Artist: Worgan / Roberts

Title: Worgan: Complete Organ Music

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Format: CD

Release Date: 2016

Label: Toccata

UPC: 5060113443328

Genre: Classical Artists

Album Tracks

1. I. Andante Maestoso
2. II. Fugato: Allegro
3. Andante
4. Andante
5. Andante
6. I. Andante
7. II. Allegro
8. I. Andante E Cantabile
9. II. Allegro Non Tanto
10. Larghetto
11. I. (Adagio)
12. II. (Allegro)
13. I. Adagio
14. II. Allegretto
15. I. Siciliano: Andante Moderato
16. II. Vivace Ma Non Allegro
17. I. Andante
18. II. Allegro Non Tanto
19. Andante
20. I. Andante Poco Larghetto
21. II. Allegrissimo
22. I. Aria Poco Andante
23. II. Allegro
24. Allegro Con Spirito

The organist and harpsichordist John Worgan (1724-90) was one of the most highly respected musicians in the London of his day: Handel admired his playing, and Burney described him as 'very masterly and learned'. Worgan was the organist of Vauxhall Gardens and of a number of London churches and naturally composed for his own instruments. Most of his music is lost, but his fifth son, James Worgan, also a musician, had fifteen of his father's organ pieces published after his death. Here they are performed on the organ of St Botolph's without Aldgate (perhaps England's oldest surviving church organ), where Worgan himself was organist from 1753 until his demise - the perfect vehicle for this quirky but proud music.