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  • Please support our quest to make a fine and unique set of films about each chronological and geographical school of organ building and music.

    £250.00£10,000.00
  • An exploration and celebration of one of the oldest forms of worship used around the world, this documentary goes behind the words and music and looks at how and why Choral Evensong continues to be the mainstay of Anglican daily worship in many cathedrals and large churches.

    £95.00£2,400.00
  • Bach is arguably the greatest of all composers, and certainly the greatest composer who wrote for the organ. Daniel Moult, explores the extraordinary Toccata and Fugue in D minor, an instantly recognisable masterpiece that is one of the most popular pieces of music ever written.

    £28.50£2,000.00
  • Please prebuy this multi-disc boxset from Fugue State Films. Tom Bell performs Messiaen’s cycles including La Nativité, the Messe de la Pentecôte and the magisterial Livre du Saint-Sacrement in its entirety at Blackburn Cathedral. In an accompanying documentary Tom explores Messiaen’s life and compositions with biographer and scholar Christopher Dingle. We shall also film Thomas Lacôte, Carolyn Shuster-Fournier and Loïc Mallié at the organ at Messiaen’s church in Paris, La Trinité.

    £38.00£2,000.00
  • This exhaustive boxed-set establishes Max Reger as one of the early 20th century’s greatest composers. More than 15 hours of content including three feature-length documentaries, plus filmed performances of 12 hours of Reger’s best music for orchestra, organ, voice, violin, piano and chamber ensemble. 57 films in total.

    £45.00
  • The English Organ, a ‘dazzling showcase of repertoire and instruments’ (Gramophone Magazine), presented by Daniel Moult and filmed over more than a year in forty locations in three continents, is the definitive documentary about the story of the English organ and its music over five hundred years. ‘Emphatically and urgently recommended,’ writes Fanfare Magazine, ‘this is one of the most important organ recordings of all time, and a model of how music documentaries ought to be done.’

    £45.00
  • Aristide Cavaillé-Coll was the greatest organ builder of the 19th century. Creator of such instruments as those in St Sulpice, Paris, St Ouen, Rouen, he devised a new way of building organs that led directly to the development of the French Romantic school of organ composition. This set of 42 films is the magnum opus of Fugue State Films.

    £45.00
  • In seven thirty-minute films Sietze de Vries performs the entire Orgelbüchlein, demonstrates the organs at the Martinikerk in Groningen and the Petruskerk in Leens, improvises 45 new chorale preludes in the style of Bach, discusses the philosophy of improvisation, and demonstrates how to improvise according to the techniques Bach uses in his great collection of chorale preludes. For the first time on film we can glimpse the enormous scale of Bach’s vision for his Orgelbüchlein. All performances are also presented on two CDs.

    £34.50
  • Sietze de Vries plays Bach’s entire Orgelbüchlein and improvises 45 of the missing chorales. Filmed at the Martinikerk in Groningen and the Petruskerk in Leens.

    £29.00
  • Alkmaar: The Organs of the Lauresnkerk contains more than 3 hours of film. Its centrepiece is a one-hour documentary filled with music and gorgeous, abundant visual detail, detailing the 500 year organ history of the Laurenskerk in Alkmaar, a church that includes both an organ from 1511 by Jan van Covelens as well as the world-famous 1646 / 1723 van Hagerbeer / Frans Caspar Schnitger organ.

    £29.00
  • Charles-Marie Widor was a true musical force: a virtuoso who revolutionised organ playing in France, a composer who invented the organ symphony and wrote the most famous toccata since Bach, and an enormously influential figure in French cultural history.

    £29.00
  • For this boxset we filmed at fabulous organs in Central Germany by organbuilders Bach knew. Instruments include the two Silbermanns in Rötha; the Trost in Waltershausen and the Hildebrandt in Sangerhausen.

    £29.00
  • César Franck is one of the most fascinating of all composers. He had the vision to create the French organ school, and his compositions are played, studied, listened to and loved by organists everywhere.

    £29.00
  • This is the first ever filmed performance of Louis Vierne’s six complete organ symphonies released on DVD. Roger Sayer gives a magisterial performance on the spectacular organ of the Temple Church, London. All six symphonies are presented on both DVD and CD, plus a short introductory film. Shot in 4K and presented in both 5.1 surround sound and stereo.

