Julie Ainscough at the Frobenius organ of
All Saints' Parish Church Kingston-upon-Thames Surrey (U.K.).

Photograph: © Copyright 2000 Michael Harrold Artist Management.

Organ Repertoire

Julie Ainscough has received critical acclaim for her performances of organ music from the late Renaissance and the Baroque eras, and has a particular affinity with the music of the Spanish, French and North German schools. She is also highly-reputed as a performer of organ music by the major French Romantic and Twentieth Century composers. Repertoire is added to continually, but the following may be considered representative:

VERY EARLY MUSIC:

Julie Ainscough's organ repertoire commences with prime early sources:

Robertsbridge Codex (c. 1325, which, though not an exclusively-musical document, does contain some of the earliest known pieces for keyboard instruments) and the
Buxheimer Orgelbuch (c.1470, which contains many works by the Nuremberg organist Conrad Paumann).

RENAISSANCE & BAROQUE MUSIC:

She performs - from the late Renaissance and on throughout the Baroque era - a broad swathe of music from several countries, some of it derived from the major collected sources (e.g. Fitzwilliam, Mulliner, Martin y Coll and so on) and published in such well-known editions as Faber Early Organ Music, Oxford Early Spanish Keyboard Music, Oxford Early English Organ Music, Schott Liber Organi et alia. The following are typical examples:

SPAIN & PORTUGAL:

Anonymous (16th C.) - Cuatro Piezas para Clarines;
(Martin y Coll collection) Cancion para la Corneta con el Eco;
Pablo Bruna - Tiento de Primero Tono de mano derecha;
Juan Cabanilles (c.1644-1712) - Pasacalles del primero tono;
Antonio de Cabezón (1510-1566) - Diferencias sobre el canto de "La dama la demanda";
Tiento del Primero Tono;
Beata viscera Marie Virginis.
Francisco Correa de Arauxo (c.1576-1654) - Tiento de medio registro de baxon de primer tono;
Manuel Rodrigues Coelho (c.1555-1635) - Versos do 3^o tom.
José Ximénez (c.1601-1672) - Batalla del sexto tono;
Fray Martinho Garcia de Olague (early 17th Century) - Fabordo e versos.

FRANCE:

Francois Couperin (1668-1733) - Messe à l'usage ordinaire des Paroisses;
Messe pour les Couvents;
Pierre du Mage (1676-1751) - Première Livre d'Orgue;
Nicolas de Grigny (1671-1703) - Livre d'Orgue;
Louis-Nicolas Clerambault (1676-1749) - Suite du Première Ton;
Suite du Deuxième Ton;
Louis-Claude Daquin (1694-1772) - Noëls - e.g. Noel X - Grands Jeux et Duo.

THE LOW COUNTRIES

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621) - Variaties op "Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ";
Variaties op "Durch Adams fall inst ganz verderbt";
Variaties op "O Lux Beata Trinitas";
Variaties op "Puer nobis nascitur";
Variaties op "Christe qui lux es et dies".

GERMANY

J.S. Bach (1685-1750) - Chorale-Preludes from the Orgelbüchlein:
"Der tag, der ist so freudenreich" (BWV605);
"In dulci jubilo" (BWV608);
"Das alte Jahre vergangen ist" (BWV614);
"In dir ist Freude" (BWV615);
"Mit Fried' und Freud' ich fahr dahin" (BWV616);
"Herr Gott, nun schleuss den Himmel auf!" (BWV617);
"Christ, du Lamm Gottes" (BWV619);
"Da Jesus an dem Kreuze stund'" (BWV621);
"O Mensch bewein dein' Sünde gross" (BWV622);
"Wir Danken Dir, Herr Jesu Christ" (BWV623);
"Hilf' Gott, das mir's gelinge" (BWV624);
"Christ lag in Todesbanden" (BWV625);
"Erschienen ist der herrliche Tag" (BWV629);
"Heut' triumphiret Gottes Sohn" (BWV630);
"Vater unser in Himmelreich" (BWV636);
"Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ" (BWV639);
"Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein" (BWV641).

Chorale-Preludes from The Eighteen, e.g.:
"Nun danket alle Gott" (BWV657);
"Nun komm der heiden Heiland" (BWV659, 660, 661);
"Jesus Christus unser Heiland" (BWV665) and
"An Wasserflüssen Babylon" (BWV653 & BWV653b).

