Poor Julius Reubke. A talented pianist, organist and composer, Hans von Bülow thought him Berlin Conservatory’s best student. He became Liszt’s favourite when he studied with him in Weimar. In 1857 he completed his masterful B Flat Piano Sonata and C Minor Sonata on the 94th Psalm for organ. A year later he was dead at just 28. Reubke’s monolithic, monothematic, programmatic organ sonata forms the centrepiece of West Australian-based Joseph Nolan’s tenth organ recital for Signum Classics, part of a significant body of recordings including a highly-acclaimed traversal of the complete solo organ music of Widor.