Price: Festal March, Tempo moderato, In Quiet Mood & Andante

Featuring

Tom Winpenny
Florence Beatrice Price

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Composer Biography

Florence Price, the composer, began her musical training with her mother and enrolled in the New England Conservatory of Music at age 15.

Instruments

The Skinner organ on this recording was transported from New Jersey, USA, to Saalkirche Ingelheim, Germany, and rebuilt by Klais Orgelbau.

Composer Biography

Florence Price, the composer, was the first African American woman to have a work performed by a leading orchestra, with her Symphony in E minor premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Instruments

The organ used for this recording is an Ernest M. Skinner organ (opus 823), originally built for First Presbyterian Church, Passaic, New Jersey, USA, and is one of the best-preserved examples of Skinner's work.

Performer Biography

Tom Winpenny, the organist, has held posts as assistant master of the music at St Albans Cathedral and sub-organist at St Paul's Cathedral, London.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Florence Price, the composer, had a particular gift for writing miniatures, which is exemplified in the four short works presented on this album.

Dupre: Works for Organ, Vol. 2

Saint-Saens: Organ Works Vol.4

Franck: Œuvres posthumes et inédites

Olivier Messiaen - Early Organ Works

The Bruckner Symphonies, Vol. 4 – Organ Transcriptions

Olivier Messiaen: Les Corps Glorieux - Verset pour la fête de la Dédicace - Diptyque (Eberhard Lauer an den Kuhn-Orgeln im Dom zu Minden und der St. Johanniskirche Hamburg-Altona)