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Celebrating the pipe organ, the King of Instruments |
1912 Austin organ at City Hall, Portland, ME
A conversation with recitalist and recording engineer/producer Fred Hohman, who introduces performances from his enterprising CD/video label Pro Organo.
HORATIO PARKER: Festival Prelude, Opus 66, number 1 –Frederick Hohman (1912 Skinner/Grand Avenue UMC Temple, Kansas City, MO) Pro Organo CD 7042
LUIGI BOCCHERINI (transcribed by Edwin H. Lemare): Minuet in A –Frederick Hohman (1912 Austin/Merrill Auditorium, Portland, ME) Pro Organo CD 7117
JAMES HICKS: Toccata –James Hicks (1960; 1996 Austin/The Presbyterian Church, Morristown, NJ) Pro Organo CD 7187
SIGFRID KARG-ELERT: Ave Maria, Number 2, from Cathedral Windows, Opus 106 –Harry Wilkinson (1930 E.M. Skinner/Girard College Chapel, Philadelphia, PA) Pro Organo CD 7044
SIGFRID KARG-ELERT/DARREN RALEY, JOHANN CHRISTOPH BACH: Ich dank’ dir, lieber Herre –Memphis Chamber Choir and Memphis Boychoir, John Ayer (1990 Nichols & Simpson/Christ Episcopal, Little Rock, AR) Pro Organo CD 7064
PHILIP MOORE: Antiphon –Memphis Chamber Choir and Memphis Boychoir, John Ayer, conductor; David Kienzle (1990 Reuter/St. John Episcopal, Memphis, TN) Pro Organo CD 7053
NICOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (transcribed by Nevin): Flight of the Bumble-bee. GIUSEPPE VERDI (transcribed by Heywood): Nabucco Overture –Thomas Heywood (1998 Schantz/Moody Memorial FUMC, Galveston, TX) Pro Organo CD 7168
FRANK BOLES: Anthem, Christ upon the mountain peak –Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church Choir in Indianapolis, Frank Boles, conductor; Dwight Thomas (1987 Holtkamp/Sweeney Chapel, Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolois, IN) Pro Organo CD 7058
HENRY HALL: Psalm 129 –Choir of Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church, Indianapolis, Frank Boles, conductor; Edie Johnson (1879 Henry Willis/St. Mary Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK) Pro Organo CD 7174
PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY (transcribed by Macpherson): Finale, from Symphony Number 6, Opus 74, Pathetique –Frederick Hohman (1997 Schoenstein/First Plymouth Congregational, Lincoln, NE) Pro Organo CD 7077
EUGENE REUCHSEL: Nuages ensoleillees sur le Cap Negre, from Promenades en Provence, Volume 1 –Simon Nieminski (1949 Kilgen; 1997 Wicks/Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis, MO) Pro Organo CD 7112