CURRENTLY AVAILABLE CDS
I have recorded many albums as organist, harpsichordist or director, and the following are currently available from the record companies indicated. Please visit their websites and search their catalogues under ‘Gerald Gifford’ for further details to supplement those shown below. Some titles have music clips, whilst other sites offer MP3 downloads. A number of my albums are currently no longer available, though several – cassette only issues, or vinyl LPs – can often be found through specialist online retail outlets, and sometimes through the recording companies’ own websites.
John Stanley: Six Organ Concertos Op 10
Recorded on the organ of Hexham Abbey, Northumberland; with the Northern
Sinfonia Orchestra, directed from the organ by
Gerald Gifford
CRD Records CRD 3365 | www.crdrecords.com
| www.hexhamabbey.org.uk
‘There is immense charm and elegance about these concertos which Gerald Gifford, who directs stylish performances from the organ stool, brings out superbly. These are first-rate performances, nicely moulded and intelligently played … [and] the recording itself is of the very highest order’. (The Gramophone Good CD Guide)
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A Treasury of English Keyboard Music Listed by the Sunday Telegraph amongst its ‘Records of the Year’
‘Gifford plays this miscellany … with style and sprightliness. The programme is imaginative. … this is a most likeable collection’. Classical Music
‘Gifford’s scrupulous playing makes every piece enjoyable’. (Organists’ Review) |
Organ Music from Walsingham
Works by J S Bach and J Pachelbel for the seasons of the Church's
year played on the 1964 Arnold, Williamson and Hyatt organ of St Mary
and All Saints’ Church, Little Walsingham, Norfolk.
Cantoris Records CRCD 6054 | www.cantoris.co.uk
‘It may have been conceived as a popular selection but one doubts if the quality of the achievement can have been anticipated … These are performances quite out of the ordinary’. (Organists’ Review)
Organ Music from Hexham Abbey
'With a wonderful instrument, a splendid choice of programme and playing which has a sense of style, coupled with human warmth and "joie de vivre", this is a life enhancing disc which you simply cannot afford to be without!' (Organists' Review)
'Gerald Gifford... brings a nobility and panache to all the items included... the organ shines with great clarity and presence, coupled to warmly committed interpretations. A real delight. (The Organ) |
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Buxtehude Organ Music
Large-scale organ works, interspersed with chorale preludes and fantasias,
spanning the Church's year, played on the Frobenius Organ of Robinson
College Chapel, Cambridge.
Cantoris Records CRCD 6050 | www.cantoris.co.uk
| www.robinson.cam.ac.uk
‘As anyone familiar with Gerald Gifford’s playing would expect, the performances throughout are fleet, commanding, and expressive, with an impressively varied touch, which enables the performer to retain exemplary clarity of detail without losing an atom of his characteristic energy’. (The Consort)
‘It is a pleasure to hear this eloquent and important Frobenius organ in repertoire that suits it down to the ground. … This is a splendid recording, [and] we are fortunate to have it’. (Organists’ Review)
Harpsichord and Organ Music from the Library of Burghley
House
Works by Handel, J C Bach, Loeillet and Paradies played on a Shudi
& Broadwood harpsichord c. 1775, and works by Stanley, Roseingrave
and Avison played on the 1674 Thamar organ of St Michael's Church,
Framlingham.
Cantoris Records CRCD 6052 | www.cantoris.co.uk
| www.burghley.co.uk
'A Harpsichord for Mr
Gainsborough...’
Works by Handel, Burgess, Fischer, Chilcot, Kelway, Greene and J C
Bach associated with Thomas Gainsborough, or Shudi & Broadwood,
the builders of his harpsichord, played on one of their instruments
dating from about 1775
Cantoris Records CRCD 6053 | www.cantoris.co.uk
A Harpsichord Recital for Park House, Sandringham
Works by Handel and Arnold, played on a Shudi & Broadwood harpsichord
c. 1775
Sold for the benefit of Park House, Sandringham; a Leonard Cheshire
Disability Hotel.
Cantoris Records CRCD 6058 | www.cantoris.co.uk
| www.leonard-cheshire.org
‘As always, Gifford’s playing is a model of clarity and vitality; he decorates repeats stylishly and tastefully, [and] his registrations, on a big Shudi (such as Handel owned) are apt’. (Gramophone)
A Harpsichord Recital from Traquair House
Music by Buxtehude, J S Bach, Handel, Purcell, Sweelinck and others
played on an Andreas Ruckers harpsichord of 1651 in the High Drawing
Room of Traquair House, Innerleithen, Scotland
Cantoris Records CRCD 6048 | www.cantoris.co.uk
| www.traquair.co.uk
‘A well-constructed programme, treading some ‘new’ ground, [and] played with warm musicality. The sound is first-class’. (Gramophone)
Georgian Delights: a Treasury of Harpsichord and Organ Music
from the Library of Arnold Dolmetsch.
Music by Handel, D Scarlatti, Greene, Pergolesi [attrib.] and others
played on a Shudi & Broadwood harpsichord, c.1775 and a Snetzler
Bureau organ, 1764. Both instruments were once owned by Arnold Dolmetsch.
