John McCabe: Carol Preludes for Organ

These Carol-Preludes were written in 2008, but the idea was in the composer's mind for many years before this. Essentially, they revive the old style of the Chorale- Prelude, but using carol tunes instead of hymns or chorales. They are derived from German, French and English melodies ? some of the German tunes were found in my mother?s old school songbook from her schooldays in Germany after the First World War.

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