The Bach items are by a pupil of Peter Hurford. It is an unashamed demonstration of what this versatile instrument can do. Starting with the ubiquitous Widor Toccata, Martin Setchell takes the listener through 15 items, from Bach to Joplin. He plays it as a cinema organ in an arrangement of Meyerbeer's Coronation March, as a recital organ in Franck's Choral No. 3 in A minor, and as a fun instrument in Alfred Louis James Lefebure-Wely's Sortie in E flat. Martin Setchell's playing is technically meticulous and with an impressive sense of stylistic differences.
Registrations cover the whole scope of the organ's specification, and are clear and tasteful.
Recording quality is excellent. The attractively illustrated CD booklet is informative for the casual listener as well as the serious organ buff, and contains a historical description of the first major pipe organ to have been built in New Zealand for some decades.