WESLEY, S.S.: Organ Works - James McVinnie

Son of the organist Samuel and grandson of Charles Wesley, Samuel Sebastian held various positions as organist in English cathedrals. As a performer and as a composer of organ music he lived at a time of transition in English organ-playing and construction, as the full pedal-board came into wider use in England, to some extent inspired by the example of Mendelssohn. Wesley's organ music, influenced inevitably by the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, after whom he had been christened, reflects these new developments, and paves the way for the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century revival of organ music.

Wesley, Samuel Sebastian

 Introduction and Fugue in C-Sharp Minor (revised version 1869)

 3 Pieces for a Chamber Organ, Book II: No. 2. Larghetto in F-Sharp Minor

 Voluntary

 Andante cantabile in G Major

 3 Pieces for a Chamber Organ, Book II: No. 3. Andante in E-Flat Major

 3 Pieces for a Chamber Organ, Book I: No. 2. Andante in F Major

 Andante in C Major

 Andante in E Minor

 Holsworthy Church Bells

 3 Pieces for a Chamber Organ, Book I: No. 3. Choral Song