2003 Blackinton at Benson Great Hall, Bethel University, Arden Hills, MN.

Just Stringing Along

…whether with a single partner or an ensemble of violins, violas, cellos and basses, pipe organs, large and small, prove themselves amiable companions.

Program Broadcast dates:

• Week of February 20, 2017

Links and Resources:

• Printable program listings

Music played in the program

Hour 1

W.A. MOZART:  Sonata in C for Organ and Strings, K. 336 –Charlier String Ensemble; Jean-Pierre Lecaudey (1982 Grenzing/St. Cyprien Church, Périgord, France) Pavane 7507/8

ANTONIO VIVALDI:  Concerto in C for Violin & Organ, RV 808 –Gli Incogniti Ensemble; Amandine Beyer, violin; Anna Fontana (chamber organ) Zig Zag Territories 325

RUSSELL HEPPLEWHITE:  Invisible Landscapes –Rebecca Hewes, cello; Julian Collings (1983 Hill, Norman & Beard/St. Mary’s Platt Church, Kent, England) Regent 337

CRAIG PHILLIPS: Song without words –Yvonne Caruthers, cello; Todd Wilson (Aeolian-Skinner/National Cathedral, Washington, DC) JAV 149

JUDITH BINGHAM:  Jacob’s Ladder (Parable for Organ and Strings) –Dmitri Ensemble/Graham Ross, director; Tom Winpenny (1962 Harrison/St. Alban’s Cathedral, England) Naxos 8.572687

JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH:  Concert Piece No. 2 in E-flat for Organ and Strings –J.C. Bach AcademyEnsemble; Johannes Geffert (Klais portative) Fermate 20002

Hour 2

TOMASO ALBINONI (arr. Giazotto):  Adagio in g –Quad City Symphony/Kim allen Kluge, conductor; Tom Robin Harris (Allen electronic organ/Centennial Hall, Rock Island, IL) Pipedreams Archive (r. 4/13/1996)

SEBASTIAN MODARELLI:  Duet for Cello and Organ –Rebecca Hewes, cello; Julian Collings (1998 Casavant/1st Presbyterian Church, Rochester, MN) Pipedreams Archive (r. 2/23/14)

COR KINT:  Hymne, Op. 8 –Robert Murray, violin; Ardyth Lohuis (1951/68 Aeolian-Skinner/St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Richmond, VA) Raven 923

HOWARD HANSON:  Concerto for Organ, Harp and Strings, Op. 22, no. 3 –Festival Orchestra/Philip Brunelle, conductor; Wilma Jensen (1985 Schantz/Lumen Christi Catholic Church, St. Paul, MN) Pro Organo 7282

 

Note that the premiere of Judith Bingham’s Jacob’s Ladder was given on the Blackinton pipe organ at Bethel University in Saint Paul, MN, and the façade of this instrument inspired the ‘topic’ of her Parable for Organ and Orchestra.

The soloist in the Hanson Concert that concludes our program, Wilma Jensen, was 59 years old and at the height of her powers when she appeared in Saint Paul for an American Guild of Organists Regional Convention in 1989.  She’s now 88 and still going strong!  Check out her 85th birthday concert as presented March 2, 2014 at St. George’s Episcopal Church in Nashville, where she served ‘in her youth.'