Gillian Weir and the English Chamber Orchestra deliver a dazzling collection of works for organ and orchestra, performed on the awesome 1995 organ by Marcussen & Son at Tonbridge School in Kent. Along with a superb performance of Poulenc’s Organ Concerto and Barber’s Toccata festiva, the album features the premiere recording of Pierre Petit's Concertino for organ, strings and percussion.
'On this new disc from Linn, recorded in the unobtrusively churchy acoustic of Tonbridge School chapel with its pride and joy, a wondrous 1995 Marcussen organ, Gillian Weir again finds herself in part ...
The Scotsman
'On this new recording Dame Gillian Weir plays three widely different works beginning with the familiar Poulenc concerto for organ, strings and timpani, given a dramatic reading tastefully low on bomb ...
The Scotsman'On this new recording Dame Gillian Weir plays three widely different works beginning with the familiar Poulenc concerto for organ, strings and timpani, given a dramatic reading tastefully low on bomb ...