Florence Price had worked for some years as a silent film organist before she won admiration in 1932 for her Symphony no.1 in E minor. Works for organ form one of the largest parts of her output; the Sonata attests to her virtuosic command, as does the Passacaglia and Fugue which, while clearly indebted to Bach, reveals personal ideas of her own. Price’s gift for writing miniatures is also obvious – Adoration has heartfelt melodic beauty, and the dainty Caprice exemplifies light music at its best. Variations on a Folksong is a tour-de-force and her only organ work to be based on a pre-existing melody, a spiritual.

Organist Tom Winpenny has broadcast frequently on BBC radio and featured on American Public Media’s Pipedreams. As a soloist, he has performed internationally, with recent engagements in Sweden, Germany, Italy and the US.

For Naxos, his solo recordings include critically acclaimed recordings of Elgar (8574366), Schumann (8574432), Messiaen’s La Nativité du Seigneur (8573332) and L’Ascension (8573471), music by Judith Bingham (8572687 and 8574251), Williamson (857137576), and Francis Pott’s monumental Passion symphony Christus (857425253).

Winpenny also directs St Albans Cathedral Girls’ Choir in recordings of music by Mendelssohn (8572836), Mathias (8573523), Michael Haydn (8574163) and Elizabeth Poston (8574576).