Premiere Recordings
Kevin Bowyer plays the Nicholson organ in St. Mary's Church, Warwick
Catalogue number: CC 003
Price: £6.00
Premiere CD recordings of works by British composers John Rose, John Joubert, Norman Kay, Donald Bousted and Peter Racine Fricker, featuring internationally-acclaimed recitalist Kevin Bowyer in top form. The organ is a large instrument in two sections (West Gallery & North Transept) played from one 3-manual console. The CD booklet includes photographs and biographies of the composers and the organist, programme notes on the music, and a specification of the organ. The cover photographs feature lights from the mid-15th-century windows in the Beauchamp Chapel at St. Mary's.
"Kevin Bowyer's playing is stunningly good" (Organists' Review)
"A ripe-toned instrument, finely caught by engineer Paul Arden-Taylor" (Classic CD)
"The CD booklet is a model of its kind and a delight to handle" (British Music Society)
- Prelude and Fugue Op. 8 (1993) (John Rose)
- Scherzo-Intermezzo-Toccata Op. 9 (1995) (John Rose)
- Six Short Preludes on English Hymn Tunes Op. 125 (1990) (John Joubert)
- Six Short Preludes: 1 Listen
- Six Short Preludes: 2
- Six Short Preludes: 3
- Six Short Preludes: 4
- Six Short Preludes: 5
- Six Short Preludes: 6
- Chorale Sonata No. 2 (1995) (Norman Kay)
- A Woldgate Requiem (1993) (Donald Bousted)
- Pastorale (1959) (Peter Racine Fricker)
