This comprehensive collection brings together 42 distinctive organ works by Martin Setchell, showcasing the entertaining and accessible compositional style of one of New Zealand's most celebrated concert organists.
Setchell combines rigorous academic training with decades of international performance experience. As Associate Professor at the University of Canterbury for 40 years and curator of the renowned Rieger organ in Christchurch Town Hall, he has devoted his career to promoting the organ as a concert instrument to worldwide audiences.
This collection serves equally well for worship, recital, or private study, offering music that is both technically rewarding and musically fulfilling, perfectly embodying Setchell's philosophy of entertaining a wide audience through high-quality organ repertoire.
Contents:
Ariosa for Jenny
Bluesy Dance: Variations on 'Amazing Grace'
Cantilena
Carillon on 'Ding, Dong! Merrily on High'
Celebration Cakewalk
Easter Alleluias
Easter Toccata on 'Gelobt sei Gott'
Fanfare on 'Hosanna to the Son of David'
Four Variations on 'Puer Natus'
Idyll on a Ground Bass
Morning has Broken
Passacaglia on 'Mannheim'
Scherzo on 'Gelob't Sei Gott'
Solemn Processional March
The Helston Furry Dance
Toccata on 'Joy to the World'
Trumpet Tune in D
Wedding March Extraordinaire
