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For more information, Visit the OHS Web site and join online now! OHS Press Bundle While Supplies Last!!! Looking to expand your library of organ books? We are excited to offer a bundle of books from the OHS Press, saving our members over $100! To get the most out of this offer, you’ll want to make sure your membership is up to date! Simply click on the button to the left to "Join The OHS!" Order before Friday, May 25th and receive free shipping* too!$125.00 Towards a Modernist Organ NEW! Nottingham boasts a fine collection of organs of richly diverse character. This DVD showcases five of the city's best instruments, including the magnificent JJ. Binns organ of the Albert Hall and the stunning Marcussen organ in the church of St. Mary.$32.50 2012 Historic Organs of Chicago Calendar Beautiful full color photos of the organs the OHS will visit at our National Convention in July 2012 fill this 13-month calendar. Beginning with January 2012, a baker's dozen venues and hundreds of interesting dates are featured. A fine gift and a great way of spreading the word about the King of Instruments!Regular price: $5.00 Sale price: $2.50 Organ Building Volume 11 NEW! Volume Eleven of the Journal of the Institute of British Organ Building. Filled with articles relating to English organs regarding restoring, rebuilding, new materials, details, designs, and many more.$25.99 Thomas Trotter: Schumann NEW! Editors Choice for Gramophone Magazine. Thomas Trotter performs in a stunning new recording of all of Schumann's works for organ and pedal piano. Recorded on the magnificent Ladegast Organ of Merseburg Cathedral, Germany.$17.98 Jack Mitchener Plays Christmas Organ Music NEW! Jack Mitchener plays Christmas organ music on the 75-rank pipe organ built by C. B. Fisk as Op. 116 in 2001 at Finney Chapel, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, Ohio.$15.98 I Remember You NEW! Scott Foppiano plays the Arlington Theatre Robert-Morton "Wonder" Morton Theatre Organ. Only five instruments dubbed "Wonder Mortons" were ever built. First installed in New Jersey it totaled 24 ranks. It was removed in 1977 and purchased by the North Texas chapter of the American Theatre Organ Society with the hopes of being restored and installed. After being stored for nearly ten years in a Dallas warehouse it was donated to Santa Barbara in 1986 and fully restored. Scott Foppiano performs a brilliant selection of well-known theatre works.$20.00 Guilmant: Pièces dans différents styles Vol. 1-5 NEW! Herman van Vliet plays the Cavaillé-Coll at St-Sernin, Toulouse. Complete box set with the following CDs: * Vol. 1: Books No. 1 - 4 * Vol. 2: Books No. 5 - 8 * Vol. 3: Books No. 9 - 12 * Vol. 4: Books No. 13 - 16 * Vol. 5: Books No. 17 - 18 & Supplementaire$80.00 Tour Bus goes to Disney Hall NEW! Dr. Carol Williams visits the Disney Concert Hall Organ in Los Angeles, CA. This volume includes wonderful ground and aerial views of the building inside and out as well as a tour of the four story inner workings of the Disney Organ where the pipes live.$20.00 Rhonda Edgington: French Music of the 19th & 20th Centuries NEW! Rhonda Edgington plays Incredible French Romantic and 20th Century pieces on the Casavant at First United Church in Oak Park, Illinois. Rhonda was organist at First United Church from 1999 to 2004 and this recording shows just how familiar she is with this instrument. The 88 rank Casavant Organ was built in 1982 and possesses a reed quality that particularly suits the French style of playing present in 19th and 20th Century works. Rhonda has since left First United, to focus on 16th and 17th century North German organ music, studying in Germany with Harald Vogel.$15.98 Westminster Choir: Noël NEW! Praised by American Record Guide as "the gold standard for American academy choirs," the Westminster Choir has performed and recorded with virtually every major orchestra of the past 80 years. Jennifer Larmore is the most-recorded mezzo-soprano of our era, and Ken Cowan is the most sought-after organist in America. This season Jennifer performs in Europe and America. Noël was recorded at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine and Saint George's Stuyvesant Square in New York.