Transcriptions from Truro David Briggs & Rupert Marshall-Luck

• Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958): 5 Variants of Dives & Lazarus (Arr. D. Briggs for Organ):
• 1 Williams: 5 Variants of Dives & Lazarus (Arr. D. Briggs for Organ) 16:00
• The Lark Ascending (Arr. D. Briggs for Organ & Violin):
• 2 Williams: The Lark Ascending (Arr. D. Briggs for Organ & Violin) 15:09
• Symphony No. 5 in D Major (Arr. D. Briggs for Organ):
• 3 Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D Major (Arr. D. Briggs for Organ): I. Preludio 13:32
• 4 Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D Major (Arr. D. Briggs for Organ): II. Scherzo. Presto misterioso 05:35
• 5 Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D Major (Arr. D. Briggs for Organ): III. Romanza. Lento 12:35
• 6 Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D Major (Arr. D. Briggs for Organ): IV. Passacaglia. Moderato 13:35
• Total Runtime 01:16:26

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David Briggs ist ein international anerkannter Organist, dessen Darbietungen für ihre Musikalität, Virtuosität und die Fähigkeit, ein Publikum aller Altersgruppen zu begeistern und zu fesseln, gefeiert werden. David Briggs ist derzeit Artist-in-Residence an der Kathedrale von St. John the Divine in New York City. Er ist nicht nur als Interpret, sondern auch als Arrangeur von Orchesterwerken für die Orgel bekannt und hat für diese Aufnahme drei neue Transkriptionen von Werken von Ralph Vaughan Williams angefertigt - insbesondere diese neue Bearbeitung der 1943 vollendeten Fünften Symphonie, die für ihre Verbindung zu A Pilgrim's Progress berühmt ist. Bei The Lark Ascending wird David von dem gefeierten Geiger Rupert Marshall-Luck unterstützt. Dieses Stück wurde vor 100 Jahren oft mit Violine und Orgel aufgeführt, und diese Aufnahme ist die erste moderne Wiederaufnahme dieser Tradition. 1939 schrieb Vaughan Williams Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus und entwickelte eine Rhapsodie über eine Volksweise, die er mindestens seit 1904 kannte. Die von Adrian Lucas produzierte Aufnahme wurde im August 2021 auf der "Father Willis"-Orgel der Kathedrale von Truro eingespielt.

David Briggs, Father Willis-Orgel Truro Cathedral
Rupert Marshall-Luck, Violine

David Briggs
Known for his unbridled virtuosity and passion for making organ music vibrant and accessible to a wide and diverse audience, David is one of the most sought after concert organists of his generation. ​

At the age of 17, David obtained his FRCO (Fellow of the Royal College of Organists) diploma, winning the Silver Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians. From 1981-84 he was Organ Scholar at King’s College Cambridge, during which time he also studied with Jean Langlais in Paris.

He teaches performance at Cambridge University, frequently serves on international organ competition juries, and gives master classes at colleges and conservatories across the U.S. and Europe.

David has held numerous positions in North America and the U.K. He is currently Artist-in-Residence at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York City.

Rupert Marshall-Luck
Hailed by BBC Music Magazine for his “handsome tone and laser-like tuning”, and acclaimed by audiences and critics alike for the verve, commitment and intelligence of his performances, Rupert Marshall-Luck appears as soloist and recitalist at major festivals and venues throughout the UK as well as in France, Germany, the Netherlands, the Republic of Ireland, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland and the USA. His extensive discography includes many World Première recordings as well as conspectuses of the complete music for violin and piano of Herbert Howells and C. Hubert H. Parry; and his solo performances have been frequently broadcast on BBC Radio 3, ABC Classic FM (Australia), RTÉ (Ireland), SABC (South Africa), Radio Suisse Romande (Switzerland), and in Canada, France, New Zealand and the USA. His recordings have attracted glowing critical acclaim from the international musical press, including BBC Music Magazine, Gramophone, International Record Review (“We have music of distinction and performances to match. A decisive view of how the structures must knit together and considerable mental stamina from both players are firmly implanted into the performances”), MusicWeb International and The Strad; a recent five-star review of Joseph Holbrooke’s F-major Sonata in the French music publication Classica stated “The perilous double-stopping passages are overcome by Rupert Marshall-Luck with an athletic ease; while his warm tone is marvellous in the elegiac lyricism of the slow movement”. A disc of John Pickard’s chamber music for Toccata Classics (TOCC 0150) was also praised by Fanfare in the USA, being highlighted as “a compact disc not to be missed”.

As well as his busy schedule as a soloist and chamber musician, Rupert is active as a writer and speaker on the performing aspects of music, and he has presented lecture-recitals, seminars and masterclasses at the Universities of Bristol, Cambridge and Oxford; at Birmingham Conservatoire, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and the Royal Academy of Music; and at University College London. His radio broadcasts include several appearances on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune and a programme for Radio 4’s series Tales from the Stave; and his article Volksmusik, Landschaften und Turbulenzen: Die Lieder und die Kammermusik von Vaughan Williams (Folktunes, Landscape and Turbulence: the Songs and Chamber Music of Vaughan Williams) was published in edition text + kritik (Richard Boorberg Verlag) in December 2018. His scholarly-critical edition of Elgar’s Sonata for Violin and Piano, op.82, was published in 2019 by G. Henle Verlag of Munich; this forms part of a series of editions for the publisher which together will comprise the complete violin music of Elgar.

Rupert plays a violin by Charles Jean Baptiste Collin-Mézin of 1899. Collin-Mézin won several medals and prizes for his instruments, and received accolades from many prominent violinists, including Joseph Joachim, some considering a Collin-Mézin violin to be equal to a Stradivari for flexibility of sound – indeed, he has been referred to as “the French Stradivari”. He uses a bow by Eugenio Praga, a highly-respected nineteenth-century Genoese maker who was appointed as a custodian of Paganini’s 1743 Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ violin; and a newly-commissioned bow by the British archetier Timothy Richards.

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