in Choir & Organ (Jan, 2012)
Regent Records have taken the plunge with their first organ DVD, and it’s an auspicious debut – the Midlands-based firm has recorded City Organist Thomas Trotter in a programme of virtuoso organ showpieces from Birmingham Town Hall, with its historic 1834 William Hill organ fresh from its 2007 restoration by Mander Organs.
Trotter’s programme consists of secular showpieces very much in the realm of civic entertainment and the grand orchestral transcription. Beginning with Hollins’s Concert Overture no.1 in C minor, he offers Wagner’s Meistersinger Overture and Ride of the Valkyries, transcribed by the great Edwardian virtuoso Edwin Lemare, and his own arrangement of Eric Coates’s ‘Youth of Britain’ March; Ketèlbey’s …
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