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| NEW! The Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, dating from around 1300, has two organs: the 1964 Ahrend & Brunzema organ and the 1724 Vater organ, enlarged and rescaled by Casper Mueller. Charles Rus, organist for the San Francisco Symphony and at St. John�s Episcopal Church in that city, is at home with his sensitive, musical playing in the splendid acoustics of the Amsterdam church. And, intelligent recording: Sweelinck�s Echo actually echoes! Sweelinck: Echo Fantasy; Psalm 116; Unter der Linden gruene Buxtehude: Passacaglia in d; Prelude, Fugue and Chaconne in C Bach: Capriccio; Arioso; Fughetta; Adagissimo; Aria; Fugue; Prelude & Fugue in A | |
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| NEW! Christopher Herrick plays the 3-45 organ built in historical style in 1997 by Gronlunds at the Norrfj�rden Church in Pite�, Sweden. Writes Herrick; �With the discovery of this superb copy of an organ so closely connected with one of Sweelinck�s pupils, I was able to fulfil a long-cherished dream to record Sweelinck�s keyboard music on a really suitable instrument. Students at Pite� School of Music have the opportunity and advantage . . . to learn older repertoire with the right sounds in their ears . . . and the issue of authentic fingering; as well as the challenge posed by the sub-semitones and the short octave in the bass.� Hyperion 2-CD set | |
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 | |  NEW! Low Price $10.98 per volume to OHS members On the Arp Schnitger just restored at Uithuizen, The Netherlands, Jozef Sluys records the organ works of Georg B�hm (1661-1733) on the second of two volumes devoted to this composer. The first volume is recorded on the recently restored Trost organ at Waltershausen. Works include Preludes, Fugues, Variations, Partitas, Chorales and Chorale Preludes. Click for contents of each volume and to order |
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| NEW! The 1611 organ in the parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Niederndodeleben, Germany, was built by Heinrich Compenius, Jr. in 1611. It was mostly destroyed in the Thirty Years� War. Retaining what he could, Matthias Hartmann, an apprentice of Schnitger�s, built a new instrument in 1753. J�rg Dutschke recently restored it to its 1753 condition and it is played here by Barry Jordan, organist at the cathedral in nearby Magdeburg. | |
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|  NEW! Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713-1780) is considered, beyond Bach�s own sons, as the most significant of J. S. Bach�s pupils. Krebs developed in his works an individual style, combining Baroque elements with the �new� sensitive and gallant style in a way in which no other did and exploited the tonal possibilities of the organ. In this series, Beatrice-Maria and Gerhard Weinberger play in very large south German abbeys and churches where the famous large organs by Gabler and Holzhay were built to exploit the rising gallant style. | |
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| NEW! A Year of Grace Music for the liturgical year is played by Craig Cramer on the organ built in 1992 in historical style by Paul Fritts at Grace Lutheran Church, Tacoma, Washington, with two manuals and 20 ranks of pipes. | |
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| NEW! William Porter demonstrates the stops and plays the phenomenal new �Schnitger� built by organbuilders, musicologists, and scientists associated with the University of G�teborg Art Organ Center in a nearby church. 2-CD set | |
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 | |  NEW! Johann Kaspar Kerll (1627-1693), born in Saxony of a Protestant organist, converted to Catholicism and worked for many years in Vienna. The transmission of Kerll�s music is fragmentary � at least 11 operas and many other works are lost. Several motets, masses and keyboard works survive. This recording concerns Kerll�s organ works, nearly all of which show a strong Italian influence. With consummate musicality, Matthias Krampe plays the organ from 1689 in the church of St. Veit am Vogau (Steiermark, Austria), restored in 2002 by Kuhn. Kerll may have played this organ when it was in Mariazell. |
