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A North American Organ Sampler
The pipe organ is not one thing but, rather, many - and our next Pipedreams broadcast explores some of that diversity while listening to instruments by six different builders, each one with a very distinct personality. A pair of organs in Ontario, for instance, make up in elegance and charm what they may lack in sheer size. Another one, in San Francisco, recycles 90-year-old pipes in a new configuration which both embraces history and creates its own. Yet another organ, built in Czechoslovakia, serves a Lutheran parish in Illinois and, when asked, can play itself. From California to South Carolina, it’s a North American Organ Sampler. LANGLAIS: Rhapsodie Gregorienne, from Nine Pieces –S. Wayne Foster (1990 Ontko & Young/First Presbyterian “Scots” Church, Charleston, SC) (American Public Media recording 5/25/98)
Program Broadcast dates:
- January 10, 2000
Music played in the program
DUPRÉ: The World Awaiting the Saviour, from Symphonie-Passion, Op. 23 –Glenn Kime (1995 Visscher/Old First Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, CA) Raven OAR-450
THEWES: Trumpet Tune in E-flat. CHOPIN: Caltz in c#, Op. 64, no. 2 –Mark Thewes and Fredrick Bahr (1996 Kegg/Church of the Lakes United Methodist, Canton, OH) Kegg Pipe Organ CD-1001
SAINT-SAENS: Rhapsody No. 2 on Breton Themes, Op. 7 –Haig Mardirosian (1995 Buzard/Saint John’s Roman Catholic Chapel, Champaign, IL) Centaur CD-2368
BUXTEHUDE: Praeludium in a; Chorale-prelude, Von Gott will ich nicht lassen –Craig Cramer (1991 Gober/Saint Giles Presbyterian Church, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada). BACH: 2 Chorale-preludes (Allein Gott in der Höh, S. 711; Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier, S. 731). WILLAN: Scherzo & Festival, from Five Pieces –Craig Cramer (1995 Gober/Saint Sosa Lee Roman Catholic Church, Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada) Gober Organs, Ltd.
DAVIS: Improvisation Fanfare. BUXTEHUDE: Passacaglia in d. BORTNIANSKI: Concerto in D. DAVIS: Improvisation Fantasy –Merrill N. Davis III and Volodymyr Koshuba (1996 Rieger-Kloss/Trinity Lutheran Church, Roselle, IL) Euro Musik CD-1001