Tom Winpenny - Gardner: Complete Organ Music, Vol. 1 (2024) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Intrada & Finale, Op. 241: I. Intrada
02. Intermezzo, Op. 13
03. Organ Sonata, Op. 204: I. Allegro moderato
04. Organ Sonata, Op. 204: II. Adagio
05. Organ Sonata, Op. 204: III. Allegro molto
06. Hymn Tune: Bicclescombe
07. 2 Variants on "Bicclescombe", Op. 134
08. Prelude in G Minor, Op. 96
09. Prelude in C Major, WAB 129 "Perger Präludium"
10. Fantasia & Fugue on a Prelude of Anton Bruckner, Op. 185
11. 5 Hymn Tune Preludes, Op. 44: No. 1, Old Hundredth
12. 5 Hymn Tune Preludes, Op. 44: No. 2, Dundee
13. 5 Hymn Tune Preludes, Op. 44: No. 3, Darwall's 148th
14. 5 Hymn Tune Preludes, Op. 44: No. 4, Down Ampney
15. 5 Hymn Tune Preludes, Op. 44: No. 5, Veni Creator Spiritus
16. Piece for Organ, Op. 10
17. Intrada & Finale, Op. 241: II. Finale

The music of the English composer John Gardner (1917–2011) – basically tonal and always impeccably crafted – is characterised by rhythmic vivacity and harmonic immediacy. His musical fingerprints come from his love of jazz, Renaissance and Baroque procedures and his mastery of imitative counterpoint; his use of established musical forms invests them with a quirky and distinctive harmonic idiom. This first album of two collecting his entire output of organ music presents not only his sly humour but also the staggering contrapuntal craftsmanship of his fugue on a theme by Anton Bruckner – one of the monuments of recent British writing for the organ.

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