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| NEW! One of the world's unique organ situations exits at the resonant �gryte New Church (built ca. 1880) in G�teborg, Sweden: the 3m Henry Willis organ built for St. Stephen's, Hampstead, is intact and relocated to a large transept gallery of the �gryte Church in 1998; in the rear gallery is an astonishingly successful copy of the 3m organ completed in 1692 by Arp Schnitger for the Jacobi Church in Hamburg, the creation of a team of organbuilders, scientists, musicologists, and craftsmen of the G�teborg Organ Art Center (Go-Art) at G�teborg University. Erland Hild�n, organist of the �rgryte Church, demonstrates both organs. On the Willis Organ: COCKER: Tuba Tune BRIDGE: Adagio in E HOLLINS: Song of Sunshine ELGAR: Pomp & Circumstance No. 1 in D BACH: Badinerie from Orchestral Suite No. 2 in b-minor LEF�BURE-WELY: Sortie in E-flat On the 1999 "Schnitger" Organ: BACH: Wir glauben all' an einen Gott; Prelude in C SWEELINCK: Mein Junges Leben hat ein End' TUNDER: Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ ANON. SPANISH: Canci�n para la Corneta con el Eco ERLAND HILD�N: Organ Mass on BACH | |
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 | | NEW! Sweelinck Keyboard Works, Complete are played by 15 organists and harpsichordists, all Dutch, on a wide variety of historic instruments, mostly in The Netherlands, including several organs that Sweelinck may or could have played:.... historic and large organs are included, as well as early and reproduction harpsichords. The recordings were made as part of the Sweelinck Symposium held in Utrecht in 1999. A very thick and very informative booklet accompanies the set. A long review by Jan-Piet Knijff of these CDs appears in The Tracker, Vol. 47, No. 1, page 17. Click on headline for more. |
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|  NEW! Davidsson Plays the New �Schnitger� of more than 80 ranks at the �rgryte Church in G�teborg, Sweden, as built by a team of scientists, organbuilders, musicologists with the intent of being as close to a �new� Arp Schnitger organ as possible. The results are gaining great admiration worldwide. Hans Davidsson plays with interesting insight. For repertoire, click on ikon. | |
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| NEW! So fine was the music at the 1607 dedication service of St. Gertrude�s Chapel in Hamburg, Germany, that the pastor of a nearby church described it in thorough detail such that all of the works were identified and deployment of musicians within the octagonal building was described. The service was recreated four centuries later. Ulricke Heider conducts the G�teborg Baroque Arts Ensemble, Baroque Soloists & Corona Artis with singers, soloists, and period instruments at �rgryte Church, G�teborg, with the 82-rank North German Baroque organ played by Magnus Kjellson. Click ikon for repertoire | |
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 | | On the recently restored 1714 Balthasar K�nig organ in Niederehe, Serge Schoonbroodt plays the complete organ works of Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (1656-1746). J. S. Bach knew Ariadne Musica, composed in 1702, quoting one theme from it in the Well-Tempered Clavier, perhaps in tribute to Fischer�s 20 preludes and fugues composed in 19 of the 24 chromatic keys to demonstrate an equal-beating temperament. Blumen-Strauss (Floral Bouquet) is an anthology of 8 suites of 8 pieces in each that almost certainly were composed for use in church services, as are 5 Ricercars based on well-known hymns. Click the headline for further description and to order. |
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| NEW! Duke University organist Robert Parkins plays the 21-rank Italian-style John Brombaugh organ (1997) in meantone tuning with a program of Iberian and South German works. CAB�ZON: Tiento III; Magnificat de 4� tono CORREA DE ARAUXO: Tiento de medio registro de tiple (10� tono); Tiento de medio registro de bax�n (1� tono); Tiento de 4� tono (a modo de canci�n); Obra de 1� tom sobre a Salve [regina] CONCEI��O: Tento de meio registo alto de 2� tom BRUNA: Tiento de primer tono de mano derecha y en medio a dos tiples CABANILLES: Tinto de falsas SCHERER: Toccata prima FROBERGER: Canzona II Capriccio VIII KERLL: Capriccio sopra il Cucu; Passacaglia Click on the headline for more information and to order. | |
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| NEW! The Historic Stumm Organ and Music of Its Time: Carsten Lenz plays a program of little-known music from the 18th century on the historic 1774/79 organ of one manual built by Philip and Franz Stumm in Gensingen, Germany. Click on the headline for more information and to order. | |
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 | | NEW! and 2 CDs for the price of one Organ Works of Franz Tunder (1614-67), a brilliant North-German organ composer two generations before Bach, are played by Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra. Predecessor and father-in-law to Buxtehude at St. Mary�s Church, L�beck, he presided over the large organ in a room of monumental scale, probably the tallest nave in Europe at the time. This is the first American recording of the new organ built in northern German style by Munetaka Yokota at the G�teborg, Sweden, Organ Institute. It copies precisely the Schnitger pipes at St. Jakobi in Hamburg, even to reestablishing the heretofore lost technique of casting pipe metal on sand. Click on the headline for more information and to order. |
