James McVinnie brings Johann Sebastian Bach’s monumental Clavier-Übung III to life in a recording that captures both its technical brilliance and profound spiritual depth. With insight drawn from decades of study and performance, McVinnie offers a journey into Bach’s musical universe, where faith, intellect, and artistry converge in works of extraordinary beauty and enduring power.
Infinity Gradient is the grand collaboration from composer Tristan Perich and organist James McVinnie, set for release on 21 November. A remarkable work with few precedents, Infinity Gradient is a duet between two musical instruments, millennia apart in conception. An hour-long symphony in seven movements for organ and 100 speakers in 1-bit audio, it was recorded for this album at London’s Royal Festival Hall at Southbank Centre, where the piece was as visually striking to look at as it was to listen to. Shot through with dynamism, it is a work of colour and contrasts which coalesce into a unique, transcendent whole.
James McVinnie makes his PENTATONE debut with Dreamcatcher, an intimate sequence of contemporary classical music centred around the act of imagining.
PENTATONE - January 2025
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Big Majestic assembles music from Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK, a GPS-enabled work of public art that reimagines urban parks as interactive soundscapes. SOUNDWALK premiered in New York's Central Park, and expanded to urban parkland around the world, including Los Angeles's Griffith Park, London's Regent's Park & Primrose Hill, and Tokyo's Ueno Park. It won acclaim not only for its inventive premise and enveloping execution — The Washington Post praised it as “an intoxicating musical adventure” — but for its newfound utility during the socially-distanced height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Counterpoint: Music by J S Bach & Philip Glass. Recorded on the organ of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Bedroom Community - December 2021
All Night Chroma: Music by Tom Jenkinson for organ for James McVinnie. Recorded on the organ of Royal Festival Hall.
Warp Records - September 2019
James McVinnie’s album of rare music by Philip Glass, featuring arrangements from Kooyanisqatsi, North Star & Mad Rush.
Orange Moutain Music - 2018
Cycles_1 - Remixes of ‘Cycles’ by Sam Slater, Matt Huxley, Scanner, Talos, Paul Evans, Liam Byrne, Alex Groves
Bedroom Community - March 2017
Cycles - Music by Nico Muhly. Recorded at the organ of Tonbridge School Chapel
Bedroom Community - August 2013