$17.98 Winter: An Evocation NEW! Winter is a season whose associations are as varied as its experiences. For many the world over it is bitterly cold and dark; some see no daylight for weeks. For others, winter is a mild season. This rich variety is at the heart of this program which celebrates winter from a variety of angles. Christmas is a central theme. Maxine Thévenot directs Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico, the all-female choir. The music, including some premiere recordings, comes from Britain, Europe, Canada, and the US encompassing the sacred and secular. Lynn Gorman DeVelder accompanies the chorus on harp and Maxine Thévonot accompanies the choir on Organ.$15.98 Romantic and Virtuosic NEW! Romantic & Virtuosic makes Adam Brakel’s wonderful organ playing available on CD for the first time, and presents the first CD recording of the excellent 109-rank Austin completed in 2000 at the Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea in Palm Beach, Florida.$14.98 Bach at Palmer NEW! Kevin Clarke plays the organ at Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church in Houston, Texas. It was designed and built by C. B. Fisk, Inc., of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Opus 99 of the Fisk firm – a three-manual instrument – has 46 stops totaling 2,976 pipes, housed in a polychromed case. The late Charles Fisk, in consultation with Rice University's Professor of Organ Clyde Holloway, designed the preliminary specification in 1981. The stoplist reflects the many roles a modern American church organ must play: leading hymn singing, accompanying choral music and playing 400 years of organ repertoire with authority. The contract for the organ was signed in 1984 shortly after Charles's death, affirming the church's faith in his successors.$17.98 Christmas at the Collection NEW! This album is presented in an elegant, full-color, six-panel high gloss DigiPak. Featuring a delightful blend of popular and sacred music this recording truly showcases the orchestral resources of the 4-manual 73-rank Wurlitzer Pipe Organ at The Nethercutt Collection in Sylmar, California.$19.98 Vision at Covenant NEW! Vision at Covenant introduces the great new C. B. Fisk organ, op. 134, of 58 stops on 3 manuals completed in 2009 as was the magnificent new edifice of Covenant Presbyterian Church, Nashville, replete with Kirkegaard acoustics. Murray Forbes Somerville plays the first CD on this landmark organ.$14.98 Spreckels on the March! NEW! 20 popular marches recorded on the Spreckels Organ performed by Carol Williams, San Diego's Civic Organist since 2001, located in Balboa Park San Diego, CA.$17.98 Tour Bus goes to Ocean Grove NEW! Join Carol Williams on a tour of the great Ocean Grove Auditorium Organ in New Jersey. Gordon Turk, the Great Meeting Hall Auditorium Organist, demonstrates this vast organ with five manuals, 176 ranks, and 10,823 pipes. John Shaw, Organ Curator, speaks of the organ history and then takes us into the massive concrete chambers revealing special designs by organ builder Robert Hope-Jones. Learn about the fascinating and picturesque Ocean Grove Victorian beach front community. Dr. Williams also performs live!$20.00 Tour Bus goes to Luxembourg NEW! This fifth installment includes ten organs on four dvds with over five hours of features!$50.00 Domenico Severin: Historical Organs NEW! Domenico Severin plays two historic Cavaillé-Coll organs. The program begins at the Grande Organ of St. Peter where Severin plays works by Dubois and Saint-Saëns. On the second CD the recital moves to the Conflans Chapel. It was transferred by Cavaillé-Coll's successor, Charles Mutin. In the second leg, Severin plays Capocci and Guilmant. The richness of this organ repertoire would not have been possible without the renewal of organ building, underlined by such a person as Cavaillé-Coll.$24.98 Massimo Nosetti: The New Mascioni Organ NEW! Massimo Nosetti plays the new organ at the Parish Church of St. Giovanni the Evangelist in Alessandria, Italy.