THOMAS TERTIUS NOBLE (1867-1953): Complete Organ Works, Vol. 1 - Preludes on Dundee, Rockingham, St. Anne, St. Kilda, Aberystwyth, Tallis’s Canon and Watchman, Prélude solennel, A Highland Sketch, Desert Lament, An Elizabethan Idyll, Fantasy on Leoni, Pastorale-Prelude on a Chinese Christmas Carol, Revery, Intermezzo in A Flat, A Summer Idyll, 2 Traditional Hebrew Melodies, Introduction and Passacaglia.

Description: An Englishman who, after several significant appointments in Cambridge, Ely and the very organ of this recording, left in 1913 to become organist and choirmaster at St. Thomas’ in New York City, Noble’s compositions are divided between traditional secular and religious English parish fare and more flavorful stuff (like the four little tone-poems on this disc) which were influenced by the American orchestral organs of E.M. Skinner. John Scott Whiteley (organ of York Minster.)