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| NEW! The first American-built organ in a European cathedral was completed by the C. B. Fisk firm in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2003. This first CD features Jean-Christophe Geiser playing works in four styles: German Baroque, French Classic, German Romantic, and French. L�BECK: Praeludium in d DUMAGE: Suite du 1er ton LISZT: �vocation � la Chapelle Sixtine DURUFL�: Suite, op. 5 | |
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| NEW! The organ (1912) in St. Martin�s Church, Dudelange (Luxembourg) was built by Georg Stahlhuth and his son Eduard and incorporated French and English characteristics into German romantic organbuilding. It is thus ideal for the romantic French and German repertoire which Wolfgang R�bsam has chosen for this disc. | |
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| NEW! Stefan Engels, professor of organ at Westminster Choir College and organist at First Presbyterian in West Chester, Pennsylvania, plays the 1958 Romanus Seifert organ at St. Matthia in Berlin. With 74 stops and rich acoustics in the church, it is well known and a popular choice for radio broadcasts and recordings. Click Picture for Details & to Order | |
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| NEW! Thomas Trotter, assisted by the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, inaugurates the Klais organ in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, England. Recorded live at concerts on October 19 and 20, 2001. Click Picture for Details & to Order | |
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| NEW! Thomas Trotter plays organ showpieces on the new Klais organ in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, England. Imported by OHS. Click Picture for Details & to Order | |
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| NEW! Carol Williams marches in to Oxford Town Hall and with her usual aplomb plays a crowd-pleasing program on the 1896/97 Willis organ, which was built to the specification of Sir John Stainer, best-known for his Crucifixion. Click Picture for Details | |
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| NEW! Winchester Cathedral organist David Hill plays the renowned 1851-1905-1938 Willis organ, rebuilt 1986-88 to 4-90 and reversing some earlier changes. Click Picture for Details & to Order | |
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| NEW! Thunderstorms created by the organ were popular concert fare a century ago and even before, so much so that some organs were equipped with thunder pedals and rain machines. The fabulous organ at the Hofkirche in Lucerne, Switzerland, contains a rain machine built in 1862 and it is given a workout in these pieces either containing composed thunderstorms or related to inclement weather and the calm thereafter. The notes on the works are highly informative. The organ contains 18 registers created in 1650, 35 created in 1862, and the rest of its 116 ranks in 81 registers on five manuals were built by the superb Swiss firm of Th. Kuhn in 1977. Click Picture for Details & to Order | |
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| NEW! Dutch virtuoso Christine Kamp explores more Romantic repertoire on the 4-m Sauer (1914-15) in Sibiu, Romania. | |
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| NEW! Neil Wright plays the restored 1904 Cavaill�-Coll 2-17 of Farnborough Abbey of St. Michael, hidden on the Hampshire Surrey border, where the Empress Eug�nie, crushed by exile and the loss of her husband and son, commissioned a mausoleum and monastery to bury the Emperor Napoleon III and the Prince Imperial. Benedictines bought the organ in 1904 from Charles Mutin and had it restored by Klais in 2002. | |
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| NEW! Nicolas Kynaston plays the 1993 5-manual Klais organ in the Athens Concert Hall, Megaron, Greece, where he has been organist since 1995. MENDELSSOHN: Prelude & Fugue in f, op. 35/5 REGER: Rhapsody in c#; Consolation in E KARG-ELERT: Homage to Handel; Rondo alla Campanella BACH: Toccata & Fugue in e �The Wedge�; An Wasserfl�ssen Babylon C.P.E. BACH: Sonata in g Click ikon to order | |
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| NEW! An organ crawl of Edinburgh, Scotland, featuring organs old and new and four stellar performers on 2 CDs. THE ORGANS heard are 1990 Peter Collins in Greyfriars Kirk, the Enharmonic Organ in St. Cecilia�s Hall, 1984 Wells-Kennedy in St. Andrew�s and St. George�s Street, 1899 Hope-Jones/1957-1999 Walker in St. Cuthbert�s Church, 1880 Willis in St. Stephen�s, 1992 Rieger in St. Giles� Cathedral, 1998 Frobenius in Canongate Kirk, 1879 Willis/1931, 59, 79, 94 Harrison in St. Mary�s Episcopal Cathedral, 1882 T. C. Lewis in Broughton St. Mary�s; 1977-78 Ahrend at the University of Edinburgh, 1757 Snetzler in Lodge Canongate Kilwinning, and 1897 Hope-Jones/1953 Willis/2980 Rushworth& Dreaper. THE PERFORMERS are Timothy Byram-Wigfield, John Kitchen, Michael Harris, and Peter Backhouse. Click ikon for repertoire. | |
