Description
Instruments: Organ, Manuals
Now here's a new idea: instead of asking our composers to work their improvisatory magic on hymn tunes we allocated the main theme of some of the world's favourite classical melodies. The result is a really pleasing new genre which we think will find favour with organists.
All the pieces are written for those with a moderate technique.
The themes on which our composers have based their improvisations are:Adagio from Clarinet Concerto (Mozart) - Rosalie Bonighton
Adagio from Pathetique Sonata (Beethoven) - Betty Roe
Adagio from Violin Concerto in G minor (Bruch) - Andrew Fletcher
Air on the G string (Bach) - Richard Lloyd
Andante from Piano Concerto No 21 (Mozart) - Richard Lloyd
Autumn from The Four Seasons (Vivaldi) - Malcolm McKelvey
Ave verum (Mozart) - Stanley Vann
Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach) - Malcolm McKelvey
Dance of the Hours from La Gioconda (Ponchielli) - Martin Setchell
First movement from Symphony No 40 (Mozart) - Robert Jones
First movement of Pastoral Symphony (Beethoven) - Andrew Fletcher
Fourth movement from The Trout (Schubert) - John Marsh
Hallelujah Chorus (Handel) - Adrian Vernon Fish
Hornpipe from Water Music (Handel) - Andrew Wright
Jerusalem (Parry) - John Marsh
Largo (Handel) - Martin Setchell
Largo from New World Symphony (Dvorák) - Andrew Wright
Lullaby (Brahms) - Robert Jones
March from William Tell Overture (Rossini) - Rosalie Bonighton
Non più andrai from The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart) - Andrew Wright
Panis angelicus (Franck) - Stanley Vann
Romanze from Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart) - Norman Warren
Rondo from Horn Concerto No 5 (Mozart) - Richard Lloyd
Soldier's Chorus from Faust (Gounod) - John Marsh
Spring from The Four Seasons (Vivaldi) - Norman Warren
Theme from Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky) - Norman Warren
Toreador's Song from Carmen (Bizet) - Betty Roe
Waltz from Sleeping Beauty (Tchaikovsky) - Adrian Vernon Fish