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¡Laredo has a new concert hall organ! David Heller shows off Kegg Opus 35.With 4 manuals, 52 stops and 4003 pipes, the organ is a major new musical resource in the Laredo area. $14.98 |
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| A restored organ continues its song at age 141 and counting. $15.98 |
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| Margaret Martin Kvamme plays Felgemaker Opus 506, 1889 in Holy Cross Church, Santa Cruz, California. $15.98 |
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| Timothy Edward Smith plays the 1912 Casavant 4m in the large and resonant St. Anthony of Padua Church, New Bedford, Mass., which he played during the 2005 OHS National Convention. Works by Couperin, Bonnet, Guilmant, Franck, Lefébure-Wély, Widor, and Gounod. $14.98 |
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| Manuel Rosales’ organ in Atlanta is played by Brad Hughley, including a new work composed by Timothy Tikker and a rousing La Marseillaise, at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church. $14.98 |
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| This 2-CD set, produced by the Worcester Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, tours the city and visits organs by Aeolian-Skinner, Russell & Co., Taylor and Boody, Reuter, E. & G.G. Hook, J.W. Walker & Sons Ltd, Dobson Organ Co., Noack, Casavant Frères, Schantz, Skinner, and Kimball. $24.98 |
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A 2-CD SET James Johnson presents an interesting and varied program on the III-61 Steiner-Reck organ built in 1968 for Saint Luke Catholic Church in McLean, Virginia.$19.98 |
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| Perfoming on the Brombaugh organ of the First Presbyterian Church in Springfield, Illinois, organist Delbert Disselhorst plays the organ music of Georg Friedrich Kauffmann with guest Ann Homann, oboe obbligato. $14.98 |
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| in Christ United Methodist Church, Greensboro NC. $14.98 |
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| in Adolphus Busch Hall at Harvard University. $14.98 |
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| in First Church in Cambridge, MA. $14.98 |
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| in French Classical style in St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Durham, NC. $14.98 |
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| French Éclat in the Roanoke Valley, 2004 Fisk op. 124 $14.98 |
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| Craig S. Williams, Organist and Choirmaster of the Cadet Chapel, United States Military Academy, West Point Plays J. W. Steere & Sons Opus 700 $14.98 |
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| Maxine Thévenot, Associate Organist-Choir Director at the Cathedral Church of St. John in Albuquerque, New Mexico, one of two recordings being simultaneously released as the “first” CDs of the 2002 Reuter organ, op. 2210, at the Cathedral. Works explore the range of Baroque, Romantic, and the introduction of recently composed works in their recording premieres $14.98 |
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| Iain Quinn, director of cathedral music at the Cathedral Church of St. John in Albuquerque, New Mexico, introduces recording premieres of several works, several of which are adaptations for organ of Romantic masterworks for piano $14.98 |
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From Sowerby to Buxtehude to Whitlock and Howells at Christ Church, New Haven $14.98 |
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| James Welch celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Carmel Mission organ with music for worship, weddings, and memorials. $12.98 |
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| Cherry Rhodes interprets a varied and unusual program on the Dobson organ in the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles $14.98 |
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| Organist Amy Johansen plays the organ works of Naji Hakim on the 153-rank Schantz organ at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Newark, New Jersey. $14.98 |
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| AGO Prize Winner Yoon-mi Lim performs on 3/70 Goulding & Wood in St. Meinrad’s $14.98 |
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| Mary Gifford plays the 1902 Lyon & Healy at Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica, Chicago. Martin Pazdioch, tenor, assists in a program inspired by beloved Gregorian Chants. $14.98 |
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| The organ at First Presbyterian Church in Port Townsend, Washington, was installed in 1889 and continues to joyously resound as the oldest original installation of an organ in the state. Organist Elwood Bernas plays repertoire such as he normally plays during church services, confirming the enduring tonal design of this splendid organ. The organ was built by Whalley & Genung of Oakland, California. Thomas W. Whalley was born in San Francisco in 1856 and became a West Coast organbuilding pioneer. Click the headline for titles and to order. $12.98 |
