Organ Works of Seth Bingham, Vol. 1 “Unto the Hills” Christopher Marks, OrganistSeth Bingham, Vol. 1 Christopher Marks records the first entire CD devoted to the organ works by New Yorker Seth Bingham including such favorites as “Bells of Riverside” and “Rhythmic Trumpet.” $14.98 Preludes, Fugues, & VariationsManuel Rosales’ organ in Atlanta is played by Brad Hughley, including a new work composed by Timothy Tikker and a rousing La Marseillaise, at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church. Second Wind John Brock Plays the Juget-Sinclair Organ, 2nd Presbyterian, Nashvilleon John Brock’s CD of the new Juget-Sinclair organ in Nashville at Second Presbyterian Church. American organ works by Rayner Brown and Gerald Near $14.98 Alice Jordan Organ WorksAlice Jordan of Des Moines, Iowa, took up composing for the organ at the suggestion of organist Jon Spong. Her hymn-based works are played by David Pickering on the 1993 Casavant 3-68 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral, Des Moines, Iowa. Click to see a list of works on the CD and to order. $12.98 Discoveries: Christopher Marks Plays the Holtkamp at SyracuseChristopher Marks, Univeristy Organist at Syracuse University, presents his discoveries of lesser-known and new works by American composers and a German one on the famous 1950 Holtkamp 3-73 incorporating much of the pipework of the previous Roosevelt organ at Crouse College Auditorium. The program includes works by David N. Johnson, Nicholas Scherzinger, Joseph Ahrens (1904-1999). Lesser known works of better known composers Bach, Tunder, Dupré, and Sowerby complete the very interesting program. Click the headline for details and to order. $14.98 Katrina Relief CDHelp for the Gulf Coast New Orleans organist and composer Dr. Lucius R. Weathersby, professor at Dillard University and Amherst College, has teamed with Hey organbuilders of Ostheim, Germany, to make this CD. The producers pledge the majority of income to Katrina relief. The CD features organ works by black composers as played on three organs by Dr. Weathersby. Click the headline for composers and to order. $19.98 An American Album: Harold Stover Plays Cathedral SkinnerHarold Stover plays the 1928 E. M. Skinner 4-53, op. 699, at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Luke, Portland, Maine, restored in 2003 by the A. Thompson-Allen Co. Stover, an OHS member, composes concert and liturgical works and film scores, teaches at the Portland Conservatory, conducts a chamber chorus, and is a church organist. Click the headline for works by Sowerby, Stebbins, Alter, Gershwin, and Stover, and to order. $15.98 Daniel PinkhamDaniel Pinkham’s organ works composed in the 1990s are played by Andrew Paul Holman on the Fisk 3-51 at King’s Chapel, Boston, where Pinkham has been the music director for many years. $14.98 American Organ Music: 1928 E. M. Skinner 4m, Los AngelesSamuel John Swartz (1947-1994) recorded the fine 1928 E. M. Skinner 4-64 at Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles in 1986 for a famous LP from Motette. The Skinner and the late Dr. Swartz can be heard on either a superior DVD-Audio disc (must be played on a DVD-Audio compatible player) or on a conventional CD. Click the headline for works by Dudley Buck, Horace Miller, Sowerby, Farnam, Lemare, Ives, Paine, and Robert Russell Bennett. $14.98 Friendly Amendments: Trumpet & Organ Works of American ComposersVirtuosic trumpeter Grant S. Peters and organist Charles W. Ore perform works recently composed by Americans. Trumpeter Rick Bogard also plays in the Prescott work. The resonant venue is First Plymouth Congregational Church in Lincoln, Nebraska, and its 4-110 Schoenstein organs. Works by Charles W. Ore, Robert Frank, Micahel Murray, and John Prescott. Click the headline for titles and to order. $12.98 Jongen: Symphonie Concertante & Copland: Symphonie for Organ and OrchestraPierre Pincemaille plays the 1857 Cavaillé-Coll at the Cathedral in Perpignan, France, with the Orchestre Perpignan Languedoc-Roussillon conducted by Daniel Tosi. $14.98 Spiritual Movement No. 1Jazz organist Barbara Dennerlein records her first CD on a pipe organ in great acoustics. This CD has been the subject of much discussion for its quality of music making and sound. The recent organ was built by the Goll firm of Switzerland for St. Martin Church in Memmingen, Germany. $15.98 Music for the Church by Charles BeaudrotThe Atlantan (b. 1951) composes in the Anglican tradition. The Choirs of the Cathedral of St. Philip, Atlanta, wonderfully perform. Craig