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| Naji Hakim plays the Stahlhuth organ at St. Martin Church in Dudelange in Luxembourg, restored in 2002 by Thomas Jann, entirely reversing the �neobaroquefication� that had occurred, badly, in the 1960s. Georg Stahlhuth (1830-1913 was an ideal choice to build the organ of 1912 at Dudelange following Albert Schweitzer�s conceptions adopted in Vienna in 1909 as the International Guidelines for Organbuilding. In splendid acoustics, Hakim�s playing of Liszt, Karg-Elert, Langlais, Franck, and both an improvisation of his own and a composed work, is wonderful, of course, and the organ sounds fabulous. The CD booklet greatly informs us about this organ and its builder, and the exceptional characteristics recaptured in the restoration. Click on the headline for more information and to order. | |
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| NEW! Of great interest here are effective yet unfamiliar concert pieces and Willibald Guggenmos� superb playing of them. Composers include Claussmann, Paponaud, Kropfreiter, Verschraegen, Dupont as well as Dupr� and S. S. Wesley. The organ is the 1987 Rieger 3-54 at St. Martin�s Catholic Church in Wangen/ Allg�u, Germany. Click on the headline for more information and to order. | |
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| NEW! Wine & Water plays with the old Cistercian monastery�s location near the Lake of Constance and its past as a wine producer. The unusual theme suggests an interesting repertoire for the 1900-1901 Schwarz organ in the former monastery. Michael Eckerle is the organist. The score of Hans Uwe Hielscher�s California Wine Suite is available in the sheet music department. Click on the headline for more information and to order. | |
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| NEW! Cathedral organist Clemens Ganz plays the new �swallow�s nest� organ and the famous 1948-51 Klais 4m of 68 stops in the transept, enlarged in 1956 to 86 ranks,and rescorded before the 2001 rebuilding by Klais. RHEINBERGER: Sonata 6 JOACHIM BLUME: Fantasia Kosmologica (Sonata V) ALAIN: Premi�re Fantaisie; Le jardin suspendu VIERNE: Clair de lune FRANCK: Choral 2 | |
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| NEW! FIRST CD OF REBUILT NAVE ORGAN:Winfried B�nig demonstrates with an eclectic program the two Klais organs (1998 swallow�s nest 3-72 organ and the 2001 rebuild of the 1951-56 Klais electropneumatic nave organ) in the reverberant acoustics of the 750-year-old Cologne Cathedral. Click on the headline for more information and to order. | |
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| NEW! British organist Paul Derrett plays unusual repertoire on the 1962 Harrison & Harrison 4-93 in Coventry Cathedral, which many believe to be the greatest one-off achievement by an English organbuilder in the 20th C. Click the headline for titles by Ibert, Barber, Bach, Beethoven, Reger, Brockless, Demessieux, Barry Cabena, and Groenendijk, and to order. | |
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| NEW! Peter Kneeshaw records the first CD on the organ built in 1999 by the Canadian firm Orgues L�tourneau of St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada in a transept gallery in St. Mary�s Cathedral, Sydney, Australia, as seen on the cover of The American Organist. The 46-stop, 59-rank organ is one of four in the church. Click the headline for repertoire by Rutter, Bach, Widor, Holland, Jongen, Balbastre, Thalben-Ball, Pachelbel, Buxtehude, Tregaskis, Whitlock and Fletcher, and to order. | |
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| NEW! In celebration of Jackson�s 85th birthday on 2 October 2002, this CD compiling pieces played by Jackson 1994-2002 in public recitals at York Minster, where he had been a student and assistant to, and then succeeded Bairstow in 1946. Click on the headline for more information and to order. | |
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| 9 Volumes"> NEW! Volume 9 of this popular series places Christopher Herrick at the new Kuhn organ of 71 stops in Berne Cathedral, Switzerland, contained in a case from 1726. A very interesting program includes "fireworks" by Gowers, Bartok, Reger, Langlais, Wolstenholme, and others. Click the headline for list of works, the other volumes in this series, and to order. In the first eight volumes, Herrick plays fiery organ works on fiery organs including an Aeolian-Skinner in New York and huge organs in Iceland, Finland, Paris, England, and more! | |
