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Celebrating the pipe organ, the King of Instruments |
…a summer quarter sampler of recent releases of organ music, with emphasis on the unusual and the unusually attractive.
WILLIAM KRAPE: Choral Triptych –Alan Morrison (1987 Schantz/St. Luke, Dunwoody, GA) ACA Digital CD-200t5-15
JOHANNES BRAHMS: Prelude &Fugue in g –Peter Sykes (1990 Nordlie/FUMC, Sioux Falls, SD) Titanic CD-206
RALPH SIMPSON: Swing low, sweet chariot. THOMAS KERR: Anguished American Easter, 1968 –Herndon Spillman (1990 Visser-Rowland/Wooddale Church, Eden Prairie, MN) Titanic CD-205
DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE: Praeludium in f# –Harald Vogel (1702 Schnitger/Aa-Kerk, Groningen, The Netherlands) Dabringhaus und Grimm MDG 3424
GIOVANNI GABRIELI: Canzona on the First Tone for 2 organs –Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, Liuwe Tamminga (1475 da Prato/Basilica di San Petronio, Bologna, Italy) and (1596 Malamini/Basilica of San Petronio, Bologna, Italy) Tactus CD-510001
GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI: Fiori Musicali (complete) –Sergio Vartolo (1475 da Prato/Basilica di San Petronio, Bologna, Italy) Tactus CD-580690
GIAN DOMENICO CATENACCI: Magnificat Verses –Loredana Bacchetta, soprano; Lorenzo Ghielmi (1794 Ettori/St. Antonio Church, Villa di Tirano, Italy) Nuova Era CD-7027
OLIVIER MESSIAEN: Communion. from Pentecost Mass –Olivier Messiaen (1868 Cavaillé-Coll/La Trinité, Paris, France) EMI Classics CZS 767400
IGOR STRAVINSKY: Polka. G.F. HANDEL: Water Music Suite –Timporg Trio (organ and percussions) Koch-Schwann CD-315019
MARCEL DUPRÉ: Second Organ Symphony, Opus 26 (Intermezzo) –Suzanne Chaisemartin (1878 Merklin; 1926 Merklin & Kuhn; 1979 Kern/Cathédrale Saint-Pierre, Montpellier, France) Disques Coriolan CD-316l08
LOUIS-JAMES-ALFRED LEFÉBURE-WÉLY: Sortie in E-flat –Jane Parker-Smith (1986 Forster & Nicolaus/St. Nikolaus Church, Frankfurt, Germany) Motette CD MOT 11691
JUAN CABANILLES: Paseo –John Butt (1988 Greg Harrold Spanish Style organ [Opus 11]/Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Berkeley, CA) Harmonia Mundi CD-907047
SIDNEY TORCH: Bugle Call Rag –Sidney Torch (Christie organ/Regal Cinema, Edmonton, London, England, UK) (recorded 1936) Sterndale CD-1001
FELIX MENDELSSOHN: Allegro. Chorale & Fugue in D –John Scott (1872 Henry Willis; 1992 Mander/Cathedral of St. Paul, London, England, UK) Hyperion CDA66491/2
Filler – JEAN LANGLAIS: Fete –Alan Morrison (see above)