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| John Scott plays the organ built as op. 27 in 2003 by John-Paul Buzard of Champaign, Illinois, with 87 ranks on four manuals at All Saints Episcopal Church, Atlanta. $12.98 |
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| David Briggs plays a live recital on the new 4-82 instrument built in 1999 by the Muller Pipe Organ Co. of Toledo, Ohio, at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Little Rock, Arkansas. BRIGGS: Improvisation BACH: Prelude & Fugue in b, BWV 544 LISZT/GUILLOU: Symphonic Poem Orpheus
MENDELSSOHN: War March of the Priests DURUFLÉ: Suite $14.98 |
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| Eleanor Fulton plays the 1971 Beckerath 3m organ at Dwight Chapel, Yale University, demonstrating musical evolution from Baroque to Romantic. MENDELSSOHN: Sonata 4 in B-flat, op. 65 GRIGNY: Veni Creator
J. S. BACH: Concerto in A-minor after Vivaldi, BWV 593; Prelude & Fugue in e Wedge, BWV 548; Nun komm’, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659; Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g’mein, BWV 734; Wenn wir in hochsten Nothen sein, BWV 668; Auf meinen lieben Gott, BWV 744 $14.98 |
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| David Heller plays enduringly popular works on the famous 87-rank Rosales organ at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Portland, Oregon. BONNET: Variations de Concert BRIDGE: Adagio in E
YON: L’organo Primitivo VIERNE: Étoile du Soir DUPRÉ: Lamento HINDEMITH: Sonata II BARBER: Wondrous Love Variations ALBRIGHT: Movements from Organbook III PERSICHETTI: Drop, drop slow tears
CRAIG PHILLIPS: Fantasy Toccata $14.98 |
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| John Ayer records the first CD on the 4-80 instrument built in 2003 by the Berghaus Organ Co. of Bellwood, Illinois, at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the Pro-Cathedral of the Diocese of Bethlehem. Click the headline for works by Mendelssohn, Tournemire, Franck, Ayer, Vaughan Williams, Frank Bridge, and more. $14.98 |
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| John Vandertuin plays a grand Romantic program in a live concert performance recorded on the tonally restored 1926 Casavant op. 1135 of 56 ranks in the resonant St. Peter’s Cathedral Basilica in London, Ontario. BRAHMS: Prelude & Fugue in g RHEINBERGER: Sonata 11 HINDEMITH: Sonata 2 SCHMIDT: Four Small Chorale Preludes REGER: Wachet auf! $14.98 |
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| Claudia Dumschat plays the 1988 Fisk 3-47, op. 92, at The Church of the Transfiguration (Little Church Around the Corner), New York. Click the headline for titles of works by Ives, Dupré, Joan Tower, Ned Rorem, J. S. Bach, Sweelinck, Buxtehude, and Mozart. $14.98 |
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| Robert Parris plays the new C. B. Fisk organ op. 115 (2000) at Christ Episcopal Church in Macon, Georgia, featuring Leo Sowerby’s “Prelude on Land of Rest.” Robert Parris was featured recitalist at Disney Hall during the 2004 AGO convention in Los Angeles.Click the headline for titles. $14.98 |
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| Faythe Freese teaches organ students at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa where the Holtkamp firm built their largest tracker, 4-86 (16’ choruses in three divisions and two 32’ stops in the large Pedal). This recording supported the nomination for a Pulitzer prize of the work by Pamela Decker. REGER: Phantasie Wie schön leucht’t . . . CLÉRAMBAULT: Suite du 2nd ton FRANCK: Choral 3 BACH: Prelude & Fugue in D BWV 532 DECKER: Passacaglia on BACH $14.98 |
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| Built in 1912, the 98-rank Austin organ in the restored City Hall auditorium of Portland, Maine, was donated to the city by the Philadelphia publisher and Portland native Cyrus H. K. Curtis and dedicated in honor and memory of his childhood music teacher and Hermann Kotzschmar (1829-1908). Every summer, well known organists such as Douglas Major, Peter Conte, John Weaver, Tom Murray, Tom Hazleton, and Lyn Larsen play a series of public concerts for an enthusiastic and large crowd of organ concertgoers. Click to select among three CD volumes. |
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| The resonant space of Christ Episcopal Church, Dayton, Ohio, contains a 3m organ built in 2004 by the Muller Organ Co. of Croton, Ohio, using pipes of the congregation’s distinguished series of organs by Wirsching (1890), Hutchings-Votey (ca. 1900), and Möller (1923), previously rebuilt by Tellers (1967). Yun Kyong Kim immigrated from Korea in 1984 and placed in the 2000 AGO National Competition. PURVIS: Larghetto Cantabile for Guitar and Organ GEORGE BAKER: Tuba Tune Ragtime GOUNOD: Funeral March of a Marionette IVES: Variations on America SAINT-SAËNS: Carnival of the Animals (trans. Ekaterina Melnikova) SAINT-SAËNS: Poco adagio from Symphony 3 for organ & orchestra, arranged for organ and cello BACH: Toccata & Fugue in d BWV 565 $14.98 |