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| NEW! Colors of the Organ Terry Norman explores the tonal resources of the well-regarded 4m Walker organ in Adelaide Town Hall, in works by Heiller, Dandrieu, Alain, Bonighton, Liszt, and Bach. Click the picture for titles and to order. | |
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| NEW! Australia�s oldest Town Hall houses a 4-84 J. W. Walker & Sons instrument from England, the largest mechanical action organ built in the United Kingdom in 100 years, says the CD booklet. Calvin Bowman, a resident of Australia and Yale University Fulbright scholar, plays works of Franck, Boellmann, Maleingreau, Frank Martin, Thiman, and Koehne. Click picture for repertoire | |
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| NEW! At St. Paul�s in Schwerin, Germany, the city�s fine organbuilder Friedrich Friese built this restored 2-35 in 1869 with several Romantic features, influenced by the huge Ladegast organ in the nearby Dom. Click on picture for repertoire by Hertel, Mendelssohn, Bach, Messiaen, Kiel, Franck, and Dubois. | |
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| NEW! The main organ (1992 Alex. Schuke 3-85, with some pipes from the 1906 Klais) in the Cathedral of St. Mary in Erfurt possesses mighty, sumptuous symphonic sound, with further charm added whenever the choir organ (2-49) plays either simultaneously or in dialogue. Silvius von Kessel, cathedral organist, plays a symphonic program of four works. Click picture for repertoire | |
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| NEW! Hans-Ola Ericsson plays works in symphonic style by Respighi, Gounod, Bellini, Smetana, and Elgar on an 87 rank organ built in 1998 by Gerald Woehl. Click picture for repertoire | |
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| NEW! compiles appropriate music for Christian services as performed by many unidentified organists and choirs as compiled from recordings produced by Priory Records during the past decade. A 24-page booklet gives texts as well as suggestions for the service. The set is intended to aid anyone who must plan a funeral, including those who plan their own. There is much beautiful music here, too, simply for listening. Click picture for repertoire | |
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| NEW! In November, 2001, Tharp concertized and recorded his first European CD at the Parish Church of St. John at the Latin Gate in Troisdorf-Sieglar, Germany, on the recent 4m Seifert organ of 55 ranks in Romantic style. He plays Bach, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Dubois, Franck, and Widor. Click picture for repertoire | |
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| NEW! In her fifth CD Sophie-V�ronique Choplin plays the great 1862 Cavaill�-Coll at St-Sulpice, Paris, including works by Piern�, Boellmann, Mulet, Brahms, Saint-Sa�ns, Mendelssohn, Vierne, and Grunenwald. Click the picture for works and to order. | |
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| In this fourth CD recorded at St-Suplice in Paris where she is second organist, Sophie V�ronique Choplin improvises and plays works by Bach, Mendelssohn, Boely, Rheinberger, Durufl�, and Daniel Roth. | |
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| Sophie-V�ronique Choplin plays at St. Sulpice: Messiaen, Mendelssohn, Rheinberger, Grunewald; and she improvises La Creation. | |
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| Sophie-V�ronique Choplin plays the recently discovered Mendelssohn Allegro, Chorale & Fugue and Sonata 3, as well as works of Demessieux, Bach, and Brahms. Also, her own earth-shaking improvisation on the 102-rank Cavaill�-Coll. | |
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| Roger Judd Plays"> NEW! St. Laurens Church in Rotterdam was completed in 1525, and only the walls and tower remained after a German air raid in 1940. The church was rebuilt 1947-1968. Three new organs were built by Danish builders Marcussen & Son and by Sybrand and J�rgen Zachariassen. Roger Judd of St. George�s Chapel, Windsor Castle, is an active musician and teacher in Great Britain and he plays an eclectic program, Sweelinck to Hurford with lots in between. Click picture for repertoire | |
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|  NEW! Trier Cathedral is the oldest church north of the Alps, with walls dating to the 4th century, and it has a gigantic, thrilling acoustic. Thus, the very famous 100-rank Klais installed in 1974 sounds all the more magnificent, especially under the hands of cathedral organist Josef Still. Works by Reger, Schumann, Eben, Schroeder, and Dupr� Symphony Passion Click picture for repertoire | |
