The St Paul's Gem

Timothy Wakerell plays the Drake Organ in the OBE Chapel of St Paul's Cathedral, London.

St.Paul’s Cathedral, unlike most Cathedral’s does not just possess one instrument to lead the services but several housed within different parts of this vast building! This CD is the first recording of the new William Drake organ in the OBE Chapel (2012) - his last complete new instrument. The integrity of the new organ stems from Drake’s own cosmopolitan-eclecticism: a recipient of the German Certificate of Master Organ Builder, his opus list owes as much to Teutonic rigour as to English organs of the 18^th and early 19^thcenturies.

Timothy Wakerell was at the time of the recording, Assistant Organist at St. Paul’s but is now Assistant at New College, Oxford where he is considered in the forefront os one of the finest organists of his generation.

Toccata in D minor BuxWV 155	Dietrich Buxtehude
Bull's Goodnight	John Bull
Onder een linde groen	Jan Sweelinck
Chorale Prelude: Vater Unser im Himmelreich	Georg Bohm
Choral Prelude: Ach wie nichtig, ach wie fluchtig	George Bohm
Trio super Allein Gott in der Hoh sei Ehr BWV 664	Johann Sebastian Bach
Toccata and Fugue in F BWV 540	Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonata in F	Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Moderato in F from Drei Tonstucke Op. 22 No. 1	Niels Gade
Choralvorspiele: Herzlich tut mich verlangen Op. 122	Johannes Brahms
Allegro Giocoso (Sept Improvisations) Op. 150	Camille Saint-Saens