Edinburgh’s churches and concert halls are home to a rich variety of pipe organs. Open this book and step into a world of glorious architecture and fascinating history, for, in amongst these pages, 22 of the city's most notable instruments are surveyed in full colour.

Meanwhile, 12 illustrious players, all with deep-rooted Edinburgh connections, demonstrate the full range and versatility of these instruments on the four accompanying CDs. The full gamut of the repertoire is here, and Edinburgh's organs have the voices to match.

Time to lift the veil from some of the closest guarded treasures of one of the world's great cities.

Contents:
CD 1:
Usher Hall – John Kitchen
Whitlock: Sonata in C minor – i. Grave
Alfred Hollins: Evening Rest

St Cuthbert’s Parish Church – Thomas Laing-Reilly
Gigout: Grand Choeur dialogué (No.6, Six Pièces)
Langlais: Méditation (No.4 Suite Médiévale, Op.56)
Vierne: Carillon de Westminster (No.6 Pièces de Fantaisie, Op.54)

Palmerston Place Church – Andrew Caskie
Buxtehude: Toccata in F, BuxWV157
Baker: Berceuse Paraphrase
Mathias: Fanfare

St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral- Duncan Ferguson
Howells: Master Tallis’s Testament (No.3 from Six Pieces)
Leighton: Fantasy 5 ‘Veni Emmanuel’ (from Six Fantasies on Hymn Tunes, Op.72)
Duruflé: Choral varié (from Prélude, adagio et choral varié sur le thème de ‘Veni Creator’, Op.4)

Freemasons’ Hall – Timothy Byram-Wigfield
Judith Bingham: St Bride, assisted by angels

CD 2:
Freemasons’ Hall – Timothy Byram-Wigfield
W Battison Haynes: Intro. & Variations on a Ground Bass

St Andrew’s & St George’s West Parish Church – Michael Harris
Krebs: Fantasia sopra ‘Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend’
JCH Rinck: Six Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op.56

Broughton St Mary’s Parish Church – John Kitchen
Parry: Elegy for April 7, 1913
Mendelssohn: Prelude & Fugue in d minor, Op.37 No.3

St Thomas’ Parish Church, Leith- Peter Backhouse
Stanford: Prelude in F (No.1, Six Short Preludes & Postludes, Set 1, Op.101)
Bairstow: Evening Song
Stanford: Postlude in G minor (No.2, Six Short Preludes & Postludes, Set 1, Op.101)

Pilrig St Paul’s Church – Andrew Caskie
Rheinberger: Organ Sonata no 7 in F minor, Op.127 – i. Allegro non troppo
Thalben-Ball: Elegy in F (No.11, A Little Organ Book in memory of Hubert Parry)

St Mary’s Metropolitan Cathedral – Simon Nieminski
Widor: Organ Symphony No.6 in G minor, Op.42 – i. Allegro
Swayne: Mr Bach’s Bottle Bank

CD 3:
Canongate Kirk – Nicholas Wearne
N C Rasmussen: Variationer og modspil
Bach: Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV649

St Giles’ Cathedral – Michael Harris
Franck: Pièce Héroïque (No.3 from Trois Pièces)
Bach: Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn, BWV648
Leighton: Paean

Royal Order of Scotland – Nicholas Wearne
Stanley: Voluntary No.3 in D minor (from Ten Voluntaries, Op.7)
McGuire: Ae Fond Kist, recorded premiere, commissioned by Paul Baxter with support from the Scottish Arts Council

Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh - Nicholas Wearne
Buxtehude: Te Deum laudamus, BuxWV218

McEwan Hall, Univ. of Edinburgh – Michael Bonaventure
Judith Weir: Wild Mossy Mountains
Avril Anderson: Repetitive Strain

Enharmonic Chamber Organ, Laigh Room, St Cecilia’s Hall – John Kitchen
Tomkins: Voluntary attrib. Benjamin Cosyn
James Nares: Introduction and Fugue in A minor/major

CD 4:
Home of John Kitchen – John Kitchen
Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Variations on ‘Est-ce mars?’

Morningside Parish Church – Morley Whitehead
Murrill: Postlude on a Ground
Festing transcr. Thalben-Ball: Largo, Allegro, Aria and Two Variations
Franck: Andantino in G minor

Reid Memorial Church - Roger Fisher
Humperdinck arr. W. Creser: Overture to Hänsel und Gretel
Warlock: Pieds en l’air (Capriol Suite);
Hollins: Maytime Gavotte

St Michael’s Parish Church, Inveresk – Peter Backhouse
Smart: Postlude in D
Jackson: Prelude on ‘East Acklam’ (No.4 from Five Preludes on English Hymn Tunes, Op.60)

Loretto School – Michael Bonaventure
John McCabe: Dies Resurrectionis
Fitkin: Organ

St Mary’s Episcopal Church, Dalkeith – John Kitchen
Wesley: Air, Gavotte (No.9, Twelve Short Pieces)
Mendelssohn: Theme and Variations in D
Wesley: Full Organ with Trumpet (No.13 [sic] Twelve Short Pieces)