Organist and pianist James McVinnie makes his PENTATONE debut with Dreamcatcher, an intimate sequence of contemporary classical music centred around the act of imagining. The recording features the organ of St Albans Cathedral—an epoch-making instrument closely associated with legendary organists Peter Hurford and Ralph Downes. The piano segments of the album were recorded on a Steinway D of exceptional beauty at Studio Richter Mahr, co-founded by composer Max Richter and visual artist Yulia Mahr.
PENTATONE - January 2025
Link to digital album booklet
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
The Grid - works by Philip Glass arr. James McVinnie. Studio album using organ samples.
Orange Mountain Music - August 2018
Cycles - Music by Nico Muhly. Recorded at the organ of Tonbridge School Chapel
Bedroom Community - August 2013
Cycles_1 - Remixes of ‘Cycles’ by Sam Slater, Matt Huxley, Scanner, Talos, Paul Evans, Liam Byrne, Alex Groves
Bedroom Community - March 2017