"Schübler" Chorale-Preludes: e.g.
"Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" (BWV645);

"Clavierübung", Part III:
Prelude & Fugue in E Flat ("St. Anne")(BWV552);
Chorale-Preludes on "Aus tiefer not" (BWV686) and
"Christ, unser Herr, zum Jordan kamm" (BWV684).

Six Trio Sonatas for Organ, e.g.:
Sonata No.2 in C Minor (BWV526).

Concerto Transcriptions
Concerto in A Minor after Vivaldi (BWV593).

Preludes, Fantasias & Toccatas
Prelude & Fugue in A Minor (BWV543);
Prelude & Fugue in B Minor (BWV544);
Prelude & Fugue in C Major (BWV545);
Prelude & Fugue in C Major (BWV547);
Prelude & Fugue in C Minor ("The Great") (BWV546);
Prelude & Fugue in C Minor (BWV549);
Prelude & Fugue in D Major (BWV532);
Prelude & Fugue in E Minor (BWV533);
Prelude & Fugue in E Minor ("The Wedge") (BWV548);
Prelude & Fugue in F Minor (BWV534);
Prelude & Fugue in G Major (BWV541);
Prelude & Fugue in G Minor (BWV535);
Fantasia in C Minor (BWV562);
Fantasia in G Major (BWV572);
Fantasia & Fugue in C Minor (BWV537);
Fantasia & Fugue in G Minor (BWV542);
Passacaglia & Fugue in C Minor (BWV582);
Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C Major (BWV564);
Toccata & Fugue in D Minor (BWV565);
Toccata & Fugue in D Minor ("Dorian")(BWV538);
Toccata in F (BWV540).

DENMARK

Diderik Buxtehude (c. 1637-1707) - Prelude & Fugue in F Sharp Minor;
Toccata & Fugue in F;
Chaconne in E Minor;
Miscellaneous Chorale Preludes.

ENGLAND

William Byrd (c.1539-1623) - "A Fancy"; Clarifica me Pater.
Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) - "A ffancy for double Orgaine"; "Fantazia of foure parts".
Matthew Locke (1622-1677) - Voluntary in A Minor.
Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585) - Versets on "Ecce Tempus Idoneum", etc.
John Blow (1649-1708) - Cornet Voluntary in A Minor.
Henry Purcell (1659-1695) - Voluntary for Double Organ, Voluntary in G.
George Frederick Handel (1685-1759) - Concerti for Organ and Strings, Op.4; "The Water Music";
"The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba".

ROMANTIC & TWENTIETH CENTURY MUSIC:

FRANCE:

César Franck (1822-1890) - Trois Pièces pour Grand Orgue
Fantaisie in A; Cantabile in B; Pièce Héroïque.

Andantino (1857); Pastorale, Op.19 No.4;
Prelude, Fugue & Variation;

Trois Chorals pour Grand Orgue
Choral No.2 in B Minor; Choral No.3 in A Minor.

Theodore Dubois (1837-1924) - Toccata.
Eugène Gigout (1844-1925) - Toccata in B Minor (Dix Pièces pour Grand Orgue).
Charles-Marie Widor (1845-1937) - Symphonie No.5: Final.

Louis Vierne (1870-1937) - Première Symphonie, Op.14: Final;
Troisième Symphonie, Op.28 (complete);

Vingt-quatre pièces en style libre, Op.31
selected pieces (the majority);

Pièces de Fantaisie, Opp.51, 53-55
Étoile du soir; Feux Follets; Claire de Lune;
Carillon de Westminster; Toccata in B Flat Minor

Marcel Dupré (1886-1971) - Vêpres de la Sainte Vièrge, Op.18
Selected items from the transcribed organ improvisations;
Suite Bretonne, Op. 21;

Symphonie-Passion, Op.23
"Le Monde dans l'attente du Sauveur";

Deuxième Symphonie pour Grand Orgue, Op.26
Entire work;

Le Tombeau de Titelouze, Op.38
selected pieces;

Première Esquisse, Op.41.

Jean Langlais (1907-1991) - Suite Brève; Incantation pour un jour saint;
La Nativité (Poèmes Évangéliques No.2);
Incantation pour un jour saint.

