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1998 Schnitger organ, Saint Jacobi Church
Flights of Fantasy
These days we’d probably just call it ‘getting off’, but years ago when a great performer let loose his imagination, you found yourself transported to marvelous new musical worlds. On our next Pipedreams program, we celebrate multiple opportunities for unfettered inventiveness in a varied collection of inspired works from the German Baroque, by Buxtehude, Bach, Bruhns, and Reincken. And we’ll hear how more recent composers Leo Sowerby in America, Percy Whitlock in England and Louis Vierne in France play with the expanded resources of the 20th century pipe organ.
From felicitous demonstration of a rank of flute stops, to exploration of the full sonic potential of great instrument and some great players we enter the world of unfettered imagination, where music can take us up, up, and away. Be mesmerized by the masters, soar with the eagles, as we take off on Flights of Fantasy, this week on Pipedreams.
Program Broadcast dates:
- May 21, 2001
Music played in the program
NICOLAUS BRUHNS: Praeludium in e –Jan Willem Jansen (1981 Ahrend/Augustinian Museum, Toulouse, France) Temperaments CD-316011
DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE: Choral-Fantasy, Nun freut euch, loieben Christen g’mein –Harald Vogel (1693 Schnitger/Saint Jacobi Church, Hamburg, Germany) MD&G CD-3427
ANTHONI van NOORDT: Fantasia No. 4 –Cees van der Poel (1658 Hagerbeer/Nieuwe Kerk, Haarlem, The Netherlands) Naxos CD-8.554205
LOUIS VIERNE: Intermezzo (No. 4), from Fantasy Pieces, Op. 51 (Suite 1) –Ben van Oosten (1890 Cavaillé-Coll/Church of Saint Ouen, Rouen, France) MD&G 2CD-3160847
PERCY WHITLOCK: Fantasie Choral No. 2 –Graham Barber (1933 Willis/Hereford Cathedral, England, UK) Priory CD-525
LEO SOWERBY: Fantasy for Flute Stops –Mark Dwyer (1936 Aeolian-Skinner/ Church of the Advent, Boston) JAV CD-111
J. S. BACH: Fantasy in g, S. 542. DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE: Chorale-prelude, Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist. ADAM REINCKEN: Fugue in G. BACH: Fugue in g, S. 542 –Matthias Eisenberg (1721 Silbermann/Saint George’s Church, Rötha, Germany) Priory CD-411