$18.98 Symphonic Art NEW! This album features over 63 minutes of blockbuster arrangements by Jelani Eddington at the 3-manual 31-rank Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ at the Saunders Residence in Zanesville, Ohio. Jelani returns to this musical powerhouse instrument to present an album of music showcasing the vast symphonic resources of the instrument. The musical selections on this album demonstrate the impressive capabilities the instrument, including a transcription of John William's iconic score to the movie Star Wars and Richard Addinsell's beloved Warsaw Concerto.$17.98 Off the Page, Too by Donald Rotermund NEW! This new edition continues where the first book leaves off in teaching techniques necessary to create a variety of pleasant settings based on the notes of the hymnal harmonizations. The hymnal serves as the basic printed resource for taking something "off the page." Each self-directed chapter treats a different technique, and it's not necessary to work through the chapters in order. One may also use contrasting techniques to develop longer settings. Volume 2 includes more advanced concepts, such as "Modifying Inner Voices," "Changing Tonality," and "Ornamenting Melodies."$30.00 The Craighead-Saunders Organ NEW! The three organ professors of The Eastman School of Music demonstrate the new Craighead-Saunders organ, modeled after 1776 Caspirini organ of Vilnius, Lithuania. This organ is one of the best preserved late-baroque organs in all of Europe. This program mainly consists of Bach through Mendelssohn, but also includes two newly commissioned works by Stephen Kennedy and Martin Herchenröder.$18.98 François Couperin: Mass for the Parish Churches NEW! For his complete recording of the two Masses composed by François Couperin, Serge Schoonbroodt chose a 17th century baroque organ with a stoplist which is quite similar to the one of the organ of Saint-Gervais during Couperin's lifetime. Serge has studied the influences of baroque dance styles on the organ music of the french baroque composers with the french choregraphers Francine Lancelot and Christine Bayle. This results in very lively performances of this music, setting them apart from most of the other existing versions. The instrument was built by Jean Eustache in 1692 and was restored on 1999, a typical big 4 manual french baroque organ with period temperament.$22.98 Just For Fun: Riff-Raff & Rhumba NEW! American Organist, Florence Mustric, a graduate of the Cleveland Institute and Oberlin, offers a program of colorful, most light-hearted repertoire. In a brilliant sonics, her performances communicate with great impact and clarity. The historic organ heard on this recording, the first large mechanical-action organ in North America, was built in 1956 in Hamburg by Rudolph von Beckerath. Created in the tradition of the organs of northern Europe in the Baroque era, it is an exceptional example of centuries-old techniques of organ-building. The sound of the instrument is beautiful and transparent--powerful, yet warm, and has no doubt inspired more than one generation of organists.Regular price: $16.98 Sale price: $12.98 Soohwang Choi Organ Recital NEW! Korean organist, Soohwang Choi, is heard in an attractive recital, given on two very different instruments. On the Rieger, she presents repertoire in a wide range of styles, beginning with Toccatas by Frescobaldi, a work by Grigny featuring uneven rhythms and ornamentation, followed by Vierne's highly chromatic Symphony No. 1: A work which uses all the resources of the instrument. On the Richard Fowkes organ, Choi gives an eloquent account of J.S. Bach's Trio Sonata No. 2 in c minor, which demands as much from the pedals as from the manuals.Regular price: $16.98 Sale price: $12.98 Of Another Time NEW! The Austin pipe organ housed in the richly resonant space of St. Mary's Church in Dayton, Ohio (like Skinner and other organs of that era) is a prime example of the orchestrally conceived "romantic" organs of the time. Characterized by smooth diapasons, imitative reed voices and a wide variety of flute and string stops, the instrument is showcased brilliantly by Kim, providing the listener an opportunity to explore unique sonorities of a bygone era. Praised by concert-goers as an artist who "stretches the limits of the instrument," Korean-born concert organist Yun Kyong Kim consistently brings diverse programs to her audiences. In demand as an organ (and harpsichord) recitalist, she received her doctoral degree in organ performance from Indiana University at Bloomington. She also studied and performed in Germany, and made her French debut in Paris at the Church of Sainte-Clotilde. For this recital, Kim puts the organ through its paces, the result of which is captured in a demonstration-class recording.