2008 Beckerath organ at the Presbyterian Church, Mount Kisco, NY

Shifting Accents

…a sample of some of the different ‘voices’ with which recently installed instruments in the United States speak.

Program Broadcast dates:

• Week of September 21, 2009

Links and Resources:

• German organist-historian Harald Vogel talks us through two sonic demonstrations of the new mean-tone Taylor & Boody pipe organ in Yale University’s Marquand Chapel. Recordings provided by the Yale University Institute of Sacred Music
• This first demo is of the organ stops and is preceded by a 2-minute Fantasia by Johann Steffens (1560-1616).
• This Second demo is of the tuning system used on the instrument.
• Printable program listings

Music played in the program

Hour 1

HERBERT BREWER: Marche Heroique. HERBERT HOWELLS: Psalm-prelude (Out of the depths), Op. 32, no. 1 –Thomas Bara (2003 Reuter/St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, Alexandria, LA) Raven 940

J.S. BACH: Fugue in E-flat, BWV 552. JOHANNES BRAHMS: Chorale-prelude & Fugue on O Traurigkeit, o Herzeleid –Joan Lippincott (2001 Taylor & Boody/Bower Chapel, Naples, FL) Gothic 49255

FREDERICK WOOD: Chorale-prelude, Monmouth, from Scenes on the Wye, Op. 26, no. 2. CHARLES DAWES: Melody in A. WOOD: Toccata, Symonds Yat, Op. 26, no. 2 –Simon Nieminski (2006 Nichols & Simpson/First Baptist Church, Abilene, TX) Pro Organo 7221

LOUIS CLAUDE DAQUIN: The Cuckoo. ANTHONY NEWMAN: Fanfare, H2O and Fugue in D –Anthony Newman (2008 Beckerath/Presbyterian Church of Mount Kisco, NY) ANCD 2009

Filler - DAWES (see above)

Hour 2

JEREMIAH CLARKE: Trumpet Tune –David Burton-Brown (2007 Casavant/Grace Episcopal Church, Gainesville, GA) DBB 2007

HEINRICH SCHEIDEMANN: Praeambulum ex G. SAMUEL SCHEIDT: Magnificat Quarti Toni (alternatim) –Yale Institute Schola; Harald Vogel (2007 Taylor & Boody/Marquand Chapel, Yale University, New Haven, CT) Pipedreams Archive (recorded 10/5/07)

CALVIN TAYLOR: Swing low, sweet chariot. TRADITIONAL: Doxology & Blessing. R. MONTY BENNETT: Amazing Grace. FELIX MENDELSSOHN: Sonata in c, Op. 65, no. 2 –R. Monty Bennett (2006 Ruffatti/Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, Charlotte, NC) Pipedreams Archive (recorded 11/11/06)

Filler - BREWER (see above)