I'm so pleased that the ''Great European Organs'' series on the Priory label has King's college, Cambridge, for its No 1. It has an aura all its own. Its rich warmth, haloed by golden mixtures, sails on a different ocean from the sterner vessels of the neo-classic line, and it rejoices to tremendous effect in such a colourful programme as this. And what a start Reger's Dankpsalm makes, its pedal line especially digging into incredible depths. Mendelssohn billows in, dressed overall with shining colours in his upperwork—and even his fugal divisions are individuality spruced as for an Admiral's inspection. Mozart's Fantasia is reasonably scaled down in deference to its original mechanical destination (it too often starts like an eighteenth-century air raid—if you can imagine such a thing) and the charm of its long fluted passages maintains enchantment throughout. Karg-Elert is treated with abundant majesty and Hindemith gains a great deal from colourful treatment and an edge-softening acoustic.
It is, of course, Stephen Cleobury who is the weaver of all these spells (it's too often the organ and the building which get all the credit here) and anyone requiring further proof of his abilities to thrill and enchant should play the Liszt Variations over and over again until further notice. The CD, if you have the wherewithal, makes a fine display record.'