KSS39 Organ Symphony No. 1
Piece details
- Written for: Organ
- Date composed: 1924
- Dedicatee: Emily Edroff-Smith
- Approximate duration (minutes): 120
- Manuscript pages: 81
- Manuscript location: Library of Congress
- Comments: Published (J.Curwen and Sons Ltd., 999.009, 1925).
Editions available from the Sorabji Archive
- Corrected copy of publication (Kevin Bowyer), A3L. 107 pages.
Price: £30 (paper), £10 (pdf)
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- Manuscript, A3L. 81 pages.
Price: £20 (paper), £10 (pdf)
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Recordings
- Kevin Bowyer (organ),
Continuum CCD1001/2 (2CDs) (November 1988)
Track 1-3 (117:52)
Track 1 I Prelude; Passacaglia; Postlude (34:35)
Track 2 II Introduction; Fugue; Coda (36:24)
Track 3 III (46:53)
Performances
- 17/05/1928 Edward Emlyn Davies (organ) [ii]
Westminster Congregational Church (now Westminster Chapel), London, UK
- 25/07/1987 Kevin Bowyer (organ), Thomas Trotter (organ)
Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street, London, UK
1987 International Congress of Organists (Bowyer played movements i and iii, Trotter played ii)
- 28/04/1988 Kevin Bowyer (organ)
Århus Cathedral, Århus, Denmark
- 26/07/1988 Kevin Bowyer (organ) [ii]
Cleveland Lodge (home of Lady Susi Jeans), Dorking, UK
Organists’ Summer School: Illustrated Lecture
- 09/11/1992 Kevin Bowyer (organ)
Brucknersaal, Brucknerhaus, Linz, Austria
- 23/10/1997 Kevin Bowyer (organ)
St. Petri Kyrke, University of Malmö, Malmö, Sweden
- 01/02/1998 Kevin Bowyer (organ)
Pauluskirche, Darmstadt, Germany
- 18/10/2003 Kevin Bowyer (organ)
Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Mary, St Denys and St George, Manchester, UK
- 01/03/2006 Kevin Bowyer (organ) [x]
University Chapel, Glasgow, UK
- 08/10/2006 Kevin Bowyer (organ)
University Chapel, Glasgow, UK
Broadcasts etc.
- 24/07/1988 Kevin Bowyer (organ)
Danish Radio, Århus, Denmark [B]
broadcast of concert of 28/04/1988
- 26/07/1988 Kevin Bowyer (organ) [i,iii]
Cleveland Lodge (home of Lady Susi Jeans), Dorking, UK [+]
Organists’ Summer School: Illustrated Lecture
- 24/10/1988 Kevin Bowyer (organ) [ii]
Corfe Castle Parish Church, Corfe Castle, UK [+]
Memorial Service for Sorabji
- 18/01/1989 Kevin Bowyer (organ) [i[x]]
BBC Radio 4, London, UK [+B]
“Kaleidoscope” programme
- 24/02/1989 Kevin Bowyer (organ) [i,ii[x]]
NOS (Nederlandse Omroeprogramma Stichting), Hilversum, Netherlands [B]
- 28/02/1989 Kevin Bowyer (organ) [iii]
WFUY (radio), New York NY, USA [+B]
- 14/03/1989 Kevin Bowyer (organ) [i,ii]
WFUY (radio), New York NY, USA [+B]
- 22/09/1989 Kevin Bowyer (organ)
NOS (Nederlandse Omroeprogramma Stichting), Hilversum, Netherlands [+B]
- 01/03/1990 Kevin Bowyer (organ) [iii[x]]
Lecture room, Royal College of Music, London, UK [+]
Lecture-recital
- 27/02/1991 Kevin Bowyer (organ) [i[x]]
Lecture Room A, Music Faculty, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK [+]
Oxford University Contemporary Music Group, Illustrated Lecture (Alistair Hinton)
- 24/11/1991 Kevin Bowyer (organ)
BBC Radio 3, London, UK [+B]
- 01/12/1991 Kevin Bowyer (organ) [x]
BBC Radio 3, London, UK [+B]
“Music Weekly””programme
- 03/12/1991 Kevin Bowyer (organ) [x]
BBC Radio 3, London, UK [+R]
“Music Weekly””programme
- 09/08/1992 Kevin Bowyer (organ) [iii[x]]
Radio Bremen, Bremen, Germany [+B]
Hauptabteilung E-Musik, Redaktion Neue Musik
- 13/12/1992 Kevin Bowyer (organ) [i[x]]
LWT (London Weekend Television), London, UK [+B]
“South Bank Show” programme
- ??/??/1997 Kevin Bowyer (organ) [x]
Channel 2, Swedish Broadcasting Corporation, Stockholm, Sweden [B]
broadcast of concert of 23/10/1997
- 07/01/2002 Kevin Bowyer (organ)
Radio Ceredigion, Ceredigion, Wales [B]
- 26/02/2002 Kevin Bowyer (organ)
Channel 2, Swedish Broadcasting Corporation, Stockholm, Sweden [R]
- 21/09/2004 Kevin Bowyer (organ) [i]
Nordwest Radio/Radio Bremen, Bremen, Germany [+B]
“Der Kauz von Corfe Castle: Aus dem Nachlaß von Kaikhosru Sorabji”
- 24/05/2012 Kevin Bowyer (organ)
De Concertzender, , Netherlands [+B]
- 31/05/2012 Kevin Bowyer (organ)
De Concertzender, , Netherlands [+B]
