Moeran / Ireland / Norris,Owen - E.J. Moeran & John Ireland: Choral Music - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The organist and harpsichordist John Worgan (1724-90) was one of the most highly respected musicians in the London of his day Handel admired his playing, and Burney described him as 'very masterly and learned'. Worgan was the organist of Vauxhall Gardens and of a number of London churches and naturally composed for his own instruments. Most of his music is lost, but his fifth son, James Worgan, also a musician, had fifteen of his father's organ pieces published after his death. Here they are performed on the organ of St Botolph's without Aldgate (perhaps England's oldest surviving church organ), where Worgan himself was organist from 1753 until his demise - the perfect vehicle for this quirky but proud music.

Ernest John Moeran was brought up in Norfolk and the folk music of Ireland and Norfolk were a lasting influence on him. His music studies were interrupted by the 1914-1918 War in which he served on the Western Front sustaining serious head injuries that affected him physically and mentally for the rest of his life. After the war he resumed a passion for collecting folksongs which form the foundation of this collection featuring members of the Weybridge Male Voice Choir, tenor Adrian Thompson and baritone Marcus Farnsworth.

Various Artists - Faithful Heart Christian Ra / Various [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/01/2013