by Dom GREGORY MURRAY
Relayed from Downside Abbey
(From Cardiff)
Liszt did not write a great deal for the organ, but this work is considered not only the finest of his organ pieces but one of the finest of all his works of any kind. The thematic material is taken from the Choral in Meyerbeer s opera
Le Prophète. Originally it was of massive proportions—over 800 bars in length-but the Introduction is now usually played in a shortened torm.
The Fugue is ah outstanding example of the free use of that form.