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|  NEW! Historic Reissue; Harald Vogel plays the famous Schnitger organ, now of about 52 ranks after changes through the centuries....On this CD recorded by Radio Bremen in 1975, Harald Vogel gives a tour of various stops with improvisation on each and plays works of Reincken, Scheidt, Scheidemann, and Bach. Click on the headline for more information and to order. | |
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 | |  NEW! Christoph Krummacher plays unusual repertoire on the 1990 organ built by Patrick Collon of Brussels at St. Michael am Wasserturm in Essen. Click on the headline for more information and to order. |
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 | | NEW! Bach Encounters Buxtehude In the autumn of 1705, Bach traveled to L�beck to learn what he could from the famous organist Buxtehude. Accounts suggest that Bach�s organ playing changed dramatically. This explores the often intangible links between these two composers, bringing together some of their most popular works for the organ. Kimberly Marshall plays the 1992 Fritts organ at Arizona State University. Click on the headline for more information and to order. |
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| NEW! Elizabeth Harrison plays works by the Dutch organ composer J. P. Sweelinck (1562-1621) and several German composers who studied with him, then spread his influence in Germany. She plays the famous 4-72 C. B. Fisk organ at Stanford University. Click headline for repertoire by Sweelinck, Praetorius, Scheidemann, Scheidt, and Schildt. | |
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| NEW! The gallery organ of 29 stops in the late-gothic hall of the Schlo�kirche of Meisenheim/Glon was built in 1767 by the brothers Stumm. Torsten Laux, organist, is professor of organ at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in D�sseldorf. He improvises on three chorales and plays works by Pachelbel, Buxtehude, Cl�rambault, and DeGrigny. Click picture for repertoire | |
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| NEW! Two extraordinary organists � Robert Bates and David Yearsley � playing two extraordinary organs � C. B. Fisk Opus 85 (1984) and Paul Fritts & Co. (1995) � may seem an over-abundance of riches. This new recording, which includes compositions by six masters of the North German School, recreates this sound and ambience, using two mean-tone organs in Stanford University�s Memorial Church. Click picture for repertoire | |
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|  NEW! Harald Vogel plays and improvises upon the 1999 Paul Fritts organ at the Church of the Ascension in Seattle. The organ, built in the style of Arp Schnitger, is ideal for the style of playing and repertoire that has made Prof. Vogel a much sought-after teacher. Click picture for repertoire by Kerll, CPE Bach, Packelbel, Buxtehude, Bohm, etc. | |
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| at Christ Church, Tacoma"> NEW! Roger Sherman, owner of the Loft and Gothic CD labels and host of a weekly radio program, played this recital at Christ Church Parish, Tacoma, Washington, on the 1980 Brombaugh Op. 22 in February 1996. The program features works by composers known to Bach, contrasting with works of the master himself. The exotic tonal colors of the Brombaugh are ideal for this repertoire by Brunckhorst, Praetorius, Buxtehude, C. P. E. Bach, Pachelbel, and J. S. Bach. Click picture for repertoire | |
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|  Hear the wonderfully surviving and famous 2m organ of 14 stops and 31 ranks built in 1558 by J�rg Ebert of Ravensburg, restored by J�rgen Ahrend in 1976. It is located in a �swallows nest� in the Hofkirche in Innsbruck where Jaud has been organist since 1977. Works by Kotter, Buus, Padovano, Hassler, Erbach, Sweelinck. Imported by OHS. Click ikon for repertoire | |
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| The very important 3-61 organ built ca. 1730 by Johann Patroclus M�ller for the monastery in Dahlheim, Germany, exists with 80% of its pipes and six original spring-action windchests intact at the state church in Borgentreich, where it was moved in 1803. the charming and tuneful properties of many stops and the impressive plenum are played with convincing musicality by J�rg Kraemer. Click ikon for repertoire | |
