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New: Slumber Song by Edwin H Lemare, Arkansas Traveler by Fred Feibel, and Larghetto by C H Trevor. New: Advanced Organ Course by Jesse Crawford, Overture to “William Tell” by Rossini-Koch, Triumphant Procession by Michael Johnston, and The Squirrel by Powell Weaver. 
Coming: Sonata III by Thayer, Prelude and Angel’s Farewell by Elgar-Brewer, Poet and Peasant Overture by Suppe-Lemare, Andante No 1 by Dunham, Concert Study by Pietro Yon , and much more! |
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“I received the music today. It all looks great and I’m looking forward to checking both of them out.
Thanks.” —Indiana, USA
“The first track [of What Used to be Played], Claussmann’s Sortie, is in a book, Ecclesiae Organum, edited by W. Carl. It’s called Te Deum Laudamus in the book. I still play it at least once a year and have had the book since high school.” —Colorado, USA “Thanks for making this music available. You’ve so many great pieces of organ music that are on my ‘wish list,’ you'll be selling more this way and to me in the future.” —Georgia, USA “Thanks a lot for this wonderful recording! I received the Sowerby Symphony CD last Monday and it lived fully up to my high expectations. Mr. Whitehead’s gorgeous playing is breathing and very rhythmical and has a never-ceasing sense of excitement, something that is absolutely necessary to do justice to both Sowerby’s exuberant late-romantic (long) forms and his almost ecstatic harmonic language. The recording is very natural. All in all, a very convincing CD with very great music. It has to be high ranked in the Sowerby discography.” —Netherlands “Lemare’s Andantino in D-flat is one of the real organ classics, and it is nice to see now it first looked.” —Rollin Smith, The American Organist, December 2009 (read the review) “The organ scores are beautiful!” —North Carolina, USA “Thank you for the wonderful job you do in making this great organ music available to the public. Many of these works have been buried under the sands of time and deserve to resurrected.” —Connecticut, USA “Many thanks for this — arrived today in perfect condition. Brewer’s a fantastic and much underrated composer, and I was very excited to find this transcription [Coronation March] as this is the best of all the Elgar marches in my opinion — far better than Walton’s more famous Coronation March. With any luck I will hopefully be able to pop up to Worcester and try this out in Elgar’s old church and see how it sounds. You have a fantastic catalogue online. I’m usually very careful about ordering from overseas, but I have no doubt that I will order again from your shop some time in the future. Many thanks once again.” —United Kingdom “So many good things — so little time. I ordered The Holy Night by Dudley Buck. I’m always looking for something a little bit different, especially at Christmas time, that I don’t need to knock myself out to play. I love Dudley Buck’s music. Even though the instrument at my church is small, it should work quite well on our 1902 Hutchings/Votey. Now if I could only think of a reason to play The St Louis Blues, I’d be all set. I’m glad you’re making the effort to save this music.” —Massachusetts, USA “I found out about your service from another organist locally. I shared this information with a friend. He has gotten his order and could not say enough about the superior quality of the paper and printing. I look forward to using your service in the future.” —Alabama, USA |
Regarding Edwin H Lemare: “In my survey of music played in 17,000 UK organ recitals from 1880 to 1930,
published as an Appendix in A Directory of Composers for Organ 3rd Ed., Lemare was the single most performed
English composer. If his music was worth playing then, perhaps we need to look at it again now?
—Dr John Henderson, ARSCM, The Organ, No 347, Winter 2009”
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“I find the contents of the Crawford book quite fascinating. I was fortunate to have a teacher who emphasized the importance of harmony and a solid background in chords, so I recognise a lot of what Crawford is saying. However, I think it would take a long time to fully absorb and put into practice everything in this book. Anyway, there are many useful tips that I can work on without wading through every detail. Also, although this 60-year-old book does not cover more modern rhythms, it suits me fine since I generally prefer pre-60s music and my wife and I do ballroom dancing and particularly like the Waltz and Foxtrot! Thank you again for restoring this very enlightening book — and for producing a quality product, just like your many organ pieces.” —United Kingdom Regarding What Used to be Played: “All of this music was once published in the USA and played in recital and church service. Every composition will not appeal to all, but each is well played by Mr. Flood, who has done us a considerable favor by presenting it to a new audience. I thought the three pieces by Aloÿs Claussmann, Sortie Breve, Pastorale, and Marche de Fête, were very attractive.” —Charles Huddleston Heaton, The Diapason, January 2010 (read the review) “I am so glad that you have taken the time to restore this material, as it looks very interesting from the pages that you’ve placed on your website. With the full 130 pages on playing and improvisation techniques, it [the Crawford Advanced Organ Course] sounds like a very useful practical reference book which should keep me busy for a long time! I always look forward to receiving your emails about new publications, so thank you very much.” —United Kingdom “Thank you for sending me Lotus so quickly. I must congratulate you on the presentation of the music, and particularly its history which I enjoyed reading very much. I remember well the music of my youth, Strayhorn and Ellington giving me so much enjoyment at that time. I heard Lotus played at an organ recital last week in Leeds Town Hall.” —United Kingdom “The Lost Chord was a great hit last year. I played it again this past fall on a recital to the same universal acclaim.” —North Carolina, USA “The Chimes of Gloucester Cathedral is based on four 18th-century melodies composed for the cathedral’s nine bells. I find it refreshing, and if you’re as big a bell nut as I am, you’ll immediately add this to your collection.” —Rollin Smith, The American Organist, December 2009 (read the review) “I am certainly thankful for your efforts at restoring and making available wonderful music that might otherwise be neglected. (And such nice heavy paper too!)” —Illinois, USA |
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