Thomas Heywood transcribes most of the selections from operas on this CD, and he plays the huge Schantz completed in 1998 at Moody Memorial First United Methodist Church in Galveston, Texas, with 117 ranks and several 32' stops including the facade. VERDI: Grand March, Aïda VERDI: Overture to Nabucco VERDI: Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves, Nabucco WAGNER: O Star of Eve, Tannhäuser ROSSINI: Overture to The Thieving Magpie ROSSINI: Figaro’s Cavatina “Largo al factotum” from Barber of Seville LEMARE: Paraphrase on Gounod’s Faust LEMARE: Concert Fantasia on Bizet’s Carmen MOZART: Suite from The Magic Flute RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Flight of the Bumble-Bee from opera Legend of the Tsar Saltan |