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|  This CD features 2 organs and the playing of August Humer, organist at the Old Cathedral in Linz. There, he still plays the very organ Anton Bruckner played while he was organist 1855-1867. Bruckner and had the organ enlarged with great musical results, and that is the organ that exists today and which is featured on half of this CD. The "Bruckner" organ was second hand in the Old Cathedral, and this CD also features a new organ built in 1996 in Engelszell, the original location of the organ now in Linz, replicating many of its original features as built in 1764 by Franz Xaver Chrisman. Click ikon for repertoire | |
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| The Dresden organbuilder Kristian Wegscheider is likely to have a large part of the project of making a new Silbermann for the Frauenkirche such as this �new� Silbermann of 20 registers at the church in Loschwitz. | |
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 | | Works of Sweelinck are played by Belgian organist Serge Schoonbroodt on the restored renaissance organ at the church of Saint-Jacques in Li�ge. The organ and its splendid case, dating from 1600 and whose builder is unknown, was finally restored in 1998. Click for repertoire. |
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 | | Die wol klingende Fingersprache is Johann Mattheson�s contribution to keyboard music and theory, consists of 12 fugues interspersed with contrasting pieces. Mattheson was a friend of Handel and a singer of leading roles in Handel�s operas presented in Hamburg. Handel wrote highly of Mattheson's compositional skill. Gerd Zacher plays the restored 1714 K�nig organ at the former monastery church in Niederehe, now playing in its original pitch and temperament. |
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 | | The restored, 3m Egedacher Organ of 35 stops in the magnificent baroque abbey of Zwettl, Austria, is played by Elisabeth Ullmann in a compelling program of 17th and early 18th century music. |
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| German-born Egbert Ennulat, professor of music at the University of Georgia, plays works of period composers on the Schnitger in Cappel. The organ was built in 1680 for a large church in Hamburg and moved to Cappel in 1816. Click ikon for repertoire | |
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| All volumes available again! Harald Vogel plays historic North German organs, most of them known to Buxtehude, in this definitive series of CD that has been difficult to obtain in the past year or so. | |
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| SCHEIDEMANN: Pr�ambulum in G BRUHNS: Pr�ludium in e WECKMANN: Ach wir armen S�nder; Magnificat II toni B�HM: Vater unser HANFF: Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein BUXTEHUDE: Pr�ludia in C & e; Fuga in C; Toccata in G; Ach Herr, mich armen S�nder; Nun Lob, mein Seel, den Herren; Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland; Puer natus in Bethlehem Montr�al organist Luc Beaus�jour plays the 1991 Hellmuth Wolff 3-45 at Knox College Chapel, Toronto. | |
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|  Hasse (1699-1783), born to a North German family of organists, wrote approximately 80 operas, 20 oratarios, and numerous other compositions. Much influenced by several years in Italy, he settled in Dresden and enjoyed fame in his time. Hungarian organist J�nos Sebesty�n plays the six concertos recorded here. | |
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 | | NEW! Vol. 3 Now Available! All of the organ works of Heinrich Scheidemann are played on historic organs. On three, 2-CD sets, Cleveland Johnson and Claudia Heberlein play the 1624 Scherer 3-55 at Tangerm�nde; the 1675 Berendt Hu�/Arp Schnitger 3-60 at Stade; and the 1981 Fisk op. 82 at Wellesley (Mass.). Click to see contents of the three volumes and to order Scheidemann Organ Works, Vol. 1 Scheidemann Organ Works, Vol. 2 Scheidemann Organ Works, Vol. 3 |
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| One of Bach�s most favored students, Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713-1780) composed works revealing Bach�s influence in their complexity and harmonic daring. His Clavier-�bung is a collection of 39 pieces based on 13 favorite chorales of the 18th century. This is the first complete recording of the pieces, played by William Porter on the 1806 Pehr Schi�rlin 2-33 organ in Gammalkil, Sweden, restored in 1996 and recorded on CD for the first time. Click ikon for list of the chorales | |
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|  Volumes 1 through 10 now available. Volume 10 is recorded on the restored 1746 Hildebrandt organ at Naumburg, the first "non-Bach" CD on the restored organ. Volume 5 is recorded on the Silbermann at Frankenstein, restored in 1998 and now at its original, low "Dresdner Kammerton" pitch A=415. Volume 6 presents the beautiful Silbermann at St. Petri Church, Freiberg. Volumes 7 & 8 are recorded at the Castle Church in Altenburg on the gorgeous 1739 Trost, both with other instrumentalists, too. OHS imports Felix Friedrich's superlative performancess on these magnificent organs known to Krebs and Bach. | |
