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Organ CDs by Martin Setchell
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Organ recordings by Martin Setchell


  • Resounding Aftershocks
  • Cardboard Cathedral Organ Capers
  • A Taste of Shropshire - SOLD OUT
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"Resounding Aftershocks"


​'... a wide range of organ music that I am sure will delight lovers of fine organ playing.'
Geoff Pearce, Classical Music Daily, October, 2019
Characteristically fresh and stimulating. . ." 
Francis O'Gorman, "Organists' Review" June 2019
There's an "animated" quality to his playing that breathes life into the music and well projects each individual piece's character, be it power and vitality or tender dolefulness. Highly recommended to any pipe organ fans, especially for its unusual and varied assortment of pieces." 
Jean-Yves Duperron,  Classical Music Sentinel, September, 2019
Martin Setchell’s long-established brilliance and elan as a performer is here demonstrated to the utmost thanks to the skills and expertise of the disc’s sound engineer Mike Clayton, capturing the occasion most resplendently.
Middle-C, reviewed by Peter Mechen, 29/11/2020
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". . . one is drawn to the powerful but clean sound of this organ, and the superb playing of a master." - Geoff Pearce
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  1. Celebration ~ Mons Leidvin Takle (b.1942)
  2. Grand Choeur in D (alla Handel) ~ Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911)
  3. Prelude in G BWV 541 ~ J.S.Bach (1685-1750)
  4. A Chloris ~ Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947)
  5. El dia de Fiesta ~ Noël Goemanne (1926-2010)
  6. Scherzo ~ Enrico Bossi (1861-1925)
  7. Toccata in A ~ Bonaventura Somma (1893-1960)
  8. Romance from Symphony IV ~ Louis Vierne (1879-1937)
  9. Cats at Play ~ Denis Bédard (b.1950)
  10. Toccata in D ~ Marcel Lanquetuit (1894-1985)
  11. Variations & Fugue on God Save the King ~ Max Reger (1873-1916)
  12. Caribbean Dance ~ Madeleine Dring (1923-1977)
  13. Andante in F ~ Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (1817-1869)
  14. Toccata in F * ~ Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937)
All tracks except  * were recorded in Christchurch Town Hall, 26-27 January 2019. 
* Original recording September 1997, from Let the pealing organ blow! (MANU 1539).  By kind permisison of Ode Records​.
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A recording worthily celebrating the rebirth of this impressive organ"
Of the reason for his inclusion of the previously recorded Widor Toccata, Martin writes: 
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"This was the opening track of  my first CD on the Rieger when it was installed in 1997. It is included here to ‘link hands’ with the past  as the ‘pealing organ blows’ again and begins a new chapter in its life."

 

Cardboard Cathedral Organ Capers


Background:
The Christchurch Transitional Cathedral, more commonly known as the Cardboard Cathedral, was built in 2013 in response to the need for a temporary building when the original Anglican Cathedral in Cathedral Square was badly damaged in a series of devastating earthquakes from 2010 to 2012. Designed by the Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, it is built mostly of cardboard tubes, timber and structural steel, with a concrete floor. Shipping containers provide side offices. The north-end triangular window design includes 49 1.2 metre-tall panels and incorporates images from the ChristChurch Cathedral's original rose window. The Rodgers Infinity 484 digital organ was installed in 2013, and this is the first CD to be made on the organ of this series in New Zealand. A wonderful way to celebrate the rebuild of our beautiful Christchurch.
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Tracklist:
  1. Fanfare for the Common Man ~ Aaron Copland (Setchell)
  2. Now rejoice together BWV 734 ~ J. S. Bach
  3. Largo from Concerto No 5 BWV 1056 ~ Bach (arr. Setchell)
  4. Now thank we all our God BWV 79 ~ Bach (arr. Setchell)
  5. Sicilienne, Gabriel ~ Fauré (arr. Setchell)
  6. Prelude to the Te Deum ~ Marc-Antoine Charpentier
  7. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy ~ Tchaikovsky
  8. A Trumpet Menuet ~ Alfred Hollins
  9. Canon in B minor Op 56/5 ~ Robert Schumann
  10. Largo from the 'New World' Symphony ~ Anton Dvorak (arr. Setchell)
  11. Handel in the Strand ~ Percy Grainger (arr. Stockmeyer)
  12. Fountain Reverie ~ Percy Fletcher
  13. 'Blues' Toccata ~ Mons Leidvin Takle
  14. Penguins' Playtime ~ Nigel Ogden
  15. Bells across the Meadows ~ Albert Ketelbey (arr. Sellars/Setchell)
  16. Radetsky March ~ Johann Strauss (arr. Setchell)
  17. The Syncopated Clock ~ Leroy Anderson (arr. Setchell)
  18. Wedding March Extraordinaire ~ Martin Setchell
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​Real artistry . . . it's fun listening to such splendid playing, meticulous and flawless . . .

