THOMAS TROTTER

Discography

 

 

Regent

Restored to Glory (Birmingham Town Hall)    REGCD265

Celebrating the restoration and reopening of Birmingham Town Hall, this CD includes works by Handel, Thalben-Ball, W.T. Best, Ireland, Bizet, Lemare and Wagner.

 

Chanson de Matin (Salisbury Cathedral)   REGCD256

            Complete organ works by Elgar: Sonata, Sonata no 2, Vesper Voluntaries, Cantique, Nimrod, Chanson de Matin, Pomp & Circumstance no 4

           

Symphony Hall (own label)

Sounds Spectacular: Bach, Saint-Seans, Durufle, Flagler, Boellmann:

Klais organ, Symphony Hall, Birmingham, UK

 

Pulling out all the stops: Bach, Widor, Nyman, Parry, Wagner, Bolcom, Hakim:

            Klais organ, Symphony Hall, Birmingham, UK

 

Sounds Phenomenal: Locklair, Schumann, Bach, Liszt, Wammes, Guilmant

            Klais organ, Symphony Hall, Birmingham, UK

 

Naxos

Samuel Barber Toccata Festiva

            cond. Marin Allsop, Royal Scottish National Orchestra

 

Chandos

M. Berkeley Organ Concert

            cond. Richard Hickox, BBC National Orchestra of Wales

 

Hyperion

The Grand Organ of Birmingham Town Hall

            Wagner:  Overture to Die Meistersinger (arr. Lemare); Liszt:  Consolation No. 4;

            Mendelssohn:  Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (arr. Warren) &

War March of the Priests (arr. Best); Weber:  Jubel Overture (arr. Best); Saint-Saëns:  Le Cygne (arr. Guilmant) & Danse Macabre (arr. Lemare); Prokofiev:  Toccata (arr. Guillou)

 

Liszt  Corydon Singers, cond. Matthew Best, organ  T.Trotter

            Via Crucis Mass

 

Decca-Argo

Liszt & Reubke  (Klais organ at Ingolstadt Minster, Ingolstadt, Germany)

            Liszt:  Ave Maria, Prelude & Fugue on B-A-C-H, Orpheus, Prometheus

            Reubke:  Sonata on the 94th Psalm 

            (ARGO 430 244-2)

 

Music of Jehan Alain  (Van Den Hoeval organ at the Nieuwe Kirk, Katwigk am Zee,

Netherlands) Trois Danses, Deux Fantaisies, Suite, Variation on a Theme of Clement

Jannequin, Le Jardin suspendu, Litanies, Deux danses à Agni Yavishta, Phantasmogorie

(ARGO 430 833-2)

 

Music of Charles-Marie Widor  (Cavaillé-Coll organ of St. François-de-Sales Church, Lyon)

            Gothic Symphony, Adagio & Toccata (Symphony No. 5), Allegro (Symphony No. 6),

Moderato cantabile & Allegro (Symphony No. 8), Trois Nouvelles Pièces  

(ARGO 433 152-2)

 

Soler Concertos for Two Organs with Peter Hurford  (Salamanca Cathedral, Spain)

 

Messiaen  (St. Pierre, Douai, France)

            L’Ascension, Messe, Dyptique, etc.

 

Janacek with Charles Dutioit and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra

            Glagolitic Mass (organ solos)

 

The Ride of the Valkyries:  Organ transcriptions from Birmingham Town Hall

 

Liszt (Ladegast organ in Merseburg Cathedral)

            Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H, “Weinen, klagen, sorgen, zagen”, “Ad nos, ad salutarem

undam”

 

Janacek  Vienna Philharmonic, cond. Ricardo Chailly

            Glagolithic Mass

(DECCA)

 

Phillips

Poulenc with Bernard Haitink and the European Community Youth Orchestra

            Concerto for Organ, Strings and Tympany

 

London

Mozart Organ Works  (1828 Lohman, organ Farmsum, The Netherlands)

 

Messiaen (Munster Church, Bad Sackingen, Germany)

            Les Corps Glorieux, Le Banquet Celeste, Verset pour la fete de la Dedicace  

 

Dupré (Princeton University Chapel)

Passion Symphony, 2nd Symphony, Variations on a Noel, Suite Bretonne

 

EMI Classics for Pleasure

English Choral Favourites

City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Simon Halsey, Conductor, Thomas Trotter, Organist. Includes Parry: I was glad, Jerusalem; Elgar: Great is the Lord; Mendelssohn: Hear my prayer; Organ solos: Master Tallis’s Testament by Howells and Edwin Lemare’s

transcription of Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance” March No. 1