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NEW! Karel Paukert surveys organ works by Ohio Composers $15.98 |
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NEW! Paul Halley explores a seldom-heard combination of keyboards. $16.98 |
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At Westminster Presbyterian Church in Buffalo, New York, Barbara Harbach plays twentieth century American works on Aeolian-Skinner Op. 1249. Dedicated in 1959, the contract for the instrument is the last to bear the signature of G. Donald Harrison; the organ was completed after Harrison's death under the supervision of Joseph Whiteford. This instrument was visited by the Organ Historical Society during the 2004 National Convention.  $12.98 |
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Keith Benjamin, trumpet, and Melody Turnquist Steed, organ, as the duo "Clarion", perform new music from American composers. Dr. Steed performs on the 4 manual Gabriel Kney Organ at Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral, Kansas City, Missouri. $14.98 |
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Pamela Decker plays her own compositions on the 1965 D.A. Flentrop organ (renovated Fritts 1992 & 1995) at St. Mark's Cathedral, Seattle, Washington. This instrument was visited by the Organ Historical Society during the 2008 convention.  $14.98 |
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Seth Bingham, Vol. 1 Christopher Marks records the first entire CD devoted to the organ works by New Yorker Seth Bingham including such favorites as “Bells of Riverside” and “Rhythmic Trumpet.” $14.98 |
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Manuel Rosales’ organ in Atlanta is played by Brad Hughley, including a new work composed by Timothy Tikker and a rousing La Marseillaise, at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church. |
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Christopher Marks, Univeristy Organist at Syracuse University, presents his discoveries of lesser-known and new works by American composers and a German one on the famous 1950 Holtkamp 3-73 incorporating much of the pipework of the previous Roosevelt organ at Crouse College Auditorium. The program includes works by David N. Johnson, Nicholas Scherzinger, Joseph Ahrens (1904-1999). Lesser known works of better known composers Bach, Tunder, Dupré, and Sowerby complete the very interesting program. Click the headline for details and to order. $14.98 |
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Help for the Gulf Coast New Orleans organist and composer Dr. Lucius R. Weathersby, professor at Dillard University and Amherst College, has teamed with Hey organbuilders of Ostheim, Germany, to make this CD. The producers pledge the majority of income to Katrina relief. The CD features organ works by black composers as played on three organs by Dr. Weathersby. Click the headline for composers and to order. $19.98 |
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Harold Stover plays the 1928 E. M. Skinner 4-53, op. 699, at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Luke, Portland, Maine, restored in 2003 by the A. Thompson-Allen Co. Stover, an OHS member, composes concert and liturgical works and film scores, teaches at the Portland Conservatory, conducts a chamber chorus, and is a church organist. Click the headline for works by Sowerby, Stebbins, Alter, Gershwin, and Stover, and to order. $15.98 |
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Daniel Pinkham’s organ works composed in the 1990s are played by Andrew Paul Holman on the Fisk 3-51 at King’s Chapel, Boston, where Pinkham has been the music director for many years. $14.98 |
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Samuel John Swartz (1947-1994) recorded the fine 1928 E. M. Skinner 4-64 at Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles in 1986 for a famous LP from Motette. The Skinner and the late Dr. Swartz can be heard on either a superior DVD-Audio disc (must be played on a DVD-Audio compatible player) or on a conventional CD. Click the headline for works by Dudley Buck, Horace Miller, Sowerby, Farnam, Lemare, Ives, Paine, and Robert Russell Bennett. $14.98 |
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Pierre Pincemaille plays the 1857 Cavaillé-Coll at the Cathedral in Perpignan, France, with the Orchestre Perpignan Languedoc-Roussillon conducted by Daniel Tosi. $14.98 |