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| NEW! Christoph Bossert plays the 1906 Gebr�der Link 3m, 57-rank organ (of which 26 are at 8� pitch, 10 are at 4� pitch, and 7 are at 16� pitch!) now restored at St. Mary�s Evangelical Church in Giengen-an-der-Brenz. A book about the Link firm (in German text) is also available from the OHS Catalog, in the book department. Works by Franck, Reger, John Cage, and Bach. Click picture for repertoire | |
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| NEW! Music in honor of St. Mary provides a context for a program of music from the Baroque and Romantic periods on the eclectic 1987 Sandtner organ in the church of St. Hedwig in Bayreuth, played by internationally known Michael Gailit. Click picture for repertoire | |
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| World's Only Functioning 64' Rank!"> A sonic thriller from Down Under! Guggenmos plays the great 1890 William Hill organ -- the largest extant and intact English organ and one of only two in the world with full-length 64' ranks. Crowd-pleasing yet unfamiliar works by well-known composers are: Marches by Sowerby and Hollins, an arrangement for organ alone of the Adagio from Saint-Saens' "Organ Symphony," YON: American Rhapsody BARBER: Adagio for Strings RAWSTHORNE: Hornpipe Humoresque Click for repertoire | |
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| Jane Watts plays the famous 1890 Hill 5m organ of 127 stops, including an almost unique full-length 64� (well, the Atlantic City Convention Hall organ has two of them but the organ is barely playable through no fault of its own), in works by George Thalben-Ball, W. T. Best, and Marcel Dupr�. | |
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| The largest British organ built in the 19th century including a full length 64' stop, one of only two in the world. | |
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| NEW! At the Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane, Australia, Jane Watts plays the 4m Klais of 122 ranks. �From the first few bars, you can tell why Jane Watts� performances have gathered such superlatives.� (Gramophone magazine) Works: DUPR�: Symphony 2, op. 26; 3 �l�vations, Op. 32 PEETERS: 4 Pieces LEIGHTON: Prelude, Scherzo & Passacaglia, op. 41 | |
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| tour is especially concentrated on important and typical chimes from the individual countries. Special emphasis has been given to European bells and chimes with deep and beautiful peals. Recorded here are the bells of St. Peter�s in Rome, St. Paul�s in London, St. Odien�s in Dublin, the mighty bells of the Pantheleimon Monastery on Mt. Athos, the Sigismund bell at the Wavel in Krakow, the Emmanuel of Notre-Dame in Paris, and the bells of Magdeburg Cathedral in Germany. Spoken commentary is in German. | |
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| Wolfgang Baumgratz plays the 1894 Sauer organ in Bremen Cathedral so appropriate for these Romantic works. Superb notes on the composers and the 100-rank organ. Works by Chaminade, Barraine, Andr�e, Clara Schumann. Click ikon for repertoire | |
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| Quick-Time Movie Included! on the second CD in this 2-CD set for the price of one CD! The world's only organ with pipes made of bamboo can be seen and heard: on a conventional CD, the fine Australian organist Douglas Lawrence nicely plays Zipoli, Pachelbel, Galuppi, Bach, Couperin, and Handel (with orchestra in the last). Place the second CD of "extras" in your PC or Mac computer and view an 8-minute movie of the organ with stereo sound! Click for more information | |
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| King of Instruments"> A 5-CD set available exclusively outside Australia from OHS! Spectacular performances from this awesome artist! We regret that this fine set of CDs has been discontinued by its manufacturer (Universal) and is no longer available, despite the fact that it appears in the 2003 OHS Catalog. | |
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| In the rolling acoustics of London�s famous Temple Church, the almost entirely intact sounds of Arthur Harrison�s 1924 organ of four manuals and 64 ranks are ideal in these period works and transcriptions, some by former organsits of the church. Herrick, who continues his popular Organ Fireworks series, commenced an "Organ Dreams" series with this CD. JULIUS BENEDICT: March of the Templars DAVIES: Solemn Melody WM. SPARK: Jerusalem the Golden BATISTE: Offertoire in G WM. LLOYD WEBBER: Prelude LANGLAIS: Theme & Variations FRANCK: Choral No. 1 PAUL SPICER: Dreams of Derry BEETHOVEN: Adagio in F THALBEN-BALL: Elegy ELGAR: Angel�s Farewell ALKAN: Pri�re in E | |
