King of Instruments - The Art of Gillian Weir
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Back by Popular Demand!
Performed with “authority and stylish aplomb” (Jed Distler, classsicstoday.com) this set of historic organ performances has once again be made available (May 2005) as part of the Eloquence series of the Decca label, and is sold as individual CDs rather than only as a boxed set of five as was the case in the 1998 Argo release. The 2005 release has updated CD booklet covers and disc graphics, but the disc contents are digitally identical to the 1998 CDs.
This is a five CD collection of music Gillian Weir recorded in the 1970's and release originally on LPs, which were re-released in CD format in 1998 after her being awarded Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. The music covers a broad range of styles, countries, and time periods. Dame Gillian's insightful and fun recollections of the making of the recordings are included in the program notes.
These CDs can be ordered from buywell.com(external link).
Catalog numbers for volumes 1 through five are 460 1862, 460 1872, 460 1882, 460 1892, and 460 1902 respectively.
Track Listings
| Disc | Track | Music | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vol. 1 | 1 | J. S. Bach (1685-1750) |
Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C major, BWV 564 | |
| 2 | Fantasia in G major, BWV 572 | |||
3  |
Trio Sonata No 1 in E flat major, BWV 525 | |||
| 4 | Passacaglia in C minor, BWV 582 | |||
| 5 |
Louis Marchand (1669-1732) |
Pièces d'Orgue- Premier Livre | Dialog sur les Grands Jeux | |
| 6 | Récit de tierce en taille | |||
| 7 |
Basse et dessus de Trompette et de Cornet | |||
| 8 | Récit de Voix Humaine | |||
| 9 | Pièces d'Orgue- Cinquième Livre | Basse de Cromorne ou de Trompette | ||
| 10 | Duo | |||
| 11 | Récit | |||
| 12 |
Plein-Jeu | |||
| 13 | Fugue | |||
| 14 | Basse de Trompette ou de Cromorne | |||
| 15 | Récit de tierce en taille | |||
| 16 | John Bull (1562-1628) |
Dr Bull's My Selfe | ||
| 17 | Dr Bull's Jewell | |||
| Vol. 2 | 1 | Louis Nicholas Clerambault (1676-1749) |
Suite du Premier Ton | Grand Plein Jeu |
| 2 | Fugue | |||
| 3 | Duo | |||
| 4 | Trio | |||
| 5 | Basse et dessus de trompète | |||
| 6 | Récits | |||
| 7 | Dialogue | |||
| 8 | Suite du deuxième ton | Plein Jeu | ||
| 9 | Duo | |||
| 10 | Trio | |||
| 11 | Basse de cromorne | |||
| 12 | Flûtes | |||
| 13 | Récit de Nazard | |||
| 14 | Caprice | |||
| 15 | Nikolaus Bruhns (1665-1697) |
Praeludium No. 1 in G major | ||
| 16 | Praeludium No. 2 in E minor | |||
| 17 |
Praeludium No. 3 in E minor | |||
| 18 | Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland | |||
| Vol. 3 | 1 | François Roberday (1624-1680) |
Fugues et Caprices pour orgue | Fugue 1 - Caprice sur le mêsme sujet |
| 2 | Fugue 2 - Caprice sur le mêsme sujet | |||
| 3 | Fugue 3 - Caprice sur le mêsme sujet | |||
| 4 | Fugue 4 - Fugue, revers et 2 autres sujets | |||
| 5 | Fugue 5 | |||
| 6 | Fugue 6 - Caprice sur le mêsme sujet | |||
| 7 | Fugue 7 | |||
| 8 | Fugue 8 - Caprice sur le mêsme sujet | |||
| 9 | Fugue 9 - Caprice sur le mêsme sujet | |||
| 10 | Fugue 10 | |||
| 11 | Fugue 11 | |||
| 12 | Fugue 12 | |||
| 13 | Jean Langlais (1907-1991) |
Dialogue sur les Mixtures | ||
| 14 | Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654) |
Passamezzo (Variations 1-12) | ||
| Vol. 4 | 1 | Jean-François Dandrieu (1682-1738) |
Premier Livre de Pièces d'Orgue- Pièces en A. Mi La | Ofertoire |
| 2 | Fugue | |||
| 3 | Fugue | |||
| 4 | Trio avec la Pedale | |||
| 5 | Premier Livre de Pièces d'Orgue- Magnificat | Pleinjeu | ||
| 6 | Duo | |||
| 7 | Trio | |||
| 8 | Basse et Dessus de Trompète | |||
| 9 | Recit' de Trompète Séparée ou de Cromorne | |||
| 10 | Dialogue | |||
| 11 | Pièces en G. Ré Sol mineur | Ofertoire | ||
| 12 | Fugue | |||
| 13 | Fugue | |||
| 14 | Trio | |||
| 15 | Cromorne en Taille | |||
| 16 | Duo sur la Trompète | |||
| 17 | Magnificat | Pleinjeu | ||
| 18 | Duo | |||
| 19 | Trio | |||
| 20 | Basse de Cromorne | |||
| 21 | Recit de Nazard | |||
| 22 | Dialogue | |||
| 23 | Louis Marchand (1669-1732) |
Pièces d'Orgue- Troisème Livre | Dialogue sur les Grands Jeux | |
| 24 | Pièces d'Orgue- Quatrième Livre | Duo | ||
| 25 | Fugue | |||
| 26 | Trio | |||
| 27 | Récit | |||
| 28 | Duo | |||
| 29 | Basse de Trompette | |||
| 30 | Récit de tierce en taille | |||
| 31 |
Nicolas de Grigny (1672-1703) |
Tierce en Taille | ||
| 32 |
Henri Mulet (1878-1967) |
Toccata tu es Petrus | ||
| Vol. 5 | 1 | Charles Camilleri (b. 1931) |
Missa Mundi | I The Offering |
| 2 | II Fire over the Earth | |||
| 3 | III Fire in the Earth | |||
| 4 | IV Communion | |||
| 5 | V Prayer | |||
| 6 | Charles Marie Widor (1844-1937) |
Symphony No. 6: Allegro | ||
| 7 | Louis Vierne (1870-1937) |
Impromptu | ||
| 8 | Louis Claude Daquin (1694-1772) |
Noël Suisse | ||
| 9 | Marcel Dupré (1886-1971) |
La Fileuse | ||
| 10 | Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656) |
Worster Braules | ||
| 11 | Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck (1562-1621) |
Mein Junges Leben hat ein End | ||
| 12 | Théodore Dubois (1837-1924) |
Toccata | ||
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