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Jazz organist Barbara Dennerlein records her first CD on a pipe organ in great acoustics. This CD has been the subject of much discussion for its quality of music making and sound. The recent organ was built by the Goll firm of Switzerland for St. Martin Church in Memmingen, Germany. $15.98 |
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The Atlantan (b. 1951) composes in the Anglican tradition. The Choirs of the Cathedral of St. Philip, Atlanta, wonderfully perform. Craig Cansler directs; David Fishburn, organ. $15.98 |
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The Murray/Lohuis Duo presents their fifth volume of works composed for violin and organ. This volume of melodious show-stoppers, ravishing effects, and brilliant encore pieces -- all composed by Americans -- takes one’s breath away! The organs are both in Richmond, Virginia: the 1954 Austin, op. 2218, with tonal revisions by Guzowski & Steppe in 1991 at Reveille United Methodist Church, and the 1951/68 Aeolian-Skinner op. 1110 at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. Click the headline for titles and to order. $14.98 |
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The 4-59 Aeolian-Skinner of 1952 at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois, is lovingly maintained and has never been altered. Thus is stands as one of the very few G. Donald Harrison “signature” organs that speaks for itself and for its builder’s intent, “a landmark instrument capable of producing thrilling music,” writes organist Jay Peterson in the informative CD booklet. He plays brilliantly and knows this organ intimately, having been College Organist since 1975. Works by Dudley Buck, John Kuzma, Clarence Mader, Charles W. Ore, Leo Sowerby, John Eggert, Calvin Hampton, and Emma Lou Diemer. Click the headline for titles and to order. $14.98 |
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Organ & Wind Instruments Lynn Ziegler plays the 1987 Brombaugh at Iowa State University with a flutist, oboist, and bassoonist. $14.98 |
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Andrew Shenton plays organ works by jazz composer Joe Utterback on the very large Mander organ at St. Ignatius Loyola Church in New York. Utterback, himself, improvises one track, The Ewe’s Blues. Some of the works are based on English organ voluntaries, others are brief chorale preludes, still others are Gospel jazz, and a few are concert works. Click for repertoire Now in the Sheet Music Department, Joe Utterback's organ works! $14.98 |
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Organist James Welch plays 30 settings of folk melodies and hymn tunes composed by Dale Wood during his productive career. Hear the 1987 Schoenstein organ at the Church of SS. Peter & Paul, San Francisco. Click the picture for titles and to order. $12.98 |
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Douglas Reed plays the Fisk op. 110 in Yokohama, Japan. Michael Barone narrates "King of Instruments;" the piece is recorded a second time with Japanese narration. Click picture for full list of works $24.95 |
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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 $14.98 |
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Thomas Murray plays five stellar Hook organs, including the first, with commentary on each spoken by Barbara Owen, Robert C. Newton, Edgar A. Boadway, and Robert J. Lahaise. First produced for the U. S. Bi-Centennial, these recordings are now on CD and feature material not included with the original issue on LP, the most telling of which is a stop-by-stop tour of the Immaculate Conception organ, complementing a similar tour of the Holy Cross organ. Repertoire includes Zeuner, Camidge, Boyce Thorley, J. C. Moller, Bach, Mendelssohn Franck and Widor. $22.50 |
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Premiere recording of the two organ symphonies of New Jersey native E. S. Barnes (1887-1958), a student at Yale of Horatio Parker and Harry Jepson, and in Paris of d'Indy and Vierne, among others. Simon Nieminski plays the 1937 Wicks 3-59 designed and voiced by Henry Vincent Willis at St. Mary's, Peoria, and tonally original. Click for more description $14.98 |
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Organ Works by American Pamela Decker are played by Janice Beck on the 1955 Aeolian-Skinnner 4-114 at Hill Auditorium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. $15.98 |