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| Christopher Marks, Univeristy Organist at Syracuse University, presents his discoveries of lesser-known and new works by American composers and a German one on the famous 1950 Holtkamp 3-73 incorporating much of the pipework of the previous Roosevelt organ at Crouse College Auditorium. The program includes works by David N. Johnson, Nicholas Scherzinger, Joseph Ahrens (1904-1999). Lesser known works of better known composers Bach, Tunder, Dupré, and Sowerby complete the very interesting program. Click the headline for details and to order. $14.98 |
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| The Charles Fisk organ at King’s Chapel in Boston was built in 1964 very shortly after Daniel Pinkham began his 42-year tenure as organist. For the last two years of that tenure, Heinrich Christensen was his assistant and succeeded him as music director in 2000. A native of Denmark, he studied at the Royal Conservatory in Århus, with Olivier Latry in Paris, and James David Christie in Boston. Click the headline for repertoire and to order. $15.98 |
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| This CD is temporarily unavailable from its manufacturer, Delos, and will be available again at a date unknown and unstated by Delos. The OHS Catalog cannot take an order for the CD until it becomes available, again. Samuel S. Soria, organist of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, plays his second CD recorded on the 4m, 105-rank organ (four at 32' pitch!) completed in 2003 by Dobson Pipe Organ Builders and as featured on the covers of Choir & Organ Magazine and The American Organist. Click the headline for works by Dubois, Delamarter, Hurford, Duruflé, Drayton, Ruechsel, McAmis, Lemare, and Franck. $14.98 |
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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 $14.98 |
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| The latest CD from John Gouwens, organist and carillonneur at the Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana, features works by Franck (the rarely recorded Version 1 of the Fantaisie in C) and Chadwick on the 1951 Möller 3-54 in the Chapel and, on the 51-bell carillon by Gillett & Johnston of London, works by Gouwens, John Pozdro, Wendell Westcott, Libby Larsen, and an improvisation. Click the headline to see all three CDs by John Gouwens and to order. |
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| Organs by Patrick J. Murphy & Associates 2CDs for the Price of One! This Philadelphia organbuilder presents two CDs to showcase three organs built by his firm in 1999, 2000, and 2003 and to showcase two of Philadelphia’s fine organists, Matthew Glandorf and Wesley Parrrott. Murphy, one of three first recipients of the OHS E. Power Biggs Fellowship in 1978, founded his firm in 1987. The three organs are of moderate size and in differing acoustics. The playing of both organists is superb. Parrott plays fanfares and processions by several British composers and fantasies by Mozart, Liszt, and Sowerby. Glandorff improvises brilliantly, transcribes Rachmaninoff and Bartok, and plays Howells and Bach. Click the headline for details and to order. $14.98 |
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| Volume 10 of this popular series places Christopher Herrick at the 2002 Létourneau op. 50 of 4m, 126 ranks, 96 stops at the Concert Hall of the Winspear Centre in Edmonton, Canada, home of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. The program includes "fireworks" by Mulet, David Johnson, Takle, Duruflé, Meyerbeer, and others. Click the headline for list of works, the other volumes in this series, and to order. In the first nine volumes, Herrick plays fiery organ works on fiery organs including an Aeolian-Skinner in New York and huge organs in Iceland, Finland, Paris, England, and more! |
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| Virgil Fox recorded the large organ at the Gloucester, Massachusetts, John Hays Hammond Castle in 1946 & 1953 for RCA Victor. The Brahms Chorale Preludes (complete) were not recorded elsewhere by him, and this is his only commercially released recording of the Reubke Sonata on the 94th Psalm. Click for works by Mozart, Dupré, Mendelssohn, Bach, Franck, Brahms, and Reubke. $19.98 |
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| Grant Edwards both plays and builds organs in the Pacific Northwest, his program is presented as feast of culinary courses canapé through coffee, on the spicy and beefy sounds of the 1994 Bond 2-47 at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Seattle.Click headline for repertoire $14.98 |
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| Organbuilder, OHS member, and superb organist, George Bozeman improvised this suite on the famous organ at Methuen during a live concert. The 11 sections of the suite are inspired by graphic artist Lee Haskell, who created a series of drawings. Click headline for repertoire $14.98 |
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| This 6-rank pipe organ of 21 stops on two manuals and pedal has a footprint of only 120” x 34” and was custom built for the 50-seat chapel of First Presbyterian Church, New York City, by the firm of OHS member Sebastian Glück.
