2006 Mühleisen in the Bela Bartok National Concert Hall, Budapest, Hungary

Concert Organs Abroad

…an audition of three intriguing recent installations in concert halls in Japan, Finland and Hungary.

Program Broadcast dates:

• Week of November 10, 2008

Links and Resources:

• Printable program listings

Music played in the program

Part I

MICHEL CHAPUIS: Improvisations in Classic French and Modern Free Styles on the Tonus Peregrinus (Magnificat 9 th Tone) –Michel Chapuis (1993 Aubertin/Shirane-Cho Concert Hall, Yamanashi, Japan) Plenum Vox CD-009

Part II

JEAN SIBELIUS: Intrada, Op. 111, no. 1. CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR: Choral, from Organ Symphony No. 10, Op. 73 (Romaine). ROBERT SCHUMANN: Fugue on B-A-C-H, Op. 60, no. 1 –David Goode (2007 Grönlunds/Sibelius House, Lahti, Finland) Pipedreams Archive (recorded 8/1/07)

Part III

BALINT KAROSI: Consonances (Concerto for Organ and Orchestra) (2007) –Miskolc Symphony/Laszlo Kovacs, conductor; Balint Karosi (2006 Mühleisen/Bela Bartok National Concert Hall, Budapest, Hungary) Pipedreams Archive (recorded 6/28/07)

Filler – CHAPUIS (see above)

 

Thanks to audio producer Tom Voegeli for his work in creating the special introduction to Balint Karosi’s new Concerto. Also note that these three auditoriums represent the many new concert rooms worldwide where the presence of a pipe was considered essential to the overall function of the space. Hundreds of orchestral scores involve the pipe organ, and though organs are undeniably expensive, pound-for-pound they are a bargain compared with a violin by Stradivarius or Guarneri, and no one would ever suggest to Pinchas Zukerman that he play on an electronic substitute.