Bruce Steele,  Organ Australia, Winter 2014

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​One can only marvel at how Martin Setchell manages the multiple orchestral voices with just two hands and feet. A most entertaining disc . . .  ​

Michael Overbury, Organists Review UK, September 2014
A side note on the recording:
Making a CD in a public space is a challenge that organists are all too familiar with; but trying to record sound tracks in what amounts to a gargantuan building site must be right up there with some of the most patience-demanding tasks ever.
For a week beforehand we arrived at 5am in the so-called lull between night-work diggers, scrapers, lifters, loaders, crushers, concrete mixers, tractors heavy haulage vehicles and every other large mechanical beast known to man - and before the arrival of the morning's shift of day workers. A couple of hours each morning provided enough peace to lay down the 18 tracks. The complete recording with sound engineer Mike Clayton was a marathon session that lasted through the final night. The Cardboard Cathedral polycarbon roof with the timber-lined tubes is waterproof but not soundproof; in fact, not even enough to stifle the sound of people talking outside. With a set of traffic lights on the One Way road system a mere dozen or so steps away from the front door of the cathedral, it was a matter of timing the recordings between light changes and the constant flow of vehicles all determinedly doing their bit for the rebuild of Christchurch. But it's still a happy thought that this CD is a small part of that rebuild ~ and indeed a very brave New World.

 

A Taste of Shropshire

SORRY - OUT OF PRINT

Pipe organ CD recorded by Martin Setchell on the 1764 Snetzler organ of St Laurence, Ludlow, England, in 2007

Tracklist
  1. Paean – a Song of Triumph, Oliphant Chuckerbutty
  2. Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4 in G Op. 39, Sir Edward Elgar arr. Sinclair 
  3. Three dances from Henry VIII, Sir Edward German arr. Lemare (Morris Dance- Shepherds' Dance speaker - Torch Dance )
  4. The Lost Chord, Sir Arthur Sullivan 
  5. Introduction and Voluntary for the Cornet stop, Sir Charles Burney  
  6. Songs of Praise Toccata, Robert Prizeman 
  7. Jig (No. 3 of Five Dances), John Gardner
  8. RAF March Past, Sir Henry Walford Davies 
  9. 12 Introduction and Grand Concert Variations on a Hymn Tune by Sir Arthur Sullivan (the 'Not-so-young person's guide to the organ'), Richard Francis  
Total duration: 76:06

Martin's earlier recordings, Let the Pealing Organ Blow! (MANU 1539),  Bonbons for Organ 1 (Atoll 600), and Bonbons for Organ 2 (Atoll 603) and Pink and White (New Zealand Organ Music) and Great Australasian Organs VII (Priory) are also out of print, sorry. 
A Taste of Shropshire CD

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“The last work in this pot-pourri is a pot-pourri in its own write (right). Magnificently entitled Introduction & Grand Concert Variations on a Hymn Tune by Sir Arthur Sullivan (the not-so-young-person's guide to the organ) it lasts a good 16 minutes. It is a sweeping up of a gross of different styles and a dozen quotes from famous organ and orchestral works. Too many to itemise – but look out for Widor – you cannot really miss him. Just the sort of piece to bring the house down . . . 

John France, Music Web International

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The celebrated New Zealand organist Martin Setchell plays superbly throughout; he is an impeccable stylist, with nimble fingers (and feet) and is clearly having a jolly good time as well. This enjoyable disc – something for that Sullivan collector who already has everything else.

Robin Gordon-Powell, for Sir Arthur Sullivan Society magazine.

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