Played by Arnold Richardson

Pastorale...Roger-Ducasse

Toccata in B flat minor, Op.53...Vierne

Prelude et Fughetta, Op.41...Roussel

Scherzo and Toccata...Gigout

From All Souls', Langham Place
(BBC recording)
First of three programmes
(Next programme: October 23)

Roger-Ducasse, who is seventy-nine years of age, was a pupil of Faure; he wrote his Pastorale in 1909 and dedicated it to Nadia Boulanger. Louis Vierne and Albert Roussel died in the same year, 1937; the Toccata is from Vierne's Second Suite of Fantasy Pieces, and the Prelude and Fughetta is Roussel's only composition for organ. Eugene Gigout, who lived from 1844 to 1925, was a pupil of Saint-Saens and one of Roussel's composition teachers.
(D.C.)