Recordings
Organ Music of John Redford
Eterne Rex Altissime
Primo dierum omnium
Verbum supernum
Precatus est Moyses
Orlando Gibbons : Fantasies
Since English organs of the 16th and early 17th centuries were normally pitched high with the bottom note C playing a 5ft pipe - sounding approximately G at modern pitch - it would seem that most music written specifically for organ at the period should be transposed up. From the beginning of the 17th century larger organs were built with C at 10ft pitch and music apparently intended to be played at that pitch should be transposed down.
My transcriptions of this music as played below may be downloaded here.
A programme of organ music by Orlando Gibbons recorded on the Father Smith organ of 1708 in Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge in February 2026
Fantasy in Gamutt flatt, S. Zulian, Venice.
80th Birthday Concert
Organ: Joseph Reinisch 1826, Parish Church in Wiesen, near Sterzing.
00.05 – Guillaume Gabriel Nivers : Hymne Ave Maris Stella (1667)
01.45 – Henry Purcell : Round O from Abeldazar
George Frederick Handel :
04.00 – from concerto in F, HWV 295 : Larghetto; Allegro 11.30 – from concerto in F, HWV 293 : Alla siciliana;
13.00 – from Water Music Suite in F : Aire, Bourrée
16.30 – John Redford : Antiphon Lucem tuam (Mulliner Book c. 1540)
18.55 – Johannes Brahms : from 11 Chorales op. 122: Schmücke Dich
21.20 – Jehan Titelouze : Hymne Ad coenam (1623)
24.00 – Johann Sebastian Bach : Fantasia sopra Magnificat BWV 733
29.15 – John Stanley : Voluntary III/6 in F: Andante; Vivace
33.45 – Domenico Scarlatti : Sonata in C K 159 Allegro
37.00 – Girolamo Frescobaldi : Capriccio sopra la Battaglia (1637)
Early Italian and English Keyboard Music (Lviv 2012)
- Anon: Passamezzo, Venice 1551 ;
- 1.45: Marco Facoli Aria della Signora Cinthia 1588
- 5.44: English music c. 1540: Uppon la mi re; Lady Wynkfylds Rownde ; Lady Careys Dumpe;
- 10.52 Hugh Aston Hornpype
- 21.50 John Dowland Lachrymae pavan
Giovanni Valentini, Sonata enarmonica
Giovanni Valentini Sonata enarmonica
with Andrea Inghisciano cornet and Silvio Richter violin
This music requires an organ with split keys like this by Hendrik Ahrend in Venice so that both e flat and d sharp can be played, as well as both g sharp and a flat.
