The following exordia ad missam (tr. preludes to the mass) are short and mostly meditative pieces that I recorded during the UK’s various Covid-related restrictions of 2020–22 for use as part of live-streamed church services.
Recordings©Andrew Pink.
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Biographies and individual listings
Emma Louise Ashford (1850–1930)
Andrew Pink performs (2022) ‘Melody in B-flat: allegretto ma non troppo’ (The Organist Vol. 2/iv 1898)
Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979)
Andrew Pink performs (2021) ‘Inprovisation‘ (Trois Improvisations. 1911–12)
Kate Boundy (1863–1913)
Andrew Pink performs (2021) ‘Even Song‘ (The Village Organist. Vol. 11. 1898)
Luigi Bottazzo (1845–1924)
Andrew Pink performs (2022) ‘Invocazione alla Regina della Pace‘. Raccolta di Sette Pezzi. Op.289. 1917)
Maude Campbell-Jansen (1888-1954)
Andrew Pink performs (2021) Meditation (1928).
Hedwige Chrétien (1859–1944)
Andrew Pink performs (2022) ‘Musette‘ from Harmonies Religieuses: à l’usage du service divin. (Series ‘Echos des organistes contemporains’ Vol 3 . 1922)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)
Andrew Pink performs (2021) ‘Melody’ (Three Short Pieces. 1898).
Elisa Delaye-Fuchs (1872–?)
Andrew Pink performs (2021) ‘Pièce en La bémol majeur‘ Op. 25 (Maîtres contemporains de l’orgue. Vol. 5. 1914. 93–94)
Jeanne Demessieux (1921–68)
Andrew Pink performs (2020) ‘Rorate caeli‘ (Twelve Choral-Preludes on Gregorian Themes. Op. 8. 1947) .
Théodore Dubois (1837–1924)
Andrew PInk performs (2021) ‘Adoration‘ (42 Pièces pour Orgue ou Harmonium. c.1915. Op. Posth. 1925)
Marcel Dupré (1886–1971)
Andrew Pink performs (2020) ‘Alma redemptoris mater‘ (Eight Short Preludes on Gregorian Themes. Op 45. 1958).
Robert Evans (c.1949–.)
Andrew Pink plays Divertimento for a Keyoboard: Allegro Energico (2014)
William Faulkes (1863–1933)
Andrew Pink performs (2021) ‘Idylle in D-flat major’ (William Faulkes: Compositions for the Organ. 1902)
Eugénie-Emilie Juliette Folville (1870–1946)
Andrew Pink performs (2022) ‘Verset sur le thème du “Tantum”, 6e ton’ (Maîtres contemporains del’orgue, Vol.3. 1912)
César Franck (1822–90)
Andrew Pink performs (2022) ‘Prélude pour l’Ave Maris Stella: andantino quasi allegretto’, 1858–63. (No. 28 in Pièces posthumes, ed. Georges Franck, 1905. )
Harvey Grace (1874–1944)
Andrew Pink performs (2021) ‘Cradle Song’ (Ten Compositions for the Organ. 1922)
Walter Battison Haynes (1859–1900)
Andrew Pink performs ‘Meditation in G: Introductory Voluntary‘ in The Village Organist (Vol. 1, Book 4, 1897)
Paul HIndemith (1895–1963)
Andrew Pink performs (2022) ‘Ruhig bewegt’ (Sonate 2, 1937)
Peter Hurford (1930–2019)
Andrew PInk performs (2022) ‘Wem in Leidenstagen‘ (Five Short Chorale Preludes, 1958)
Joseph Jongen (1873–1953)
Andrew Pink performs (2021) Petit Prélude (1937)
Jean Langlais (1907–91)
Andrew Pink performs (2020) ‘Interlude’ (Three Characteristic Pieces, 1957).
