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This first recording of the Eule Organ of Magdalen College, Oxford (opened in January 2023) features a wide range of music performed by Alexander Pott. From Wagner to Delius, the repertoire showcases the instrument's German Romantic heritage as well as it's suitability for English 20th-Century transcription, thanks to it's distinctive voice, colour, breadth and sensitivity. Album Tracks 1. Funérailles (Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S. 173, No. 7) 2. Tannhäuser, S. 676ii Pilgrims' Chorus 3. Organ Sonata in G minor, Op. 284 1. Prelude and Fugue on 'O Traurigkeit, O Herzeleid' 2. Reed-grown Waters (Seven Pastels from the Lake of Constance, Op. 96, No.4) 3. On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring 4. Four Extemporisations~No.1 Carol 5. Immovable Do 6. Folk-Song Preludes~I. Very Slow 7. Folk-Song Preludes~II. Cantabile 8. Folk-Song Preludes~III. Maestoso; alla marcia funebre 9. Folk-Song Preludes~IV. Fairly slow, but evenly flowing in strict time 10. Folk-Song Preludes~V. Largo maestoso 11. Organ Sonata in G major