Delos CDsDelos enjoys a superb reputation for fine artists, especially organists and choirs, and for sound. Recording guru (and sometime organist) John Eargle, Delos' primary engineer, has literally written the book about professional audiophile recording techniques. |
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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. | |
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| Wayne Marshall plays the Fisk at the Meyerson Center with the Dallas Symphony, Andrew Litton, conductor. Also includes orchestral works The Red Pony and Music for the Theatre | |
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| performed by The Choirs and Orchestra of St. John's Cathedral, Denver; Donald Pearson, conductor; OHS Member Eric Plutz, organist at the famous 1931 Kimball organ.  | |
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| David Higgs & Todd Wilson Play Duos on the 141-rank Möller at National City Christian Church in Washington, D. C. in this 20-bit CD from Delos. | |
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| Robert Noehren plays the 3-73 D. F. Pilzecker organ at the Church of St. Jude, Detroit, Michigan. | |
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| The legendary Crozier plays Franck (Pièce Héroïque; Three Chorals; Prelude, Fugue et Variation) on the beautiful, large, 1986 Marcussen 4-86 organ at Wichita State University, built for a concert hall that was designed for the organ. | |
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| The choir of St. John’s Cathedral, Denver, Donald Pearson, conductor; Eric Plutz, organist at the 1938 Kimball 4-96. | |
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| The Brombaugh organ at Central Lutheran Church, Eugene, Oregon is played by David Britton. Works by Oley, Krebs, Buxtehude, Hanff, and Bruhns, Bach. Click on headline for full repertoire | |
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| Renowned organist, teacher, and sometime organbuilder Robert Noehren plays the Robert Turner organ of three manuals and 89 ranks at First Presbyterian Church, Trenton, New Jersey. | |
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| On an organ of 85 ranks that he built at First Unitarian Church, San Francisco, Robert Noehren plays works of Buxtehude. Click on headline above for list of works | |
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| Todd Wilson plays the 1961 Aeolian-Skinner enlarged to 4m, 96 ranks in 1991 in the Cathedral of St. Philip, Atlanta, displaying its wide panoply of tonal colors in a mostly gentle program of lovely pieces. SPECIAL 2-CD set click picture for program and to order | |
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| Famed organist, teacher, organ theorist, builder, and writer Robert Noehren plays works of J. S. Bach on the Rieger organ at Pacific Union College Church, Angwin, California. | |
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| Robert Noehren, retired organ professor and renowned organist from the University of Michigan, plays the premier CD and recital on the 3-73 D. F. Pilzecker organ at the Church of St. Jude, Detroit, Michigan. | |
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| The choir of Trinity Episcopal Church, Portland, Oregon, John Strege, director. George Baker plays the Rosales organ. | |
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| David Higgs plays the 4-98 Rieger at Bryn Mawr (Penn.) Presbyterian Church. Writes Mark Bighley in The Diapason: “David Higgs' breathtaking performance of the G minor Fantasia and Fugue by itself is worth the price of this recording — it is hair-raising, dramatic and intense with an exquisite sense of phrasing.” | |
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| On a 3-82 Casavant in French eclectic / Cavaillé-Coll style at the Cathedral of St. Peter, Erie, Pennsylvania, Michael Farris plays a blockbuster program! | |
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| The legendary Catharine Crozier plays works of Leo Sowerby on the 1935 Aeolian-Skinner at the Groton School in Groton, Massachusetts. | |
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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. | |
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| David Craighead plays Rosales opus 11 of 87 ranks in Trinity Episcopal Church, Portland, Oregon.  | |
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| David Britton plays the 1938 W. W. Kimball organ of St. John's Cathedral in Denver, Colorado. Sowerby, Simonds, Bennett, James, Bingham, Crandell. Click on headline above for repertoire. | |
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| The Boys' and Girls' Choir and the Cathedral Choir of St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, Denver, Donald Pearson, director; Eric Plutz, organ, in a program of choral works from Bairstow, Baker and Britten to Sumsion, Susa, and Weaver. | |
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| The Choirs of St. John's Episcopal Cathedral, Denver, join forces with Aries Brass Quintet and other instrumentalists to perform a program of traditional Christmas favorites. OHS Member Eric Plutz accompanies on the 1938 Kimball organ. Donald Pearson conducts. | |
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| David Higgs premieres C. B. Fisk Opus 100 at the Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, Texas. Higgs performs works by Conrad Susa, Bach, d'Aquin, Franck, Conte, Hampton, Liszt, and Mozart | |
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| In this first CD on the organ completed in February 2003 for the huge new Cathedral in Los Angeles by Dobson Pipe Organ Builders is played by cathedral organist Samuel S. Soria. The organ is featured on the cover of the The American Organist, April 2003, with an extensive article describing its creation. The organ has four manuals and 105 ranks, with four ranks at 32' pitch! Works are by Bach, Howells, Reubke, Messiaen, and Vierne. Click for more information | |
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| David Briggs plays the organ with more than 20,000 pipes in 346 ranks in First Congregational Church, Los Angeles, probably the world's largest church organ. Great acoustics for works by Walton, Vierne, Reubke, Fauré, and Briggs' own 3-movement improvisation on "A Mighty Fortress." | |
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| New York's fine Voices of Ascension directed by Dennis Keene is prominently featured in this group of Delos CDs offered at special prices. Click on the headline above for descriptions of all of the CDs and to order, or click on the links below for a full description of each CD and to order Beyond Chant-Mysteries of the Renaissance From Chant to Renaissance Duruflé Choral Works Berlioz Te Deum Prince of Music: Choral Music of Palestrina Music of Hildegard von Bingen: Voices of Angels Music of Jerome Kern Mysteries Beyond | |
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| Todd Wilson’s Duruflé, complete, is a favored and exemplary recording of this repertoire. Grand, 52-rank Schudi at St. Thomas Aquinas Church, Dallas. Prelude, Adagio and Chorale Variations on Veni Creator Scherzo, Op. 2 Prelude to the Introit of Epiphany Fugue on the Theme of the Carillon of Soissons Cathedral Suite, Op. 5 Prelude & Fugue on the Name of Alain, Op. 7 | |
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