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Gothic Toccata: The Melbourne Town Hall Organ | Melba - Pantheon PD70001

Gothic Toccata: The Melbourne Town Hall Organ

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Label: Melba - Pantheon

Cat No: PD70001

Barcode: 9314574700015

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 27th October 2008

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About

'Gothic Toccata' is the first major recording of Australian organ works on an iconic Australian instrument. The pieces have been chosen to showcase the diversity of styles of 20th century and contemporary organ music and the amazing plethora of colours which the Melbourne Town Hall organ is capable of producing.

Calvin Bowman knows the instrument intimately. Drawing on an enormous tonal palette, he has carefully chosen registrations to suit each of the works. This is an outstanding instrument for organ music which is orchestral in effect (Hart), for transcriptions (Hill, Grainger and Batchelor), for music which requires great clarity in terms of registrations (Brumby and Mills) and for sheer unadulterated power (Schultz and Koehne).

The Melbourne Town Hall organ is one of the largest in the world. Built in 1929, it was entirely rebuilt in 2001 and re-launched by Bowman with a work by Philip Glass in the composer’s presence.

No less than eight world premiere recordings are included on the disc.
- Richard Mills: Epithalamium
- Andrew Schultz: Études Espace I-III
- Ross Edwards: Dawn Canticle
- Ross Edwards: Organmaninya
- Colin Brumby: Assemblages
- Alfred Hill: Valse Triste
- Phyllis Batchelor: When I was one-and-twenty
- Fritz Hart: Fantasia in G minor

The Batchelor and Hill pieces are special arrangements made for this recording by Bowman, and the Ross Edwards works were commissioned by him.

A DMA graduate from Yale, Australian-born Calvin Bowman maintains an unusually diverse performance career which has taken him around the globe as organist, harpsichordist and pianist.

This is the first CD of the organ using Direct Stream Digital (DSD) technology, ideally suited to reproducing its wide dynamic  and tone colour range.

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