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 | | The great Italian organist and teacher Fernando Germani (1906-1998) recorded Bach Preludes and Fugues, and two chorales, as well as Sweelinck and Bull, on the two historic organs of the Laurenskerk in Alkmaar, The Netherlands, in 1958-1960. |
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|  The Brombaugh organ in Eugene, Oregon is played by David Britton. Works by Oley, Krebs, Buxtehude, Hanff, and Bruhns, Bach. Click on headline for full repertoire | |
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 | | American William Porter plays the equisite organ at the Cathedral in Roskilde, Denmark, with great style and flair in these wonderful works composed in the early baroque, the style to which the organ was restored in the 1990s by Marcussen. |
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| The Roskilde Cathedral Organ was built in 1554 by Herman Raphaelis and was restored by Marcussen in 1990 to replicate its first major rebuild (1654). Cathedral organist Kristian Olesen plays with great charm on this fine CD. Click ikon for repertoire | |
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 | | The Schnitger at St. Jacobi in Hamburg, Germany, may represent the most important organ restoration in history. The famed J�rgen Ahrend meticulously studied the jumble of material and information resulting from earlier rebuildings and World War II bombs, then rewove it in 1993 as Arp Schnitger surely must have built this magnificent and large instrument in 1692. Konstantin Reimayer plays works which must have been known to this organ when the works were recently composed! |
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| The Cambridge Bach Ensemble, Scott Metcalfe, director, with organist Peter Sykes playing the Fisk in early historical style at Wellesley College, assemble an interesting program of German Baroque sacred music for solo organ and for choir accompanied and a cappella. The works are arranged in groups for Pentecost, mourning, Advent and Christmas. ORGAN WORKS: TUNDER: Komm, heiliger Geist BUXTEHUDE: Magnificat primi toni SCHEIDT: Gelobet seystu, Jesu Christ CHORAL WORKS: SCH�TZ: Jauchezet dem herren, alle Welt; Selig sind die Toten SCHEIN: Komm, heliger Geist; Da Jakob vollendet hatte J. S. BACH: Komm, Jesu, komm J. C. BACH: Lieber Herr Gott, wecke uns auf LUTHER: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland PRAETORIUS: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland a 4 & a 6 SCHEIDT: Komm, heiliger Geist a 8 & a 4; Gelobet seystu, Jesu Christ a 8 | |
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| Unfortunately, this CD is out-of-print and no longer available from its American importer, Naxos. The Compenius Organ was built in 1610 by Esias Compenius with Michael Praetorius as ��advisor�� for a German duke. The ducal family gave it in 1617 to Danish King Christian IV. Placed in the chapel at Fredericksborg Castle, it remains entirely intact. Chapel organist Per Kynne Frandsen plays works by Lorentz, Schildt, Dowland, Schop, Radeck, Scheidemann and other composers of the organ�s first 150 years. | |
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 | |  Now Complete! 11 CDs are released to complete Joseph Payne's Pachelbel series featuring historic organs by Malleck, Silbermann, Trost, K�nig, Zuberbier, and a 1995 Noack, 1979 & '83 Metzlers, and a 1941 Marcussen/Andersen. Stellar reviews of this series, orginally announced to have only 10 CDs and now topping out at 11. |
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|  NEW! Not Previously Recorded David Yearsley plays the 1692 Schnitger in Norden, Germany, performing previously unrecorded 17th-century masterpieces. | |
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 | |  Christie's brilliant recitals at the Seattle AGO National Convention in July, 2000, brought down the house and a stampede to the OHS display to buy his CDs. Here are two of them, one devoted to Sweelinck for only $4.99 to OHS members ($5.99 to others). The other includes his splendid transcription in the style of Bach of Vivaldi's Concerto in D. |
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| Harald Vogel observed in a 1999 issue of the Westfield Newsletter that this organ is "the ideal Bach organ." OHS imports this first CD of the organ since restoration was completed in 1998. Organist Felix Freidrich and trumpeter Mathias Schmutzler play wonderfully. | |