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| Tom Trenney plays the 2003 Schantz 3-56 at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Savannah, Georgia. Andrew Kotylo joins him for Stephen Paulus' Paean for Organ Duet Click the headline for works by Anne Wilson, Shearing, Dudley Buck, Dan Miller, Ives, Paulus, Phillips, Jennifer Conner, and improvs by Trenny. $14.98 |
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| Scott Bennett plays Reuter’s 2002 rebuild and enlargement to 68 ranks of their earlier organ at Grace Episcopal Church, Charleston, South Carolina, with brass and tympani, too! Click for works by Bach, Sibelius, Strauss, Anderson, Planyavsky, Langlais, Elgar, Cocker, Dufuflé, Duprè, Schroeder, Willan, and Vierne. $14.98 |
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| A Kimball organ was installed in the new 1910 addition to the luxury hostelry built in 1903 in Riverside, California, as the New Glenwood Hotel, which has been known as The Mission Inn for most of its existence since. The Kilgen company rebuilt the organ in 1930, and it has once again been restored through the efforts of the “Friends.” The well-known organists of the Mormon Tabernacle, John Longhurst and Clay Christiansen, take a delightful romp on the secular side in this benefit recording. $10.98 |
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| James Diaz, First Prize winner of the Dallas International Organ Competition in 2000, Gold Medal winner in the Calgary organ competition, and First Prize winner in the 1994 Fort Wayne organ competition, plays the Fisk organ in the Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas. $14.98 |
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| Peter Sykes dedicates the largest extant organ built by America’s first native-trained organbuilder, David Tannenberg, commissioned in 1798 and having 2m & full pedal, was restored 1998-2003 by Taylor & Boody and resides in a concert hall with superb acoustics in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The dedication recital was played in March, 2004, including works by C. P. E. Bach, Christian Latrobe (brother of the American architect Benjamin Latrobe), Krebs, Mozart, Mendelssohn, and the premiere of a new work by Dan Locklair. Click picture for details $14.98 |
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| Mary Gifford plays the 1902 Lyon & Healy 4-57 (surely the largest extant) built for the vast, barrel-vaulted splendor of the Basilica of Our Lady of Sorrows in Chicago. The organ never fails to impress and, for its second century of service, it is now being restored. The Lyon & Healy firm of Chicago built superb pipe organs 1895-1908, and harps bearing the name are still in production. Click the headline for repertoire and to order. $14.98 |
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| 3-CD set at Low Price First Presbyterian Church, Dallas, is home to two fine organs: in the main church, a 1977 Sipe (incorporating most pipework of the 1928 Skinner) and in the chapel a 1988 Jaeckel based on Cavaillé-Coll organs. Thomas Froehlich, organist at First Presbyterian since 1977, plays an eclectic program of old and modern, making use of his fine musicality and the two organs. Click the headline for repertoire. $14.98 |
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| The landmark Holtkamp organ at Syracuse University’s Crouse College is feted with a CD that celebrates the organ faculty who have known it, and also to herald the organ’s restoration for the 21st century. Hear it played by Arthur Poister, Will Headlee, Donald Sutherland, Katharine Pardee, and Christopher Marks. Click for repertoire $14.98 |
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| This CD/DVD package features Fox's famous 40-minute audiophile Command Classics recording on a CD and on the audio track of a DVD-Video. The video on the DVD is a collection of kaleidoscopic collages. The great bonus on the DVD is an 11-minute TV interview of Fox at the Wanamaker Organ (1979), and a 30-minute performance videotaped in 1970 for a CBS network TV show. The CBS program was performed in a TV studio on the touring electronic. Click for repertoire and to order. $24.00 |
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| Now, 7 CDs! Felix plays a varied program on a new organ in Savannah in his latest CD, and another recent one contains all six of Mendelssohn's organ sonatas played at Methuen! Born in 1985, Felix Hell began playing concerts outside of his native Germany at age 8 and taking first prizes in various competitions at the same age. Having celebrated his 19th birthday in September, 2004, he received a Bachelor's degree in music from Curtis at age 18, is now pursuing graduate study at Peabody, and is acclaimed for his recital tours in the United States and worldwide. Choose from seven CDs, including the 110-rank Schoenstein organ in Lincoln, Nebraska, a 2-CD set recorded on the largest Schantz ever built (154 ranks), another on the same organ, also the Klais at St. Peter's, New York, and his first CD, recorded at age 13. |
