Adagios for Organ

Description

Intermediate and experienced organists will prize this appealing original collection of organ works in slow tempo. Its forty-three adagios range from the Baroque era to modern times, offering a tremendous variety of pieces for public and private performance. Editor Rollin Smith provides notes on the music, with background information on each piece.

Contents:
• Albinoni, Tomaso Giovanni: Adagio
• Alkan, Charles-Valentin, Prière, Op. 64, No. 5
• Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel, Adagio
• Bach, Johann Sebastian, Hark! A Voice Saith, All Are Mortal, BWV 643
• Batiste, Édouard, Three Versets, Op. 34: Récit de Fléte harmonique de 4; Verset pour tous les fonds et un Nazard; Chœur de Voix humaine
• Bird, Arthur, Oriental Sketch No. 2 in F Minor
• Boëllmann, Léon, Adagietto, Op. 16, No. 11
• Boëly, Alexandre-P.-F., Adagio non troppo, Op. 14, No. 8
• Bolzoni, Giovanni, Preludio
• Brahms, Johannes, “Ah, Holy Jesus,” Op. 122, No. 2
• Chadwick, George Whitefield, Elegy
• Couperin, Louis, Sarabande
• Davies, H. Walford, Solemn Melody
• Dupont, Gabriel, Méditation
• Dupré, Marcel, Antiphon III, “I am black, but comely,” Op. 18, No. 3
• Franck, César, Adagio from Fantaisie in C Major, Op. 16
• Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Aria from Orfeo ed Euridice
• Guilmant, Alexandre, Méditation from Sonata No. 6, Op. 86; Adagio from Sonata No. 6, Op. 86
• Handel, George Frideric, Largo from Xerxes
• Herbert, Victor, Largo from Symphonic Fantasy for the Aeolian Organ
• Karg-Elert, Sigfrid, “Do with Me, God, According to Your Goodness,” Op. 78, No. 13
• Liszt, Franz, At the Grave of Richard Wagner
• Marcello, Allesandro, Adagio from Concerto for Oboe in D Minor
• Mendelssohn, Felix, Adagio from Sonata in F Minor, Op. 65, No. 1
• Merkel, Gustav, Trio in Canon from Orgelschule, Op. 177
• Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, Adagio, K. 356
• Poniridy, Georges, Offertoire
• Reger, Max, Melodia, Op. 50, No. 11
• Saint-Saëns, Camille, Adagio from Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 78
• Samazeuilh, Gustave, Prélude
• Schumann, Robert, Canon in B Major, Op. 56, No. 6
• Stebbins, Charles Albert, In Summer
• Thomas, Gustav Adolph, Trio on “O Sacred Head Surrounded,” from Six Chorale Trios, Op. 7, No. 1
• Tournemire, Charles, Larghetto from Dix Pièces en style libre, Op. 21
• Vierne, Louis, Prélude Funèbre, Op. 4
• Vivaldi, Antonio, Largo from Concerto in B-flat Major, “La Stravaganza,” Op. 4, No. 1
• Wesley, Samuel, Larghetto from Voluntary in G Minor, Op. 6, No. 9
• Wesley, Samuel Sebastian, Larghetto in F-sharp Minor
• Widor, Charles-Marie, Adagio from Symphonie No. 5, Op. 42-1.