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| Tong-Soon Kwak Plays"> Korea�s celebrated organist and teacher, Tong-Soon Kwak, a master's and doctoral graduate of the University of Michigan who served 11 years as a church organist in Toledo and Chicago, now chairs the Church Music Department at Yonsei University in Seoul. On this finely produced CD, she plays the 117-rank Rieger at the Torch Center for World Missions, Seoul. Works by Franck, Tournemire, Nibelle, Dupr�, Manz, Buxtehude, and Bach. | |
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| Carol Williams inaugurates the new Austin organ at the Forbidden City Concert Hall, Beijing, China. The Beijing Symphony, Tan Lihua, conductor, plays the final movement of the Saint-Sa�ns Organ Symphony. Works by Gavin Stevens, Ramon Noble, Sebelius, Clarke, Franam, Joplin Herman, Lefebure-Wely, Purvis, Hellewell, Boellmann, Sousa, Saint-Saens (Organ Symphony), Widor, Bossi, Bach Click picture for more details | |
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| Includes Francaix Suite Carmelite Gillian Weir plays at Hexham Abbey in England, where her late husband Lawrence Phelps built the celebrated 53-rank organ in 1974. Suites by Jean Francaix, Sonata 2 by Hindemith, Attaignant Dances, Schnizer Sonata 1, Bach Sei gegrusset, Mozart Fantasia in f | |
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| Van Vliet celebrates 40 years as an organist by making this CD in 2001 on two famous Dutch organs: the 1845 F. A. Naber 3-55 organ at Saint Joriskerk in Amersfoort and the 1762 B�tz 3m enlarged to 4-62 at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Den Haag. The program features mostly nineteenth and twentieth century composers. Click picture for repertoire | |
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| Organist, composer, and OHS member Lucius Weathersby plays African and African-American composers on the restored 1864 �Father� Willis organ at St. Michael & All Angels Church, Great Torrington, Devon, England. Click ikon for repertoire | |
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| Orgel-Feuerwerk consists of three CD volumes from St. Bonifatius in Wiesbaden, Germany, where Gabriel Dessauer plays in grand acoustics the large Mayer organ of 1985. The programs on each disc are a delightful mix of the rare and the well-known. Click on picture for the contents of each volume | |
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| With great flair and in grand acoustics, Gabriel Dessauer serves up works of greatly varying character, from theatre-like (the wonderful "Three-Piece Suite" by Nigel Ogden) to minimal to baroque to symphonic. He plays a large and recent organ at St. Boniface Church in Wiesbaden. NIGEL OGDEN: An Art Deco �Three Piece� Suite HOLZMAN: Blaze Away March GLASS: Dance No. 4 VIERNE: Final, Sym. 3 H�LLER: Ciacona, op. 54 TOURNEMIRE: Improv. on Victimae paschali | |
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| NEW! For the Reading Town Hall in England, "Father" Henry Willis rebuilt to four manuals in 1882 for the enlarged hall the organ he had originally built in 1864. A thorough restoration is now complete after ten years, returning the organ entirely to its 1882 state. The work was completed in late 1999 by Harrison & Harrison and this recording was made in January, 2000, by the superb British organist Adrian Partington, with a program ideally suited to the organ. Works by Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Max Reger, Andrew Carter, Edwin Lemare, William Wolstenholme, Mark Blatchly, and Hugh Blair. | |
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| Kevin Boyer plays the rare and miraculously restored and powerful 1914 Stephen Taylor & Son 3-51 organ at De Montfort Hall in Leicester, England. This showpiece includes full-length 32� open wood and 32� Trombone stops through full choruses of reeds and flues in the manuals, with multiple mixture stops as well as the orchestral stops we would expect. Grand program, played with great enthusiam for the orrgan and the works! | |
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| Jean-Paul Imbert plays the 1885 Cavaill�-Coll 3-70 at St. Etienne in Caen. In sets of variations by Lemare, Bossi, Lefebure-Wely, Reger, Guilmant, and Flor Peeters. Click on headline for repertoire and to order. | |