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| Marcus St. Julien plays the 3m organ of 38 ranks built in 2000 by the Dobson Pipe Organ Builders of Lake City, Iowa, in the grand acoustics of St. Joseph Abbey, St. Benedict, Louisiana. Click the headline for works by Bach, Clerambault, Alain, Walther, Philip James, Pietro Yon, Franck, and Mulet. $14.98 |
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| Marijim Thoene plays the 3m organ built in 2000 by Dobson firm for the grand acoustics of St. Joseph Abbey, St. Benedict, Louisiana. Works by Hovhaness, Atkinson, and Vosk were commissioned by Marijim Thoene. The unusual Vosk work is composed in six descriptive movements for the rare combination of organ and native American flute which is played by Kathleen Joyce-Grendahl. Works by Messiaen, Langlais, Tournemire and Bach bring the familiar to these fine, resonant sounds. Click the headline for titles. $14.98 |
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| Every Sunday afternoon between 2 and 3, no matter the weather, the great Austin organ sings forth from the Spreckles Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park, San Diego. Carol Williams, the first woman appointed Civic Organist of San Diego, plays another of her interesting programs for this occasion. Click Picture for Details & to Order $14.98 |
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| James F. Mellichamp, Dean of the School of the Arts, plays the 2003 Casavant op. 3799, 3-67 with tracker key action and electric stop action, at Piedmont College, Demorest, Georgia. Click Picture for Details $14.98 |
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An Audiophile Extravaganza Recognized as an audiophile phenomenon when it was first released, this fabulously recorded and fabulously played program is among the most enjoyable organ showpiece CDs of all-time. World audio authority Keith O. Johnson made the original recording and has supervised its new release on the famous audiophile CD label, Reference Recordings. The Ruffati organ has four manuals and 89 ranks. CLARKE: Trumpet Voluntary WALTHER: Concerto in b
BALBASTRE: Noël REUBKE: Fugue from 94th Psalm WIDOR: Andante sostenuto from Symphony Gothique GIGOUT: Scherzo MULET: Carillon-Sortie HELD: Simple Gifts WOOD: Shall We Gather at the River? JENKINS: Dawn VIERNE: Carillon de Westminster$15.98 |
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| Thomas Dressler Plays a varied program at the Round Lake Auditorium, home to the oldest large 3-manual tracker organ built in this country, by Davis & Ferris of New York in 1847, which is heard each summer in a series of organ recitals. Click Picture for Details & to Order $14.98 |
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| Tandy C. Reussner plays the 1996 Wolff 3-65 organ in the grand acoustics of Bales Organ Recital Hall, University of Kansas, Lawrence. $14.98 |
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B. Rule Organ, Op. 8 OHS member and organbuilder Bradley Rule of Knoxville, Tennessee, met the need for an organ in the new building of Tennessee Valley Unitarian Church by using the chassis and a some remaining pipes of the 1891 Pilcher tracker built for First Baptist Church, Griffin, Georgia, which had been relocated in 1926 to the University of the South in Sewannee.... Theresa Pepin plays a varied program very well, indeed.$14.98 |
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| James Hicks plays a diverse program of 20th-century American music on Austin organ Op. 2234A, greatly enlarged by Austin in 1996 and also infected with 22 electronic stops exuding from the Swell, Choir, and Pedal, at The Presbyterian Church, Morristown, New Jersey. Works by Searle Wright, David N. Johnson, Titcomb, Reiff, Bingham, Ramon Noble, La Montaine, Hicks, Rhea, and Utterback. Click on headline for list of works. $14.98 |
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| Timothy Tikker plays the famous 3-77 organ at the United Church of Christ in Claremont, California, built in 1998 by Manuel Rosales in collaboration with Glatter-Götz Orgelbau. DUPRÉ: Évocation, Poème Symphonique TIKKER: Variations sur un vieux Noël TOURNEMIRE: Trois Poèmes (Psalms 22, 23, 150) Great Review in the Nov-Dec 2003 issue of The American Record Guide, "He [Tikker] emerges as a top-flight performer and interpreter, heard to good advantage
on this magnificent organ . . . As usual, Raven's engineering is superb." $14.98 |
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| 2 CDs for the Price of One! Organist Alison J. Luedecke plays the earliest four large large organs built for locations in North America by Rudolf von Beckerath, a great light in the Organ Revival worldwide and much appreciated for the beauty and timelessness of his organs. Featured are the very large organs built for Cleveland in 1957, Pittsburgh in 1962, and moderately large organs built for Montréal in 1959 and Stetson University in 1961. Superb sound is captured by engineer Ed Kelly. Click title for repertoire. $14.98 |
