Great Cathedral Organ Series


1 LP - CSD 1550 - (p) 1964

YORK MINSTER - Volume 2







John NARES (1715-1783) Introduction and Fugue in A minor/major


6' 49" A1

- Introduction

3' 52"


- Fugue (Allegro)

2' 57"

Samuel WESLEY (1766-1837) Air and Gavotte (Ed. Gordon Phillips)


3' 38" A2

- Air
1' 41"


- Gavotte
1' 57"

Marco Enrico BOSSI (1861-1925) Scherzo in G minor, Op. 49 No. 2


6' 14" A3
Francis JACKSON (b. 1917) Diversion for Mixtures, Op. 25


4' 03" A4
Norman COCKER (1889-1953) Tuba Tune


4' 56" B1
Healey WILLAN (1880-1968) Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue, Op. 149


17' 38" B2

- Introduction

3' 55"


- Passacaglia

8' 57"


- Fugue

4' 46"





 
Francis JACKSON, Organist






Recorded at:
York Minster (Great Britain) - 5 & 6 March 1964


Live / Studio

Studio

Producer
Brian B. Culverhouse


Balance engineer

Christopher Parker


First LP Edition

EMI - His Master's Voice | CSD 1550 | 1 LP | durata 43' 18" | (p) 1964


CD Edition
EMI Classics | 0 85295 2 | 13 CDs | LC 06646 | (c) 2011 | ADD


Note
-













The original 19 LPs in CD

13 CDs - 0 85295 2 - (c) 2011
(in CD 1: Tracks 10-16 & CD 2: Tracks 1-3)
FRANCIS JACKSON was born at Malton, Yorkshire, in 1917. As a boy he was a chorister at York Minster under its eminent organist and Choirmaster, Sir Edward Bairstow. For ten years, under Bairstow's tuition he studied organ, piano and composition. He gained the B.Mus. degree at Durham at the age of 19, and the F.R.C.O. in the same year, in which esamination he received the Limpus Prize for the highest marks in organ playing. Twenty years later he graduated D.Mus. at Dirham. He has given a great many recitals in Britain and has toured Denmark and North America in recitals, lectures and master classes. He is a frequent broadcaster in both solo recitals and concertos. His published compositions are mainly for the organ and the Church.