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Description
This recording features International virtuoso and Birmingham City Organist, Thomas Trotter – described by BBC Music Magazine as ‘one of the greatest living organists’ – in a colourful celebration of the restoration and re-opening of Birmingham Town Hall and its historic 1834 organ with a programme of dazzling orchestral transcriptions and original works from the English ‘town hall’ tradition.
Track List
Organ Concerto No 16 in F – Handel transcribed by Marcel Dupré/Thomas Trotter
10:07Ouverture
0:58Allegro
3:08Andante
3:52March
1:57Variations on a theme by Paganini for pedals – Thalben-Ball
7:34Theme
0:33Var 1 Andante
0:43Var 2 Allegretto
0:28Var 3 Maestoso
0:50Var 4 Allegro
0:24Var 5 Presto
0:28Var 6 Maestoso
0:45Var 7 Allegro
0:35Var8 Adagio
0:50Var 9 Adagio(with Manual drone)
1:00Var 10 Vivace (Man& Ped)
0:56Elegy – Thalben-Ball
4:49Concert Fantasia on a Welsh March (Men of Harlech) – WT Best
11:06Villanella – Ireland
3:56Carmen Suite – Bizet transcribed by Lemare
11:31Andantino in D flat major – Lemare
4:05Rondo Capriccio (A Study in Accents) – Lemare
3:36Concertstück (Concert Piece in the form of a Polonaise) – Lemare
7:21Rienzi Overture – Wagner transcribed by Lemare
11:48 Total playing time: 75:44
Produced in association with Town Hall, Birmingham
Production credits
Recorded on 28/29 July 2007 in Birmingham Town Hall
Producer and engineer: Gary Cole
Sample audio extracts
Reviews
“Organ discs just don’t come better than this.” International Record Review, January 2008
“The organ has been captured superbly; waist-busting reeds, spine tingling tremulants, wispy flutes and crisp upperwork, all captured here in glorious technicolour.” Organists’ Review, January 2008
“Trotter, who will next year will mark 25 years as Birmingham City Organist, satisfyingly employs the vast resources of the William Hill instrument to its full speaker-rattling capacity” Gramophone, December 2007