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Simon Preston

Simon Preston

Simon Preston has been played on NTS shows including True As Few w/ Mark, with Le Banquet Celeste first played on 12 September 2015.

Simon Preston (b. 1938) is an internationally acclaimed concert organist. Originally a chorister at King's College, Cambridge, he studied the organ with C. H. Trevor before returning to King's as organ scholar. He was sub-organist of Westminster Abbey from 1962-67, and organist of Christ Church, Oxford from 1970 before returning to Westminster as Organist and Master of the Choristers in 1981. He relinquished his Westminster post in 1987, and has since led an international concert career, and has also composed works for the organ, the best-known of which is probably his "Alleluyas", written in the style of Olivier Messiaen. His playing approach, always very clean and precise, has mellowed from the fiery and incisive style of his younger days, to the more sedate and comfortable now, though always with mastery of the instrument and the work in question. He has many recordings to his credit, including the complete works of J. S. Bach for Deutsche Grammophon.

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Simon Preston

Simon Preston has been played on NTS shows including True As Few w/ Mark, with Le Banquet Celeste first played on 12 September 2015.

Simon Preston (b. 1938) is an internationally acclaimed concert organist. Originally a chorister at King's College, Cambridge, he studied the organ with C. H. Trevor before returning to King's as organ scholar. He was sub-organist of Westminster Abbey from 1962-67, and organist of Christ Church, Oxford from 1970 before returning to Westminster as Organist and Master of the Choristers in 1981. He relinquished his Westminster post in 1987, and has since led an international concert career, and has also composed works for the organ, the best-known of which is probably his "Alleluyas", written in the style of Olivier Messiaen. His playing approach, always very clean and precise, has mellowed from the fiery and incisive style of his younger days, to the more sedate and comfortable now, though always with mastery of the instrument and the work in question. He has many recordings to his credit, including the complete works of J. S. Bach for Deutsche Grammophon.

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Le Banquet Celeste
Messiaen, Simon Preston
Argo1970
Mass For Four Voices
William Byrd, Choir Of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Simon Preston
Argo1977
Mass For Five Voices
William Byrd, Choir Of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Simon Preston
Argo1977
La Nativité Du Seigneur
Olivier Messiaen, Simon Preston
Argo1965
Israel In Egypt
Handel, Choir Of Christ Church Cathedral · Oxford, English Chamber Orchestra, Simon Preston
Argo1976
A Spotless Rose
Britten, Howells, Joubert, Vaughan Williams, Warlock, Westminster Abbey Choir, Douglas Guest, Simon Preston
His Master's Voice1967
Ave Maria
Choir Of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Colin Walsh, Organ, Simon Preston, Elgar, Rachmaninov, Verdi, Bruckner, Fauré, Kalinnikov, Brahms
Argo1977