A Montreal Organ Book

Visit A Montreal Organ Book with the Organ Historical Society: Music and instruments from Provence Quebec, featuring Canadian artists.

Program Broadcast dates:

• July 19, 1999

Music played in the program

ANONYMOUS: Suite in F, from Le Livre d’Orgue Montréal –Yves-Guy Préfontaine (1991 Guilbault-Thérien/Chapelle du Grand Séminaire, Montréal, Québec, Canada) Atma CD-2120

VIERNE: Intermezzo, from Symphony No. 3, Op. 28 –Antoine Reboulot (1915 Casavant/Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Montréal, Québec, Canada) REM 2CD-11048

DENIS BÉDARD: Petite Suite –Sylvie Poirier, Philip Crozier (1915; 1999 Casavant/Église Tres-Saint-Nom-de-Jesus, Montréal, Québec, Canada) Amberola CD-7106

BACH: Chorale-prelude, Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, S. 666 –Antoine Bouchard(1961 Beckerath/Immaculate Conception Church, Montréal, Québec, Canada) REM 2CD-311130

RAYMOND DAVELUY: Organ Sonata No. 1 –Rachel Laurin (1960 Beckerath/Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal, Montréal, Québec, Canada) CBC 2CD-1111

GRIGNY: 4 Mass Versets (Premier Sanctus; Fugue; Recit pour le Benedictus, Dialogue pour les Agnus), and Ave maris stella (Duo), from Livre d’Orgue –John Grew (1981 Wolff/Redpath Hall, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada)

BONNET: 3 Verses on Ave Maris Stella, Op. 5, no. 5 –Jacques Boucher (1901 Casavant; 1986 Guilbault-Therien/Église du Gesu, Montréal, Québec, Canada) REM CD-311162

WALTHER: Concerto in g after Manzia –Genevieve Soly (1993 Wilhelm/Notre-Dame-de-la-Defense, Montréal, Québec, Canada) Analekta CD-3005

BACH: Fantasy in G, S. 572 –Bernard Lagacé (1961 Beckerath/Immaculate Conception Church, Montréal, Québec, Canada) Analekta CD-3091.

Many of these and other instruments will be played when the Organ Historical Society holds its annual convention this year in Montreal (August 19-25), a ‘first time’ for an OHS convention outside the United States! Should you wish to attend, call 804-353-9226 (OHS). Note that an additional recording of selections from the Montréal Organ book, featuring the Wolff instrument at McGill University, is available on CBC CD-645.