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Calvin Hampton (1938-1984) composed Five Dances in 1982 and the Old Hundredth Prelude & Variations was published in 1975. In addition to the nine published variations, Cherry Rhodes plays three unpublished variations as well. The organ is the 4-97 Visser-Rowland at the University of Texas, Austin. Click for further description. $14.98 |
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The brilliant British organist Wayne Marshall improvises on great American tunes by George Gershwin, Vincent Youmans, Billy Strayhorn, Leonard Bernstein, and Jules Styne. He plays the 84-rank, 4-manual Fisk organ at the Meyerson in Dallas. $14.98 |
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Chicago renaissance woman Florence B. Price (1887-1953) was the first African-American woman composer to be successful in classical music. A native of the South, she studied organ with Henry Dunham and composition with George Chadwick and others at the New England Conservatory. From about 1926 she made her home and career in the Chicago area. Calvert Johnson plays her organ works on the 3m Harrison & Harrison organ in Christ Church, Savannah, Georgia. $14.98 |
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Organ sonatas by Eugene Thayer and Horatio Parker are played by Karl Moyer on the wonderful E. & G. G. Hook organs of 1865 at Orwell, Vermont, and of 1859 (3m) at North Easton, Massachusetts. The other works, including "As the Dew . . ." (theme of the Mormon Tabernacle radio program), fit these grand instruments to perfection. Click for full list of works on this CD $14.98 |
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These 21 bright and serene works were published in 1915 as Recital Pieces, a Collection of 21 original compositions for organ. They sample all periods of Parker’s output. Albert Ahlstrom plays the restored 1895 Müller & Abel 2-38 organ in the brilliant acoustics of St. Joseph’s Church, New York. Click for a list of the 21 pieces $14.98 |
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Hora Novissima, composed by Parker in 1893, is a contemplative oratorio in 11 movements for soloists, quartet, large chorus, and full symphony orchestra, on the ecstasy of heavenly existence. The Nebraska Wesleyan Choir, The Abendmusik Chorus, and The Nebraska Chamber Orchestra perform, John Levick, director. The Concerto for Organ & Orchestra was premiered by Parker with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1902 and shortly thereafter with Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Stephen Krahn performs with the Nebraska Chamber Orchestra. $31.98 |
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The legendary Catharine Crozier plays works of Leo Sowerby on the 1935 Aeolian-Skinner at the Groton School in Groton, Mass.: Organ Symphony in G, Fantasy for Flute Stops; Requiescat in Pace Regular price: $14.98 Sale price: $4.99 |
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Several of Chicagoan Leo Sowerby’s lesser known works are played on the 1910 E. M. Skinner Op. 165 at Trinity Episcopal Church, Toledo, Ohio, now of 4m and 77 ranks. Works: Suite for Organ; Fantasy for Trumpet and Organ (with trumpeter Bobby Lewis); Ballade (Lewis plays flügelhorn); Rhapsody; Pageant $14.98 |
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To critical acclaim, Lorenz Maycher plays works of American Leo Sowerby (1895-1968) on the 1949 Aeolian-Skinner at First Presbyterian in Kilgore, Texas. Pianist James Culp plays in the organ and piano duet, Dialog. Included is William Watkins’ 1951 performance of Carillon, recorded on the Kilgore organ. Click picture for repertoire $14.98 |
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Writes the American Record Guide of March-April 2000: ". . . Somerville's playing is incomparable . . . dramatic flair, delicate line, and saucy fun allow these works to come alive and sparkle. I cannot imagine better . . . His choice of instruments is also inspired . . . engineering is superb. This is a 'must have' . . ." $14.98 |
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American-born Ernst Bacon (1898-1990) composed Spirits & Places for the American bi-centennial. It consists of twelve movements of two to three minutes duration, each depicting and "Honoring American Personages and Geography." John Cook was organist at Boston's Church of the Advent and composed in a unique and highly appealing style. Marian Ruhl Metson plays two organs built by George Bozeman in churches near Boston. $14.98 |
