More Essential Repertoire for the Church Organist (ed. Christopher Tambling)

More Essential Repertoire for the Church Organist is a comprehensive volume of organ music, providing a wide variety of further repertoire for the student organist. The pieces have been selected from the recently revised lists for the Associated Board organ examinations, starting with pieces required for Grade 4 and progressing to the more challenging repertoire set for Grade 8. This anthology of organ pieces is a practical and economical way for organ examination candidates to approach the exciting and challenging repertoire set for each level.

Grade 4
Allegro Alexandre Guilmant
Bishop’s blues Betty Roe
Flourish for an occasion Noel Rawsthorne
Prelude in A minor Georg Böhm
Puer natus in Bethlehem Dietrich Buxtehude
Tranquilly Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Trio (7ème couplet du Gloria) from ‘Messe pour les Couvents’ François Couperin
Tu es Petrus Jeanne Demessieux
Vesper Voluntary No. 3 Edward Elgar

Grade 5
Attende Domine Jeanne Demessieux
Basse de Trompette Louis Marchand
Erschienen ist der herrliche Tag Johann Sebastian Bach
Fugue from Praeambulum in F Vincent Lübeck
Lamento Alexandre Guilmant
O praise the Lord with one consent William Thomas Best
Prelude in C Jules Massenet
Tuba Tune in D Craig Sellar Lang
Variation 3 from Kleine Choralpartita on ‘O Jesu, all mein Leben bist du’ Petr Eben

Grade 6
Chorale Prelude on ‘Rockingham’ Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Fanfare William Mathias
Festival Voluntary Flor Peeters
First movement from ‘Concerto del Signor Meck’ Johann Gottfried Walther
No. 5 from ‘Six short Preludes and Postludes’ Charles Villiers Stanford
Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist Georg Böhm
O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig Johann Sebastian Bach
Rockingham Kenneth Leighton
Second movement from Sonata in D Felix Mendelssohn

Grade 7
In dir ist Freude Johann Sebastian Bach
Lobe den Herren, O meine Seele Sigfrid Karg-Elert
Menuet Gothique from ‘Suite Gothique’ Léon Boëllmann
Menuetto-Impromptu John Ireland
Paean Philip Moore
Praeludium in A minor Dietrich Buxtehude
Récit de tierce en taille Nicolas de Grigny
Ruhig bewegt from second movement of Sonata No. 1 Paul Hindemith
Uns ist geboren ein Kindelein Flor Peeters

Grade 8
Allegretto from ‘Five short pieces’ Percy Whitlock
Fantasy on ‘Helmsley’ Kenneth Leighton
First movement of Trio Sonata No. 1 Johann Sebastian Bach
Hymne d’actions de grâces Jean Langlais
Prelude and Fugue in G Johann Sebastian Bach
Scherzo from ‘Ten pieces for organ’ Eugène Gigout
Third movement from Sonata in B Felix Mendelssohn
Toccata in F Dietrich Buxtehude
Tranquilly Charles Hubert Hastings Parry