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Celebrating the pipe organ, the King of Instruments |
A spicy collection of holiday music from chapels, cathedrals and a theatre.
GREGORIAN CHANT: Veni, veni Emmanuel. ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK: Toccata on Veni, Emmanuel –Capella Nova Washington, Leo Nestor, conductor; James Kosnik (1994 Lively-Fulcher/St. Patrick RCC, Washington, DC) Trinity Music CD-95300
TRADITIONAL: God rest ye merry, gentlemen (1991 Moore/Old North Church, Boston, MA)
ALEXANDRE GUILMANT: Noël brabançonn (1889 Treat/St. George Primitive Methodist, Methuen, MA)
DUDLEY BUCK: Fantasy on Silent Night (1897 Hutchings/Basilica of our Lady of Perpetual Help “Mission Church”, Boston, MA)
DANIEL PINKHAM: Pastorale on The Morning Star (1991 Moore/Old North Church, Boston, MA)
EMMA LOU DIEMER: Go tell it on the mountain –Marian Ruhl Metson (1967 C.B. Fisk/Memorial Chapel, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA) Raven OAR-260
TOM HAZLETON: Jingle Bells Around the World –Tom Hazleton (1928 Kimball/Dickinson High School Auditorium, Wilmington, DE) DTOS CD-302
J.S. BACH: Chorale-prelude, The day which is so filled with joy, S. 605. SIGFRID KARG-ELERT: Pastorale on From the center of my heart, Opus 65, number 2. FRANZ LEHRNDORFER: Chorale-prelude, Rejoice, you shepherds! –Franz Lehrndorfer (1994 Georg Jann/Frauenkirche, Munich, Germany) Celestial Harmonies CD-13090
LOUIS-CLAUDE DAQUIN: Noël Number 10 in G. LEWIS REDNER: O little town of Bethlehem. ROPER: What child is this?. ALEXANDRE GUILMANT: March Religieuse –Virgil Fox (1953 Aeolian-Skinner/Riverside, New York, NY) EMI Classics CDC 66088
SIR DAVID WILLCOCKS: Sussex Carol. GERRE HANCOCK: The Lord will surely come. CONRAD SUSA: The shepherds sing –Memphis Chamber Choir and Memphis Boychoir, John Ayer, conductor; David Kienzle (1927 Kilgen; 1956; 1975 Schantz/Episcopal Cathedral of Saint Mary, Memphis, TN) Pro Organo CD 7073
PETER WARLOCK: The sycamore tree. DOROTHY PAPADAKOS: Improvisation on Une jeune pucelle. G.F. HANDEL: Joy to the world –Choir of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, Johnson Flucker, conductor; Dorothy Papadakos (1954 Aeolian-Skinner; 2008 Quimby/Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York, NY) Cathedral Productions CD-1001