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| COR KEE: Merck toch hoe Sterck con variazione LANG: Tuba Tune SOWERBY: Carillon GADE: Drei tonst�cke f�r Orgel Op. 22 OGDEN: Scherzo for the White Rabbit HINDEMITH: Sonata II KARG-ELERT: Symphonischer Choral: Jesu meine Freude Organist Hans-Otto Jakob celebrates at Frankfurt Imperial Cathedral the arrival 40 years ago of the Klais (1957). Its 87 stops with the 1994 choir organ�s 28 stops make it one of the larger organs in Germany. Its bright, clear and colorful sounds respond well in the resonant cathedral. A very interesting CD documenting a very definite style and point-of-view in neo-baroque organbuilding. | |
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| Hurry! Volumes 1 and 2 went out-of-print at the end of 2000, but OHS has a few copies of Volume 2 in stock. "These are phenomenal performances by an extraordinary organist whose technique and musicality knew no bounds . . ." The American Organist, July, 1999. Three volumes are available while supplies last, including a 2-CD set of Franck works. Demessieux Plays Franck Michelle Leclerc Plays Demessieux | |
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| On the famous 3-70 organ of Gloucester Cathedral, David Briggs plays Cochereau, Dukas, Tchaikovsky, Alain, Bach, Haydn, and Franck. | |
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| RICHARD STRAUSS: Das Liebesmahl der Apostel FLOR PEETERS: Six from 35 Miniatures for Organ, Op. 55 SMETANA: Four from 6 Preludes for Harmonium (1846) GUILMANT: Melodie in A-flat op. 17 for Mme. Kennedy; Sur le No�l Or, nous dites Marie�; Valet will ich dir geben JAN ZWART: Old Dutch Folksong Geluckig is het Land HERMAN STRATEGIER: 7 from 30 Short Inventions for Organ 3 Cavaill�-Coll Organs are played by Johannes Ricken, owner of the Motette CD label and a fine musician. Here, he presents interesting yet little-known works on three great organs by Cavaill�-Coll: St. Sernin in Toulouse (1889), Ste Croix in Orl�ans (1880), and St-Ouen in Rouen (1890). | |
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| LISZT/ROBILLIARD: Symphonic Poem No. 4 Orpheus SAINT-SA�NS/ROBILLIARD: Danse Macabre REGER: Benedictus; Choral Fantaisie Wachet auf BRAHMS: Choral-Pr�ludes O Welt, ich muss dich lassen, Herzlich tut mich erfreuen, Herzlich tut mich verlangen (both) SCHUMANN: Study in F Minor; Canon in A-flat Louis Robilliard, Organist has played at l�Eglise St-Fran�ois-de-Sales (Widor�s home church) in Lyon, France, on the unaltered 3m 1880 Cavaill�-Coll since 1974. Thus, he has mastered the original console, demonstrating its many devices throughout this enormously entertaining CD. His lovely, expressive playing on this CD is not to be missed. | |
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| Elgar: Allegro Maestoso from Sonata in G Thalben-Ball: Elegy in B-flat Bach: Prelude & Fugue in C Mendelssohn: Sonota 4 Prelude & Fugue in C Calviere: Pi�ce de orgue in E Vierne: Adagio from 3rd Symphony Cathedrales from Pi�ce de Fantaisie Bo�ly: Andante in E-flat Fantasie & Fugue in B-flat Goulburn�s Grand Hill Organ The largest untouched 19th-century cathedral organ in Australia, the 1889 Hill 3-32 in Ss. Peter & Paul�s Old Cathedral in Goulburn, NSW, is enhanced by fine acoustics. Well-known Australian organists Past�r de Lasala and Kurt ison play on this first CD recording of the organ. | |
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| Ampt: Waltzing Matilda Duet for 4 feet in 6 mvts. Handel: Arrival if the Queen of Sheba Rossini: William Tell Beethoven: Adagio Mendelsson: Overture for Winds Grainger: Blithe Bells Hakim: Rhapsody Soler: Concierto I Godard: Niagara, Grand Galop de Concert Organ at the Opera features Robert Ampt and Amy Johansen (Mrs. Ampt) on the 205-rank Ronald Sharp organ in the Sydney (Australia) Opera House. | |
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| LEMARE: Toccata di Concerto; Home, Sweet Home MOZART: Sonata in D MCKIE: Romance in G COCKER: Tuba Tune BACH: Fantasia & Fugue in g GRAINGER: Colonial Song BEST: Concert Fantasia on a Welsh March DIGGLE: A Song of Sunshine THALBEN-BALL: Elegy WALTON: Orb & Sceptre Melbourne Sounds Grand On the 1929 Hill, Norman & Beard 4-101 at Australia�s Melbourne Town Hall, virtuoso Thomas Heywood performs. The huge organ�s need of restoration is well masked as enormous sounds (especially the 32� Diaphone) and charming quiet ones are coaxed from it by the instrument�s protectors, who tuned and played it well for this CD. | |
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| David Drury brings his virtuosity and musicality to an organ built in 1995 by the Canadian firm of L�tourneau for St. Matthew�s Church in Albury, New South Wales, Australia, which was gutt by fire in 1991. | |