Trois Paraphrases Gregoriens
Mors et Resurrectio; Ave Maria, Ave Maris Stella;
Hymne d'actions de grâce: Te Deum.

Jehan Alain (1911-1940) - Choral Dorien (Deux Chorals, No.1);
Postlude pour l'office des Complies, Op.21;
Aria, Lamento, Deux Danses à Agni Yavishta, Op.52;
Berceuse sur deux notes qui cornent;
Deux Fantaisies, Opp.51 and 73, Trois Danses.

Trois pièces pour grand orgue, Op.79;
Variations sur un thème de Clement Jannequin;
Le Jardin Suspendu, Litanies.

Jean Françaix (1912-1997) - Suite Carmelite.

Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986) - Scherzo, Op.2;
Prelude, Adagio et Choral Varié sur "Veni Creator", Op.4;
Prelude et Fugue sur le nom d'Alain (Op.7).

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) - Le Banquet Célèste, Apparition de L'Église Éternelle;

Neuf Méditations sur le mystère de La Sainte Trinité
Nos.6 and 8.

La Nativité du Seigneur, L'Ascension,
Messe de la Pentecôte, Les Corps Glorieux
and Livre du Saint Sacrement.
Various movements.

BELGIUM

Joseph Jongen (1873-1953) - Toccata, Chant de Mai.

Flor Peeters (1903-1986) - Toccata, Fugue & Hymn on "Ave Maris Stella", Op.28;
Concertstuck, Op.52a;
Aria, Op.51; Elegy, Op.38;
miscellaneous chorale preludes Opp.68-70.

GERMANY

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847) - Sonata in D Minor, Op.65 No.6.

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) - Chorale preludes, Op.122, e.g.
"O Welt, ich muss Dir lassen";
"Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen";
"Herzlich tut mich verlangen".

Max Reger (1873-1916) - Chorale Fantasia & Fugue on
"Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme", Op. 52 No.2.

Siegfried Karg-Elert (1877-1933) - Chorale Fantasias, Op.65
"Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme", Op.65 No.33;
"Nun danket alle Gott", Op.65 No.59.

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) - Sonata No.2.

LEBANON

Naji Hakim (b.1955) - Mariales.

SWITZERLAND

Guy Bovet (b.1942) - Trois Préludes Hambourgeois, Op.136
Salamanca.

UZHBEKISTAN

György Alexandrovitch Mushel (1909-1989) - Toccata.

ENGLAND & WALES

Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934) - Chanson de Matin, Op.15;

Organ Sonata in G, Op.28
Movements 1,3 & 4.

Imperial March, Op.32;
Pomp & Circumstance March Op.39 No.4;
"Nimrod" (Enigma Variations, Op 36);
organ part for The Dream of Gerontius, Op.38;
Solemn Prelude In Memoriam: "For The Fallen".

Henry Walford Davies (1869-1941) - The Royal Air Force March Past.

Sir Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) - Prelude & Fugue in C Minor;
Fantasia on "Greensleeves";
Chorale Prelude on "Rhosymedre".

Frank Bridge (1879-1936) - Adagio in E.

Eric Coates (1886-1957) - The Dambusters March.

Sir Arthur Bliss (1891-1975) - Three Bridal Fanfares.

Sir Herbert Howells (1892-1983) - "Six Pieces For Organ" (1940),
Psalm Preludes;
Three Rhapsodies;
Siciliano For A High Ceremony.

organ parts for
"A sequence for St. Michael",
"An English Mass" and
"Collegium Regale" evening canticles,
plus various anthems.

Sir William Walton (1902-1983) - Crown Imperial, Op.32 (arr. Murrill);
Popular Song (from "Façade: An Entertainment");
Prelude (from the film score for "The First of The Few").
Percy Whitlock (1904-1946) - Five Short Pieces.

Plymouth Suite
Salix; Toccata.

Herbert Murrill (1909–1952) - Carillon.

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) - Organ parts for choral works:
Missa Brevis in D, Op. 63;
"Noyye's Fludde", Op.59;
Rejoice in the Lamb, Op.30; St. Nicholas, Op.42.

Francis Jackson (b.1917) - Two Fanfares.
Kenneth Leighton(1929-1988) - Paean; Fanfare.
William Mathias (1934-1992) - Processional.