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The famous 1935 Aeolian-Skinner at Church of the Advent, Boston, becomes a sonic spectacular with Marian Ruhl Metson playing the ingratiating works of former Advent organist John Cook, including his famous Fanfare and works that deserve equal fame. Click for list of works $14.98 |
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Martin Weyer, Rheinberger’s biographer and editor of the organ pieces in the complete edition of all Rheinberger works, plays works of Guilmant’s and Rheinberger’s American students on the 1868 E. & G. G. Hook 2-27 at St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, and on the 1926 Casavant 3m at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Camden, New Jersey, both restored and/or rebuilt by OHS member and organbuilder Patrick Murphy. Click for list of works $14.98 |
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Peter Conte plays works of longtime Longwood Gardens organist Firmin Swinnen on the famous Aeolian organ. $14.98 |
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As seen in The American Organist Brink Bush plays this distinguished Chicagoan's serious and massive works in the style of 19th-century German Romanticism. Includes "Perpetuum mobile" made famous by his student, Virgil Fox. $17.98 |
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Hear both the Taylor & Boody organ in the West gallery and the famous chancel organ of 138 ranks on four manuals at St. Thomas Church, New York. He improvises on Christmas tunes: Personet hodie; The snow lay on the ground; Puer nobis; Angels we have heard…; Infant lowly infant holy; I saw three ships; What child is this?; Go tell it on the mountain $14.98 |
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American James Welch plays arrangements of favorite hymns in the rolling acoustics of St. Nikolai Church in Berlin on the recent and large pipe organ of about 70 ranks. PAUL MANZ: Praise to the Lord MICHAEL BURKHARDT: Hosanna, Loud Hosanna; This Joyful Eastertide JAMES KASEN: All Creatures of Our God and King ROBERT HOBBY: Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee JOHN LEAVITT: Dear Christians, One and All, Rejoice GILBERT MARTIN: Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing ANDREW CLARKE: Pastoral Dance on Simple Gifts DALE WOOD: Come, O Thou Traveler Unknown WILBUR HELD: Step Tune FRANKLIN ASHDOWN: Tuba Tune in D-flat GEORGE SHEARING: Amazing Grace EMMA LOU DIEMER: Praise Our Father ROBERT HEBBLE: Blessed Assurance, Jesus Is Mine DAVID GERMAN: Festive Trumpet Tune BACH: Prelude & Fugue in G BWV 541; Sonata in E-flat BWV 525 RINCK: Prelude in C C.P.E. BACH: Allegro di molto fr Sonata in D, Wq 70,5 MOZART: Adagio, K. 356 CARVALHO: Sonata (Allegro) DEREK BOURGEOIS: Serenade, Op. 22 ERLAND VON KOCH: Vinterpoastoral PARRY: Jerusalem RAMÓN NOBLE: El Flautista Alegre $14.98 |
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Frank Ferko composes ten evocative, mystical movements based on visions of Hildegard von Bingen and plays them on the 1994 Lively-Fulcher at St. Patrick’s, Washington, D. C. $15.98 |
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Catharine Crozier plays A Quaker Reader and Views from the Oldest House on the 65-stop, 84-rank Marcussen Organ at Wichita State University. Regular price: $14.98 Sale price: $4.99 |
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IVES: Variations on "America"; "Adeste Fidelis' COPLAND: Preamble (For a Solemn Occasion); Episode FELDMAN: Principal Sound CAGE: Soe of 'The Harmony of Maine' $16.98 |
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On the 1876 E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings 4m built for the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition and thereafter installed at St. Joseph's Cathedral, Buffalo, Richard Morris offers up great examples of mid-19th century repertoire composed by Americans. Real crowd-pleasers, these, and great fun to hear. $15.98 |
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Art of the Chorale lets John Ayer, director of the Memphis Boychoir and Chamber Choir, move to the organ bench for a great program of organ works based on chorales. |
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Peter Sykes transcribes this 20th-century orchestral masterpiece for, and plays it on, the 1933 Skinner organ of 100+ ranks at Girard College, Philadelphia. Writes David Bond in the The American Record Guide, "Sykes has made the impossible possible. This transcription is by far the most satisfying and persuasive I have ever heard." $14.98 |
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