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| It sounds like ten million dollars! At the end of the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, the huge organ that the Hook firm had built for it was moved to St. Joseph’s Cathedral in Buffalo, New York, where it was restored and enlarged by the Andover Organ Company July 1999 to January 2001. This first CD on the renewed organ is played by Australia’s phenomenal Thomas Heywood in a program of mostly transcriptions and "municipal auditorium" music by Hollins, Guilmant, Brahms, Mozart, Bach, Best, etc. Click the headline for titles and to order. $14.98 |
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| Reviews Arthur Lawrence in The American Organist, December 2003: "The Bach Vom Himmel hoch variations have no peer on CD . . . The same could be said for the Passacaglia. . . Sweelinck variations are lively and well articulated . . . Mendelssohn Sonata . . . is appropriately heroic . . . the Pasi organ is an equal partner . . . This winner of the 1996 AGO National Improvisation Competition brings enticing compositions of his own as well as improvisations and works by Bach, Sweelinck, and Mendelssohn to the fine organ built in 1995 with 34 ranks and greatly admired during the 2000 AGO National Convention. $11.98 |
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| Susan Ferré plays the large Paul Fritts organ, Op. 18, at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington, in a wide variety of works suitable for postludes and preludes. Click the headline for works by Karg-Elert, Smyth, Langlais, Messiaen, Tournemire, Bolcom, Alain, Fanny Mendelssohn, Duruflé. $14.98 |
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| WEB SPECIAL $1.99! Allen Shaffer plays the Casavant/ Letourneau organ of Christ and Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church, Norfolk, Virginia. MENDELSSOHN: Sonata 4 in B-flat AMY BEACH: Prelude on an Old Folk Tune; The Fair Hills of Eire, O NOBLE: Fantasy on Ton-y-Botel IRELAND: Elegiac Romance BRIDGE: from Three Pieces: Allegretto grazioso; Allegro marziale e ben marcato FRANCK: Pièce Héroïque MULET: from Esquisses Byzantines: Nef, Rosace, Tu es Petra Regular price: $14.98 Sale price: $1.99 |
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| Joseph Jackson unleashes the full power of the large Reuter organ of five divisions in the gallery and four in the chancel in First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, in the monumental Liszt Variations and the mysterious Whitlock Fantaisie. Click the headline for titles and to order. $14.98 |
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| Scott Bennett plays the 2002 Reuter enlargement to 68 ranks and rebuilding with many new, revoiced, and replacement ranks, and replacement of electronic stops with real ones, of their organ at Grace Episcopal Church, Charleston, South Carolina. Works by Widor, Dupré, Sowerby, Gade, Reger, Bonnet, Reubke, and Sokola. Click picture for details $14.98 |
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| Twentieth Century Organ Masterpieces are played by John Scott on the 1993 Mander organ of 90 ranks at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York City. Click on the headline for more information and to order. $14.98 |
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| Making the first CD of the large new organ resulting from the unique collaboration of Rosales Organbuilders and C. B. Fisk, Inc., at Rice University in Houston, Texas, this legendary organist records for the first time since his celebrated LPs were released decades ago. Great performances & super sound! REUBKE: 94th Psalm DANIEL-LESUR: In Paradisum WIDOR: Andante sostenuto (Sym. gothique)
DEGRIGNY: Veni Creator J. S. BACH: Schmücke dich $14.98 |
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Organ Music from Belgium The fabulous 4m Rosales in the Seattle Cathedral of St. James, played by itself and together with the 1907 Hutchings-Votey 4m in the West Gallery by Katharine Pardee in works by Jongen, Edgar Tinel, Franck, and Flor Peeters. Click on ikon for further description and to order$14.98 |
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| Kevin Bowyer plays 23 selections from the Oxford Book of Wedding Music, organized into logical groups of six works each. Greatly useful for brides, their mothers, and church musicians! Recorded in Chichester Cathedral. $10.98 |
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Plays the Schoenstein, Sheboygan Robert Benjamin Dobey performs on the Schoenstein organ at Our Lady of Walsingham, Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Works by Dupré, Widor, Dobey, and Langlais. Click picture for repertoire$14.98 |
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| Julia Brown and Rafael Ferreyra play the Hochhalter organ, First United Methodist Church, Eugene, Oregon, in works by Vierne, Tournemire, Alain, Karg-Elert, Elgar, more Click picture for repertoire $9.98 |
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| David Wagner plays masterworks of three centuries on the 47-rank Karl Wilhelm organ at St. Paul’s Church, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. Click picture for repertoire $14.98 |
