Elgar: Complete Works for Organ

Elgar: Complete Works for Organ

On this CD:

1. Sonata for organ in G major, Op.28
Composed by Edward Elgar
Performed by John Butt

2. Vesper Voluntaries (11) for organ, Op.14
Composed by Edward Elgar
Performed by John Butt

3. Cantique for organ/orchestra/piano, Op.3 Organ version
Composed by Edward Elgar
Performed by John Butt

4. Loughborough Memorial Chime, for carillon (or organ) Organ version
Composed by Edward Elgar
Performed by John Butt

5. Sonata for organ in B flat major, Op.87a
Composed by Edward Elgar
Performed by John Butt

Editorial Reviews
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Although Elgar wrote relatively little organ music, the instrument played a key role in his formative years and toward the end of his life. The G Major Sonata from 1895 represents Elgar's first large-scale effort with symphonic form, while Ivor Atkins's arrangement of the Severn Suite for brass (sanctioned by Elgar in 1933, the year before his death) amounts to a veritable Second Sonata. All the clarity, rhythmic firmness, and registration smarts John Butt brought to his superb Harmonia Mundi Bach recital are present in his Elgar traversals. Notice, for instance, the gentle urgency with which he propels the bass lines in the First Sonata's brisk outer movements, the Second Sonata's crisply delineated Toccata, and the lyrical dignity he brings to the Vesper Voluntaries. True, Carlo Curley's more extroverted and color-coded reading of the First Sonata on Argo outflashes Butt's relatively straightlaced demeanor. This release, however, will attract Elgarians and organ buffs alike seeking intelligent musicianship and virtuosity that draws attention to the music first. The organist also provides his own apt, informative notes. --Jed Distler

Elgar: Complete Works for Organ, Music, Edward Elgar, John Butt, Chamber Music & Recitals, Classical, Classical Composers, Classical Music, Coll. of Character/Single-Movement/Misc. Works for Keyb., Keyboard, Miscellaneous Keyboard Music, Orchestral, Romantic Sonata/Sonatina for Keyboard, Romantic Tone Poem/Symphonic Poem for Orchestra

Elgar: Complete Works for Organ

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