Easy Graded Organ Music Book 2

On retirement from a teaching career spent successively at St Paul's Boys' School, Barnes, Radley College, Oxfordshire, and Glenalmond College, Perthshire, (where he was also a Housemaster and Senior Tutor), Robert Gower worked as Organist at St Barnabas Catholic Cathedral, Nottingham, before moving briefly to the most northerly parish in the Church of England at Berwick-upon-Tweed. Returning to Scotland so as to be nearer to family, he is now Director of Music at Dundee Parish Church. Robert's commitment to English 20th-century repertoire is reflected through his founding and leadership of the Percy Whitlock Trust between 1981 and 2016 and in his longstanding Chairmanship of the Gerald Finzi Charitable Trust, from which he retired in 2022. He enjoys transcribing music for organ (with a wide range recently embracing both Leroy Anderson and Maxwell Davies) and in liturgical composition, completing a three-year cycle of responsorial psalms for the Church Music Society.

This collection is a superb way in which to give a developing student plenty of fine material to work through without having to buy either many different books or extremely expensive tutors . . . perhaps one should bury the musicological hatchet and say bravo! for the immense range of music presented, all in a form which the student can handle.

• Sonata per organo ; Trio du sixieme ton ; Hymnus, 'Vexilla regis prodeunt' ; Chorale prelude, 'Vater unser im Himmelreich' ; Postlude ; Praeludium ; Choral prelude, 'Ach Gott, erhor mein seufzen und wehklagen' ; Choral prelude, 'O Ewigkeit, du donnerwort' ; Prelude and fugue in F minor ; Trio in C minor ; Trio in A minor ; Andante with variations ; Chorale prelude, 'Ach Gott, verlass mich Nicht' ; Chorale prelude, 'Ein' feste burg is unser Gott' ; Trio (Op.49, No.10) ; Canon in C (Op.56, No.1) ; Canon in B minor (Op.56, No.5)