Cansler directs; David Fishburn, organ. $15.98 All American Works for Violin & Organ, Vol. 5The Murray/Lohuis Duo presents their fifth volume of works composed for violin and organ. This volume of melodious show-stoppers, ravishing effects, and brilliant encore pieces -- all composed by Americans -- takes one’s breath away! The organs are both in Richmond, Virginia: the 1954 Austin, op. 2218, with tonal revisions by Guzowski & Steppe in 1991 at Reveille United Methodist Church, and the 1951/68 Aeolian-Skinner op. 1110 at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. Click the headline for titles and to order. $14.98 Jay Peterson Plays American Organ Works: The Aeolian-Skinner, MacMurray CollegeThe 4-59 Aeolian-Skinner of 1952 at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois, is lovingly maintained and has never been altered. Thus is stands as one of the very few G. Donald Harrison “signature” organs that speaks for itself and for its builder’s intent, “a landmark instrument capable of producing thrilling music,” writes organist Jay Peterson in the informative CD booklet. He plays brilliantly and knows this organ intimately, having been College Organist since 1975. Works by Dudley Buck, John Kuzma, Clarence Mader, Charles W. Ore, Leo Sowerby, John Eggert, Calvin Hampton, and Emma Lou Diemer. Click the headline for titles and to order. $14.98 Notes from IowaOrgan & Wind Instruments Lynn Ziegler plays the 1987 Brombaugh at Iowa State University with a flutist, oboist, and bassoonist. $14.98 Emma Lou Diemer’s CompositionsPSALMS FOR ORGAN, 3 Volumes: Emma Lou Diemer has composed musical settings for the psalms throughout her career. These settings include numerous published works for chorus, organ, and other instruments. Joan DeVee Dixon plays the 1991 Reuter at the University of the Ozarks in Clarksville, Arkansas. Click on the headline for more information and to order. Utterbackanalia: Jazz for Organ by Joe UtterbackAndrew Shenton plays organ works by jazz composer Joe Utterback on the very large Mander organ at St. Ignatius Loyola Church in New York. Utterback, himself, improvises one track, The Ewe’s Blues. Some of the works are based on English organ voluntaries, others are brief chorale preludes, still others are Gospel jazz, and a few are concert works. Click for repertoire Now in the Sheet Music Department, Joe Utterback's organ works! $14.98 Dale Wood Organ Music: A Treasury of Wood WorksOrganist James Welch plays 30 settings of folk melodies and hymn tunes composed by Dale Wood during his productive career. Hear the 1987 Schoenstein organ at the Church of SS. Peter & Paul, San Francisco. Click the picture for titles and to order. $12.98 William Albright In Memoriam: Douglas Reed Plays the Fisk in YokohamaDouglas Reed plays the Fisk op. 110 in Yokohama, Japan. Michael Barone narrates "King of Instruments;" the piece is recorded a second time with Japanese narration. Click picture for full list of works $24.95 An Appleton Anthology, Lois Regestein, organistSeven elegant organs built 1812-1843 by Bostonian Thomas Appleton are played by Lois Regestein in five Eastern states (South Carolina to Maine), drawing much praise for her indefatigable effort that has yielded stellar results. The CD booklet includes notes and photos of each organ, notes on the vast array of repertoire, and historical notes by Appleton’s greatest biographer, Barbara Owen. Click ikon for repertoire and list of organs $14.98 The Hook Documentary: Thomas Murray Demonstrates Five Hook OrgansThomas Murray plays five stellar Hook organs, including the first, with commentary on each spoken by Barbara Owen, Robert C. Newton, Edgar A. Boadway, and Robert J. Lahaise. First produced for the U. S. Bi-Centennial, these recordings are now on CD and feature material not included with the original issue on LP, the most telling of which is a stop-by-stop tour of the Immaculate Conception organ, complementing a similar tour of the Holy Cross organ. Repertoire includes Zeuner, Camidge, Boyce Thorley, J. C. Moller, Bach, Mendelssohn Franck and Widor. $22.50 Organ Symphonies of Edward Shippen Barnes Simon Nieminski, OrganistPremiere recording of the two organ symphonies of New Jersey native E. S. Barnes (1887-1958), a student at Yale of Horatio Parker and Harry Jepson, and in Paris of d'Indy and Vierne, among others. Simon Nieminski plays the 1937 Wicks 3-59 designed and voiced by Henry Vincent Willis at St. Mary's, Peoria, and tonally original. Click for more description $14.98 Pamela Decker Organ Works, Janice Beck PlaysOrgan Works