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| "> On an organ built in 1822 by the British firm of Forster & Andrews and exported to Australia, Pastor de Lasala plays a widely varied program, including some of his own published arrangements of Handel, to demonstrate the capabilities of majesty within the diminutive resources of this seemingly small organ. | |
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| BUXTEHUDE: �Jig� Fugue in C PACHELBEL: Ciacona in f BACH: Fantasia in G BWV 572, Wachet auf BWV 645, Herzlich thut mich verlangen BWV 727 DANDRIEU: Magnificat in G WIDOR: Marche pontificale (Sym. I) BRAHMS: Est ist ein� Ros� entsprungen KARG-ELERT: Marche triomphale REGER: Benedictus VIERNE: Final (Sym I) LANGLAIS: La Nativit�, Incantation pour un jour saint Organ Classics at London Oratory Designed by Ralph Downes, this 1950s organ built by Walker & Sons for the London (Brompton) Oratory was the first British church organ to draw in radical fashion on classic European influences. Patrick Russill, who succeeded Downes at the Oratory, plays. | |
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| BUXTEHUDE: "Jig" Fugue in C PACHELBEL: Ciacona in f BACH: Fantasia in G BWV 572, Wachet auf BWV 645, Herzlich thut mich verlangen BWV 727 DANDRIEU: Magnificat in G WIDOR: Marche pontificale (Sym. I) BRAHMS: Est ist ein� Ros� entsprungen KARG-ELERT: Marche triomphale REGER: Benedictus VIERNE: Final (Sym I) LANGLAIS: La Nativit�, Incantation pour un jour saint Organ Classics at London Oratory Designed by Ralph Downes, this 1950s organ built by Walker & Sons for the London (Brompton) Oratory was the first British church organ to draw in radical fashion on classic European influences. Patrick Russill, who succeeded Downes at the Oratory, plays. | |
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| GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue BOVET: Salamanca THELONIUOUS MONK: Round Midnight ALAIN: Litanies SAINT-SA�NS: Danse Macabre REGER: Introduction & Passacaglia BARBER: Adagio for Strings GABRIELI: Canzona Ariosa From Venice to New York The greatly gifted virtuoso Roberto Bertero provides a splendidly played program of masterworks as well as his own masterful transcriptions. The Hans Sp�th eclectic organ in a good acoustic sounds well | |
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| Complete Recordings 1926-1931 BACH: Prelude in E-flat WIDOR: Andante Cantabile fr. Sym. 4 FRANCK: Final in B-flat, op. 21; Chorals Nos. 1 in E & 3 in a WEITZ: Extract fr. Sym. 1 VIERNE: Finale fr. Sym. 1/Lied LISZT: Fantasia & Fugue on BACH Guy Weitz Plays on recordings made 1926 to 1931, with written appreciations of Weitz�s life and work by Nicholas Danby and Felix Aprahamian. A Belgian, Weitz studied in Paris with Guilmant, Widor, and d�Indy and worked in London 1917-1967. | |
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| LEMMENS: Toccata BUXTEHUDE: Prelude & Fugue in A-minor KREBS: Trio in E-flat VOGLER: Jesu, Leiden Pein und Tod STANLEY: Voluntary VIII, op. 5 HAWDON: Introduction, Cornet and Eccho SAINT-SAENS: Triosieme Fantaisie, op. 157 REGER: Praeludium, Op. 65 BEETHOVEN: Trio PARRY: Prelude on Old 100 VIERNE: Prelude in F-sharp minor SPEDDING: Toccata-Carillon Virtuoso Alan Spedding, organist and master of choristers at Beverley Minster since 1967, plays a satisfying program aimed to show off the great Hill organ, now restored and still incorporating more Snetzler pipes (from the Minster's organ of 1769) than any other organ. Great acoustics. | |
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| GORDON YOUNG: Cathedral Suite in 8 mvts. MERKEL: Fantasie in D-minor POMPER: Andante con moto GUILMANT: 2nd Meditation SMART: Postlude in C MOBACH: Prelude & Fugue in D minor KREBS: Aria; Toccata in A-minor Old Church, Amsterdam The beloved Dutch organist Feike Asma, long associated with the Oude Kirk in Amsterdam, plays the 3m, 101-rank 1870 organ by C. G. F. Witte, who rebuilt the 1742 M�ller. | |
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| JOHN TAVENER: Mandelion* ARVO P�RT: Pari Intervallo JANET GRAHAM: Three Pieces for Organ* BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH: Sieben Sterne* WILFRID WELLERS: Opus Alchymicum* JAMES ILIFF: Trio for Organ* PATRICK GOWERS: Toccata and Fugue ALAN RIDOUT: The Seven Last Words DIANA BURRELL: Arched forms with Bells* Contemporary Music for Organ Kevin Bowyer plays the 1995 Marcussen 4-89 at the Tonbridge School in Kent England on his survey of organ works composed in the 1960s, 70s, and later. Serious, thoughtful, challenging and often dissonant, these works are best audited with an exploratory mindset. *Those marked with an asterisk are first recorded here. The entire program of one disc in this set was compiled by Bowyer as a metaphor of the journey from Ash Wednesday through Lent to Easter morning. 2-CD set | |
