Music Publications

This comprehensive collection brings together 42 distinctive organ works by Martin Setchell, showcasing the entertaining and accessible compositional style of one of New Zealand's most celebrated concert organists. 

Includes: 42 works • Christmas • Easter • Concert • Hymn-based

Composer: Martin Setchell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Difficulty:  Intermediate 💠💠💠

The wedding march? Which one will it be? Mendelssohn or Wagner? If you're tired of the usual wedding organ music, treat yourself to Martin Setchell's extraordinary version! As a renowned concert organist, he blends the everyday struggles of organists with a delightful touch of British humour. Imagine Mendelssohn meeting Bizet's Toreador Song while Wagner joins in with Blaze Away. Just a heads up: humourless couples might not appreciate it, but audiences will be thoroughly entertained! This fun and accessible piece is perfect for encores and informal occasions, sure to lift spirits and bring joy to listeners.

Composer: Martin Setchell
Publisher: Dr J. Butz MusikVerlag
Difficulty:  Intermediate 💠💠

This collection includes twelve popular and lesser-known pieces by Verdi arranged for organ, covering a variety of styles and moods, and serving both church and concert organists. (64 pages)

"In A Verdi Organ Album, Martin Setchell's effective and musicianly set of transcriptions puts some well-known (and lesser-spotted) Verdi tunes into organ-friendly form. Along with the usual suspects ('Brindisi', 'Grand March', 'Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves') there are some less familiar items, each supplied with contextual and (sometimes) interpretative notes; the general preface also sheds some fascinating light on the tradition of Verdi transcribed for organ."
​Stephen Farr, Choir & Organ, March 2020

Composer/arranger: Giuseppe Verdi /Martin Setchell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Difficulty:  Intermediate 💠💠💠

"Here is a splendid book with which to celebrate this anniversary year . . . There are inevitably a few warhorses, but there is so much which could well be unfamiliar that the book was for me a treasure house of new music. The 'Chaconne: Dance for Chinese Man and Woman', 'Rondeau' and 'Dance for the Fairies' all from The Fairy Queen were three which stood out. All the pieces lie comfortably under hands and feet, and will sound good on the smallest of instruments. They will grace all kinds of occasions: do get it." - Trevor Webb, Church Music Quarterly, December 2009

Composer/arranger: Henry Purcell/Martin Setchell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Difficulty:  Intermediate 💠💠💠

Martin Setchell had a big hit with his recent Fauré collection and he now goes for the double with these excellent Bizet arrangements for organ. Selected from Carmen, The Pearl Fishers, the incidental music to L'Arlesienne, the Symphony in C, and Jeux d'enfants, Martin Setchell's transcriptions allow George Bizet's compositions, originally designated for pianoforte, to be enjoyed on organ

Composer/Arranger: Bizet/Martin Setchell
Publisher: Kevin Mayhew
Difficulty:  Intermediate 💠💠💠

This is a wonderful collection of popular and some less well-known pieces. It contains three movements from The Carnival of the Animals, the slow movement and the famous Maestoso section from the 'Organ' Symphony (No. 3), the meltingly beautiful aria 'Softly awakes my heart' from the opera Samson and Delilah, the opening section of the Danse Macabre, and several other pieces illustrating the range of Saint-Saëns' compositional style. All the pieces are immensely playable and have been chosen to suit the needs of both church and concert organists.

Includes: Three pieces from The Carnival of the Animals: The Elephant, The Cuckoo, The Swan
Danse Macabre

Composer/Arranger: Saint-Saëns/Martin Setchell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Difficulty:  Intermediate 💠💠💠

Martin's two popular suites, The Three-Piece Suite and Pokarekare Ana Suite, are published by Fagus-Music.  The Pokarekare Ana Suite consists of five sparkling pieces on a traditional New Zealand melody so popular it has become known as the country’s ‘unofficial National Anthem’.

Composer: Martin Setchell
Publisher: Fagus Music
Difficulty:  Intermediate 💠💠💠

Originally published by Kevin Mayhew in albums of single pieces (Trumpet Tune, Scherzo and Toccata on Joy to the World), the Three Piece Suite is now reissued as a suite in slightly revised versions which incorporate various revisions and adjustments made in line with the composer’s current interpretation.