Hurford, Peter: Organ At Sydney Opera House
Hurford, Peter: Organ At Sydney Opera House
Format: CD
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Artist: Hurford, Peter
Label: Eloquence Australia
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 028948403516
Genre: Classical Artists
While playing organs worldwide, and concentrating his work in his native England, Peter Hurford nonetheless gave recitals on organs across Australia throughout his long career. However, he hardly played an instrument more dazzling in it's impact and variety than the organ which was installed at the Sydney Opera House. Completed in May 1979 at a cost of $1.2 million, the organ has come to be regarded as one of the finest such instruments in the southern hemisphere. Among the world's largest mechanical-action organs, it was built by an Australian, Ronald Sharpe and, during the final phase of construction, the Austrian organ-building firm of Gregor Hradetzky. Both the instrument and Hurford's rhythmically animated playing are justly immortalized by this album of popular organ classics. It begins with the toccata and fugue which was almost certainly not written for organ and probably not composed by Bach, but is destined to be associated with both in the public imagination. Likewise the Adagio that is no more or less than Giazotto's reworking and Romantic elaboration of a slender theme 'by' Albinoni. Whoever it was by, every piece on this compendious introduction to organ literature is richly enjoyable, and Hurford duly enjoys all the colors of the Sydney organ by, almost literally, pulling out all the stops during the course of the album. In the hands of Hurford, Herbert Murrill's Carillon is a dazzling feat of prestidigitation, and the Sydney trumpets will test out the most exacting audio equipment here and in the album's inevitable conclusion, the Toccata from Widor's Fifth Symphony.
Tracks:
1.1 Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
1.2 Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Arr. Hurford)
1.3 Adagio in G minor
1.4 Trumpet Tune in D Major (Arr. Hurford)
1.5 Wedding March (From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream')
1.6 Chorale No. 2 in B minor
1.7 Carillon
1.8 Solemn Melody
1.9 Toccata (From Symphony No. 5)