John Lee (1908–90)
Andrew Pink performs (2022) ‘Ecce panis angelorum’ Ten Organ Preludes for Liturgical Services. No 9. (1939)
Louis J. A. Lefébure-Wely (1817–69)
Andrew Pink performs (2022) ‘Andante: choeur de voix humaines‘ (Meditaciones religiosas op. 122/vii. 1858).
Kate Loder (1825–1904)
Andrew Pink performs (2020) ‘Voluntary in B-flat‘ (Six Easy Voluntaries. Second set. 1891). ” … for the most part fresh and genial in character […] somewhat suggestive of Spohr in the numerous chromatic progressions.” (Musical Times. Vol. 32, No. 579 (May 1, 1891), p. 297).
Robert–Charles Martin (1877–1949)
Andrew Pink performs (2022) ‘Élévation‘ (Parnasse des Organistes … First series, vol.1. 1911)
Olivier Messiaen (1908–92)
Andrew Pink performs (2021) Le Banquet Céleste (1928)
Andrew Moore (b.1954)
Andrew Pink performs (2021) Hymn-prelude ‘Bunessan’ (1996)
Ann Mounsey-Bartholomew (1811–1891)
Andrew Pink performs (2022) ‘Andante’ (The Village Organist. First Series, vol 2. 1872)
Henri Mulet (1878–1967)
Andrew Pink performs (2020) ‘Noel’ (Esquisses Byzantines, 1920).
Max Oesten (1843–1917).
Andrew Pink performs (2021) ‘Christmas‘ (Festival Times. Op 205/i, 1899).
Flor Peeters (1903–86)
Andrew Pink performs (2020) ‘Fantasie Inviolata‘ (Four Improvisations on Gregorian Melodies. Op.6/iv, 1946).
Jean-Marie Plum OSM (1898–1944)
Andrew Pink performs ‘Bénédiction nuptiale‘ (Messe de mariage. Op.56/ii. Pub. posth, Paris. 1955)
Marie Prestat (1862–1933)
Andrew Pink performs (2021) ‘Offrande à la Vierge: Alma redemptoris mater ‘ (Maîtres contemporains de l’orgue. Vol.4.. Paris: 1914)
Florence Price (1887–1953)
Andrew Pink performs (2021) Adoration (1951)
Noel Rawsthorne (1929–2019)
Andrew Pink performs:(2020) ‘Interlude in C‘ (Adagio Collection, 1999)
Alec Rowley (1892–1958).
Andrew PInk performs (2021) ‘Picardy‘ (A Book of Hymn Tune Voluntaries [by various]. 1950)
Blanche Rozan (fl.1900–12)
Andrew Pink performs (2021) ‘Petite Prière: assez lentement’ (Maîtres contemporains de l’orgue. Vol. 2.. Paris: 1912)
Léonce de Saint-Martin (1886–
1954)
Andrew Pink performs (2021) ‘Interlude de Grand Orgue pour l’Élévation: infiniment calme‘ (Mass in E-minor, Op.13. 1932)
Hermann Schroeder (1904–84).
Andrew PInk performs (2021) ‘Allegretto‘ (Kleine Präludien und Intermezzi. Op. 9. 1932)
Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Andrew Pink performs (2022) ‘Ave Maria’ (Ellens Gesang III, D. 839/vi. 1825), arr. Andrew Pink (2022)
Quentin Thomas (b. 1972)
Andrew Pink performs (2021) ‘Prelude on St Columba’ (1996)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)
Andrew Pink performs (2022) ‘Eventide‘ (from Two Hymn Tune Preludes for small orchestra (1936), arranged for organ (1938) by Herbert Sumsion (1899–1995)
René Vierne (1878–1918)
Andrew Pink performs (2022) ‘Élévation’ (Archives de l’Organiste, vol 4. 1910)
Techincal notes
– Temperament: Equal; pitch A=440
– Organ: Viscount Sonus 60
– Microphone: Zoom Q2N-4K
– Recordings: ©Andrew Pink. All rights reserved.
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