Norma's BeautyThe 1919-29 Hill, Norman & Beard organ now in Dunedin Town Hall, Otago, New Zealand, was restored by the South Island Organ Company 1993-95 and lovingly given the name “Norma.” Hans Uwe Hielscher plays a diverse program to demonstrate the fantastic sound of the 75-stop organ which was originally built as a touring concert organ and billed as the “Bathurst Mammoth Touring Cathedral Organ” that moved around on seven trucks with a crew of 10 men who could remove, pack, and reinstall the 23-ton organ in just 14 hours. After less than a decade of use in England, the organ was sold to Dunedin in New Zealand and greatly enlarged in 1929 by Hill, Norman & Beard. Includes: FAULKES: Festival Prelude on Ein feste Burg; Meditation in G BEDARD: Danse; Andantino RAWSTHORNE: Prelude on the Londonderry Air KETÉLBEY: Réverie dramatique; In a Chinese Temple Garden MOSZKOWSKI: Spanish Dance GRIEG: Norwegian Dance PASINI: Cantabile in F BOLTING: A Rag HIELSCHER: Three American Folksongs GOEMANNE: El diŕ de fiesta |