These CDs demonstrate organs in various national regions, eras, or organbuilding styles, or by a specific builder or school of builders. |
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| Despite fire and neglect, the wonderful 1891 Roosevelt op. 494 of 1891 continues to play (when the weather is right and after several sessions of TLC) in the fully gracious acoustics of St. James� Roman Catholic Church in Chicago. Wolfgang R�bsam, William Aylesworth, and Michael Surratt play on this CD produced by the Chicago Chapter of OHS, compiling from master tapes two selections previously released on LP phonograph records and adding previously unreleased performances, including Michael Surratt�s performances from the 1984 OHS National Convention. Works by Rheinberger, Guilmant, Clarence Eddy, Frederic Archer (organist of this church), and Charles Lee Williams. Click for titles and to order | |
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| All of the Organs on Eight CDs"> NEW! The first-ever complete set of recordings of all of the extant organs built by Gottfried Silbermann marks the 250th anniversary of his death in 2003. Color pictures, stoplists, and histories in English are provided for all of the organs. Repertoire includes much J. S. Bach, of course, and many also other appropriate composers. The first four of eight CDs in the series are now available. (Click on title for list.) | |
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| NEW! 2 CDs for the Price of One! Organist Alison J. Luedecke plays the earliest four large large organs built for locations in North America by Rudolf von Beckerath, a great light in the Organ Revival worldwide and much appreciated for the beauty and timelessness of his organs. Featured are the very large organs built for Cleveland in 1957, Pittsburgh in 1962, and moderately large organs built for Montr�al in 1959 and Stetson University in 1961. Superb sound is captured by engineer Ed Kelly. Click title for repertoire. | |
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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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| Carsten Lenz plays unusual 19th-century music on two 19th-century organs: 1840 Weil organ in Altenkirchen and the 1892 Rassmann organ in Rod an der Weil. Click on the headline for more information and to order. | |
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| The organ city of Bad Homburg possesses several organs reflecting stages of organ building and musical history. The Erl�serkirche possesses both a large, turn-of-the-20th-century Sauer organ and a new Bach organ based on the 1742 Thuringian model. The B�rgy organ at the Schlosskirche represents the late Baroque. Other churches have Dreymann and Klais organs. Hayko Siemens is musical director at Erl�serkirche and organist for this CD. Click picture for repertoire | |
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| Organs & Organ Music of 3 Centuries:This varied anthology of repertoire, organs, and players presents selections from the multifaceted spectrum of south German organ music as a project of the internationalized organ program at the Musikhochschule in Trossingen, including the playing of 16 students. Organs: .... Click on the headline for more information and to order. | |
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| Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the founding of the distinguished label, Motette, the firm produces a brand new set of six CDs which survey the organs of Aristide Cavaill�-Coll of Paris. The set includes a book of more than 200 pages describing the organs. Click on headline for a list of organs and organists heard on this set. | |
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| A book by Dennis G. Waring, and a CD! Together, the book and the CD tell the story of the reed organ in American culture. Click on picture for complete description and ordering | |
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| Little-known works of the Renaissance to the late 20th century and composed in Transylvania, the land �beyond the forests,� demonstrate an important organ tradition. Horst Gehann plays three organs in Mediasch (1756 Hahn), Aeiden (1783 Prause / 1833 Schneider), and Hermannstadt (1915 Sauer / 1932 Wegensteins S�hne). Click picture for repertoire by Greff-Bakfark, Croner, Lassel, Baussnern, Dressler, Gehann, and Anonymous | |
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| Special Price Calvert Johnson explores the tonal resources of five historic 18th-century English organs: St. Mary Rotherhithe (Byfield 1765), Finchcocks (Byfield 1766), St. Helen Bishopsgate (Griffin 1743), Grosvenor Chapel (Wm. Drake 1991 in 1732 Jordan case), St. James Chapel in Great Packington (Parker 1747). The compositions represent English forms, genres, and styles for the organ from the Restoration to the dawn of the Romantic era. Standard English registrations are demonstrated. Click picture for repertoire | |
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| Saxony, where Gottfried Silbermann was active, is one of the richest areas of organ culture in Europe. The tour begins on Saxony�s oldest organ in Pomssen and includes seven other organs. Wilhelm Krumbach is the organist with music particularly appropriate for each instrument. Click picture for details | |
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| Two individual CDs imported by OHS explore the rich organ history of Austria. Albert Bollinger plays works ideally fitted to the organs heard. Click on the picture for further description and repertoire | |
