Vincent Persichetti’s organ music holds an important place in 20th-century repertoire. Steeped in tradition and yet open to the currents of modernity, he developed a thoroughly distinctive musical language. The selections from his Hymns and Responses for the Church Year, Op. 68explore traditional form with a refreshing harmonic palette, while the Dryden Liturgical Suite contrasts meditative elements with virtuoso bravura. Persichetti’s most extensive organ piece, the Auden Variations, is supremely contrapuntal and accomplished, whereas the Sonata for Organ, though convention-ally structured, daringly explores free tonality.
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“… he [Persichetti] is well represented on disc, but his organ works have been a gap – until now. These are all fluently idiomatic, although his penchant for improvisation shows through, and they are admirably delivered by Iain Quinn, well recorded too…” ****
Peter Dickinson – The Organ (No. 401) – Summer 2022
“This is an intelligently programmed album, representing about half of the music from Vincent Persichetti … Iain Quinn audibly has the notes – and the style – at his fingertips and his voicing of the various strands of Persichetti’s invention is a model of clarity … I warmly recommend to anyone even mildly interested in modern organ music, especially in such fine sound.”
Guy Rickards – Gramophone magazine – February 2022
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