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Review of four Organism CDs

Review from Music Web International.

Organism is a new record label based in New Zealand. It has been set up to release church and chamber music. The whole branding is cool, sleek and clean giving each CD a modern and appealing image. Does the music live up to the front covers?

Review date: 
Wednesday, 13 March 2013

Cantatas in their proper place at St Paul’s Lutheran

By Peter Mechen

JS BACH – CANTATA VESPERS

Cantata BWV 47 “Wer sich selbst erhöhet, der soll erniedriget werden”

Rebecca Woodmore (soprano) / Jenny Potter (alto) / John Beaglehole (tenor)
Timothy Hurd (bass)
Richard Apperley (director)
Ensemble Abendmusik

St.Paul’s Lutheran Church,
King St., Mt.Cook, Wellington

Saturday 29th September, 2012

Review date: 
Saturday, 29 September 2012

Psalm settings from Cantoris at St Paul’s Cathedral lunchtime

By Lindis Taylor, July 13, 2012
Cantoris: a lunchtime concert: ‘Like as the hart’

Anthems based on Psalm texts, by Mendelssohn, Stanford, Howells, Franck and Elgar

Director: Richard Apperley with Janet Gibbs at the organ

Cathedral of Saint Paul, Wellington

Friday 13 July, 12.45pm

Review date: 
Friday, 13 July 2012

Lunchtime organ recital of Bach and his north German predecessors from Richard Apperley

By Lindis Taylor, July 6, 2012
Great Music 2012, at the Cathedral of St Paul

Richard Apperley, Assistant Director of Music (organ)

Praeludium in E minor, No 2 (Nicolaus Bruhns); Chorale Prelude – ‘Freu dich sehr o meine Seele’ (Georg Böhm); Canzona in E minor, BuxWV 169 (Buxtehude); Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C, BWV 564 (Bach)

Cathedral of Saint Paul, Wellington

Friday 6 July, 12.45pm

Review date: 
Friday, 6 July 2012

Rewarding recital of 20th century British organ music Friday at St Paul’s

By Lindis Taylor, July 15, 2011
Great Music 2011: Music by William Mathias, Britten, MacMillan, Lennox
Berkeley, Kenneth Leighton and Howells

Richard Apperley (organ)

Cathedral of St Paul

Friday 15 July, 12.45pm

A programme of entirely British organ music comes as a bit of a surprise for it is normal to think of the repertoire as dominated by Germany and France.

Review date: 
Friday, 15 July 2011

The closest approach to the live performance

(Review of CD - Johann Kuhnau's Musicalische Vorstellung einiger biblischer Historien)

Review date: 
Thursday, 21 April 2011

Haydn’s Last Words from organist Richard Apperley at St Paul’s

Great Music 2011: Organ recital series

Haydn’s Seven last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross (Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze)

Richard Apperley (Assistant organist, Cathedral of St Paul)

Cathedral of St Paul

Friday 15 April 12.45

The great days of a flourishing market for transcriptions of symphonies and opera chunks for the organ, or the piano, might have passed, but there remains a lingering suspicion of the practice, and an almost automatic disposition to find them improper and tasteless.

Review date: 
Friday, 15 April 2011

In Memoriam: organ restorers remembered at St Peter’s

Organ recital to remember three members of the South Island Organ Company killed in Christchurch on 22 February.

Paul Rosoman, Dianne Halliday, Richard Apperley, Michael Fulcher

St Peter’s Church, Willis Street

Friday 4 March 5.30pm

Review date: 
Friday, 4 March 2011

CD Review - Johann Kuhnau - Musicalische Vorstellung einiger biblischer Historien

Pressing On, Radio New Zealand Concert, Sunday 12 December

For his debut recording, Wellington organist Richard Apperley has chosen a most unusual branch of repertoire. Johann Kuhnau was Bach’s predecessor at the St Thomas Lutheran Church in Leipzig, and although his music has been almost totally eclipsed by that of Bach, it seems that he did have some influence on his successor.

Review date: 
Sunday, 12 December 2010

CD Review - Johann Kuhnau - Musicalische Vorstellung einiger biblischer Historien

ORGANZ News, December 2010

This is a fascinating and interesting C. D which is certainly not ‘background’ music, or organ music to be played and listened to as with the regular repertoire of organ recitals. It is important to read the notes first about the composer, and then, whilst listening to the C.D. the notes on each of the biblical scenes depicted in the six Sonatas, with their individual movements.

Review date: 
Wednesday, 1 December 2010

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