Stephen Farr – Grier: Organ Works (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Stephen Farr – Grier: Organ Works (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:10:34 minutes | 2,53 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Resonus Classics

Highly acclaimed organist Stephen Farr presents an album of organ works by composer Francis Grier Performed on the Dobson Organ of Merton College, Oxford. Grier demonstrates an individual approach to timbre and texture in writing for the organ and shows fascinating traits which are testament to a wide range of musical, and non-musical, influences which extend beyond the bounds of the cathedral world to experiences drawn from his years in India.

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The Choir of Worcester College, Oxford & Stephen Farr – This Christmas Night (2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

The Choir of Worcester College, Oxford & Stephen Farr – This Christmas Night (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:57 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Resonus Classics

Resonus Classics is proud to release an album featuring world premiere recordings of contemporary Christmas carols from the latter half of the twentieth-century and the beginning of the twenty-first, performed by The Choir of Worcester College, Oxford under the direction of Stephen Farr.

The album includes a world premiere recording by Hafliði Hallgrímsson entitled Joseph and the Angel, which was written specially for this album. Also included are several world premiere recordings by leading composers including Peter Maxwell Davies, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Richard Allain, Matthew Martin, Gabriel Jackson, Judith Bingham, Cecilia McDowall and Thomas Hyde.

Other works include Anthony Piccolo’s I look from afar, John McCabe’s Mary laid her child, Malcolm Williamson’s This Christmas Night, Geoffrey Bush’s ‘Twas in the year that King Uzziah died, Elisabeth Lutyens’s Nativity, Edmund Rubbra’s Let us securely enter and two works by Kenneth Leighton, O leave your sheep and Veni Redemptor – A Celebration.

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Stephen Farr – Byrd: Keyboard Works (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Stephen Farr – Byrd: Keyboard Works (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:06:04 minutes | 2,49 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Resonus Classics

Performing on the Taylor & Boody Organ of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, the critically acclaimed organist Stephen Farr presents a rare exploration of the keyboard works of William Byrd on the organ. This historically informed instrument is made in the early English style and makes a fitting tribute in this, the composer’s 400th anniversary year.

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Stephen Farr – Philip Moore: Organ Works (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Stephen Farr – Philip Moore: Organ Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:01 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Resonus Classics

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 recognisable musical voice, Moore’s 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.

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Stephen Farr – J.S. Bach: Chorale Partitas, BWV 766-768 & 770 (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Stephen Farr – J.S. Bach: Chorale Partitas, BWV 766-768 & 770 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:44 minutes | 871 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Resonus Classics

Following on from his lauded recording of Clavier-Übung III celebrated organist Stephen Farr continues his survey of J.S. Bach’s organ works with the four Choral Partitas, BWV 766-768 & 770. This volume also marks the first recording on a substantial and colourful three-manual Bernard Aubertin organ newly installed in a private residence in Fairwap, East Sussex in 2015.

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Choir of Worcester College, Oxford; Stephen Farr – Nowell Sing We: Contemporary Carols, Vol. 2 (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Choir of Worcester College, Oxford; Stephen Farr – Nowell Sing We: Contemporary Carols, Vol. 2 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:34 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Resonus Classics

Choir of Worcester College, Oxford & Stephen Farr following on from the universal critical acclaim of their first album with Resonus (This Christmas Night), the Choir of Worcester College, Oxford – under the direction of Stephen Farr – return with a second album of contemporary Christmas Carols.

Entitled Nowell sing we, this new selection contains works from a wide variety of celebrated composers including Gabriel Jackson, Peter Maxwell Davies, Lennox Berkeley, Colin Matthews, Francis Pott, Edmund Rubbra, Richard Rodney Bennett & Herbert Howells among many others, with no fewer than nine world premieres. Also featured throughout the programme are the seven O Antiphon Preludes for solo organ by Nico Muhly, performed here by Stephen Farr on the organ of Keble College, Oxford.

Recorded June 30-July 2, 2014 in Keble College Chapel in Oxford, England.

Producer, recording and editing engineer: Adams Binks

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Stephen Farr – Bach: Clavier-Übung III (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Stephen Farr - Bach: Clavier-Übung III (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Stephen Farr – Bach: Clavier-Übung III (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:45:06 minutes | 1,67 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Resonus Classics

Bach published four works under the title Clavier Übung (literally ‘keyboard practice’) during his lifetime. No. 1 is the Six Partitas BWV825-830, no. 2 is the Italian Concerto BWV 971 and French Overture BWV 831 and no. 4 is the Goldberg Variations. Only Clavier Übung III, sometimes known as the German Organ Mass, is specifically marked as being for organ. The other three are more generically marked as being for clavier (keyboard) and are commonly played on the harpsichord. Clavier Übung III appeared in print in Leipzig in 1739, with the title page dedicating its contents to ‘music lovers for the recreation of their spirits’, though Bach adds ‘ and especially for connoisseurs of such work’.
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David Skinner & Stephen Farr – Hieronymus Praetorius: Motets in 8, 10, 12, 16 & 20 Parts (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

David Skinner & Stephen Farr – Hieronymus Praetorius: Motets in 8, 10, 12, 16 & 20 Parts (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:40:20 minutes | 1,68 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Inventa Records

The large-scale works of Hieronymus Praetorius (1560–1629) owe much to the great polychoral tradition mastered by Hans Leo Hassler and the great Venetian composer Giovanni Gabrieli. Hieronymus does not disappoint with his vivid expression of texts, intricate counterpoint, and sumptuously sonorous and inventive harmonies: this is Northern Germany’s noble response to the Italians, and to the Roman Counter-Reformation.

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