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Capriccio
Contemporary music for organ
MARGARET PHILLIPS
Beckerath organ, Marlborough College Chapel

Following her triumphant, critically-acclaimed Bach series, international concert organist, Margaret Phillips in an unusual departure, playing music form the late 20th and early 21st centuries in a program featuring a number of works written for, or premiered by Margaret Phillips.

This is the first solo recording of the new four manual Beckerath organ in Marlborough College Chapel.

‘On ‘Capriccio’, Margaret Phillips chooses a handful of works by composers  ow well into their fifties and beyond to demonstrate her not inconsiderable virtuosity and her innate handling of often quite demanding scores. It is thrilling to hear Sebastian Forbes’s Haec dies and Lionel Rogg’s Hommage a Franz Liszt delivered with such breathtaking panache in the somewhat intimate surroundings of Marlborough College Chapel; and, as a delightful mo ent of repose in all this aurally assertive music, the Dutch composer Ad Wammes presents charms aplenty in his minimalist Miroir.’