This album brings together Kodály’s complete organ music with the world-premiere recording of Ernő Dohnányi’s only piece for organ, the eloquent Fantasie. Sokola’s intense and compelling Passacaglia holds a special place in the organ repertoire, Wiedermann’s Pastorale dorico was composed during the dark days of the Second World War, and Novák’s attractive Prelude is a study in subdued tonal contrasts. Zoltán Kodály’s organ works have a distinct musical language unlike any other composer, with the imposing Organoedia ad missam lectam being amongst his most important non-choral works from the post-war era, and Epigrams, originally for voice and piano, heard here in a transcription by Gábor Trajtler.

Organist Iain Quinn is a native of Wales, but trained in the US at The Juilliard School, the University of Hartford and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, returning to the UK in 2009 as a Doctoral Fellow at the University of Durham (PhD historical musicology). He has held church appointments in New York, Georgia and Connecticut, and from 2005 to 2010 served as director of cathedral music and organist at the Cathedral of St John (Episcopal), Albuquerque, New Mexico.