Vincent PERSICHETTI: Organ Music
The larger part of the organ music of the American composer Vincent Persichetti (1915–87) was composed towards the end of his life, with some of those pieces receiving their first recordings here. Several are based on hymn tunes, which can often be heard in the background – re-emerging in glorious affirmation in the Auden Variations. On occasion the language suggests a kaleidoscopic admixture of Hindemith and Messiaen, bristling with edgy flashes of colour; and Do not go gentle, an essay for pedals alone after the Dylan Thomas poem, is a statement of austere power. What these highly contrasted works have in common is complete textural clarity: Persichetti had been playing the organ since boyhood, and his writing for the instrument is that of a master.
Tom Winpenny, organ of St Alban’s Cathedral
ALL EXCEPT * FIRST RECORDINGS
Listen To This Recording:
- Hymn tune ‘Ann Arbor’ (‘Give peace, O God’)
- Chorale Prelude, Give peace, O God, Op. 162 (1985)
- Hymn tune ‘Primal’ (‘Our Father, whose creative Will’)
- Chorale: Semplice
- Variation I: A bene placido
- Variation II: Affabile
- Variation III: Comodo
- Variation IV: Ben articolato
- Variation V: Sostenuto
- Variation VI: Gentile
- Variation VII: Ben proclamato
- Variation VIII: Cantilena
- Variation IX: Tranquillo
- Variation X: Serioso
- Variation XI: Rigoroso
- Variation XII: Con agilitÃ
- Variation XIII: Risoluto
- Parable VI, Op. 117 (1971)
- Do not go gentle, Op. 132 (1974)
- Hymn tune ‘Foundations’ (‘Creator Spirit’)
- Prelude: By whose aid the world’s foundations first were laid
- Response: Give us Thyself, that we may see
- Psalm: From sin and sorrow set us free
- Prayer: Make us eternal truths receive
- Toccata: Inflame and fire our hearts
Auden Variations, Op. 136 (1977)
Dryden Liturgical Suite, Op. 144 (1980)*
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