An Organ for All Occasions

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Keith John, Sergey Prokofiev, Robert Schumann, Antonio Vivaldi, Marcel Dupré, Igor Stravinsky, Franz Liszt

Label: Priory

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 54

Mastering:

DDD

Catalogue Number: PRCD174

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
(12) Concerti grossi, '(L')estro armonico', Movement: No. 9 in D, RV230 Antonio Vivaldi, Composer
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer
Keith John, Organ
(4) Sketches Robert Schumann, Composer
Keith John, Organ
Robert Schumann, Composer
(6) Consolations, Movement: Quasi adagio Franz Liszt, Composer
Franz Liszt, Composer
Keith John, Organ
Rhythmic Energy Keith John, Composer
Keith John, Composer
Keith John, Organ
Suite Marcel Dupré, Composer
Keith John, Organ
Marcel Dupré, Composer
(The) Love for Three Oranges, Movement: March Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Keith John, Organ
Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Circus Polka Igor Stravinsky, Composer
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
Keith John, Organ
The youthful freshness of Keith John's playing, the clarity and strange beauty of the highly individual organ are all revealed without hindrance on Priory's second CD issue in the Great European Organs series. As an organ demonstration record, for testing the height, depth and middle of your 'fi', it would be hard to beat. The brilliant waywardness of Guillou is much in evidence, in the Vivaldi arrangement as much as in the larky Prokofiev and Stravinsky, in Keith John's own startling composition, in his brilliant but free performances and in the curious harmonic constitution of the organ which Guillou designed. We are in a region where seriously-studied quirkiness transmutes into genius. Whatever, it emerges as a compelling and thrilling experience. Good sound.'

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