Simon Says

Words and music from Englishman Simon Preston, one of the world’s most articulate and virtuosic ambassadors for the King of Instruments.

Program Broadcast dates:

• April 19, 1999

Music played in the program

A. SCARLATTI: Toccata in D –Hannes, Wolfgang & Bernhard Läubin, trumpet; Simon Preston (1777 Rosa/Lübeck Cathedral, Germnay) DG 419 245

PURCELL: Trumpet Tune (1984 Harrison/Westminster Abbey, London, England, UK) London 430 145

PURCELL: Voluntary in G. (1605 Anonymous/Knole House Chapel, Kent, England, UK); BOYCE: Voluntary in D. (1791 Greene/Saint John the Baptist Church, Armitage, England, UK) Archive 415 675

BACH: Partita, Ach, was soll ich Sünder machen, S. 770 (1942 Marcussen/Sorø Abbey, Denmark) DG 429 775

MESSIAEN: Serene alleluias of a soul desiring Heaven, from L’Ascension (1968 Harrison & Harrison/King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, England, UK) Argo LP-5339 (out-of-print)

BRAHMS: Geistliches Lied, Op. 30 –New English Singers, Simon Preston, conductor & organ (not identified) Argo LP-571 (out-of-print)

WALTON: Jubilate –Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Simon Preston, conductor; Stephen Darlington, organ (1979 Rieger/Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, England, UK) Argo LP-725 (out-of-print)

GUILMANT: Symphony No. 1 in d for for Organ and Orchestra, Op. 42 (Finale) –Adelaide Sym Orch, Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor; Simon Preston (1990 Walker/Adelaide Town Hall, Australia) ABC Classics CD-432529