playlist | organ miniatures from a long 20th century

This playlist comprises 43 characterful and mostly meditative pieces from the long 20th century.

I recorded these during the UK’s various Covid-related restrictions of 2020–22 for use as part of live-streamed church services, as exordia ad missam (tr. preludes to the mass).

Recordings©Andrew Pink. 
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Playlist: click on any item to start listening. Scroll right down for biographical links

Biographies A > Z and sources

• Emma Louise Ashford (1850–1930) 
  ‘Melody in B-flat: allegretto ma non troppo’ (The Organist Vol. 2/iv 1898)
• Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979)
  ‘Inprovisation‘ (Trois Improvisations. 1911–12)
• Kate Boundy (1863–1913)
  ‘Even Song‘ (The Village Organist. Vol. 11. 1898)
• Luigi Bottazzo (1845–1924)
  ‘Invocazione alla Regina della Pace‘. Raccolta di Sette Pezzi. Op.289. 1917)
• Maude Campbell-Jansen (1888-1954)
  Meditation (1928).
• Hedwige Chrétien (1859–1944)
  ‘Musette‘ from Harmonies Religieuses: à l’usage du service divin. (Series ‘Echos des organistes contemporains’ Vol 3 . 1922)
• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)
  ‘Melody’ (Three Short Pieces. 1898).
• Elisa Delaye-Fuchs (1872–?)
  ‘Pièce en La bémol majeur‘ Op. 25 (Maîtres contemporains de l’orgue. Vol. 5. 1914. 93–94)
• Jeanne Demessieux (1921–68)
  ‘Rorate caeli‘ (Twelve Choral-Preludes on Gregorian Themes. Op. 8. 1947) . 
• Théodore Dubois (1837–1924)
  ‘Adoration‘ (42 Pièces pour Orgue ou Harmonium. c.1915. Op. Posth. 1925)
• Marcel Dupré  (1886–1971)
  ‘Alma redemptoris mater‘ (Eight Short Preludes on Gregorian Themes. Op 45. 1958).
• Robert Evans (c.1949–.)Divertimento for a Keyoboard: Allegro Energico (2014)
• William Faulkes (1863–1933)
  ‘Idylle in D-flat major’ (William Faulkes: Compositions for the Organ. 1902)
• Eugénie-Emilie Juliette Folville (1870–1946)
  ‘Verset sur le thème du “Tantum”, 6e ton’ (Maîtres contemporains del’orgue, Vol.3. 1912)
• César Franck (1822–90)
  ‘Prélude pour l’Ave Maris Stella: andantino quasi allegretto’, 1858–63. (No. 28 in Pièces posthumes, ed. Georges Franck, 1905. )
• Harvey Grace (1874–1944)
  ‘Cradle Song’ (Ten Compositions for the Organ. 1922)
• Walter Battison Haynes (1859–1900)
  ‘Meditation in G: Introductory Voluntary‘ in The Village Organist (Vol. 1, Book 4,  1897)
• Paul HIndemith (1895–1963)
  ‘Ruhig bewegt’ (Sonate 2, 1937)
• Peter Hurford (1930–2019)
  ‘Wem in Leidenstagen‘ (Five Short Chorale Preludes, 1958)
• Joseph Jongen (1873–1953)
  Petit Prélude (1937)
• Jean Langlais (1907–91)
  ‘Interlude’ (Three Characteristic Pieces, 1957).
• John Lee (1908–90)
  ‘Ecce panis angelorum‘ Ten Organ Preludes for Liturgical Services. No 9. (1939)
• Louis J. A. Lefébure-Wely  (1817–69)
  ‘Andante: choeur de voix humaines‘ (Meditaciones religiosas op. 122/vii. 1858).
• Kate Loder (1825–1904)
  ‘Voluntary in B-flat‘ (Six Easy Voluntaries. Second set. 1891). ” … for the most part fresh and genial in character […] somewhat suggestive of Spohr in the numerous chromatic progressions.” (Musical Times. Vol. 32, No. 579 (May  1, 1891), p. 297).
• Robert–Charles Martin (1877–1949)
  ‘Élévation‘ (Parnasse des Organistes … First series, vol.1. 1911)
• Olivier Messiaen (1908–92)
  Le Banquet Céleste (1928)
• Andrew Moore (b.1954)
  Hymn-prelude ‘Bunessan’ (1996)
• Ann Mounsey-Bartholomew (1811–1891)
  ‘Andante’ (The Village Organist. First Series, vol 2. 1872)
• Henri Mulet (1878–1967)
  ‘Noel’ (Esquisses Byzantines, 1920).
• Max Oesten (1843–1917).
  ‘Christmas‘ (Festival Times. Op 205/i, 1899).
• Flor Peeters (1903–86)
  ‘Fantasie Inviolata‘ (Four Improvisations on Gregorian Melodies. Op.6/iv, 1946).
• Jean-Marie Plum OSM (1898–1944)
  ‘Bénédiction nuptiale‘ (Messe de mariage. Op.56/ii. Pub. posth, Paris. 1955)
• Marie Prestat (1862–1933)
  ‘Offrande à la Vierge: Alma redemptoris mater‘ (Maîtres contemporains de l’orgue. Vol.4..  Paris: 1914)
• Florence Price (1887–1953)
  Adoration (1951)
• Noel Rawsthorne (1929–2019)
  ‘Interlude in C‘ (Adagio Collection, 1999)
• Alec Rowley (1892–1958).
  ‘Picardy‘ (A Book of Hymn Tune Voluntaries [by various]. 1950)
• Blanche Rozan (fl.1900–12)
  ‘Petite Prière: assez lentement’ (Maîtres contemporains de l’orgue. Vol. 2.. Paris: 1912)
• Léonce de Saint-Martin (1886–1954)
  ‘Interlude de Grand Orgue pour l’Élévation: infiniment calme‘ (Mass in E-minor, Op.13. 1932)
  Hermann Schroeder (1904–84).
  ‘Allegretto‘ (Kleine Präludien und Intermezzi. Op. 9. 1932)
• Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
  ‘Ave Maria’ (Ellens Gesang III, D. 839/vi. 1825), arr. Andrew Pink (2022)
• Quentin Thomas (b. 1972)
  ‘Prelude on St Columba’ (1996)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)
  ‘Eventide‘ (from Two Hymn Tune Preludes for small orchestra (1936), arranged for organ (1938) by Herbert Sumsion (1899–1995)
• René Vierne (1878–1918)
  ‘Élévation’ (Archives de l’Organiste, vol 4. 1910)

Techincal notes
– Temperament: Equal; pitch A=440
– Organ: Viscount Sonus 60
– Microphone: Zoom Q2N-4K
– Recordings: ©Andrew Pink. All rights reserved.
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