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Help us celebrate the fascinating complexities of America’s organ music past, and the wonders of its contemporary organ builders.
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Subscription to Organ Cinema, the ever-expanding encyclopedia of the organ and its music, produced by Fugue State Films in association with the Royal College of Organists.
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An exploration and celebration of one of the oldest forms of worship used around the world, this documentary goes behind the words and music and looks at how and why Choral Evensong continues to be the mainstay of Anglican daily worship in many cathedrals and large churches.
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Will Fraser’s first novel: Matthew, an ambitious assistant organist is in conflict with his lazy director of music, an unworthy boss. While Matthew strives to excel in this uneasy milieu, he is further destabilised by the thrilling attractions of Chloë, a blues singer. This relationship involves him in the resolution of a homicide … but has the murderer returned?
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Epic multi-disc boxset from Fugue State Films. Tom Bell performs Messiaen’s Le Banquet Celeste, La Nativité, the Messe de la Pentecôte and the magisterial Livre du Saint-Sacrement in their entirety at Blackburn Cathedral. In an accompanying documentary Tom explores Messiaen’s life and compositions with biographer and scholar Christopher Dingle.
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This exhaustive boxed-set establishes Max Reger as one of the early 20th century’s greatest composers. More than 15 hours of content including three feature-length documentaries, plus filmed performances of 12 hours of Reger’s best music for orchestra, organ, voice, violin, piano and chamber ensemble. 57 films in total.
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The English Organ, a ‘dazzling showcase of repertoire and instruments’ (Gramophone Magazine), presented by Daniel Moult and filmed over more than a year in forty locations in three continents, is the definitive documentary about the story of the English organ and its music over five hundred years. ‘Emphatically and urgently recommended,’ writes Fanfare Magazine, ‘this is one of the most important organ recordings of all time, and a model of how music documentaries ought to be done.’
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Aristide Cavaillé-Coll was the greatest organ builder of the 19th century. Creator of such instruments as those in St Sulpice, Paris, St Ouen, Rouen, he devised a new way of building organs that led directly to the development of the French Romantic school of organ composition. This set of 42 films is the magnum opus of Fugue State Films.
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Charles-Marie Widor is a true musical force: a virtuoso who revolutionised organ playing in France, a composer who invented the organ symphony and wrote the most famous toccata since Bach, and an enormously influential figure in French cultural history.
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Sietze de Vries plays Bach’s entire Orgelbüchlein and improvises 45 of the missing chorales. Filmed at the Martinikerk in Groningen and the Petruskerk in Leens.
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Alkmaar: The Organs of the Lauresnkerk contains more than 3 hours of film. Its centrepiece is a one-hour documentary filled with music and gorgeous, abundant visual detail, detailing the 500 year organ history of the Laurenskerk in Alkmaar, a church that includes both an organ from 1511 by Jan van Covelens as well as the world-famous 1646 / 1723 van Hagerbeer / Frans Caspar Schnitger organ.
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Charles-Marie Widor was a true musical force: a virtuoso who revolutionised organ playing in France, a composer who invented the organ symphony and wrote the most famous toccata since Bach, and an enormously influential figure in French cultural history.
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For this boxset we filmed at fabulous organs in Central Germany by organbuilders Bach knew. Instruments include the two Silbermanns in Rötha; the Trost in Waltershausen and the Hildebrandt in Sangerhausen.
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César Franck is one of the most fascinating of all composers. He had the vision to create the French organ school, and his compositions are played, studied, listened to and loved by organists everywhere.
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Bach is arguably the greatest of all composers, and certainly the greatest composer who wrote for the organ. Daniel Moult, explores the extraordinary Toccata and Fugue in D minor, an instantly recognisable masterpiece that is one of the most popular pieces of music ever written.
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Beautiful selection of choral music sung by the choir of St Mary’s Nottingham. Archive recordings from the 1970s and ’80s.
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George Ritchie follows up his recordings of the complete Bach organ works with this magisterial performance of Bach’s late contrapuntal masterpiece The Art of Fugue.
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This is the first ever filmed performance of Louis Vierne’s six complete organ symphonies released on DVD. Roger Sayer gives a magisterial performance on the spectacular organ of the Temple Church, London. All six symphonies are presented on both DVD and CD, plus a short introductory film. Shot in 4K and presented in both 5.1 surround sound and stereo.
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Will Fraser’s first novel: Matthew, an ambitious assistant organist is in conflict with his lazy director of music, an unworthy boss. While Matthew strives to excel in this uneasy milieu, he is further destabilised by the thrilling attractions of Chloë, a blues singer. This relationship involves him in the resolution of a homicide … but has the murderer returned?
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“Invaluable” Colin Tilney
Includes free copy of Colin Booth’s CD recording of the Goldberg Variations.
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The original 2xDVD plus 2xCD boxset has sold out, but we have limited copies of just the 2 x DVDs in plain white packaging left, so you can still enjoy this magnificent set of films on DVD. You can also buy the film on digital streaming in the digital section of our shop. The two DVDs feature an extensive seven-part documentary, demonstrations of four historic organs and 150 minutes of filmed performances.
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Olivier Latry is one of the top organists of the present day world. Appointed organist of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris at the age of 23, his fame has spread beyond Paris as a globally acclaimed concert organist and sought after pedagogue. In this book he covers a wide range of topics revealing his profound knowledge and personal convictions, always passionately expressed. The book also contains valuable information about ‘his’ instrument at Notre Dame as well as his important predecessors in the organ loft.
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Handel’s Carillon, The Harmonious Blacksmith’s Suite, and rare gems for the harpsichord played by Colin Booth.
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Magisterial performance of the second set of Bach’s 48 Preludes and Fugues played by Colin Booth. 2 CDs plus extensive notes.
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Magisterial performance of the first set of Bach’s 48 Preludes and Fugues played by Colin Booth. 2 CDs plus extensive notes.
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Tri Robinson explores Christian environmentalism.
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The authoritative history of the richest collection of historic pipe organs in the world, those in the Dutch province of Groningen. The documentary film Martinikerk Rondeau features masterful organ-building team Cor Edskes and Jürgen Ahrend, and includes performances by Sietze de Vries of repertoire from Scheidemann to Schumann and a series of historically styled improvisations.
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Most great composers have left us countless pieces of music which rarely get heard. They may not be part of a better-known set, or may contain odd features which are not typical of the master’s more familiar style. Colin Booth’s latest CD features music of this kind. His three previous Bach recordings have all attracted extravagant critical praise. Here we have a collection of unfamiliar keyboard gems which all make immediately compelling listening.
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Graham Barber performs Karg-Elert’s great Sonata Opus 46, plus six portraits of composers Weber, Chopin, Wagner, J. Strauss, Verdi and Grieg.
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Once Upon a Time in Knoxville uplifts us with the tale of recycling visionary Rollo Sullivan.
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Colin Booth, harpsichord
“A characterful, honest and engaging recital” Gramophone
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“This recording stands out in a crowded field” Early Music Review
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Simon Thomas Jacobs performs on the first CD recorded on the Richards, Fowkes & Co organ of St George’s, Hanover Square.
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David Butterworth plays English organ music (Wesley, Byrd, Tomkins, Adams, Stanley, Purcell, Camidge, Nares etc) on historic instruments in Branston (Hugh Russell, 1794) and Eaton (Anon, c1829).The disc also includes works by van Dalem, de Klerk, Jongen, Böhm, Buxtehude and Bach.
£8.50
