With a host of accessible, quality new settings, and with pieces based on all the major hymn tunes, these volumes are a must for every church organist's library.
Most of the settings contained therein are eminently approachable, and rarely peak past a Grade 8 standard of difficulty . . . The stylistic nature for many of the works included appears to vary greatly, switching between pastoral invocations, fanfare marches and glittering toccatas; the thematic glue that binds these pieces together is very much that of the late-romantic British style, where carefully prepared dissonances co-exist with frequent use of pleasant, consonant harmonies . . . In this useful and varied collection of pieces, we are given much music that is of use to the liturgical organist, providing reasonable interest and without exacting too hefty a technical challenge.