Timothy Byram-Wigfield - The Kelvingrove Organ (2008)

Timothy Byram-Wigfield, newly appointed master of music at St George’s, Windsor, plays a variety of Edwardian transcriptions on one of the world’s finest concert organs: the Lewis organ in Glasgow's Kelvingrove Gallery.

Exhilarating … Never daunted by the fearsome difficulties of many of Lemare’s
and Best’s arrangements, nor fazed by the limited 1901 controls of the chunky console, Byram-Wigfield delights in finding just the right sounds, textures and tempi to make these works sound like real organ music. There is delicacy, humour, drive, vigour, lightness of touch and heroic utterance here, to which these fine compositions respond by revealing their all. I love it!