The second Oxford Book of Christmas Organ Music comprises a diverse collection of seasonal organ music, covering the Church's year from Advent to Epiphany. The music is stylistically varied, and the pieces are drawn internationally from across the centuries with a mixture of established repertoire set alongside newly commissioned works.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
This is a most worthy successor to the 1995 publication, and one that all organists will find useful during the Christmas season. * David Pipe, Organists' Review, December 2023 * Nearly 30 years after the publication of OUP's first Christmas Organ Music anthology, this second book strides into the 21st century with a refreshing and forward-looking selection of pieces [...] Robert Gower is to be congratulated on a varied compilation of 34 pieces that should prove at least as useful and enduring as the first volume. * Duncan Watkins, RSCM, December 2023 *
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Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Maße
Höhe: 311 mm
Breite: 232 mm
Dicke: 10 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-19-356063-5 (9780193560635)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
On retirement from a teaching career spent successively at St Paul's Boys' School, Barnes, Radley College, Oxfordshire, and Glenalmond College, Perthshire, (where he was also a Housemaster and Senior Tutor), Robert Gower worked as Organist at St Barnabas Catholic Cathedral, Nottingham, before moving briefly to the most northerly parish in the Church of England at Berwick-upon-Tweed. Returning to Scotland so as to be nearer to family, he is now Director of Music at Dundee Parish Church. Robert's commitment to English 20th-century repertoire is reflected through his founding and leadership of the Percy Whitlock Trust between 1981 and 2016 and in his longstanding Chairmanship of the Gerald Finzi Charitable Trust, from which he retired in 2022. He enjoys transcribing music for organ (with a wide range recently embracing both Leroy Anderson and Maxwell Davies) and in liturgical composition, completing a three-year cycle of responsorial psalms for the Church Music Society.