Cantoris Records CRCD 6049 | www.cantoris.co.uk
| www.dolmetsch.com
‘Gerald Gifford not only knows these works and these instruments well; his love of the music emanates throughout this fine recording. The booklet gives detailed notes on the individual works … but it is the sense of joy in the playing which over-rides any hint of mere historicity about the performance’. (The Organ)
‘As a sampling of some little-known music from the collection of a major icon in the ‘early music’ movement, played on Dolmetsch’s own domestic instruments, this is an important recorded documentary which … contains some very genuine delights, sensitively played’ (The Consort)
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Organ Music
‘C P E Bach’s four sonatas for organ are well worth a listen: light and frothy at times, melancholic and dark at others – a true reflection of the angst of the age. They … make a fine vehicle to introduce a new organ in the Chapel of the University of Hull, built by Lammermuir Pipe Organs ... Gifford clearly feels at home on the instrument and shows off its colours to good effect’. (Early Music Review) |
Organ Concertos and Noël Variations
Concertos by Albinoni, Corelli, Torelli and others, with Noël Variations
by Lebègue, Balbastre, Charpentier and others, played on the Frobenius
Organ of Robinson College Chapel, Cambridge.
Meridian Records CDE 84263 | www.meridian-records.co.uk
| www.robinson.cam.ac.uk
‘Highly attractive, vivacious repertoire played with style and verve on the transparently beautiful Robinson Frobenius’.
(Organists’ Review)
Trumpet Voluntary
Includes music by Vivaldi, Albinoni, Handel and Telemann played by
Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), with Gerald Gifford (organ). Recorded
in Hexham Abbey, Northumberland
ASV CD QS 6081 | www.sanctuaryclassics.com
Johann Ludwig Krebs: ‘The Best Crayfish in the Brook’
Music for harpsichord and chamber organ played by Gerald Gifford on
a harpsichord by Philip Smart 1989 after Hemsch, and a Lammermuir
chamber organ 1993
Meridian Records CDE 84306 | www.meridian-records.co.uk
Telemann: ‘Per Chiesa et per Camera’
Sacred and secular keyboard music played by Gerald Gifford on a harpsichord
by Philip Smart 1989 after Hemsch, and a Lammermuir chamber organ
1993
Meridian Records CDE 84333 | www.meridian-records.co.uk
‘Gifford is a sensitive and intelligent interpreter, thoroughly conversant with Baroque idiom, and his obvious enthusiasm for this repertoire is infectious’. (BBC Music Magazine)
His Lordship’s Delight
Keyboard music by Avison, Dussek, Handel, Haydn, Jones and Zipoli,
played on a Shudi & Broadwood harpsichord, c.1775, and a Lammermuir
chamber organ 1993
Meridian Records CDE 84374 | www.meridian-records.co.uk
‘The very first things to strike one here are the startling immediacy of the recorded sound and the brilliant sonority of the very large Shudi and Broadwood harpsichord. It takes only a fraction longer also to appreciate Gerald Gifford’s rhythmic gusto, firm control, crisp ornaments and clean fingerwork’. (Gramophone)
Pergolesi: La Serva Padrona; Salve Regina
Includes recordings by Gerald Gifford of organ sonatas by Galuppi
and Pescetti
Meridian Records CDE 84327 | www.meridian-records.co.uk
Eighteenth-Century Harpsichord Sonatas & Organ Voluntaries
Works by Handel, Stanley, Paradies and J C Bach played on a Shudi
& Broadwood harpsichord, c.1775, and the 1674 Thamar organ of
St Michael’s Church, Framlingham
Fitzwilliam Museum Enterprises FME CD001 | www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
| Handel & His English Contemporaries Works by Handel, Roseingrave, Greene, Stanley, Gladwin, Avison and Arne played on a Shudi & Broadwood harpsichord, c.1775, the 1674 Thamar organ of St Michael’s Church, Framlingham, and the Phelps organ of Hexham Abbey Fitzwilliam Museum Enterprises FME CD002 | www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk |
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Treasures of Georgian Keyboard Music
Works by Handel, Stanley, D Scarlatti, Avison and Paradies recorded
on an Andreas Ruckers harpsichord of 1651, a Shudi & Broadwood
harpsichord, c.1775, and the 1674 Thamar organ of St Michael’s Church,
Framlingham
Fitzwilliam Museum Enterprises FME CD003 | www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
A Choral Festival
Includes works by Brahms, Bain, Bizet, Stanford, Attwood and Wills
recorded by the Choir of Ely Cathedral, directed by Arthur Wills,
with Gerald Gifford, organ
Chandos Records CHAN 6603 | www.chandos-records.com
| www.cathedral.ely.anglican.org
O for the Wings of a Dove
Includes works by Bach, Mendelssohn and Mozart recorded by the Choir
of Ely Cathedral, directed by Arthur Wills, with Gerald Gifford, organ
Chandos Records CHAN 6519 | www.chandos-records.com
| www.cathedral.ely.anglican.org