Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Oberlin Alumni Magazine, Vol. 31: December, 1934
Christmas carol, collected by Gevaert The Sleep of the Child Jesus - with the hauntingly beautiful refrain of Sleep, sleep, 0 my baby, sleep. Mauro-cottone has made a series of variations on this tune, painting the lily, as it were, with canons, pedal variations and a triumphant close. All of these were played with dis tinction by Mr. Holden. The fleetness of the Prelude, the loping subject of the Fugue in Dupre's Prelude and Fug-ue in G minor with the many demands that the virtuoso French organist has crowded in his score, sounded in clarity. Two short numbers by karg-elert succeeded, fol lowed by the sportive Echo by Pietro Yon, in which biting strings were answered by rippling flutes. Certainly one of the most important modern works for organ is Wil lan's Introduction, Passacaglia, and Fugue. In the quiet Introduction, as out of the void there steals in mysteriously a phrase which soon expands into a fiery dramatic episode. A highly interesting chromatic theme serves as the basis of the rich Passacaglia in which the variations progress to the subject of the Fugue, ris ing through the answering voices to a stupendous climax. Mr. I'iolden brought to this as he did to each number on the program a conception of the work as a whole which was not marred by excessive changes in registration. There was clar ity, fine choice of color and balance, and a sense of authority which was furthered by the fact that the whole concert was played without notes.
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