$14.98 Thomas Heywood: Top of the Stops NEW! In this WORLD-FIRST FEATURE-LENGTH PRESENTATION, explore the incredible world of the concert organ in stunning South Australia. Enjoy over two hours with the "acknowledged master", Thomas Heywood, as you are taken on an illustrated tour of the concert organ tradition. This spectacular presentation in full surround sound is a feast for the senses over 6 years in the making and well worth the wait!$30.00 Thomas Trotter: The Town Hall Tradition NEW! A two-disc set containing a DVD video and audio CD of virtuoso organ showpieces from one of the world's greatest organists in his first DVD release. DVD extras include an interview with Thomas Trotter, talking about his life, career and work as Birmingham City Organist, and a guide to the Town Hall organ. Also contains a sixteen page booklet with notes on the music by David Gammie, a short history of the Town Hall, and a newly-written article on the history of the organ by Nicholas Thistlethwaite.$26.00 Liszt: The Essential Organ Works NEW! This 3 CD set contains all of the major original organ works of Liszt, together with a selection of virtuoso arrangements and transcriptions of Liszt’s orchestral and piano works by Camille Saint-Saëns, Max Reger, Edwin Lemare, Nicolas Kynaston, and Peter King.$24.98 Grand Organ Prom NEW! Thomas Trotter, described by BBC Music magazine as "one of the greatest living organists", performs in a virtuoso display of the full range of power and color of the Royal Albert Hall organ – one of the world’s greatest concert hall organs. This program, recorded in overnight sessions, is right from the heart of the Victorian concert hall tradition, and ideally suited to the organ in the home of the BBC Proms.$19.98 Vierne Complete Organ Works, Vol. 1: Six Symphonies NEW! Pierre Labric plays the Cavaillé-Coll organ of St. Sernin, Toulouse. In the early 1970s, Téléson, a company located in Rouen, convinced Pierre Labric to record a considerable number of repertoire works with, foremost amongst them, the symphonies of Vierne and Widor as well as the works of Demessieux--three large groups that were subsequently given up to the Musical Heritage Society, based in New York at the time. MHS released them in the form of three boxed sets that, owing to their success, soon sold out and have become impossible to find. After more than thirty years of absence, these legendary interpretations are now available again!$49.98 Cochereau: 2 Improvised Symphonies in 5 Movements NEW! Cochereau was a great symphonist, and it is well known that a symphony was often his preferred musical form for extended improvisations in concert and yet, despite the fact that his recorded legacy is huge, this particular form is singularly underrepresented on the many albums of his improvisations available previously. Up to now his discography has not included an extended work comparable in scale to a symphony by, for example, Vierne. The present album supplies that deficiency by presenting two extended symphonies from what might be considered Cochereau's greatest period at Notre-Dame.$23.98 The Sunday Morning Organist NEW! A set of seven new sheet music collections of great arrangements of hymn tunes and transcriptions for the church organist. All seven volumes are for the Intermediate/Advanced Organist. The Wanamaker Diamond Anniversary Concert DVD NEW! This new, never-before-released historic video record of Keith Chapman's landmark 1986 concert marked his 20th anniversary as Wanamaker Organist and the Organ's 75th anniversary. See and hear the World's Largest playing pipe organ under concert conditions!