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ORGAN RECORDINGS

 Concertos      RESPIGHI - POULENC - RHEINBERGER
Peter King - Organ
BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by François-Xavier Roth

Suite in G for Strings and Organ - Respighi
Concerto in G minor for Organ, strings and timpani - Poulenc
Concerto No 1 in F, Op 137, for Organ, strings and three horns - Rheinberger

   
 CD Cover Romantic Organ Music

ROMANTIC ORGAN MUSIC
played on the Klais Organ of Bath Abbey by Peter King

Prelude and Fugue on BACH - Franz Liszt
Sonata vi in D minor - Felix Mendelssohn
Choral ii in B minor - César Franck
Elegiac Romance - John Ireland
Fantasie iii on C op 157 - Camille Saint-Saëns
Toccata in D minor op 59 v - Max Reger 
Fugue in D op 59 vi - Max Reger

   
 moz

MOZART
Peter King plays Mozart on the Klais Organ of Bath Abbey

Fantasia in F minor, KV 608

Adagio in C, KV 356 (KV 617a)

Adagio and Allegro (Fantasia) in F minor and major, KV 594

Sonata in D minor for piano duet, KV 381     Allegro, Andante, Allegro vivace

Adagio in B minor

Adagio and Rondo in C minor and major, KV 617    Adagio, Rondo

Strahower Improvisation (Fantasia in G minor), KV 528a

Gigue in G (Leipziger Gigue), KV 574

Andante in F, KV 616

Adagio and Fugue in C minor, KV 546     Adagio, Fugue

 

Here we have immaculate playing, varying from joy and happiness to sadness, to anger.
Delicate or bold, fiery or liquid, calm, patient or vigorous and vital,
and all in such good measure and all with such a variety of touch. The Organ

   
 baroquery

BAROQUERY
Peter King plays Baroque works on the Klais Organ of Bath Abbey

Toccata in D minor — Diderik Buxtehude

Chaconne in F minor — Johann Pachelbel

Chorale Fantasia — Diderik Buxtehude
Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern

Concerto in B flat — Tomaso Albinoni transcribed Johann Gottfried Walther Allegro, Adagio, Allegro

Praeludium in E minor (Great) — Nicolaus Bruhns

Batalla de sexto tono — José Ximenes

Cornet Voluntary in A minor — John Blow

Dialogue sur les Grands Jeux (Veni Creator) — Nicolas de Grigny

Four Movements from Messe pour les Convents — François Couperin
Recit de Trompette, Chromhorne en Taille,
Dialogue sur la Voix Humaine, Elevation: Tierce en Taille

Prelude and Fugue in C — Johann Sebastian Bach

 

Buxtehude's Toccata opens with a flair that King catches perfectly... 
King's pacing has an ideal forward thrust...
This is a great performance of a masterpiece...
One of the highlights of this recital is the powerful Preludium by Nicolaus Bruhns...
King has an extra measure of impact. Fanfare
 

 Fantasie FANTASIE
Peter King plays German Romantic music on the Klais Organ of Bath Abbey

Introduction and Passacaglia in D minor — Max Reger
Evocation à la Chapelle Sixtine — Ferenc Liszt
Fantasie - Sonate xvii in B Opus 181 — Josef Rheinberger
       Fantasie, Intermezzo, Introduction und Fuge 

Chorale Prelude and Fugue "O Trauerigkeit, o Herzeleid" — Johannes Brahms
Chorale Prelude "O Welt, ich muß dich lassen" Opus 122 xi — Johannes Brahms
La Nuit — Sigfrid Karg-Elert (Trois Impressions) Opus 72 iii
Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue of Bach — Max Reger

 

Wonderful new recording… King makes all this so easy…
Reger’s arrangement of Bach’s Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue
receives a performance worth every penny you spend on this disc”  – The Organ

“A blistering performance of Liszt’s Evocation… King gives virtuoso performances”
Roger Fisher, Organists’ Review

“King is master of the long paragraph… just as sensitive in the more rhapsodic works… 
he chooses gorgeous colours, of which there are plenty on this magnificent instrument” Choir &Organ

geono51c

GREAT EUROPEAN ORGANS 51
Peter King plays the Klais Organ of Bath Abbey 

Praeludium in C — Dietrich Buxtehude

Vater unser im Himmelreich — Georg Böhm

Praeludium in G minor — Dietrich Buxtehude

Orpheus — Franz Liszt

Triptico del buen Pastor — Jesús Guridi

     The Flock

     The Lost Sheep

     The Good Shepherd

Pastorella — Johann Sebastian Bach

Fantasie in D flat — Camille Saint-Saëns

Hommage à Dietrich Buxtehude — Petr Eben  

 

 

 

 

Copyright Peter King 2007