Volcano – Opus 121 (2015)

Keyboard, Programme Notes, Solo Organ

“Volcano” is a virtuoso work that has several contrasting episodes that explores robust and vigorous melodic fragments that become more intensive and ferocious has the work unfolds. The piece was inspired by the eruption of the Bardarbunga volcano in Iceland in the...

Brumba – Opus 100 (2007)

Keyboard, Programme Notes, Solo Organ

Programme note “Brumba” is an energy driven showpiece that requires virtuosic playing! It is a highly rhythmic work that embraces dance-like rhythms, particularly the cross rhythms of the rumba. As it is especially written for the opening recital of the refurbished...

Games – Opus 37 (1977)

Keyboard, Solo Organ

Details Written 1977 Instrumentation Solo Organ Duration variable (5′-15′) Commission: 9th International Organ Festival, St Albans, 1977 Dedication: ‘To Anthony Burton’ Publisher: Josef Weinberger Aleotoric Graphic Score Example...

Fluorescence – Opus 22 (1973)

Keyboard, Programme Notes, Solo Organ

Fluorescence is a typical example of a Patterson “fun piece” It was written early in his career when Patterson embarked on writing a series accessible showpieces for various groups. The Incorporated Association of Organists commissioned it as an opening...

Tsunami – Opus 95 (2005)

Keyboard, Solo Organ

The commission for Tsunami was a sombre one: the work was to begin a concert in Canterbury Cathedral on 12 February 2005 (played on that occasion by Thomas Hewitt Jones) in memory of those who died in the Asian tsunami of December 2004. Patterson took the brief...