Organ Recordings
CDs can be obtained from the Music Office or by emailing your postal address to office@dioceseofleedsmusic.org.uk. Cheques should be made payable to “Diocese of Leeds Music”.
CD recordings include:
Gracious Groove – Organ Music of Dick Hyman
‘Five stars! Throwing the spotlight on the organ music of the prolific jazz pianist, Broadway orchestrator and film composer Dick Hyman, Benjamin Saunders proves as nimble an advocate as Leeds Cathedral’s 1904 Norman & Beard. Boasting vividly contrasted textures, the three-movement jazz- and blues-accented Millennial Countdown is the most substantial work here.’ Michael Quinn, Choir and Organ Magazine
Label: ProOrgano
Price £10.00
Arvo Pärt – Choral and Organ Music
‘This highly impressive disc features a selection of Pärt’s choral music and his complete output for organ. What makes the recording special is the full-throated sound of the choir, featuring both boy and girl trebles, captured in the spacious acoustics of Leeds Cathedral itself.’ Gramophone Magazine
‘Leeds Cathedral Choir under Benjamin Saunders share in the benefits of a successful new interpretation with the calm and contemplation that this withdrawn, deliberately simple music require.’ Artistxite
Label: Brilliant Classics
Price £10.00
Elgar – Complete Organ Music
This new recording contains Elgar’s complete original works for organ, as well as several arrangements of his famous showpieces, the first Pomp & Circumstance March, the Imperial March and Nimrod from the Enigma Variations, an iconic piece of English ceremony.
Label: Brilliant Classics
Price £10.00
Andriessen – The Four Chorals & Other Organ Music
Hendrik Andriessen (1892-1981) was one of the most important Dutch composers of the 20th century. Performed by Benjamin Saunders on the magnificent Grand Organ of Leeds Cathedral, perfectly suited to the large scale of these visionary works.
‘Benjamin Saunders has an extremely sensitive ear for the different aesthetics of the music. He gives the music life and is absolutely essential listening, and performs its technical requirements effortlessly.’ NMZ Neuen Musikzeitung
Label: Brilliant Classics
Price £10.00
Duruflé – Complete Choral & Organ Works
Duruflé’s monumental Requiem is recorded in the composer’s preferred scoring of reduced orchestration and organ. Thomas Leech directs the Cathedral Choirs and Skipton Camerata Orchestra on the first disk accompanied by Benjamin Saunders and Daniel Justin. The second disk features the complete organ works played by Adriano Falcioni of Perugia Cathedral.
‘Le disque coup de coeur de la semaine’ Sacrées Musique, Radio France
‘Excellent, enjoyable and rewarding’ Gramophone Magazine
Label: Brilliant Classics
Price £10.00
Georgi Mushel – Complete Organ Works
All of the music of Georgi Aleksandrovich Mushel is presented on a single CD release, much of it recorded for the first time. The collection represents some of the most original organ works of the last century taking inspiration from Russian classical traditions and
the folk melodies of Mushel’s adopted central Asian home in Uzbekistan.
Awarded five stars both in ‘Choir and Organ’ and ‘The Listener’.
Label: Brilliant Classics
Price £10.00
The Klais Organ
The first recording of the new Klais organ at Leeds Cathedral, played by Benjamin Saunders. The disc features original compositions by Vierne, Guilmant, Part, Howells and Kushnariov alongside transcriptions of music by Glass, Dvorak and Britten. The CD booklet contains full details of the organ.
Label: Herald AV
Price £10.00