A Legend Reborn: The Voice of Kings
2xDVD plus 2xCD Boxset from award-winning Fugue State Films, featuring an extensive documentary film detailing the restoration of the iconic 1934 Harrison and Harrison organ of King’s College, Cambridge. Filmed over more than a year at all stages of the restoration, and presented and narrated by David Briggs, this is the ultimate in-depth portrait of one of the world’s most famous musical instruments being reborn. In addition to the documentary, the Boxset includes an extraordinary set of filmed performances, also duplicated over the two CDs, by past organ scholars. Contents: Documentary: A Legend Reborn: The Voice of King’s 120:00 Demonstration of the King’s Organ by Daniel Moult 18:00 Percy Whitlock: Fantasie Choral 10:36 The following music on both DVD and CD: Dónal McCann 1. Judith Bingham: Incarnation with Shepherds Dancing 3:46 2. Marcel Dupré: Deux Esquisses: No. 2 in B-flat minor 4:14 Henry Websdale 3. Frank Bridge: Adagio in E 6:03 4. Louis Vierne: Toccata from Pièces de Fantaisie 4:05 Richard Gowers 5. Jehan Alain: Deuxième Fantaisie 6:41 6. Olivier Messiaen: Transports de Joie 5:34 Tom Winpenny 7. Marcel Dupré: Cortège et Litanie 6:06 8. Herbert Murrill: Carillon 2:12 9. Herbert Howells: Rhapsody No. 1 in D-flat 5:56 10. J.S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in G BWV 550 6:02 Ashley Grote 1. Louis Vierne: Carillon de Westminster 7:20 2. Ralph Vaughan-Williams: Prelude on Rhosymedre 3:45 Robert Quinney 3. J.S. Bach: Passacaglia and Fugue BWV582 14:05 4. Felix Mendelssohn: Prelude and Fugue in B-flat (arr. Quinney) 7:41 David Briggs 5. Max Reger: Toccata and Fugue in D minor/major 8:54 6. Improvised Variations and Toccata on the Great Advent Antiphons (O Sapientia) 17:27 Picture Format DVD: NTSC DVD-9 Region Code: 0 Region Free