Extra Tracks

Below are tracks from our library that never made it onto one of our compact discs. They can be downloaded here as high quality 320kbs AAC encoded (MP3) files. Those originating on 78rpm discs are raw and no attempt to clean up the surface noise had been made although we have removed some loud cracks and bangs. Please note the previews are compressed files so the sound is not as good as that on the whole track.

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Ralph Downes (1904 - 1993)

Ralph Downes, for many years organist at the London Oratory, designed and superivied not only the organ at the Oratory but the organs in the Royal Festival Hall and Fairfield Hall, Croydon. During the Wednesday organ recitals in the RFH, Downes could usually be seen sitting in seat AA33 when nto performing on the organ himself. His organs were infulenced by his hime sent in the USA in th early 1930s where he came unde the influence of organ builder Donald Harrison and harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick. Downes was keen to strip away the Victrian excesses of British organs and in his deisgns he lead the way to a clearer and cohesive sound redolent of Baroque instruments.

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