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Celebrating the pipe organ, the King of Instruments |
1995 Austin organ at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, CA
A four-century survey of organ music and a review of some resplendent recent recordings.
DENIS BÉDARD: Masque –William Wright (1746 Hildebrandt/St. Wenzel Church, Naumburg, Germany) Deer Park CD-2005
MATTHIAS WECKMANN: Praeludium a 5 vocum; Verses on Gelobet seystu Jesu Christ –Hans Davidsson (2000 GoART Replica/Örgryte nya kyrka [Örgryte New Church], Göteborg, Sweden) Loft LRCD-1065-67
G.F. HANDEL: Organ Concerto in B-flat, Opus 4, number 6 –William Neil (1970 Aeolian-Skinner/National Presbyterian, Washington, DC) MSR Classics MS1112
PETER WARLOCK (arranged by Wolff): Basse-Dance, from Capriol Suite. ZOLTAN KODALY: 2 Epigrams: 5 & 6 –Grant Edwards (1994 Bond/St. Stephen Episcopal, Seattle, WA) Pro Organo CD 7181
OLIVIER MESSIAEN: The Joy and Radience of the Glorified Bodies, from Les Corps Glorieux-Jamie Hitel (1995 Wicks/St. Paul Episcopal, Akron, OH) Lammas CD-145
SEVERO GIUSSANI: Introduction & Allegro, from Sonata Concertata –Fabio Ciofini, hc; Jordi Vergés (1850 Anonymous/Chapel of the Virgin of Claustre, Tarragona Cathedral, Catalunya, Spain) Loft LRCD-1059
ALEXANDRE GUILMANT: Verset, Opus 19; March, Opus 39, number 3 –Carol Williams (1998 Austin/St. Mary College Chapel, Moraga, CA) Melcot Music CD-018
FRANK BRIDGE: Adagio in E –John Friesen (2003 Bedient/St. Paul UMC, Lincoln, NE) Bedient CD-70
JEAN SIBELIUS (arranged by Fricker): Finlandia –Thomas Murray (1929 Skinner/Cincinnati Museum Center, Union Terminal, Cincinnati, OH) Rotunda CD-1310
LEO SOWERBY: I will lift up mine eyes –Gwendolyn Jones, mezzo-soprano; Lorenz Maycher (1903 Hutchings-Votey/First Church of Christ, Scientist, New York, NY) VOA CD-001
LOUIS VIERNE: Toccata, from Fantasy Pieces, Opus 53. MARCEL DUPRÉ (arranged by Peter Richard Conte): Cortege et Litanie, Opus 19 –Peter Richard Conte (1911 Wanamaker/Grand Court, Macy’s Center City, Philadelphia, PA) Gothic G49240