Pärt / Maxwell Davies / Glass - Trivium (Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, organ)

Eight pieces, all I think composed for organ and performed by Bowers-Broadbent on that instrument, all in a minimalist vein (though I don't think that any are strictly 'minimalist') and all interesting. Pärt's regal "Annum per annum" is magnificent, and likewise the more airy, drifty "Mein Weg hat Gipfel und Wellentäer" which precedes it; interestingly, all four of his retain a noticeably 'Pärt-ian' feel despite the unfamiliarity (to me) of their instrumentation here. The Maxwell Davies pair are quiet and mysterious; the Glass compositions ("Satygraha" and "Dance IV") are swelling and sonorous and, again, couldn't have been composed by anyone other than Glass himself.