Christmas Bells: Organ Music from Belfast Cathedral Matthew Owens

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Album-Release:
2021

HRA-Release:
29.10.2021

Label: Resonus Classics

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Chamber Music

Artist: Matthew Owens

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Felix Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911), Philip Moore (b. 1943), Louis-Claude Daquin (1694-1772), Matthew Owens (b. 1971), Johann Gottfried Walther (1684-1748), Flor Peeters (1903-1986), Philip Wilby (b. 1949), Gary Davison (b. 1961), Franz Liszt (1811–1886), Flor Peeters (1903-1986), Howard Skempton (b. 1947), Garth Edmundson (1892- 1971)

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  • Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Canonic Variations on ‘Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her’, BWV 769a:
  • 1Bach: Canonic Variations on ‘Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her’, BWV 769a: I. Variation I01:50
  • 2Bach: Canonic Variations on ‘Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her’, BWV 769a: II. Variation II01:33
  • 3Bach: Canonic Variations on ‘Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her’, BWV 769a: III. Variation III03:02
  • 4Bach: Canonic Variations on ‘Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her’, BWV 769a: IV. Variation IV02:57
  • 5Bach: Canonic Variations on ‘Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her’, BWV 769a: V. Variation V03:27
  • Alexandre Guilmant (1937 - 1911):
  • 6Guilmant: Livre de Noëls, Op. 60: II. Introduction et Variations sur un Ancien Noël Polonais04:16
  • Philip Moore (b. 1943):
  • 7Moore: A Fugal Flourish on Personent Hodie03:52
  • Louis-Claude Daquin (1694 - 1772):
  • 8Daquin: Nouveau Livre de Noëls: XII. Noël Suisse04:50
  • Matthew Owens (b. 1971):
  • 9Owens: Prelude on ‘Yorkshire’03:58
  • Johann Gottfried Walther (1684 - 1748): Partita ‘Lobt Gott, ihr Christen, allzugleich’:
  • 10Walther: Partita ‘Lobt Gott, ihr Christen, allzugleich’: I. Partita I00:51
  • 11Walther: Partita ‘Lobt Gott, ihr Christen, allzugleich’: II. Partita II01:07
  • 12Walther: Partita ‘Lobt Gott, ihr Christen, allzugleich’: III. Partita III01:02
  • 13Walther: Partita ‘Lobt Gott, ihr Christen, allzugleich’: IV. Partita IV00:50
  • 14Walther: Partita ‘Lobt Gott, ihr Christen, allzugleich’: V. Partita V00:55
  • 15Walther: Partita ‘Lobt Gott, ihr Christen, allzugleich’: VI. Partita VI01:24
  • 16Walther: Partita ‘Lobt Gott, ihr Christen, allzugleich’: VII. Partita VII01:16
  • 17Walther: Partita ‘Lobt Gott, ihr Christen, allzugleich’: VIII. Partita VIII00:56
  • Flor Peeters (1903 - 1986):
  • 18Peeters: 30 Chorale Preludes, Op. 70: III. Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her02:16
  • Philip Moore:
  • 19Moore: Prelude on Irby03:20
  • Philip Wilby (b. 1949):
  • 20Wilby: Ding Dong! Merrily on High02:02
  • Gary Davison (b. 1961): Seven Versets on Divinum Mysterium:
  • 21Davison: Seven Versets on Divinum Mysterium: I. Verset I00:55
  • 22Davison: Seven Versets on Divinum Mysterium: II. Verset II01:19
  • 23Davison: Seven Versets on Divinum Mysterium: III. Verset III02:34
  • 24Davison: Seven Versets on Divinum Mysterium: IV. Verset IV01:32
  • 25Davison: Seven Versets on Divinum Mysterium: V. Verset V00:51
  • 26Davison: Seven Versets on Divinum Mysterium: Verset VI03:56
  • 27Davison: Seven Versets on Divinum Mysterium: VII. Verset VII02:23
  • Alexandre Guilmant:
  • 28Guilmant: Livre de Noëls, Op. 60: I. Noël Écossais04:24
  • Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886):
  • 29Liszt: Weinnachtsbaum, S.186: III. Die Hirten an der Krippe (In dulci jubilo)03:48
  • Flor Peeters:
  • 30Peeters: Ten Chorale Preludes, Op. 68: VII. Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern03:39
  • Howard Skempton (b. 1947):
  • 31Skempton: Christmas Bells02:13
  • Garth Edmundson (1892 - 1971):
  • 32Edmundson: Christus Advenit (Second Christmas Suite): IV. Toccata on Vom Himmel hoch04:53
  • Total Runtime01:18:11

Info for Christmas Bells: Organ Music from Belfast Cathedral



For this recording Organist Matthew Owens presents a diverse recital of some of the greatest Christmas music ever written for the instrument. Traditional tunes, whether Lutheran chorales, plainchant, French noëls, or medieval carols, have provided the inspiration for much Christmas organ music throughout the years, with much of this programme made up of pieces based on such tunes, from J.S. Bach’s Canonic variations on Vom Himmel hoch to Louis-Claude Daquin’s Noël Suisse.

This recital also draws on more contemporary sources and presents several world premiere recordings including Howard Skempton’s Christmas Bells and Gary Davison’s Seven Versets on Divinum Mysterium, both of which were written specially for this recording.

Matthew Owens, organ



Matthew Owens
became Organist and Master of the Choristers of Wells Cathedral in January 2005, having previously been Organist and Master of the Music at St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh, and Sub Organist of Manchester Cathedral. In addition to being responsible for the 1100 year old tradition of daily sung worship at Wells Cathedral, Matthew has toured, broadcast, and recorded extensively with Wells Cathedral Choir. Matthew is the Founder Artistic Director of three initiatives at Wells: Cathedral Commissions, a scheme which commissions new works from pre-eminent British composers; the cathedral’s innovative festival, new music wells; and its counterpart, Early Music Wells.

Matthew was educated at Chetham’s School of Music; The Queen’s College, Oxford; the Royal Northern College of Music; and the Sweelinck Conservatorium, Amsterdam. His major organ studies were with Gordon Stewart, Margaret Phillips, and Jacques van Oortmerssen. From 1994-99, he was Tutor in Organ Studies at the RNCM and Chetham’s, and worked for BBC Religious Broadcasting; he was Conductor of The Exon Singers from 1997-2011, and President of the Cathedral Organists' Association from 2010-13.

He is Musical Director of the Wells Cathedral Oratorio Society, a chorus of over 150 singers with which he has performed many major works by J.S. Bach, Brahms, Britten, Elgar, Fauré, Handel, Purcell, Rutter, Vaughan Williams, Verdi and Vivaldi, with some of the south of England’s leading professional orchestras. Matthew has directed choral workshops and summer schools throughout the UK and abroad – including recent visits to Australia, China, Germany, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, New Zealand, and the USA – and has made over thirty recordings as a conductor with major labels including Hyperion, Signum, and Resonus Classics.

As an organist, Matthew has given recitals in Australia, France, Ireland, Spain, Switzerland, New Zealand, the USA, and throughout the UK, including many festival appearances, and at venues such as St Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Cathedral, and St John’s Smith Square, and is currently performing the complete works of Bach at Wells Cathedral over a series of thirty-six recitals. He has championed new music, particularly of British composers, conducting over 180 world premieres, including works by leading composers ranging from Jools Holland to Sir James MacMillan, and John Rutter to Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. As a composer himself, he is published by Oxford University Press and Novello.

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