Fugue State Films announces a new 2-DVD and 2-CD boxed set: A Legend Reborn: The Voice of King’s (£38.50), featuring an extensive documentary film detailing the restoration of the 1934 Harrison & Harrison organ of King’s College, Cambridge, UK, filmed over more than a year at stages of the restoration and presented and narrated by David Briggs.
In addition, the set includes filmed performances, duplicated over the two CDs, by organ scholars past and present. David Briggs improvises, and Robert Quinney, Ashley Grote, Tom Winpenny, Richard Gowers, Henry Websdale, and Donal McCann play works by Bach, Mendelssohn, Reger, Vaughan-Williams, Bridge, Howells, Vierne, Dupré, Alain, Messiaen, and Bingham.
For information: fuguestatefilms.co.uk.
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