Alfred Hollins Organ Works - T. Byram-Wigfield (Caird Hall organ)

ID: DCD34044 (EAN: 801918340444)  | 1 CD | DDD - 24 b
Publi: 2006

LABEL:

DELPHIAN RECORDS

Collection:

Organ Collection

Subcollection:

Organ

Compositeurs:

HOLLINS, Alfred

Interprètes:

BYRAM-WIGFIELD, Timothy (organ)

Pour plus amples dtails:

Timothy Byram-Wigfield (Caird Hall organ)

Designed by the blind organist Alfred Hollins, the Caird Hall instrument is one of the finest recital organs in the UK - as ideal a vehicle for Hollins’ own music as Byram-Wigfield is an exponent of it. Hollins effortlessly combines keyboard pyrotechnics with a quasi-orchestral approach to sonority. These works bristle with vigour, their swaggering confidence leavened with ingenuity and wit.


Track listing
Alfred Hollins
1. Concert Overture in C major (1889)
2. Benediction Nuptiale (1898)
3. A Trumpet Minuet (1929)
4. Allegretto grazioso (1906)
5. Concert Overture in C minor (1899)
6. Evening Rest (1917)
7. Concert Overture in F minor (1922)
8. Andante in D (1895)
9. A Song of Sunshine (1913)
10. Maytime Gavotte (1927)
11. Theme with Variations and Fugue (1911)

Total Playing Time: [79:40]

‘Byram-Wigfield's performances are superb; there's none of the shallow, showy musicianship one hears from a few international recitalists, but instead, carefully crafted interpretations played with consummate skill.’
- Gramophone

‘There is delicacy, humour, drive, vigour, lightness of touch and heroic utterance here, to which these fine compositions respond by revealing their all. I love it!’
- Organists’ Review