WIDOR: Six duets for harmonium and piano FRANCK: Prelude, fugue, and variation for harmonium and piano GUILMANT: Allegretto in b minor; Ce que dit le silence (with tenor) GOUNOD: Hymn to St. Cecilia; The Sea Hath Its Pearls (with tenor) MASSENET: Meditation from Thaïs with violin Organist Kurt Lueders leads this unusual program of 19th-century salon music with harmonium and voice or instruments. The harmonium, the European equivalent of the American reed organ, had great popularity in France during the 19th century and is heard here as it might have been then. |