John Lambert (1926-1995), was a highly-influential composer and teacher, whose composition students included such diverse established figures as Oliver Knussen, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Simon Bainbridge, Julian Anderson, David Fanshawe and Barrington Pheloung. John Lambert studied at the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal College of Music, and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. From 1958 until 1962 he was Musical Director of the Old Vic theatre, a post he relinquished to take up the position of Professor of Composition at the Royal College of Music, where he remained until his retirement in 1990. For many years John Lambert was also Organist of St Vedast, Foster Lane, in the city of London, and this disc features all of Lamberts solo organ music - with the exception of the monumental Organ Mass, previously recorded by Timothy Bond on Regent REGCD205 together with organ works by his students, David Sutton Anderson, Avril Anderson and Gary Carpenter. Also included are Lamberts powerful setting of Veni creator spiritus, for soprano, mezzo-soprano and organ, and Timothy Bonds arrangement for the same forces of the beautiful Canticle of the Birds, by another John Lambert pupil, Richard Blackford. These two works are sung on this disc by internationally-known artists: soprano Janice Watson, and mezzo-soprano Catherine Wyn-Rogers. The works show part of the vast range of diverse musical styles represented by John Lambert and his students. Timothy Bonds previous solo disc on Regent Twentieth Century Organ Music [REGCD205] released in 2004, featured John Lamberts Organ Mass of 1964, together with works by Tippett, Howells, Vaughan Williams and Britten, including three previously unknown solo organ pieces by Britten receiving their first recording. These Britten pieces have been included in the Complete Britten Edition released by DECCA in 2013.