by American Pamela Decker are played by Janice Beck on the 1955 Aeolian-Skinnner 4-114 at Hill Auditorium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. $15.98 Cherry Rhodes Plays Calvin Hampton: Everyone Dance & Old HundredthCalvin Hampton (1938-1984) composed Five Dances in 1982 and the Old Hundredth Prelude & Variations was published in 1975. In addition to the nine published variations, Cherry Rhodes plays three unpublished variations as well. The organ is the 4-97 Visser-Rowland at the University of Texas, Austin. Click for further description. $14.98 Wayne Marshall: Improvs on Gershwin, Strayhorn, Bernstein, etc.The brilliant British organist Wayne Marshall improvises on great American tunes by George Gershwin, Vincent Youmans, Billy Strayhorn, Leonard Bernstein, and Jules Styne. He plays the 84-rank, 4-manual Fisk organ at the Meyerson in Dallas. $14.98 Florence Price Organ WorksChicago renaissance woman Florence B. Price (1887-1953) was the first African-American woman composer to be successful in classical music. A native of the South, she studied organ with Henry Dunham and composition with George Chadwick and others at the New England Conservatory. From about 1926 she made her home and career in the Chicago area. Calvert Johnson plays her organ works on the 3m Harrison & Harrison organ in Christ Church, Savannah, Georgia. $14.98 Parker & Thayer +Organ sonatas by Eugene Thayer and Horatio Parker are played by Karl Moyer on the wonderful E. & G. G. Hook organs of 1865 at Orwell, Vermont, and of 1859 (3m) at North Easton, Massachusetts. The other works, including "As the Dew . . ." (theme of the Mormon Tabernacle radio program), fit these grand instruments to perfection. Click for full list of works on this CD $14.98 Horatio Parker: 21 WorksThese 21 bright and serene works were published in 1915 as Recital Pieces, a Collection of 21 original compositions for organ. They sample all periods of Parker’s output. Albert Ahlstrom plays the restored 1895 Müller & Abel 2-38 organ in the brilliant acoustics of St. Joseph’s Church, New York. Click for a list of the 21 pieces $14.98 Horatio Parker: Hora Novissima Concerto for Organ & Orchestra in E-flat, Op. 55Hora Novissima, composed by Parker in 1893, is a contemplative oratorio in 11 movements for soloists, quartet, large chorus, and full symphony orchestra, on the ecstasy of heavenly existence. The Nebraska Wesleyan Choir, The Abendmusik Chorus, and The Nebraska Chamber Orchestra perform, John Levick, director. The Concerto for Organ & Orchestra was premiered by Parker with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1902 and shortly thereafter with Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Stephen Krahn performs with the Nebraska Chamber Orchestra. $31.98 Catharine Crozier Plays SowerbyThe legendary Catharine Crozier plays works of Leo Sowerby on the 1935 Aeolian-Skinner at the Groton School in Groton, Mass.: Organ Symphony in G, Fantasy for Flute Stops; Requiescat in Pace Regular price: $14.98 Sale price: $4.99 Sowerby at Trinity: Faythe Freese PlaysSeveral of Chicagoan Leo Sowerby’s lesser known works are played on the 1910 E. M. Skinner Op. 165 at Trinity Episcopal Church, Toledo, Ohio, now of 4m and 77 ranks. Works: Suite for Organ; Fantasy for Trumpet and Organ (with trumpeter Bobby Lewis); Ballade (Lewis plays flügelhorn); Rhapsody; Pageant $14.98 Lorenz Maycher Plays Leo SowerbyTo critical acclaim, Lorenz Maycher plays works of American Leo Sowerby (1895-1968) on the 1949 Aeolian-Skinner at First Presbyterian in Kilgore, Texas. Pianist James Culp plays in the organ and piano duet, Dialog. Included is William Watkins’ 1951 performance of Carillon, recorded on the Kilgore organ. Click picture for repertoire $14.98 John Knowles Paine Organ Works on 3 Great American OrgansGREAT REVIEWS! Writes the American Record Guide of March-April 2000: ". . . Somerville's playing is incomparable . . . dramatic flair, delicate line, and saucy fun allow these works to come alive and sparkle. I cannot imagine better . . . His choice of instruments is also inspired . . . engineering is superb. This is a 'must have' . . ." $14.98 Bacon: Spirits & Places and Cook: 3 WorksAmerican-born Ernst Bacon (1898-1990) composed Spirits & Places for the American bi-centennial. It consists of twelve movements of two to three minutes duration, each depicting and "Honoring American Personages and Geography." John Cook was organist at Boston's Church of the Advent and composed in a unique and highly appealing style. Marian Ruhl Metson plays two organs