STANFORD Organ Works Vol 2
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Composer or Director: Charles Villiers Stanford
Genre:
Instrumental
Label: Priory
Magazine Review Date: 03/2015
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 71
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: PRCD1106

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Fantasia and Fugue |
Charles Villiers Stanford, Composer
Charles Villiers Stanford, Composer Daniel Cook, Organ |
(6) Short Preludes and Postludes Set 1 |
Charles Villiers Stanford, Composer
Charles Villiers Stanford, Composer Daniel Cook, Organ |
Sonata for Organ No. 3, 'Britannica' |
Charles Villiers Stanford, Composer
Charles Villiers Stanford, Composer Daniel Cook, Organ |
In Modo Dorico |
Charles Villiers Stanford, Composer
Charles Villiers Stanford, Composer Daniel Cook, Organ |
Prelude on the ancient melody 'Jesu dulcis memoriae' |
Charles Villiers Stanford, Composer
Charles Villiers Stanford, Composer Daniel Cook, Organ |
Te Deum Laudamus |
Charles Villiers Stanford, Composer
Charles Villiers Stanford, Composer Daniel Cook, Organ |
Author: Jeremy Nicholas
As to the music, it can veer from the inspired to the very ordinary (by which I mean the kind that is more rewarding for an organist to play than for an audience to hear). This second volume of Stanford’s complete organ works has a mixture of both, beginning with the Fantasia and Fugue in D minor (from 1907), the only work here not based on a plainsong or hymn tune, and seldom heard – perhaps because, after the invigorating Fantasia, the workaday Fugue simply fizzles out without ceremony.
The Six Preludes and Postludes, Set 1 contains some attractive ideas (No 2 is a good recital piece) and some less so. One might say the same about the brief In modo dorico, the Prelude on Jesu dulcis memoria and the Fantasia on Te Deum laudamus. No qualms about the Sonata No 3 in D minor, Stanford at his magnificent best, with its central ‘Benedictus’ accommodating an unexpected martial section midway, and the sonata-rondo finale a resourceful treatment of the hymn tune ‘Hanover’ (‘O worship the King, / All glorious above’) in which Cook eventually unleashes the full power of the Durham organ.
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