1949 Wicks organ at the Basilica of Saint Mary, Minneapolis, MN

An Organist’s Yearbook

…our annual reflection on the past twelve months and projections for the future, including some of the original PIPEDREAMS elements from our first broadcasts 25 years ago.

Listen to the program

Complete Show 1 hr 28 Min

0753 Part I 30:25
0753 Part II 27:09
0753 Part III 30:24

Program Broadcast dates:

Week of December 31, 2007

Links and Resources:

Music played in the program

Part I

J. S. BACH: Prelude & Fugue in C, S. 545 –James Kibbie (1755 Silbermann/HofKirche [Courtyard Church], Dresden, Germany) Kibbie Bach Volume 1

DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE: Chorale-prelude, Komm, heiliger Geist, BuxWV 199–John Scott (1996 Taylor & Boody/Saint Thomas Church, New York, NY) Pipedreams Archive (recorded 5/26/07)

RAYMOND DAVELUY: Fantasie, from Organ Sonata No. 3 –Alison Luedecke (1959 Beckerath/Mountainside United Church, Montréal, Québec, Canada) Raven OAR-610

JOHN COOK: Fanfare –Bradley Welch (1996 Casavant/Broadway Baptist Church, Fort Worth, TX) Loft CD-1084

Part II

SIGFRID KARG-ELERT: Chorale-prelude, Nun danket alle Gott, Op. 65, no. 59 –Diane Bish (4 organs, by Rieger, Marcussen, Spáth and Fischer & Kraemer/Freiburg Cathedral, Germany) Artisan CD-1999

JEAN LANGLAIS: Final, from Pièce pour Flute et Orgue, Op. 168 –Eva Østergaard Anderson, flute; Marie-Louise Langlais, (1890 Cavaillé-Coll/Jesuit Church, Copenhagen, Denmark) Editions Delatour CD-19

WILLIAM BOLCOM: Sweet hour of prayer, from Gospel Preludes, Book IV –Marilyn Mason (Aeolian-Skinner Opus 1118/Riverside Church, New York, NY) Pipedreams CD-1001

EMMA LOU DIEMER: Variations on Abide with me –Emma Lou Diemer (2003 Reuter/Saint Michael’s Lutheran Church, Bloomington, MN) Pipedreams Archive (recorded 2/5/06)

Part III

BENJAMIN BRITTEN: Jubilate in C –Choir of Saint Paul’s Cathedral, London, Barry Rose, conductor; John Scott (1949 Wicks/Basilica of Saint Mary, Minneapolis, MN) Pipedreams Archive (recorded 6/17/80 and broadcast in the first Pipedreams program from January, 1982)

LEROY ANDERSON: Sleigh Ride (1948) –Jelani Eddington (1927 Wurlitzer/Sanfilippo Residence, Barrington, IL) RJE Productions CD-1908

VINCENT PERSICHETTI: Song of David (1980) –Leonard Raver (1938 Aeolian-Skinner/Saint Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, New York, NY) Classic Masters CD-1008

PETR EBEN: Preludium super ‘Asperges me’, from Three Jubilations –Saint Ignatius Brass, Kent Tritle, conductor; Nancianne Parella (1993 Mander/Church of Saint Ignatius Loyola, New York, NY) AMDG CD-004

CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR: Praeludium Circulare, from Organ Symphony No. 2, Op. 13 –Dr. Paul M. Weber (1979; 1992 Wahl/First English Lutheran Church, Appleton, WI) Pipedreams Archive (recorded 5/4/97)

Filler– COOK: Fanfare (see above)