    £18.50
  • This is the ultimate set of films about the iconic organ of King’s College, Cambridge, with a feature-length documentary about the restoration of the organ and filmed performances by seven of the best former organ scholars.

    £18.50
  • Couperin, Bach Goldbergs, Buxtehude, Mattheson and Grounds for Pleasure for the discounted total price of £19.50

    £18.50
  • George Ritchie follows up his recordings of the complete Bach organ works with this magisterial performance of Bach’s late contrapuntal masterpiece The Art of Fugue.

    £18.50
  • Charles-Marie Widor is a true musical force: a virtuoso who revolutionised organ playing in France, a composer who invented the organ symphony and wrote the most famous toccata since Bach, and an enormously influential figure in French cultural history.

    £18.50
  • “Invaluable” Colin Tilney

    Includes free copy of Colin Booth’s CD recording of the Goldberg Variations.

    £17.50
  • Most great composers have left us countless pieces of music which rarely get heard. They may not be part of a better-known set,  or may contain odd features which are not typical of the master’s more familiar style. Colin Booth’s latest CD features music of this kind. His three previous Bach recordings have all attracted extravagant critical praise. Here we have a collection of unfamiliar keyboard gems which all make immediately compelling listening.

    £12.50
  • Magisterial performance of the second set of Bach’s 48 Preludes and Fugues played by Colin Booth. 2 CDs plus extensive notes.

    £12.50
  • Magisterial performance of the first set of Bach’s 48 Preludes and Fugues played by Colin Booth. 2 CDs plus extensive notes.

    £12.50
  • “Fine music expertly chosen ” The Organists’ Review
    2 DVDs

    £12.50
  • The authoritative history of the richest collection of historic pipe organs in the world, those in the Dutch province of Groningen. The documentary film Martinikerk Rondeau features masterful organ-building team Cor Edskes and Jürgen Ahrend, and includes performances by Sietze de Vries of repertoire from Scheidemann to Schumann and a series of historically styled improvisations.

    £10.00
  • J. C. F. Fischer – perhaps J. S. Bach’s most important mentor, and 15 years his senior – wrote these wonderful suites which served as inspiration for the Well-tempered Clavier.

    £8.50
  • Graham Barber performs a programme of Hoyer’s great organ music, more than half of which has never been recorded before, playing the superb Link/Gaida organ of the Pauluskirche in Ulm.

    £8.50
  • Rhapsodic performance of the Mattheson’s witty and inventive contrapuntal masterpiece.

    £8.50
  • Graham Barber performs Karg-Elert’s great Sonata Opus 46, plus six portraits of composers Weber, Chopin, Wagner, J. Strauss, Verdi and Grieg.

    £8.50
  • Here Booth performs a selection of Byrd’s best keyboard music

    £8.50
  • Colin Booth, harpsichord

    “A characterful, honest and engaging recital” Gramophone

    £8.50
  • Colin Booth, harpsichord

    “Very satisfying performances” Music Web International

    £8.50
  • “This recording stands out in a crowded field” Early Music Review

    £8.50
  • Colin Booth plays suites, dances and unmeasured preludes by this magisterial composer

    £8.50
  • Simon Thomas Jacobs performs on the first CD recorded on the Richards, Fowkes & Co organ of St George’s, Hanover Square.

    £8.50
  • David Butterworth plays English organ music (Wesley, Byrd, Tomkins, Adams, Stanley, Purcell, Camidge, Nares etc) on historic instruments in Branston (Hugh Russell, 1794) and Eaton (Anon, c1829).The disc also includes works by van Dalem, de Klerk, Jongen, Böhm, Buxtehude and Bach.

    £8.50
  • John Scott Whiteley, organist emeritus of York Minster and famous for his TV broadcasts of 20th and 21st Century Bach, plays all six of Bach’s legendary trio sonatas in a masterful performance.

    £8.50
  • Tri Robinson explores Christian environmentalism.

    £6.50
  • Once Upon a Time in Knoxville uplifts us with the tale of recycling visionary Rollo Sullivan.

    £6.50