A Walton Organ Album

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.

An invaluable addition to the amateur organist's armoury ... Attractive music, sometimes moving, and in this arrangement always playable. The album also contains two pieces for manuals alone taken from Music for Children, again delightful and a joy to play. Oxford continue their series of Oxford Music Anthologies with a beautifully-produced volume that should grace every organist's bench.'

• Suite from Henry V (March, Passacaglia, Touch her soft lips and part) ; Crown Imperial ; Prelude 'The Spitfire' ; Three Pieces from Richard III (March, Elegy, Scherzetto) ; Romanza from 'Christopher Columbus' ; Spitfire Prelude from The First of the Few ; Orb and Sceptre ; Popular Song from Facade ; March (from Prelude to Richard III) ; Two pieces for manuals from 'Music for Children' ; Prologue from A Wartime Sketchbook