$26.98 The Wanamaker Organ: The Early Recordings NEW! Virtuosic performers Charles M. Courboin, Virgil Fox, Walter Baker and Fernando Germani are featured in this deluxe Two CD set of all the very first recordings of the Wanamaker Organ. These rare, masterful performances incorporate a heroic style of organ playing which was popular during the heyday of the Symphonic Organ. Includes a deluxe booklet and contains more than two hours of fine music!$24.98 Ex Tempore: The Art of Improvisation in England NEW! Ronny Krippner sheds light on how English Organists improvised. In an 85-minute documentary and accompanying CD recording he blows open the ‘illusionists art’ of improvisation and shows us how it is done. He discusses the main English organ composers between 1500 and the present day - Tallis, Byrd, Purcell, Handel, Stanford, Howells, Mathias and Leighton.$49.98 Wild Sunrises: Organ Music of Carson Cooman NEW! Harry Lyn Huff plays the 1921 E. M. Skinner Organ, Op. 308, Old South Church, Boston, Massachusetts. The 115-rank organ built in 1921 by E. M. Skinner for the municipal auditorium in St. Paul, Minnesota, was relocated 1981-85 to Old South Church, Boston, saving it from destruction, the decision to acquire it having been made very briefly before the auditorium was to be razed. This CD by Harry Lyn Huff of organ works by Carson Cooman is the first CD of the organ in solo organ repertoire.$14.98 Maxine Thévenot Plays in Christ Church Cathedral NEW! The largest organ ever built by the distinguished firm of Hellmuth Wolff & Associates of Laval, Quebec, Canada, was completed in 2005 at Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.$14.98 The Grand Organ of Liverpool Cathedral NEW! Ian Tracey plays a diverse program over 75 minutes long at the Liverpool Cathedral. The grand organ was built by Henry Willis & Sons. It is the largest pipe organ in the United Kingdom boasting two five-manual consoles and 10,268 pipes. In this program Ian Tracey makes full use of the entire organ and shows off the vast dynamic range.$39.98 Bach Sacred Music Helmuth Rilling NEW! Helmuth Rilling conducts, and also plays the organ, as he examines J.S. Bach's greatest sacred music, with excerpts from Bach's organ chorales, oratorios, passions and cantatas.$19.99 The Great Organ at Methuen NEW! In the middle of the nineteenth-century, American organbuilding reached a milestone when, in 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, a large concert organ - really the first of its kind in the country - was opened in Boston's relatively-new Music Hall. Visually and musically it was regarded as a sensation, as it put a stamp of approval on paid-admission secular organ recitals, and quickly opened the door to a spate of American-built concert hall organs. The composition of large-scale secular organ works soon followed, written by American composers recently returned from study in European conservatories.$39.99 Austrian Organ Music NEW! Karen Beaumont plays a varied program of organ music from the mid-16th century to mid-18th century featuring the music from three parts of Austria: Salzburg, Linz, and Vienna. Karen was the organist and choir director at St. James Episcopal Church in Milwaukee from 1988-2011. She is now the organist at the Chapel of St. John the Evangelist at St. John's on the Lake in Milwaukee.$14.98 The Grand Organ of Canterbury Cathedral NEW! This latest program from Priory features The Grand Organ of Canterbury Cathedral. It features a full length recital played by John Robinson, the assistant organist and former organ scholar of St. John's College, Cambridge. It also includes an audio CD of the performance.$39.98 Horton Presley: Restoring and Collecting Antique Reed Organs Back in Print! This book is designed primarily for the amateur craftsman who wants to know the nuts and bolts of restoring an antique reed organ. Chapters cover refinishing, stop actions, reed work, case work, and trouble-shooting in clear and easy to follow detainl that will help make the outcome rewarding. Major topics include disassembly, bellows repair, action repair, reed tuning and restoration, pallet, mute, swell, coupler, and pitman repairs, keyboard repairs, stop repairs, tremulant and vibrato effects and repair of mechanisms, case restoration. The book includes a supplier list and a bibliography.