L’Orgue Grégorien: A year of chant-based organ music from the London Oratory
Prizewinning performer Ben Bloor makes his debut recording on the iconic instrument with which he is so well acquainted: the Walker organ of the London Oratory, designed by Ralph Downes in 1954. The carefully constructed programme is one close to his heart: music centred around Gregorian chant, and takes in a liturgical year of plainsong-based works from 20th- and 21st-century France, Germany and England. The instrument’s fantastic breadth of colour finds its home in well-trodden favourites by Duruflé and Demessieux, but also in gems recorded here for the first time, including a new commission based on the Advent hymn, Conditor alme siderum, by Matthew Martin.
Released Friday 3rd May. Available to pre-order now.
Track List
1
Arthur Wills
Carillon on ‘Orientis Partibus’
2
Ralph Downes
Paraphrase on ‘O filii et filiæ’
3
Naji Hakim
Antienne (Mariales)
4
Sigfrid Karg-Elert
Ave Maria (Six Cathedral Windows, Op. 106)
5
Sigfrid Karg-Elert
Lauda Sion (Six Cathedral Windows, Op. 106)
6
Maurice Duruflé
Choral varié sur le thème du ‘Veni Creator’ (Op. 4)
7
Jehan Alain
Variations sur Lucis Creator (JA 27)
8
Jehan Alain
Postlude pour l’Office de complies (JA 29)
9
Charles Tournemire
Diptyque (L’Orgue Mystique, No. 11:
Purificatio Beatæ Virginis Mariæ)
10
Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur
In paradisum
11
Jeanne Demessieux
Rorate cæli
12
Matthew Martin
Prelude on ‘Conditor alme siderum’
13
Auguste Fauchard
Le mystère de Noël