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| Christa Rakich’s Recital given at the 2000 AGO National Convention brought down the house! Her live performance at St. Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle, on the 1965 Flentrop rebuilt by Paul Fritts, includes the first performance of Pamela Decker's Río abajo río. Other works are: BACH: Kyrie, Gott Heiliger Geist; FRANCK: Fantaisie in A; HINDEMITH: Sonata 1 $12.98 |
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| Robert F. Bates’ Recital given at the 2000 AGO National Convention was a sensation! The 1999 Fritts 3-83 organ in Lagerquist Hall at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, was a sensation as well. Fortunately, it was recorded in splendid, state-of-the-art sound! Click for list of works $13.98 |
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| Collected in a 2-CD set are famous recordings by E. Power Biggs, Glenn Gould, Anthony Newman, and Gustav Leonhardt playing organs by Flentrop, Casavant, Christian Muller, Silbermann, Mander, Rieger, “Father” Smith, and others. Click for repertoire $21.00 |
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| Peter Latona plays the four organs of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, D.C., spectacularly recorded in grand acoustics. Each of three Moller organs in the main church (with about 120 ranks altogether) is played individually and together with the addition of a fine brass ensemble for rousing Gabrielli and Litaize works. The fourth organ is the much admired Schudi 3-29 in the Crypt Church. Latona, director of music at the National Shrine, plays beautifully. A sonic blockbuster! $14.98 |
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| Former OHS President William Aylesworth plays the 1875 E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings at Scottish Rite Cathedral in Chicago, the only surviving 19th-century 3-manual mechanical-action organ in the area. Works by Widor, Wesley, Horatio Parker, Saint-Saëns, Lefébure-Wely, and Lemmens. Click for further description. $14.98 |
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Organ Compositions by Women Frances Nobert, Organist On the famous Rosales/Glatter-Götz organ of 81 ranks on three manuals completed in 1998 at the Congregational Church in Claremont, California, Frances Nobert plays organ works by eleven female composers. The interesting program explores many works either rarely or not otherwise recorded.$14.98 |
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| The 3-61 Casavant Frères op. 3756 at Central Michigan University, of tonally eclectic design, the organ enjoys the chapel’s rich acoustical space. MOONYEEN ALBRECHT: Variations on Engleberg NEAR: Three Chorale Preludes: Nun danket alle Gott; Freu dich sehr; Liebster Jesu SOWERBY: Toccata in C WIDOR: Symphony V $12.98 |
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| Recorded during Sunday afternoon concerts and in the stillness of early morning, this CD captures the most delicate tone of the famous “outdoor” 72-rank Austin organ. Click ikon for repertoire $14.98 |
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| The talented Louisville organist Timothy Baker plays on a rare example of an organ created by the fine 19th-century American builder Louis Van Dinter of Mishawaka, Indiana, in 1889 for St. Mary’s, Louisville, Kentucky. 13 works from Arne to Yon! Click ikon for repertoire $14.98 |
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| Westminster Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis, celebrates four decades of organ tradition with a recording of the church’s 85-rank Moller played by each of the five principal organists who have served there, including Minneapolis legend Edward Berryman. Very interesting program! Click ikon for repertoire $14.98 |
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| Marcia Van Oyen plays repertoire with themes of eternity and resurrection on the 1999 John-Paul Buzard 3-69 organ, op. 21, at Glenview Community Church, Glenview, Illinois. Works by Utterback, Ferko, Fedak, Franck, Howells, George Shearing, Langlais, Tournemire, and Simon Preston. Click ikon for repertoire $14.98 |
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| Beloved by radio listeners everywhere, the Pipedreams! radio program features host Michael Barone and organs and organ music of all kinds. A fine recording engineer as well as a fine program host, Michael Barone presents several Pipedreams CDs featuring very interesting performances and repertoire. The latest is Pipedreams Premieres, Volume 2 |
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| In the largest collegiate chapel in the world, Martin Jean plays the famous organ, newly rebuilt and enlarged to 102-ranks by the Dobson Organ Company. Gospel Preludes of William Bolcom, Ad nos of Liszt, and works by Bach, Brahms, and Pachelbel. Reviews The Organ, "Amongst all the CDs I have of organs in the States, this is probably the best, both for instrument and performance: highly recommended." $14.98 |
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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." $14.98 |