built by George Bozeman in churches near Boston. $14.98 Church of the Advent, Boston John Cook Organ WorksThe famous 1935 Aeolian-Skinner at Church of the Advent, Boston, becomes a sonic spectacular with Marian Ruhl Metson playing the ingratiating works of former Advent organist John Cook, including his famous Fanfare and works that deserve equal fame. Click for list of works $14.98 Nightwatch at Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC $17.98 American Pupils of Rheinberger & GuilmantMartin Weyer, Rheinberger’s biographer and editor of the organ pieces in the complete edition of all Rheinberger works, plays works of Guilmant’s and Rheinberger’s American students on the 1868 E. & G. G. Hook 2-27 at St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, and on the 1926 Casavant 3m at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Camden, New Jersey, both restored and/or rebuilt by OHS member and organbuilder Patrick Murphy. Click for list of works $14.98 Longwood Sketches: Works and Transcriptions of Firmin SwinnenPeter Conte plays works of longtime Longwood Gardens organist Firmin Swinnen on the famous Aeolian organ. $14.98 Wilhelm Middelschulte Organ WorksAs seen in The American Organist Brink Bush plays this distinguished Chicagoan's serious and massive works in the style of 19th-century German Romanticism. Includes "Perpetuum mobile" made famous by his student, Virgil Fox. $17.98 Gerre Hancock Christmas ImprovisationsHear both the Taylor & Boody organ in the West gallery and the famous chancel organ of 138 ranks on four manuals at St. Thomas Church, New York. He improvises on Christmas tunes: Personet hodie; The snow lay on the ground; Puer nobis; Angels we have heard…; Infant lowly infant holy; I saw three ships; What child is this?; Go tell it on the mountain $14.98 James Welch Plays American Hymn Arrangements in BerlinAmerican James Welch plays arrangements of favorite hymns in the rolling acoustics of St. Nikolai Church in Berlin on the recent and large pipe organ of about 70 ranks. PAUL MANZ: Praise to the Lord MICHAEL BURKHARDT: Hosanna, Loud Hosanna; This Joyful Eastertide JAMES KASEN: All Creatures of Our God and King ROBERT HOBBY: Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee JOHN LEAVITT: Dear Christians, One and All, Rejoice GILBERT MARTIN: Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing ANDREW CLARKE: Pastoral Dance on Simple Gifts DALE WOOD: Come, O Thou Traveler Unknown WILBUR HELD: Step Tune FRANKLIN ASHDOWN: Tuba Tune in D-flat GEORGE SHEARING: Amazing Grace EMMA LOU DIEMER: Praise Our Father ROBERT HEBBLE: Blessed Assurance, Jesus Is Mine DAVID GERMAN: Festive Trumpet Tune BACH: Prelude & Fugue in G BWV 541; Sonata in E-flat BWV 525 RINCK: Prelude in C C.P.E. BACH: Allegro di molto fr Sonata in D, Wq 70,5 MOZART: Adagio, K. 356 CARVALHO: Sonata (Allegro) DEREK BOURGEOIS: Serenade, Op. 22 ERLAND VON KOCH: Vinterpoastoral PARRY: Jerusalem RAMÓN NOBLE: El Flautista Alegre $14.98 Ferko: Hildegard Organ Cycle Frank Ferko composes ten evocative, mystical movements based on visions of Hildegard von Bingen and plays them on the 1994 Lively-Fulcher at St. Patrick’s, Washington, D. C. $15.98 Crozier Plays Ned Rorem Catharine Crozier plays A Quaker Reader and Views from the Oldest House on the 65-stop, 84-rank Marcussen Organ at Wichita State University. Regular price: $14.98 Sale price: $4.99 Organ Music from the USA IVES: Variations on "America"; "Adeste Fidelis' COPLAND: Preamble (For a Solemn Occasion); Episode FELDMAN: Principal Sound CAGE: Soe of 'The Harmony of Maine' $16.98 19th-Century American Concert Organ Music Richard Morris, OrganistOn the 1876 E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings 4m built for the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition and thereafter installed at St. Joseph's Cathedral, Buffalo, Richard Morris offers up great examples of mid-19th century repertoire composed by Americans. Real crowd-pleasers, these, and great fun to hear. $15.98 Art of the Chorale John Ayer, Organist Art of the Chorale lets John Ayer, director of the Memphis Boychoir and Chamber Choir, move to the organ bench for a great program of organ works based on chorales. Gustav Holst: The PlanetsPeter Sykes transcribes this 20th-century orchestral masterpiece for, and plays it on, the 1933 Skinner organ of 100+ ranks at Girard College, Philadelphia. Writes David Bond in the The American Record Guide, "Sykes has made the impossible possible. This transcription is by far the most satisfying and persuasive I have ever heard." $14.98