The Fagus Collection of Edwardian Preludes

£12.00

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Description

Thirteen Pieces for Organ by

  • Walter Alcock
  • Myles B. Foster
  • Alfred Hollins
  • John E. West
  • William Wolstenholme

The ‘Edwardian’ in the title of this collection needs to be taken as a broad indication of the style of these little pieces, it is not chronologically precise. In this period a huge amount of music for church service use was published, and of this a very large proportion was extraordinarily uninteresting, worthy doubtless, but fatally dull.

However, a detailed examination of some of the contemporary publications does unearth a few pieces of substance, charm and, sometimes, eloquence; it is suggested that they might well find a use even today.