Stephen Farr - Virtuoso Organist: Tudor & Jacobean Masterworks - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Ensemble Clement Janequin - Au Sainct Nau [COMPACT DISCS] date 11/18/2014

Big Train is the 4th in Marsalis's unprecedented 8-CD series titled Swinging Into the 21st (this historic series features a of new Marsalis music each month from April through September). Debuted with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra in 1998 (also featured during a 1998 U.S. tour), Big Train is a remarkable musical journey, a significant new entry in Marsalis's compositional scope from jazz to classical and beyond.

A former organist of both York Minster and Guildford Cathedral, Philip Moore ranks among the most significant and prolific of British choral and organ composers of the late-20th and 21st centuries. With a unique and recognizable musical voice, his music is performed regularly around the globe. Organist Stephen Farr, himself a former organist of Guildford Cathedral, explores Moore's considerable and growing body of organ works with this captivating album of music for the instrument containing several premiere recordings and recorded on the impressive Harrison and Harrison organ of St Albans Cathedral.