Catalogue
HAVPCD214 – Organ Classics at the London Oratory
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| Disk Title | Organ Classics at the London Oratory |
| Soloists | Patrick Russill |
| Location | The London Oratory |
| Date Recorded | June 1997 |
| Audio Tracks | 18 |
This recording could be aptly subtitled ‘Portrait of an Organ’, for one of its aims is to show the beauty and range of a rarely-recorded but historically important organ in one of London’s great churches. Completed in 1954, it was the first modern British Church organ to draw in radical fashion on classical European influences and principles.
| Trk. | Duration | Track Title | Composer |
| 1 | 03:13 | ‘Jig’ Fugue in C, BuxWV 174 | Dieterich Buxtehude |
| 2 | 08:10 | Ciacona in F minor | Johann Pachelbel |
| 3 | 08:36 | Fantasia in G major BWV 572 | J. S. Bach |
| 4 | 04:05 | Wachet auf! ruft uns die Stimme BWV 645 | J. S. Bach |
| 5 | 02:39 | Herzlich thut mich verlangen BWV 727 | J. S. Bach |
| 6 | 01:18 | Magnificat in G 1. Plein jeu |
Jean-François Dandrieu |
| 7 | 01:05 | 2. Duo | |
| 8 | 01:30 | 3. Trio | |
| 9 | 01:44 | 4. Basse de trompette | |
| 10 | 01:47 | 5. Flûtes | |
| 11 | 01:42 | 6. Dialogue | |
| 12 | 07:45 | Marche pontificale (from Symphony No. 1) | Charles-Marie Widor |
| 13 | 03:08 | Es ist ein’ Ros’ entsprungen Op. 122 No. 8 | Johannes Brahms |
| 14 | 03:49 | Marche triomphale Op. 65 No. 59 | Sigfrid Karg-Elert |
| 15 | 05:47 | Benedictus Op. 59 No. 9 | Max Reger |
| 16 | 06:25 | Final (from Symphony No. 1) | Louis Vierne |
| 17 | 06:00 | La Nativité (from Poèmes évangéliques) | Jean Langlais |
| 18 | 04:59 | Incantation pour un jour saint | Jean Langlais |
Patrick Russill is one of the leading church musicians of his generation. In 1977, at the age of 23, he succeeded Ralph Downes (on Downes’s nomination) as only the fourth Organist of the London Oratory since its foundation … He is also Head of Choral Direction and Church Music at the Royal Academy of Music, directing since 1987 the UK’s only conservatoire church music course. In addition, he is noted for his work as Director of the mixed-sex London Oratory Junior Choir, as an editor, and as a writer and lecturer on church music matters.
