Description
Ogden, Nigel: Saints on a Spree
Ref
H461
Categories
Instrumental Music
,
Organ
By
Nigel Ogden
Saints on a Spree
is a stylish and not altogether reverent fantasy on several popular tunes associated with saintliness. Lively episodes in Latin-American and schmaltzy-waltz mood pull the carpet from under a solemn, hymn-like opening. Things get even more wild when Widor’s Toccata from the Fifth Symphony and Brahms’s Lullaby put in an appearance. With his usual masterly craftsmanship, Nigel Ogden, leading light-organist and host of long-running Radio 2 series
The Organist Entertains
, draws all these ideas into a grand and saintly peroration, which will sound as good whether played on an electronic instrument as on a church organ.
