Friends on Fisks

European music of the past is recreated in the United States on three instruments built by the profoundly influential American organ designer, the late Charles Brenton Fisk.

Program Broadcast dates:

• October 13, 1997

Featured Organs:

• 1981 C.B. Fisk organ at Wellesley College’s Houghton Chapel
• 1977 C.B. Fisk organ at First Congregational Church, Westfield, MA
• 1986 C.B. Fisk organ at the Chapel of Mount Holyoke College

All performances recorded for this broadcast feature Edward Pepe and Lynn Edwards, who play on the Fisk mean-tone organ at Wellesley College’s Houghton Chapel, on an instrument by Fisk in the manner of Gottfried Silbermann at First Congregational Church, Westfield, MA, and on an Italian-style Fisk organ in the chapel of Mount Holyoke College.

Music played in the program

NICOLAUS BRUHNS: Praeludium in g

SAMUEL SCHEIDT: Echo ad manuale duplex

DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE: Praeludium in d

JOHANN ADAM REINCKEN: Fantasy, An Wasserflussen Babylon

SAMUEL SCHEIDT: Variations, Warum betruebst du dich, mein Herz

GEORG MUFFAT: Toccata Number 6, from Apparatus Musico-Organisticus

 

This program was originally issued as #9203 in January 1992.