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| BUXTEHUDE: Passacaglia in d BuxWV 161 FRANCAIX: Suite Carm�lite LEIDEL: Toccata delectatione, op. 5 MENDELSSOHN: Sonata IV in B, Op. 65, No. 4 KUCHAR: Fantasie in d BACH: Sonata No. 1 in E-flat BWV 525; Toccata & Fugue in d BWV 565 WALTHER: Concerto of Sign. Meck ANON. POLISH: Przygrywka choralowa � Colenda The Sun Organ is named for the remarkable case built by Johann Conrad B�chau ca. 1700 for the large Church of St. Peter and Paul in the German town of G�rlitz on the Nei_e River at the border with Poland. B�chau dispersed 17 �suns� symmetrically over the front of the case, arranging pipes of the Pedal Mixture XII as the spokes of a wheel in each �sun� and capping the center of each with a golden disc. Within the case was a 3m organ of 57 stops completed after six years of effort, in 1703, by the famed Eugenio Casparini who was 74 years old when he started the project in 1697. It became the most famous organ in Silesia, but Andreas Silbermann wrote after a visit, �I would be much more fond of it if I had not played and heard it myself . . .� It was entirely replaced in 1928 by an electropneumatic organ which no longer played by 1978 and was removed from the historic case, wherein the famous �Sun Mixture� remained along with 29 pipes of a wooden Onda Maris. Mathis built a brand new organ in the case in 1997, with 64 stops on three manuals including 2 stops at 32� pitch as well as recreations of stops and devices in the original Sun organ, including several bird calls and drums. The musical Reinhard Selliger plays. | |
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|  Weckmann Complete Hans Davidsson plays with great style on the famous Arp Schnitger organ at Norden in the Ludgerikirche. Exhaustive notes in the 94-page booklet. 2-CD set | |
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| Heinrich Hamm plays a program of works by south German composers of the time of the organ�s creation, including Speth, Muffat, Nauss, Maichelbeck, Marpurg, Oldy, Knecht, and P. E. Bach. | |
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|  Choose from three volumes of Harald Vogel playing works of J. S. Bach and of his contemporaries, predecessors, and successors on significant instruments from the time of Bach and new organs built in the styles of Bach�s era. Booklet notes are thorough and are in English and other languages. Registrations and stoplists are included. | |
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| The Ahrend organ (1978) in Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, is in the style of early 18th-century organs. John Kitchen, who plays a program of early German music, is Senior Lecturer and University Organist. | |
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|  Hassler: Variations on La Monica; Three Italian Madrigals; Two German Songs. Scheidt: Fantasia super lo son ferito; Cantio gallica Est-cd Mars? Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612) of Nuremberg is known there as "the greatest German musician of his time," he having studied music in Italy. His monumbental 31 variations on this very popular tune plays for 39 minutes, thus there is no time on the CD for his other 110 works for organ! But, the CD treats us to five of his charming vocal works sung by five excellent musicians as well as the Scheidt organ works. Georges Guillard plays the historic 1745 Adrien Carpentier organ at the L'eglise d'Auxi-le-Chateau, where the local land baron opposed the purchase of an organ, writing that its twelve proponents were, a "butcher not knowing how to write," a "bird-brained carpenter," etc. | |
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 | | Craig Cramer Plays"> Another hit of the Seattle AGO National Convention, July, 2000, was this beautifully finished organ built by Martin Pasi of Roy, Washington, recorded here by Craig Cramer in a programs of Bach, Krebs, Brahms, and Topfer |
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 | | The 1624 Scherer Organ at St. Stephan�s in Tangerm�nde in north Germany was restored in 1994 by Alexander Schuke of Potsdam. With one-half of the original pipes remaining, including samples from all but four original stops, it is said to be the only large organ of the early Baroque to be returned to its original state. Thus, it joins the recently restored Schnitgers in Hamburg and Uithuizen as among the more important restorations of Baroque Europe. Christoph Lehmann plays very well a program of appropriate works for this early baroque organ. Click ikon for repertoire |
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|  NEW! The influential teacher and organ historian plays the Flentrop organ in Duke Chapel. These recordings were first issued on LP when the 1976 Flentrop magnum opus was newly installed. Click picture for wide-ranging repertoire including much by Bach | |
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