Gerald Hendrie: Complete Organ Music, Volume One
The organ music of Gerald Hendrie – born in England in 1935 but resident in France since 1996 – encompasses a huge range of influences, among them the organist-composers who went before him (not least Franck, Dupré and Messiaen), dodecaphony, mediaeval plainchant and modality and jazz. The resulting works are as varied as the styles that fed into them, from grandiose to gentle, from severe to whimsical, from lyrical to lively.
Tom Winpenny
Listen To This Recording:
- I Toccata and Fugue: Toccata*
- I Toccata and Fugue: Fugue
- II Prelude and Fugue: Prelude
- II Prelude and Fugue: Fugue
- III Prelude and Fugue on BACH: Prelude
- III Prelude and Fugue on BACH: Fugue
- IV and V Two Sketches on the name BACH: Sketch No. 1 Vivace
- IV and V Two Sketches on the name BACH: Sketch No. 2 Deciso
- Sicilienne (2022)
- Choral: Hommage à César Franck (1990)
- Specula Petro (1968)
- I Introduction
- II Fugue
- III Interlude
- IV Finale
Le Tombeau de Marcel Dupré (1990-92)
Sonata: In Praise of St Asaph/Mawl i Asaff Sant (1994)
ALL EXCEPT * FIRST RECORDINGS
MusicWeb International :
‘He [Tom Winpenny] gives a committed and technically outstanding performance of each piece. I look forward to hearing the subsequent volume of this cycle of organ music.’
—John France, MusicWeb International