Organ & trumpets British Organ Music of 1937 Arrangements of Rheinberger, Strauss & Elgar Colm Carey, now established as a leading British organist, has come up with an interesting selection of romantic compositions by English organists, a genre not to my immediate taste, but I was quickly won over by Whitlock's exuberant sonata, written under the influence of hearing Rachmaniniv's second symphony. Doubts, though, about the trumpets disc, with editions prepared by Colm Carey, and offered as Trumpets that time forgot, to fill a perceived gap, i.e. that there's little 19 C music for organ and trumpets, which go well together! The case for this exercise is argued persuasively and interestingly over 5 pages by John Wallace & Jonathan Freeman Attwood Arrangements are all the rage at present (see the desirable Viola & Accordion disc last month). I can't enthuse about Elgar's 2nd Organ Sonata (connected with the Severn Suite) in this arrangement. Reasonable to re-arrange Rheinberger's Trio Op 149 (originally for organ, violin and cello) for the trumpet/organ medium, but it is treacly, uninspired music, and dances from Richard Strauss's Bourgeois Gentilhomme are definitely better as usually heard.
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