The Kelvingrove Organ - Overture Transcriptions

Timothy Byram-Wigfield, then Master of Music at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, plays a variety of Edwardian transcriptions on one of the world’s finest concert organs, the Lewis organ in Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Gallery.

1        Sinfonia To Cantata 29
Composed By – Johann Sebastian Bach
Transcription By – Marcel Dupré
2        Overture To St. Paul
Composed By – Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Transcription By – W.T. Best*
3        Overture To Messiah
Composed By – Georg Friedrich Händel
Transcription By – W.T. Best*
4        Prelude To Hänsel And Gretel
Composed By – Engelbert Humperdinck (2)
Transcription By – Edwin H. Lemare*
5        Overture To Die Zauberflöte
Composed By – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Transcription By – W.T. Best*
6        Overture To Der Freischütz
Composed By – Carl Maria von Weber
Transcription By – A.L. Peace
7        '1812' Overture, Op. 49
Composed By – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Transcription By – Edwin Evans
8        Carmen Fantasia
Composed By – Georges Bizet
Transcription By – Edwin H. Lemare*