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| Cleveland plays 20th-century American and French music on the new Goulding & Wood 3-69 organ in the fine acoustics of Saint Meinrad Archabbey in Saint Meinrad, Indiana. American composers Libby Larsen, Dan Locklair, Pamela Decker as well as Frenchmen Langlais and Dufuflé. $14.98 |
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| The 154-rank Schantz organ (1954/1990) in the great acoustics of the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Newark, New Jersey, provide a special venue for magnificent organ works by Franck, Bach, Duruflé, and Reubke. $14.98 |
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| The huge 1912 Austin in the municipal auditorium in Portland, Maine, is recorded for the first time since the recent restoration of both the organ and the hall. Works by Bonnet, Mendelssohn, Guilmant, Franck, Lefébure-Wély, Will Macfarlane, Faulkes, and Bach. $14.98 |
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The Legendary Performances Heiller frequently came from Vienna to Boston to play Harvard's Fisk organ, which he greatly admired. Here, four of his live recitals which have never been released, as well as his famous recordings of the three Hindemith Organ Sonatas which have been unavailable for years, are combined into a set of four CDs.$59.95 |
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Centennial Flourishes This festive program is played with consummate skill on the 1999 Harrison & Harrison 3m organ at St. James’ Episcopal Church, Hendersonville, North Carolina. Works by Jacob, Howells, Wm. Harris, Gerald Near, Dan Locklair, Mark Jones, Harvey Grace, Duruflé, Robert Powerll, Handel and Dupré.$14.98 |
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| Beloved and restored, the 1907 Hutchings-Votey 3-56 in the magnificently restored interior of St. James’ RC Cathedral, Seattle, was greatly admired during the AGO National Convention in July, 2000. This first CD of it is played by the wonderful cathedral organist Joseph Adam (First Prize, St. Alban's Competition, 1991) in a great Romantic program: Reger, Mendelssohn, Karg-Elert, Gade, & Liszt. $14.98 |
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| Ron McKean demonstrates the sonic splendors of the 86-stop Rosales Opus 16 in First Presbyterian Church, Oakland, California. Works by Liszt, Mussorgsky, and McKean. $14.98 |
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| The Rosales in San Antonio Texas, op. 15 completed in 1990 at University United Methodist Church, is played by David Heller. Resonant acoustics make the beautiful sounds of this organ’s 44 ranks on two manuals record handsomely. Works by Litaize, Widor, Alain, deGrigny, Bach and Kramer. $14.98 |
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| Will Headlee plays the famous 1950 Holtkamp at Syracuse University. Also heard is the 1968 Schwenkedel organ. MILHAUD: Five Preludes from Neuf Preludes
DAVID JOHNSON: Trumpet Tune in B-flat (unpb.)
VERRES: O for a Closer Walk with God
GUILMANT: Marche Funèbre & Chant Séraphique
REUBKE: Grave & Finale 94th Psalm
BACH: We all believe in One God, BWV 740; Pastorale in F, BWV 590; Fantasia & Fugue in g, BWV 542 $14.98 |
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| The blind English concert organist and composer plays the large Mander organ at St. Ignatius. HOLLINS: Concert Overture in c, F. H. WOOD: Scenes in Kent (Suite in 4 parts) LIDDLE: Variations on Mit Freuden zart, WIDOR: Symphonie Gothique $14.98 |
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| Stevens plays the magnificent 1871 Hook 3m at St. Mary’s, New Haven, where the flames of a serious fire in March 1998 came within 3-feet of the organ but spared it. VIERNE: Toccata BOËLY: Fantaisie & Fugue in B-flat
SAINT-SAËNS: Fantaisie in E-flat MENDELSSOHN: Sonata VI BUXTEHUDE: A Mighty Fortress FRANCK: Fantaisie in A
VIVALDI/BACH: Concerto in a BRUHNS: Prelude & Fugue in e WIDOR: Andante, Symphonie Gothique $14.98 |
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| Robert Plimpton plays the Spreckels outdoor Austin pipe organ of 1915 in Balboa Park, San Diego. BACH: Toccata in F (BWV 540a) BARBER: Adagio for Strings FRANCK: Chorale in a SAINT-SAËNS: March Heroïque RUSSELL: The Bells of St. Anne-de-Beauprï VERDI: Grand March (Aida) LEMARE: Andantino in D-flat WIDOR: Toccata (Sym. 5) $14.98 |
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| a 3-70 completed in 1996 for the fabulous acoustics of Bales Recital Hall by Hellmuth Wolff & Associés of Montreal, is played by James Higdon. PAULUS: Three Temperaments FRANCK: Chorale in E NIVERS: Prelude du 1er ton BACH: Allein Gott DURUFLÉ: Veni Creator $12.98 |
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| L’ Orgue Classique et Romantique features the historic organ built in 1841 by Samuel R. Warren and subsequently rebuilt, most recently in 1993 by Hellmuth Wolff as 2-27 in the sumptuous Church of the Visitation in Montreal where Marc-André Doran is the organist and the player on this CD. Click picture for repertoire $12.98 |
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