38 original pieces on hymns and carols
• New settings for organ of all the major hymn tunes for the season
• Fresh, imaginative new pieces, written by a range of experienced organ composers based in the US and the UK, and displaying a great variety of styles and approaches
• Practical, concise settings for all parts of the church service - preludes, postludes, fanfares, communion settings
• Pieces suitable for busy church musicians at intermediate level working in all major denominations
• Some pieces also suitable for recital use
• Registration suggestions that can readily be adapted to suit most instruments with pedals
• Companion Website featuring a cumulative index of hymn tunes and contributor biographies.
This major new series provides a wealth of new chorale preludes and hymn settings suitable for all church organists. Themed by season, each volume presents inventive pieces, written by a range of experienced organ composers based in the US and the UK. With a host of accessible, quality new settings, and with pieces based on all the major hymn tunes, these volumes are a must for every church organist's library.
David Blackwell: Adeste, fideles (Fantasia)
David Schelat: Adeste, fideles (Pastorale)
Mary Beth Bennett: Antioch
Rebecca Groom te Velde: Besançon/Carol of the Advent
Malcolm Archer: Bristol
Craig Phillips: Carol
Rebecca Groom te Velde: Conditor alme siderum
Malcolm Archer: Cradle Song
Simon Lole: Cranham
Ashley Grote: Cross of Jesus
David Blackwell: Divinum mysterium/Corde natus
Mary Beth Bennett: Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen
David Bednall: Forest Green
Michael Bedford: Gabriel's Message
Michael Bedford: Gloria/Iris
Rebecca Groom te Velde: God rest you merry
A. D. Miller: Go, tell it on the mountain
James Vivian: Helmsley
James Vivian: In dulci jubilo
Philip Moore: Irby
Alan Bullard: Little Cornard
James Biery: Mendelssohn
David Thorne: Merton
David Schelat: Mueller
David Thorne: Noel
Rebecca Groom te Velde: O Jesulein süss
Rebecca Groom te Velde: Personent hodie
Craig Philips: Picardy
Craig Philips: Psalm 42/Genevan
A. D. Miller: St Louis
David Blackwell: St Stephen
Alan Bullard: Stille Nacht
Christopher Tambling: Still, still, still
Ashley Grote: The first Nowell
Philip Moore: Veni Emmanuel
A. D. Miller: Wachet auf
Christopher Tambling: Winchester New
David Blackwell: Winchester Old
