Herrick (Organ)
Period: 20th Century Written: 1921; England |
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Length: 10 Minutes 52 Secs. |
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Prelude, Adagio and Chorale Variations on "Veni Creator", Op. 4 by Maurice Duruflé | ||||
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Performer:
Christopher Herrick (Organ)
Period: 20th Century Written: 1930; France |
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Length: 4 Minutes 50 Secs. |
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Recessional, Op. 96 no 4 by William Mathias | ||||
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Performer:
Christopher Herrick (Organ)
Period: 20th Century Written: Wales, UK |
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Length: 4 Minutes 32 Secs. |
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