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Two Oxford Organs / Brooks, Webber

Wagner / Purcell / Bach / Pachelbel / Brooks
Release Date: 08/14/2012 
Label:  Priory Records   Catalog #: 1050   Spars Code: DDD 
Composer:  Johann Sebastian Bach,  Antonín Dvorák,  Sebastián Aguilera de Heredia,  Johann Pachelbel,   ... 
Performer:  Geoffrey Webber,  Gerard Brooks
Number of Discs: 1 
Recorded in: Stereo 
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Gerard Brooks performs on the Willis Organ of Oxford Town Hall. Geoffrey Webber performs on the Organ of Magdalen College, Oxford.

This CD combines two recordings of the 1980s both made in Oxford. The first was an LP of Oxford Town Hall which was Gerard Brooks first recording for Priory of orchestral transcriptions (PR 186). The second was a cassette only issue of the new Mander organ in Magdalen College ( PRC 209). Due to space restrictions only about half of this recital is included. A CD then of contrasts and still, to our knowledge, the only commercial recording of the Town Hall Willis. - Priory Records
 Gerard Brooks performs on the Willis Organ of Oxford Town Hall. Geoffrey Webber performs on the Organ of Magdalen College, Oxford.

This CD combines two recordings of the 1980s both made in Oxford. The first was an LP of Oxford Town Hall which was Gerard Brooks first recording for Priory of orchestral transcriptions (PR 186). The second was a cassette only issue of the new Mander organ in Magdalen College ( PRC 209). Due to space restrictions only about half of this recital is included. A CD then of contrasts and still, to our knowledge, the only commercial recording of the Town Hall Willis. - Priory Records
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Works on This Recording

1.
Meine Seele erhebt den Herren, BWV 733 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:  Geoffrey Webber (Organ)
Period: Baroque 
Written: 1708-1717; ?Weimar, Germany 
2.
Carnival Overture, Op. 92 by Antonín Dvorák
Performer:  Gerard Brooks (Organ)
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1891; USA 
3.
Obra de 8 tono por ge sol re ut by Sebastián Aguilera de Heredia
Performer:  Geoffrey Webber (Organ)
Period: Renaissance  
Written: Spain 
4.
Chaconne for Organ in F minor by Johann Pachelbel
Performer:  Geoffrey Webber (Organ)
Period: Baroque 
Written: Germany 
5.
Voluntary for Organ in C major, Z 714 by Henry Purcell
Performer:  Geoffrey Webber (Organ)
Period: Baroque 
6.
Guillaume Tell: Overture by Gioachino Rossini
Performer:  Gerard Brooks (Organ)
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1829; Italy 
7.
Echo Fantasia for Keyboard "Ionian" by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Performer:  Geoffrey Webber (Organ)
Period: Renaissance 
Written: Netherlands (Holland 
8.
Suite for Orchestra no 1 in D major, Op. 43: Fugue by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Performer:  Gerard Brooks (Organ)
Period: Romantic 
Written: Russia 
9.
Voluntary by Thomas Tomkins
Performer:  Geoffrey Webber (Organ)
Period: Renaissance 
Written: England 
10.
Die Walküre: Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner
Performer:  Gerard Brooks (Organ)
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1856; Germany 
11.
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Act 1 Prelude by Richard Wagner
Performer:  Gerard Brooks (Organ)
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1867; Germany 

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