Even in Canada, Canadian organ music is hardly familiar stuff, but this release represents an ideal meeting point of music by Canadian composers, the Harrison and Harrison organ at Coventry Cathedral, and the talents of organist Rachel Mahon, who concurrently with this release was named the cathedral's director of music. The backstory contributes to the fortunate set of factors: Canadian organists contributed financially to the organ's installation, and Mahon's journey from Canada to England reflected the one undertaken in ...
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Even in Canada, Canadian organ music is hardly familiar stuff, but this release represents an ideal meeting point of music by Canadian composers, the Harrison and Harrison organ at Coventry Cathedral, and the talents of organist Rachel Mahon, who concurrently with this release was named the cathedral's director of music. The backstory contributes to the fortunate set of factors: Canadian organists contributed financially to the organ's installation, and Mahon's journey from Canada to England reflected the one undertaken in reverse by composer Healey Willan, the composer who opens the proceedings. His Introduction, Passacaglia, and Fugue is an unusually persuasive work in a Romantic-Bachian mode. The rest of the music is in the French style to a greater or lesser degree. The highlight is perhaps the Chromatic Partita of Ruth Watson Henderson, a set of variations with shifting, delicate shadings (try the sixth variation). Mahon doesn't retreat a bit in the blazing toccata finales of this work or in...
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