Great Australasian OrgansPriory has produced a series of CDs which feature important organs in Australia and New Zealand. Jane Watts and Calvin Bowman perform. Note: Volume V of this series is not currently available. Click on the icons of the individual volumes for more information! |
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| The Hill Organ of Sydney Town Hall Jane Watts plays the famous 1890 Hill 5m organ of 127 stops, including an almost unique full-length 64’ (well, the Atlantic City Convention Hall organ has two of them but the organ is barely playable through no fault of its own), in works by George Thalben-Ball, W. T. Best, and Marcel Dupré. | |
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| The Klais Organ of The Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane Jane Watts performs on the 4 manual, 122 rank instrument. "From the first few bars, you can tell why Jane Watts’ performances have gathered such superlatives,” raves Gramophone Magazine. | |
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| The Hill, Norman & Beard Organ of St John's Cathedral Brisbane Organist Jane Watts performs works of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford and Alexandre Guilmant on the four manual instrument. | |
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| The Walker Organ of Adelaide Town Hall Australia’s oldest Town Hall houses a 4-84 J. W. Walker & Sons instrument from England, the largest mechanical action organ built in the United Kingdom in 100 years, says the CD booklet. Calvin Bowman, a resident of Australia and Yale University Fulbright scholar, performs. | |
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| The Organ of Wellington Cathedral, New Zealand Jane Watts plays the 1877 T.C. Lewis & Co. organ rebuilt in 1976 and now containing 3,531 pipes at the Anglican cathedral in Wellington. | |
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| A newish organ that sits in the main concert hall in Christchuch, New Zealand. Built by Rieger, its sounds are exciting and for a concert hall not entirely dry. Martin Setchell is well known throughout the world as a concert organist and here he plays the organ which displays the virtuosity of both him and the instrument. | |
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