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Pink and White

"Setchell is on home ground at the Christchurch Town Hall's Rieger organ, and producer Wayne Laird has created an ambience to bask in. And, believe me, the Gothique thunderings of Ritchie's Pink and White are spine-shivering.

"There is more local music for the New Zealand organist than you might think. Setchell has chosen eight samplings written over the past 60 years, from Lilburn's 1944 Prelude and Fugue in G minor to recent works by Jack Body and Tecwyn Evans, rounding it all off with a jolly, if old-fashioned, ramble on Pokarekare Ana composed by the organist himself.

"The Lilburn is a minor classic and the composer's "serene flow" is caught with ease. Setchell's articulation in the pastoral fugue is particularly sensitive, a feature which, along with perfectly considered registration, makes for the utmost clarity in David Farquhar's From Heaven I Come. Setchell revels in the pageantry of John Ritchie's Let the pealing organ blow and the mercurial colour play of Douglas Mews' Prelude and Fugue, a timely reminder of the late composer's enviable fluency. I am imagining how Mews' brow might crease and his bushy eyebrows furrow if he could read my words suggesting that some Bernard Herrmann harmonies are possibly lurking in his Prelude..." (extract) review by William Dart in The New Zealand Herald, May 20, 2005.

$16 USD plus $6 P&P

To buy in New Zealand dollars: $20 (free shipping within NZ)

To buy in Australian dollars:($AUD17) (shipping $4.50 AUD)