A pretty little palindrome is a reworking of a palindromic section from my 1983 organ-piece Riff-raff (q.v). The Toccatina was written in 2009. The chorale prelude Auf meinen lieben Gott was added in 2011 in response to a commission from organist William Whitehead for The Orgelbüchlein Project - his heroic effort to complete J.S. Bach's set of chorale preludes the Orgelbüchlein (BWV 599-644), which were written between 1708 and 1726 but left incomplete at Bach's death in 1750.

Giles Swayne, 2025