An Organ for All Occasions
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Composer or Director: Keith John, Sergey Prokofiev, Robert Schumann, Antonio Vivaldi, Marcel Dupré, Igor Stravinsky, Franz Liszt
Label: Priory
Magazine Review Date: 9/1987
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 |
Author:
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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