Organ Recording

Commissioned Organ Work

In early 2001 I asked Andrew Carter if he would like to write an organ work to celebrate the centenary of St Wilfrid's, Harrogate in October 2002. He was very happy to accept, and to take up the idea of a liturgical suite to be played during the celebration of Holy Communion. The St Wilfrid's Suite consists of five pieces:

Timothy Gray gave the first performance of the Suite during the centenary Mass on Sunday 6 October 2002, when the celebrant and preacher was His Grace the Archbishop of York, and in the presence of the composer.

The work is due to be published by Oxford University Press.

Organ Recording

There is one recording of the Harrison and Harrison organ available at present, and this may be had either in CD or Cassette format (prices respectively £8 and £5). All the proceeds of this recording go towards the commission of the above organ composition by Andrew Carter.

Contents of recording:

Nun danket alle Gott   Sigfrid Karg-Elert
Prelude, Fugue and Chaconne in C   Dietrich Buxtehude
Suite Gothique   Leon Boellmann
  Introduction - Choral;Menuet gothique  
  Priere a Notre-Dame; Toccata  
Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen   Johannes Brahms
Marche des Rois Mages   Theodore Dubois
Four Chorale Preludes:   Johann Sebastian Bach
  In dulci jubilo  
  In dir ist Freude  
  O, Mensch, bewein dein Sunde gross  
  Heut' triumhiret Gottes Sohn  
Fugue in E flat major (St Ann)   Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude on Rhosymedre   Ralph Vaughan Williams
Master Tallis Testament   Herbert Howells
Chanson de la Vierge pensive   Andrew Carter
Carillon de Westminster   Louis Vierne
Trumpet Tune   Andrew Carter

Organists

Robert Crinall ( ? - 1977)

Assistants (as known)
Charles Queen
Nelson Walmsley

Timothy Gray (1977 - Now)

Assistants (as known)
David Halls
Nicola Holman