$29.50 The Organs of Cavaillé-Coll Prepurchasing available now! To mark the 200th anniversary of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll’s birth, and the 150th anniversary of his organ at St Sulpice, Paris, in mid 2012, Fugue State Films plans to produce a DVD / CD boxed set containing the first ever full-length documentary about his life and work. The Aeolian Skinner Legacy: The King of Instruments Volumes I-III NEW! Now available for the first time ever on CD from the master tapes of these landmark recordings, including previously unreleased material! Featuring: Thomas Dunn, George Faxon, G. Donald Harrison, Robert Owen, Roy Perry, William Watkins, Joseph S. Whiteford and the organs of Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Boston; Christ Church, Bronxville; First Presbyterian Church, Kilgore; and Symphony Hall, Boston.Regular price: $23.98 Sale price: $17.99 Albert Schweitzer: The Organist NEW! The historical recordings of Albert Schweitzer: The Organist, available on six CDs in one spectacular collection. Schweitzer recorded the majority of J. S. Bach's chorale-based and free organ works on English organs and those of Alsace between 1928 and 1952. These tracks have been remastered and are now available for the first time on CD. Schweitzer favored Franck, Mendelssohn, and especially Widor, his teacher. The bonus CD, disc six, includes world premieres by Schweitzer.$49.98 In the Organ Lofts of Paris by Frederic B. Stiven annotated and edited by Rollin Smith NEW! In 1923, Stiven published In the Organ Lofts of Paris. As a witness to the Golden Age of French organists, Stiven writes charming pen-portraits of his visits with Widor, Vierne, Gigout, and Bonnet. Encounters with other organists are described, as well as singing in the choir of the Paris Bach Society and in a chorus directed by Charles Tournemire. Stiven’s original text is illuminated with illustrations and annotations by Rollin Smith. Appendixes include two articles written by Stiven for The Etude magazine and stoplists of all organs mentioned in the text.$19.98 Dieterich Buxtehude: Complete Organ Works In three volumes, OHS Member Hans Davidsson performs the complete organ works of Dieterich Buxtehude on the organ at the Örgyte New Church in Göteborg, Sweden. The organ, carefully modelled after the work of Arp Schnitger, was built by Göteborg Organ Art Center, of which Prof. Davidsson is founder and Artistic and Research Director. Pronkjuwelen in Stad en Ommeland: The Historic Organs of the Province of Groningen Spectacular presentation! A multi-media documentary of the rich organ history of Groningen and the surrounding Ommeland with the sights and sounds of 19 organs, a fine DVD, 5 CDs and a hardbound pictorial guide, all in a slipcase.$125.00 MAGNUM OPUS By John Longhurst The Building of the Schoenstein Organ at the Conference Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah$32.99 J. S. Bach Organ Works NOW complete in 11 volumes The superb complete Baerenreiter Urtext Edition and at a special price for OHS Members! Incredible Savings! When purchased as a set, OHS Members save nearly $100 compared to the individual volumes.$335.00 The Atlantic City Convention Hall Organ A Pictorial Essay about the World’s Largest Pipe Organ LIMITED SUPPLY! This large-format book contains 94 of the legendary black and white 8"x10" photographs taken by Fred Hess & Son between 1929 and 1932, documenting the construction of the famous Midmer-Losh pipe organ with its 449 ranks and 33,114 pipes -- the largest organ in the world.$45.00 The Mother Church Aeolian Skinner, Unchanged: John R. Near, The Boston Years 1970-85 2-CDs for Price of One This amazing collection of major works superbly played by Mother Church associate organist John R. Near (Widor’s biographer, editor of the definitive edition of Widor’s organ works) documents in excellent sound on two CDs the 237-rank Aeolian-Skinner at Boston's First Church of Christ, Scientist, The Mother Church, before more than 2,000 of its 13,389 original Aeolian-Skinner pipes (including 35 ranks of principals, mixtures, and chorus reeds) were discarded. Click on picture for list of repertoire$16.98 Organ Historical Society P.O. Box 26811 Richmond, VA 23261 (804) 353-9226 catalog@organsociety.org