Arthur Wills

About the artist

Arthur William Wills OBE (19 September 1926 – 30 October 2020) was an English musician, composer and professor, born in Coventry. He was director of music at Ely Cathedral from 1958 to 1990 and also held a professorship at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1964 until 1992. He toured extensively as a recitalist in Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. He also broadcast, appeared on television and made many recordings, both as a soloist and with the Ely Cathedral Choir.

Top songs

  1. Slip Away
  2. Closer
  3. You
  4. More Than Friends
  5. Talk to Me
  6. The Praises of the Trinity
  7. The Fenlands: I. The Vikings
  8. Organ Voluntary: Carillon on "Orientis Partibus
  9. Gimme That
  10. We Made It
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  1. The Vikings
  2. Symphonia Eliensis: 2nd Movement
  3. Symphonia Eliensis: 7th Movement
  4. Symphonia Eliensis: 3rd Movement
  5. Symphonia Eliensis: 6th Movement
  6. More Than Friends (Extended Mix)
  7. Chorale Prelude: The Old 104th
  8. Carillon on "Orientis partibus"
  9. Variations on Amazing Grace
  10. Organ Meditation on "Adoro Te Devote"
  11. By the waters of Babylon
  12. Symphony No.10 (Romane): Cantilene
  13. Symphonia Eliensis: 1st Movement
  14. Symphonia Eliensis: 5th Movement
  15. Chorale Prelude: Crofts 136th
  16. Symphonia Eliensis: 8th Movement
  17. D.I.S.C.O - Extended Mix
  18. Toccata
  19. Symphonia Eliensis: 4th Movement
  20. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis on Plainsong Tones: Magnificat
  21. Organ Meditation on Adoro te devote
  22. Tongues Of Fire
  23. Symphony No.10 (Romane): Chorale
  24. Chorale Prelude: Christe Redemptor
  25. Symphony No.10 (Romane): Moderato
  26. Fanfare
  27. Voluntary in A
  28. Marche Pontificale
  29. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis on Plainsong Tones: Nunc Dimittis
  30. React
  31. The Storm, Grand Fantasia in E Minor
  32. Magnificat
  33. Ave Verum Corpus
  34. The Carol of King Canute
  35. Symphony No.10 (Romane): Final
  36. Ride of the Valkyries
  37. Carillon on 'Orientis Partibus'
  38. Real
  39. Postlude
  40. Magnificat On Plainsong Tones
  41. O Praise God In His Holiness
  42. Real Funk
  43. Echo Voluntary in G
  44. DISCO
  45. Body
  46. Once In Royal David's City
  47. Prelude and Fugue (Alkmaar)
  48. Missa Brevis: Agnus Dei
  49. Psalm 47
  50. The Light Invisible
  51. Party Less
  52. Voluntary for Double Organ
  53. Adagio in G Minor
  54. 2 Latin Motets: No. 1, Ave verum corpus
  55. wagner - ride of the valkyries
  56. Sing A New Song (Psalm 98)
  57. Office Hymn For Christmas Day
  58. Verse Service: I. Magnificat
  59. Evening Canticles: Magnificat
  60. Sequence And Etheldreda Rag
  61. Shake It - Radio Edit
  62. Carol Of The Foal
  63. Pictures At An Exhibition - 7. Bydlo 'A Polish Ox-Cart'
  64. Pictures At An Exhibition - 11. Promenade
  65. Pictures At An Exhibition - 14. The Hut On Fowl's Legs 'Baba Yaga'
  66. Ther Sound Is Gone Out
  67. Symphonic Suite The Fenlands: III. Oliver Cromwell
  68. Symphonic Suite The Fenlands: II. Wicken Fen
  69. Symphonia Eliensis: : 1st movement
  70. Nunc Dimittis On Plainsong Tones
  71. Te Deum Laudamus
  72. There Is No Rose
  73. Nunc Dimittis
  74. Their sound is gone out
  75. Elegy
  76. Introduction & Allegro
  77. Magnificat:Evening Service on Plainsong Tones
  78. Nunc dimittis:Evening Service on Plainsong Tones
  79. Oliver Cromwell
  80. Toccata for Two
  81. Missa Brevis: Kyrie eleison
  82. I Hunger And I thirst
  83. Missa Sanctæ Etheldredæ: I. Kyrie
  84. Missa Sanctæ Etheldredæ: II. Gloria
  85. Missa Sanctæ Etheldredæ: III. Sanctus
  86. Missa Sanctæ Etheldredæ: V. Agnus Dei
  87. Let All Men Everywhere Rejoice
  88. Carillon on Orientis Partibus
  89. Missa Brevis: Sanctus
  90. The Fourth Service: II. Nunc dimittis

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