2000 van den Heuvel organ, the Katarina Church, Stockholm
000 van den Heuvel organ, the Katarina Church, Stockholm

Going On Record

From sprightly Renaissance dances to grandious symphonies, this week’s show celebrates the many diverse elements which make organ music so remarkable, and a mirror of changes in western culture. Style, emotion, compositional and mechanical ingenuity all play a part in creating music of joy and contemplation, of restraint and exhultation.

Whether in folk-song improvisation or anthem accompaniment, flashy toccata or rhumba-inspired trumpet voluntary, the pipe organ does it all. Listen to newly released compact discs from around the world in this sonic spectacular.

Program Broadcast dates:

November 18, 2002

Featured Organs:

1998 Fritts at Pacific Lutheran University
1958 Flentrop at Harvard University
1863 Hook at Immaculate Conception Church, Boston
2000 van den Heuvel at the Katarina Church, Stockholm
1519 Piffaro at Santa Maria della Scala, Siena
1851 Hook-1988 Andover at Saint John’s Cathedral, Providence
1999 Kuhn at Berner Münster, Switzerland

Music played in the program

( Key to abbreviations)

J. S. BACH: Orgelbüchlein Chorale-preludes (Komm, Gott Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist, S. 631; Ach wie nichtig, S. 644; Alle Menschen müssen sterben, S. 643; Dies sind die heilgen zehn Gebot, S. 635; Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein, S. 641; Lobt Gott, ihr Christen, S. 609) -George Ritchie (1998 Fritts/Lagerquist Hall, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA) Raven OAR-580

J. S. BACH: Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit, S. 669, from Clavierübung III –Memphis Chamber Choir; John Ayer (1958 Flentrop/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA) Pro Organo CD-7138a

J. S. BACH: Fugue in g, S. 578 -Thomas Murray (1854 Hook/First Congregational Society, Jamaica Plain, MA). C. M. WIDOR: Allegro (fragment), from Symphony No. 6, Op. 42, #2 (plus narrated organ demonstration) –Thomas Murray (1863 Hook/Immaculate Conception Church, Boston, MA) AFKA CD-550/1

HENRY PURCELL: Trumpet Sonata No. 2 –Timothy Moke, trumpet; Georg Masanz (1993 Hauser/Church of Saints Peter and Paul, Kirchdorf, Switzerland) Moke CD-2001

FRANZ LEHRNDORFER: Improvisation on a Folksong (Im Märzen der Bauer) –Franz Lehrndorfer (1959 Steinmeyer/Hochschule für Musik, Munich, Germany) Kuckuck CD-13208

PHILIP WILBY: Sonnet, from Lincoln Windows –Choir of Lincoln College, Oxford, Tom Lydon; Philip Smith (1994 Walker/Exeter College Chapel, Oxford, England, UK) Guild CD-7236

CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR: Allegro, from Organ Symphony No. 6, Op. 42, no. 2 –Kristiaan Seynhave (2000 van den Heuvel/Katarina Church, Stockholm, Sweden) Rene Gailly CD-173 ANTONIO GARDANE (pub.): Renaissance Dances -Kimberly Marshall (1519 Piffaro/Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Italy) Loft CD-1046

DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE: Toccata in d –Kimberly Marshall (1992 Fritts/Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ) Loft CD-1029

OTTO DIENEL: 3 Chorale-preludes, from Op. 52 (#1, Ach bleib mit deiner Gnade; #6, Eins ist Not; #7, Es ist das Heil) –Edward Zimmerman (1851 Hook-1988 Andover/Saint John’s Cathedral, Providence, RI) AFKA CD-552 (see above)

SIGFRID KARG-ELERT: Valse mignonne, Op. 142 –Harry Wilkinson (1933 E.M. Skinner/Girard College Chapel, Philadelphia, PA) Pro Organo CD-7144 PATRICK GOWERS: An Occasional Trumpet Voluntary -Christopher Herrick (2000 Kuhn/Berner Münster, Switzerland) Hyperion CD-67228