Thomas Heywood's Grand Organ GALA! (CD)

Thomas Heywood's Grand Organ GALA!  (CD) 

Thomas Heywood

Musical Masterworks

The 1876 United States Centennial Organ
St Joseph’s Cathedral
Buffalo • New York USA 

What a performance and what an organ! 

There's no more suitable instrument for a Grand Organ GALA! than the 1876 United States Centennial Organ rehomed in the spectacular acoustic of St Joseph's Cathedral, Buffalo, New York. 

Renowned organ virtuoso Thomas Heywood puts this gala instrument through its paces in this massive program of classical and romantic masterworks – and Heywood’s own Humoresque for a Pedal Trombone brought in a new era of Concert Organ spectacle! 

Program highlights include: 

Beethoven’s ’Egmont’ Overture 
Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik 
Brahms’ Hungarian Dances 
Bach’s mighty Fantasia and Fugue in G minor

And much more! 

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Full Program: 

Alfred Hollins 
Concert Overture in C major 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, transcribed by Thomas Heywood 
Serenade – Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525 

William Thomas Best 
Concert Fantasia on a Welsh March – ‘Gorhoffedd Gwyr Harlech’ [Men of Harlech]

Johannes Brahms, trans. Edwin H. Lemare 
Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G minor 

Johann Sebastian Bach 
Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542 

Felix-Alexandre Guilmant 
Caprice in B-flat major, Op. 20 No. 3 

Thomas Heywood 
Humoresque for a Pedal Trombone, Op. 28 

Johannes Brahms, trans. Edwin H. Lemare 
Hungarian Dance No. 5 in F-sharp minor 

Ludwig van Beethoven, trans. Thomas Heywood 
Overture from the Music to Goethe’s Tragedy of ‘Egmont’, Op. 84 

John Stafford Smith, trans. Thomas Heywood 
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