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| BOSSI: Etudee Symphonique KARG-ELERT: Singet dem Herrn ein' neues Lied (Bach) S. S. WESLEY: Larghetto in F-sharp minor REGER: Fantasy & Fugue on BACH LEMAREL Rondo Capriccio CANDLYN: Passacaglia in C-sharp minor RESPIGHI: Prelude in A-minor on a Chorale by Bach DRAKEFORD: Toccata POST: Vatiations on Psalm 101 Paul Derrett, organ recitalist, organbuilder, director of music in the the Crypt School at Glouster and organist of St. Gregory's Priory, Cheltenham, plays the 1910 William Hill organ at Chester Cathedral, incorporating most of the 1844 Gray & Davison that preceded it. | |
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| SCHOENBERG: Variations on a Recitative, Op. 40 IVES: Variations on America LISZT: Variations on Weinen, Klagen . . . MOZART: Pastorale Vari�e BRAHMS: Variations on the St. Anthony Chorale Schoenberg & Ives in Helsinki Keith John plays the 1995 organ of Swedish builders �kerman & Lund in the Kallio Church in Helsinki, Finland. Of 48 stops, the organ designed by consultant Kurt Lueders and completed in 1995 is in French Romantic style and employs Barker levers. | |
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| BOVET: Salamanca BRUBECK: Blue Rondo � la Turk PLANYAVKSY: Toccata alla Rumba WATSON: Happy Birthday, Herr Bach JONGEN: Chant de May MESSIAEN: Joie et Clart� des Corps Glorieux VIERNE: Claire de lune VERDI: Grand March from Aida FRANCK: Andantino MENDELSSOHN: Cornelius March BACH: Concerto in a after Vivaldi PURCELL: Rondeau from Abdelazar Gough at Wells Rupert Gough plays the organ at Wells Cathedral, built 1857-1893 by Willis and 1910-74 Harrison & Harrison, now 4-81. | |
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| Carol Williams plays the organ at Winchester Cathedral: 1851/1897 Willis/1938/1988 Harrison & Harrison | |
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| Dietrich Wagler plays the 1735 Silbermann at St. Peter's Church, Freiberg, Germany. Works: Kuhnau, Bach, Beyer, Homilius, Merkel | |
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| The elegant 2m Silbermann, maybe the best though not the largest Gottfried Silbermann remaining, is played by Bernard Billeter. Works by Bach, Kuhnau, Rheinberger, more | |
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| The last great Silbermann, dedicated in 1755 at the Dresden Cathedral, is played by Johannes Ricken. Works by Bach, Scarlatti, Haydn, Lindberg, May, Lef�bure-W�ly, Mendelssohn | |
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| Dietrich Wagler plays the 1714 Silbermann 3m at the Cathedral in Freiberg. Works by Dandrieu, Buxtehude, Bach, Mendelssohn | |
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| Jonathan Rennert plays the 1925/75/93 Rushworth & Dreaper 3-53 at St. Michael�s, Cornhill, London, England. | |
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| Dutch organist Herman Van Vliet features six historic Dutch instruments. | |
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| Herman van Vliet presents a program of beautiful and interesting rarities played in live acoustics on the 1845 C. F. A. Naber organ Amersfoort, Holland. | |
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| On the 1750 Riepp organ at Dole, Michael Chapuis performs the recently found Faverney Miracle Service dating from the French Counter-Reformation. | |
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| The Organs of Tewkesbury Abbey include a 1631 Dallam/1690 Harris/1796 Holland/1848 Willis/1948 Walker), and an organ built in 1885 by Michell & Thynne. Adrian Partington plays these engaging works with fine results. | |
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| These works reflect an Anglo hue in Liverpool Cathedral where Noel Rawsthorne was boy chorister and, by 1955, organist succeeding Harry Goss-Custard. | |
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| Three mini-recitals of German, English, and French music played by Roger Judd demonstrate the famous 1965 Harrison & Harrison organ of St. George's Chapel of Windsor Castle. | |
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| The 1785 Seede Organ at Lulworth Castle in England is played by Martin Souter. | |
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| NEW! the venerable Swedish organbuilder, created a 2-21 in French style for the music school occupying the villa Stora Sk�ndal in Stockholm. Mikael Wahlin plays interesting works superbly. | |
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