John Hosking - Organist and Composer
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CD Recordings
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John Hosking organ
Olivia Hunt soprano
Xander Croft violin
Bethan Griffiths harp


Prelude and Fugue in C major BWV 547 - J.S. Bach
Introduction and Passacaglia in A minor - C.S. Lang
Variations sur un Noel Bourguignon - Andr​e Fleury
Ave Maria - Leon Boellmann
Ave verum corpus - Leon Boellmann
Toccata in F# minor - John Hosking
In the halls of our patronage - John Hosking
Toccata for solo harp - Guillaume Connesson
Pie Jesu - Lili Boulanger
Symphonic Chorale: Nun ruhen alle Walder - Karg-Elert
Toccata (Symphonie no. 2) - Marcel Dupre

Willowhayne Records in conjunction with Naxos Global Logistics
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http://www.willowhaynerecords.com/Albums/AlbumDetails/Willowhayne-Records/St-Asaph-Experience 

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[1] If music be the food of love – Henry Purcell
[2] Dido’s Lament – Henry Purcell
[3] Quam dulcis – Isabella Leonarda
[4] Ye sacred muses – William Byrd
[5] Hor ch'è tempo di dormire – Tarquinio Merula
[6] Capriccio cromatico – Tarquinio Merula
[7] The Willow Song - Anon
[8] Come again – John Dowland
 [9] Batalla del 5. Tono – Antonio Martín y Coll
[10] When love’s soft passion – Johann Pepusch
[11] Now sleeps the crimson petal – Roger Quilter
[12] Summertime – George Gershwin
[13] Music to hear – John Hosking
 [14] The infinite shining heavens – Ralph Vaughan-Williams
[15] Weep you no more, sad fountains – Roger Quilter
[16] Bridal ballad – Jocelyn Pook
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Olivia Hunt - soprano
John Hosking - organ, harpsichord and piano

​Willowhayne Records in conjunction with Naxos Global Logistics

https://willowhaynerecords.com/Albums/AlbumDetails/Willowhayne-Records/Musick-to-Heare


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Angels of Creation

​Sebastian Thomson - Organ

Angels of Creation - ​Thomas Hewitt Jones
Berceuse - ​David Briggs
​Toccata for St. David's Day - David Briggs
​Festival Paean - Simon Whalley
Rhapsody - David Bednall
Variations on Noel Nouvelet - Philip Moore
​Laudate - Neil Cox
​The 14 Stations of the Cross - John Hosking

“Sebastian Thomson is to be whole–heartedly praised and admired for his vision in commissioning these new works, and for committing them to CD in performances of such intense musical intelligence and technical grasp. It has been a great privilege to have been asked to be part of this, and one can only hope that the pieces here will find new audiences and promote the creation of new music for the King of Instruments."
 

(Dr David Bednall, Composer and Organist)

“Truly stunning playing and the best organ disc I have heard recently without a doubt. It is always good to have your compositions performed by safe hands (and feet); when they’re lifted off the page and utterly transformed, it is something else altogether."

(John Hosking, Organist and Composer)

​Available from Convivium Records


​Editor's Choice in "Organists' Review"


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All Angels Cry Aloud

Chapel Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge
Ely Cathedral Girls' Choir


Timothy Parsons and Alex Berry - organ
Olivia Hunt - soprano
Sarah MacDonald - Conductor


Available from Regent Records

Te Deum
The Chester Service
Ave Maria
Missa Brevis in D
Ave verum corpus
The Bangor Service
Requiem
A Royal Blessing


All scores available from Chichester Music Press

John Hosking has spent his life in the organ loft (St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster Abbey and the cathedrals of Lincoln, Truro and, currently, St Asaph). All that practical experience has given him a deep knowledge both of what works in a liturgical setting and of the choral tradition’s rich repertoire. The ghost of Duruflé is evident in his beautiful Chester Service (with a cheeky reference to Messiaen’s La Nativité du Seigneur along the way); Herbert Howells hovers over his Bangor Service, while A Royal Blessing could be by John Rutter. Yet for all these influences Hosking maintains his own distinctive voice, particularly in his impressive Requiem.

Stephen Pritchard - The Guardian

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Variation-Amrywiad

Recorded on the organ of
St. Asaph Cathedral, North Wales


Available from Regent Records



Variations de Concert, Op. 1 – Joseph Bonnet
Variations on ‘Y Delyn Aur’ (‘The Golden Harp’) – Harold Carpenter Lumb Stocks
Theme and Variations on ‘Victimae Paschali’ – Simon Jacobs
Variationen und fuge über ‘Heil, unserm König heil’ (‘God Save the King’) – Max Reger
Partite diverse sopra il Corale ‘Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig’, BWV 768 – Johann Sebastian Bach
Variations on ‘Greensleeves’ – David Briggs
Toccata: Marche des Rois – Pierre Cochereau
Improvisation: Variations on ‘Suo Gân’ – John Hosking




​John Hosking stylishly and skilfully puts the versatile Wood rebuild at St Asaph through its paces in a wide ranging programme of variations. JSB rubs shoulders with Reger, contemporary composers and a former St Asaph musician with evidence of numerous shades of Cochereau from actual to ‘après’ along the way. There is also a well-constructed improvisation from Hosking himself. Instrument and player come over effectively on this disc seemingly aimed at a broad listening public, and although ‘variation overload’ is avoided, not all the music quite holds similar interest levels. As usual, the production by Regent is excellent.

Alastair Johnston - Choir and Organ


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Jonathan Hope plays the organ of Gloucester Cathedral

Edward Elgar: Imperial March
John Sanders:  Soliloquy; Toccata
John Hosking:  Hommage a Paris
Julius Reubke:  Sonata on the 94th Psalm


​Available from Willowhayne Records
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Karg-Elert, Rheinberger, Reubke
Recorded on the "Father" Willis organ of Truro Cathedral

Out of stock - listen to Karg-Elert "Passacaglia and Fugue on BACH" on ​KMFA


Passacaglia & Fugue on B.A.C.H. - Karg-Elert,
Sonata No 8 in E minor, Op 132 - Rheinberger
Sonata - The 94th Psalm - Reubke,
Improvisation on the Te Deum - Hosking

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Romantic Organ Music from Truro Cathedral

Recorded on the "Father" Willis Organ of Truro Cathedral

Out of stock - listen to Guy Weitz Symphony no. 1 on KMFA

Music by Guy Weitz (Symphony 1), Cesar Franck (Choral no. 2 in B minor), Herbert Howells and Louis Vierne (Final from Symphonie V)


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