Archive for September, 2009

David Briggs

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

The Consortium Internationale Compositorum is proud to announce that David Briggs, one of the world’s great musicians, has accepted a commission to write a new composition for organ entitled “The St. Clotilde Pentaptych.” The new piece will be available in 2010.

The work will consist of five short movements, each of 2-2.5 minutes in length. Each movement will be Mr. Briggs’s fantasy of how one of the organists of St. Clotilde’s Basilica in Paris would have improvised on the Gregorian Ave Maria. The movements will be: 1. Franck, 2. Pierné, 3. Tournemire, 4. Bonnal, and 5. Langlais. (Briggs studied with Langlais.)

Mr. Briggs is one of the most gifted organ improvisers in the world. His “Pentaptych” is sure to enter the repertoire of organists throughout the world.

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Leonardo Ciampa: Shenandoah

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
Leonardo Ciampa: Shenandoah

Leonardo Ciampa: Shenandoah

Maestro Ciampa composed this arrangement of the beloved American song “Shenandoah” in July, 2009, as an encore for his tour of organ recitals in the Shenandoah Valley. It was first played on 19 July 2009 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Salem, Virginia. This very lush arrangement has the benefit of being playable on most any type of organ.

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This demo was performed by Giuseppe Habicht, using samples of the J. J. Binns organ (1901), Old Independent Church, Haverhill (U.K.), sampled by Lavender Audio http://www.lavenderaudio.co.uk and loaded into the Hauptwerk organ sample software http://www.crumhorn-labs.com . (As such, it is a virtual recording and does not claim to be an on-site recording of the instrument.) Recording by Rob Stefanussen.



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