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The Willis Organ of St. Mary’s Espiscopal Cathedral is organist’s Wayne Marshall’s second album on Base2 Music at NativeDSD.  It follows his earlier release Passion Symphony, a Pure DSD release.

During the 2021 Edinburgh festival, Wayne Marshall OBE came to conduct the show A Grand Night for Singing by Rodgers and Hammerstein. St. Mary’s Episcopal cathedral heard Wayne was in town and invited him to perform a recital on the Father Willis organ, restored by Harrison and Harrison in 2020. The main piece on the album is the ‘Prelude and Fugue in D Major’ by Bratislavan composer Franz Schmidt. The Pastoral by Jean Roger-Ducasse is only on this Stereo and 5.1 Channel Surround Sound DSD edition, and a live recording with audience of an improvisation by Wayne Marshall on two Scottish themes.

The album was recorded in DXD in Stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound.  It is available at NativeDSD.Com in Stereo and 5.1 Channel Surround Sound DSD 256, DSD 128, DSD 64 and DXD plus Stereo DSD 512.  The DSD 256, DSD 128 and DXD editions of the album are exclusively available from NativeDSD.

Wayne Marshall – Organist