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| Seven Volumes Many interesting organs built between 1544 and about 1850 are demonstrated in this culture of strong influences from German, Italian, and French traditions. The latest volume (7) surveys organs of the Valais canton, visiting Munster, Visperterminen, Ernen and Reckingen. Albert Bolliger plays. Click on picture for full description of each of the volumes and lists of repertoire. | |
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| At Eton College in England, these two CDs (sold individually) survey four organs of important historical legacies. | |
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| In Cambridge, England, these CDs (sold individually) survey eight interesting organs, old, new and rebuilt, with various performers. | |
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| In the environs of Oxford, England, these two CDs (sold individually) survey several interesting organs, old, new and rebuilt, with various performers. | |
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 | | GUAMI: Canzon La Lucchesina for 2 organs SOLER: Adantino & Minu� from Concerto No. 3 for 2 organs ALAIN: Variations on a theme of Jannequin; Le Jardin suspendu; Litanies REGER: Fantasy & Fugue on BACH PETER MIEG: Rencontres pour deux orgues (1982) Two Cathedrals, One Roof Since the Reformation, Protestants and Catholics have shared St. Peter�s Cathedral in Bautzen, Germany. In the Catholic section of the large building stands an 1866 Leopold Kohl organ of two manuals and 32 stops. In the Protestant section is the 1910 Hermann Eule 3m of 62 stops, his largest organ. Eule was an apprentice of Kohl and established his organbuilding firm in Bautzen, where it is still located and directed by a Eule. Protestant organist Friederike Werner and Catholic organist Friedemann B�hme (both great players) join forces for three of the works on this fine sounding, well recorded CD, and each takes a solo section, too. The booklet describes both others, with stoplists and the history of this unusual church. |
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| Peter Sykes plays five organs built 1831-1989 by Appleton, Goodrich, Hutchings-Votey, Roche, and Steere, the latter exactly duplicating the organ for which Elgar composed his Vesper Voluntaries. | |
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| Marian Ruhl Metson plays seven historic organs in Newburyport, Massachusetts by Hook, Stevens, Alley, Morss, Lane and Hutchings. ��. . . beautiful sounds [are] recorded here, and it is wonderful to hear someone play (so well!) music appropriate to those sounds," reviews The American Record Guide. Click on picture for list of organs and repertoire | |
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| Marian Ruhl Metson tours five historic organs in the Boston area: the large 1897 Hutchings in the vast acoustics of the Mission Church; the beautiful 1889 Treat at St. George�s, Methuen; 1848 Stevens 2m, Shirley Center; 1991 A. David Moore organ, Old North Church; and the famous Fisk 4m at Harvard. Click ikon for repertoire | |
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| Four historic organs in the Hannover area of Germany � Dransfeld, Hemeln, Gimte, and Varlosen � are documented by organist Felix Friedrich, assisted by Bernd Bartels, trumpet. Organs are by Eule (1843-45), Heeren (?) (ca.1770 & 1791), and Kuhlmann (1820). Works by Handel, Kellner, Baldassare, Rinck, Homilius, Telemann, Bach Click ikon for repertoire | |
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| Felix Friedrich and Albrecht Dietl play the Silbermann organ at Ponitz, the Schuster organ in G��nitz, the Poppe organs in Wintersdorf and Z�rchau, and the Donati organ in Wei�bach. Works by Kuhnau, Agricola, Krebs, Pachelbel, St�lzel, Bach, Richter, Stade, Mendelssohn. | |
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| Seven organs are documented with very fine, high-tech recordings, color photos, stoplists, and histories. Included is the first recording of the new, 71-stop Klais in "swallows nest" position in Cologne Cathedral. Acoustics of all are very good to majestically reverberant. Click for more information. | |
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| Eight organs in Leipzig are beautifully recorded on the CD and their color pictures appear in the 28-page booklet, with stoplists. Includes the 1902 Sauer organ in the Thomaskirche. click for more information | |
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| Seven organs in Bremen are documented in the 24-page CD booklet. Includes the magnificent 1894 Sauer 4-114 restored at St. Petri, and recent organs by J�rgen Ahrend, Fischer & Kr�mer, and others. Excellent acoustics abound and the technical quality is first-rate. | |
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| Seven organs in Dresden are well presented in this CD that includes stoplists and color pictures in the 24-page booklet. Includes the 1739 Gottfried Silbermann in the Hofkirche, 1995 Wegscheider in the Wilschdorf church, the 1992 Eule in Dreik�nigskirche, and 19th-century examples by Kreutzbach and Jehmlich. | |
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| Seven 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 | |
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| Priory Records gathers 30 different organs on one CD with great tracks of instruments such as the Adelaide Town Hall in Australia, 10 cathedrals worldwide, and Woolsey Hall at Yale University in the USA. And the artists are as interesting as the instruments. It�s an organ disc for everybody! SPECIAL PRICE! Click on the headline for more information and to order. | |
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