Organ Music from Westminster Abbey JS Bach, Mozart, Walton, Widor etc Eloquence 482 4933 (1963-5) 95:24 mins The Australian label Eloquence does Simon Preston’s 80th birthday proud with a clutch of re-releases charting the Argo recordings. The Abbey yields meticulous Mozart, skilfully-registered Wagner, and an unshowy, crystal-clear Widor Toccata. ★★★★
20th-Century Organ Music Elgar, Davies, Hindemith, Howells, etc Eloquence 482 4925 (1967) 120:10 mins Preston could have been born to play the three Hindemith Sonatas that preface Maxwell Davies’s austere Fantasia on O Magnum Mysterium. A magisterial Elgar Sonata adds full-on Romanticism to the mix. ★★★★
Romantic Organ Music Brahms, Franck, Liszt, Reger & Reubke Eloquence 482 4941 (1963-67) 139:07 mins A riveting account of Liszt’s Ad Nos Fantasia caps the snarling majesty of Reubke’s Sonata, both offset by Preston’s…
