Alkan - Organ Works, Vol. 1 - Tracks & Reviews.txt
Organ Works - Volume 1
Kevin Bowyer
Organ of Blackburn Cathedral
Label: Toccata Classics
Catalogue Number: TOCC0030
Release Date: 02 May 2005
EAN: 5060113440303
Duration: 76:20
Track Listing
01 Benedictus 8:53
02 12 Etudes (i) Moderato 1:29
03 12 Etudes (ii) Adagio 3:21
04 12 Etudes (iii) Moderato 2:32
05 12 Etudes (iv) Moderato 2:45
06 12 Etudes (v) Moderato 2:46
07 12 Etudes (vi) Adagio 5:12
08 11 Grands Preludes (i) Allegro 1:23
09 11 Grands Preludes (ii) Allegro moderato 2:16
10 11 Grands Preludes (iii) Andantino 4:06
11 11 Grands Preludes (iv) Moderatamente 4:26
12 11 Grands Preludes (v) Quasi Adagio 4:45
13 11 Grands Preludes (vi) Andantino 4:36
14 11 Grands Preludes (vii) Andante 3:36
15 11 Grands Preludes (viii) Tempo giusto 5:06
16 11 Grands Preludes (ix) Langsam 6:49
17 11 Grands Preludes (x) Scherzando 4:19
18 11 Grand Preludes (xi) Lento 3:23
19 Handel (Messiah) Transcription 4:12
About the Artist
Kevin Bowyer was born in Southend-on-Sea in January 1961 and studied with Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, David Sanger, Virginia Black and Paul Steinitz. He has won first prizes in five international organ competitions and has gained a reputation for playing unusual and new muisic and for taking on 'impossible' projects. In 1987 he gave the world premiere of Kaikhosru Sorabji's two-hour solo Symphony for Organ, considered 'impossible' ever since its first publication in 1925.
At home Kevin has played solo and concerto in most of the major venues and festivals. Trips and tours abroad have taken him throughout Europe, North America, Australia and Japan. In summer 2003 he played the complete solo organ symphonies of Widor and Vierne and the complete organ works of Olivier Messiaen in three concerts in the same week at St. Giles, Cripplegate.
Mr. Bowyer has released about 80 solo CDs, many of which have won awards. They include many recordings of contemporary music as well as the complete organ music of J.S. Bach (29 CDs) and music by Alkan, Brahms, Schumann, Reubke, Hindemith and Schoenberg.
Product Reviews
"Works of stature and originality ... Kevin Bowyer is a fine advocate for this music ... My sense is that excellence in documentation is another strategic aim for this label and rightly so at 'full price'. There is a very detailed and interesting essay on the music by Malcolm MacDonald and a likeable note about the artist ... a strong recommendation for this disc."
-- Patrick C. Waller, Music on the Web
"The album is among the great recorded performances of our new century."
-- Adrian Corleonis, Fanfare, January/February, 2007
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