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A Taste of Shropshire
"The last work in this pot-pourri is a pot-pourri in its own write (right). Magnificently entitled Introduction & Grand Concert Variations on a Hymn Tune by Sir Arthur Sullivan (the not-so-young-person’s guide to the organ) it lasts a good sixteen minutes. It is a sweeping up of a gross of different styles and a dozen quotes from famous organ and orchestral works. Too many to itemise – but look out for Widor – you cannot really miss him. Just the sort of piece to bring the house ... " John France, Music Web International
"The celebrated New Zealand organist Martin Setchell plays superbly throughout; he is an impeccable stylist, with nimble fingers (and feet) and is clearly having a jolly good time as well. This enjoyable disc – something for that Sullivan collector who already has everything else.." Robin Gordon-Powell, for Sir Arthur Sullivan Society magazine
Sample this CD by clicking on the speakers to hear a short sound bite:
- Paean – a Song of Triumph, Oliphant Chuckerbutty
- Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4 in G Op. 39, Sir Edward Elgar
arr. Sinclair
- Three dances from Henry VIII, Sir Edward German arr.
Lemare
(Morris Dance-
Shepherds’ Dance -Torch
Dance )
- The Lost Chord, Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) arr. Rawsthorne
- The Land of Lost Content, Paul Spicer (b. 1952)
- Two dances from Capriol Suite, Peter Warlock (1894-1930) arr. Setchell (Basse-danse, Pieds-en-l’air)
- Coronation March and Hymn, Sir Edward German (1862-1936) arr. Brown/Setchell
- Introduction and Voluntary for the Cornet stop, Sir Charles Burney
(1726-1814)
- Songs of Praise Toccata, Robert Prizeman (b. 1952)
- Jig (No. 3 of Five Dances), John Gardner (b.1917)
- RAF March Past, Sir Henry Walford Davies (1869-1941) arr. Setchell
- 12 Introduction and Grand Concert Variations on a Hymn Tune by Sir Arthur
Sullivan (the ‘Not-so-young person’s guide to the organ’),
Richard Francis (b. 1946)
Total duration: 76:06
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