Please click on links below to listen to samples of this beautiful organ music.
- Symphony in G Major, First Movement. This is an organ symphony in the true sense, as originated by the French organist and composer Charles Marie Widor. Sowerby’s writing encompasses the full range of the organ, both dynamically and in his use of the different voices of the instrument.
- Symphony in G Major, Second Movement. This second movement replaces the traditional slow movement of a three or four movement work with a faster, more intricate second movement involving fanfares and brief fantasia sections.
- Symphony in G Major, Third Movement. The third movement contains a passacaglia, one of Sowerby’s most often-used forms. Increased chromatic writing drives toward the grandiose ending of the work.
- Carillon. In this short piece, from Sowerby’s early years of composing, we find lovely melodic lines used in various voices of the organ along with the chromatic writing common with Sowerby during this period. This is a very comforting, relaxing piece for the listener and the performer.
- A Wedding Processional. Written in 1952 and rarely heard today, this large broad processional is the equivalent of a grand march in the British Empire style but using Sowerby’s tonal pallette.