Great Cathedral Organ Series


1 LP - CSD 3550 - (p) 1966

DURHAM CATHEDRAL - Volume 9







Sigfrid KARG-ELERT (1877-1933) Hommage to Handel, Op. 75 [II]


15' 37" A1
Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750) Concerto in E flat, BWV 597 (attrib.)


7' 38" A2

- I. [Allegro]

3' 39"


- II. Gigue

2' 59"

Arthur MILNER (1894-1972) Prelude (Three Pieces, No. 1)

3' 44" B1
Sir William H. HARRIS (1883-1973) Rêverie (Four Short Pieces, No. 2)

1' 29" B2
Arnold SCHOENBERG (1874-1951) Variations on a Recitative, Op. 40 - (perf. edn by Carl Weinrich)

14' 10" B3




 
Conrad EDEN, Organist






Recorded at:
Durcham Cathedral (Great Britain) - 15-17 February 1966


Live / Studio

Studio

Producer
Brian B. Culverhouse


Balance engineer

Christopher Parker


First LP Edition

EMI - His Master's Voice | CSD 3550 | 1 LP | durata 42' 38" | (p) 1966


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


Note
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The original 19 LPs in CD

13 CDs - 0 85295 2 - (c) 2011
(in CD 6: Tracks 1-6)
CONRAD EDEN started his musical career as a chorister at Wells Cathedral: it continued with a scholarship to Rugby School, another to the Royal College of Music and an Exhibition which took him to St. John's College, Oxford, as College Organist. A short period ls organist of St. Philip and St. James and Director of Music at the Dragon School, Oxford, ended with a fractured skull: after his recovery he went as Assistant Organist at Wells Cathedral where in 1933 he was appointed Organist and Master of the Charisters. In 1936 he moved to Durham Cathedral.