Organist
UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
Music at Mid-day
The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Detroit
30 minute organ recitals offered on the second and fourth Fridays of the month at 12:30 p.m. Mr. Tarrant will play on
December 10
February 25
April 29 - with Abigail McKay Cherry, soprano
June 24
February 22, 7:00 p.m.
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia
Lecture recital on the Pieces de fantaisie of Louis Vierne. Sponsored by the Richmond Chapter AGO
July 25-31
RSCM Rhode Island
Mr. Tarrant will serve as music director for this summer training course offered by the Royal School School of Church Music in America.
December 4, 7:00 p.m.
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Ann Arbor, Michigan
DEBUT SOLO RECORDING
Charles-Marie Widor: Symphonie VII,
Op. 42, No. 3 and
Lied--Gaston Litaize
Impromptu, Clair de lune,
and Toccata--
Louis Vierne
available from
https://www.ravencd.com/merchantmanager/index.php
from Gramophone Magazine, June, 2018:
"He {Tarrant} minimises the first movement’s episodic tendencies by treating the big chordal passages as signposts, while sculpting contrapuntal sequences in forward-moving arcs. He also brings more pliability to the second-movement Andantino agitato’s counterpoint, although you strain to hear the pianissimos without turning up the volume beforehand. The Allegretto has a fetching lilt and attractive linear independence; indeed, the pedal staccatos occasionally sound as though they were plucked. Tarrant shapes the fourth movement from an eagle-eyed, big picture perspective, with the long melodies in the foreground and the undulating accompaniment unfolding in fluid paragraphs."
read the full Gramophone review at:
https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/widor-organ-symphony-no-7-tarrant