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An Organ Legacy
NEW! Two CDs for the price of one! In a set of two CDs, Jeremy Filsell marks the 50th anniversary of the 172-rank organ at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D. C., by recording mostly major works associated with this organ.$14.98 | | Organ Music from Old St. Lukes
NEW! OHS Member Richard Konzen performs on the organ at Old St. Lukes in Scott Township, near Pittsburgh. The site of the church was originally a British garrison built in 1765. Old St. Lukes was born out of the worship there, making it one of the oldest frontier churches west of the Allegheny Mountains. While the builder of the organ is not confirmed, it is attributed to Joseph Harvey, believed to have been built in 1823.$11.98 |
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Music Till Midnight
NEW! Organist Charles Huddleston Heaton ably demonstrates the 1935 Æolian-Skinner Organ (designed jointly by Ernest M. Skinner and G. Donald Harrison) at East Liberty Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, where he served as Music Director for many years. OHS Members will recall an excellent recital given on this organ during the 2010 National Convention in Pittsburgh.
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NEW! Organist Alan Morrison joins forces with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia to perform 20th century American works, mixed with works of Joseph Jongen and J. S. Bach. Organist and Orchestra perform at Verizon Hall in Philadelphia's Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, where Morrison plays the 2006 Dobson organ, Opus 76.$15.98 |
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Organ Greats From The Great Organ
Organist Erik Wm. Suter performs favorite organ works on the Skinner/Æolian-Skinner organ at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, DC. Suter ably demonstrates the stylistic flexibility provided by the organ's 189 ranks.$15.98 | | The King of Instruments: Highlights
NEW! For this “appetizer” of a highly anticipated
series, historic recordings of instruments built by the Æolian-Skinner firm are collected
and made available for the first time on compact disc. The “King of Instruments” series,
recorded and produced by Æolian-Skinner, features some of the company's most notable
instruments and played by the organists who were most closely associated with these
landmark organs. Recorded between 1953 and 1973, this material is re-mastered by the
Vermont Organ Academy, from the original Aeolian-Skinner master tape recordings,
which are owned by the Organ Historical Society.$12.98 |
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Virgil Fox at Hammond Castle
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.$19.98 | | The Artistry of Frederick Swann
Renovated in 2003, a 1927 Stephen Stoot Casavant IV-63 is played by Frederick Swann at the Memorial Chapel of the University of the Redlands.$14.98 |
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What Used To Be Played
James D. Flood, Organist of First Baptist Church, Niagara Falls, NY, visits repertoire once common but now rarely performed in a program tailored to the organ heard here.$9.98 | | Frederick Swann plays Fisk Opus 102, The Gillespie Concert Organ
Frederick Swann demonstrates the 4-73 Fisk Organ, Opus 130, completed in August 2008 for the Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa, California.$14.98 |
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The Mormon Tabernacle Organ: Richard Elliott Plays
Richard Elliott performs a varied and interesting group of pieces on the famous G. Donald Harrison Aeolian-Skinner organ in the Mormon Tabernacle.$15.98 | | Inspirations from England
Scott Montgomery plays a fine new 3 manual Mander and its companion chamber organ in St. Peter's Church in St. Louis, Missouri$15.98 |
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Cleveland in Columbus
Paul Fritts & Co. Opus 25 in St. Joseph’s Cathedral, Columbus, Ohio is host to Douglas Cleveland on this recording of works well suited to the organ’s massive and intimate timbres.$14.98 | | Organ Masterworks from Ocean Grove
The organ in the Ocean Grove Auditorium, Ocean Grove, New Jersey, began life in 1908 as a 14-rank instrument by Robert Hope-Jones, who had recently opened his Elmira, New York factory.$15.98 |
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When In Our Music God Is Glorified
The 3-61 Casavant Frères op. 3756 at Central Michigan University, of tonally eclectic design, the organ enjoys the chapel’s rich acoustical space.$12.98 | | Robert Noehren Premieres
Robert Noehren, retired organ professor and renowned organist from the University of Michigan, plays the premier CD and recital on the 3-73 D. F. Pilzecker organ at the Church of St. Jude, Detroit, Michigan.$14.98 |
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Dudley Buck Organ Music
James Hammann plays an 1866 Hook
James Hammann, Organist, plays works of the prolific and skillful Dudley Buck on the 1866 E. & G. G. Hook 3m relocated to St. John's Episcopal Church, Quincy, Illinois.$14.98 | | Dulcet Tones
Jack Mitchener Plays the Salem Tannenberg
On the 1799 Tannenberg in Winston-Salem, Jack Mitchener makes the first recording of Graun's Concerto in g, and also plays J.S. and C.P.E. Bach and several others.$14.98 |
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The Central German School: Philip T. D. Cooper plays the Yokota Organ
Choosing works composed during a century ending around 1750, Philip T. D. Cooper explores the Thuringian sphere of composers and organists who were active in J. S. Bach’s day.$14.98 | | Universe of Poetry: Michael Unger Plays the New Fritts, Opus 26
Michael Unger, 2008 American Guild of Organists NYACOP First Prize Winner, plays brilliantly a diverse program of works on the 2008 Paul Fritts & Company organ, Opus 26.$15.98 |
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Temple Miniatures
Paul Feĵko and Sebastian Glück demonstrate the stylistic flexibility of the 2002 Glück organ at Temple Emanu-el in New York City. While Feĵko performs his own works, Glück plays works spanning three centuries, including two of his own arrangements.$11.98 | | Merrily on Hill
Christmas organ music from Hill Auditorium at the University of Michigan is played by James Kibbie: Bach, Karg-Elert, Peart, Milford, Gigout, D'Aquin, Dupré, Purvis, Visser, Franck.$14.98 |
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Ancient & Modern Portraits for Organ
Bogusław Grabowski of St. Mary’s of Assumption Basilica and Co-Cathedral in Gdansk, Poland, shows well the capabilities of the Lewtak organ built for St. Joseph’s Church, Camillus, New York.$14.98 | | John Gouwens: Organ & Carillon
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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Old Pennsylvania-German Organs, Volume 2: Philip T. D. Cooper
Cooper continues to explore Pennsylvania-German organbuilding.$14.98 | | Old Pennsylvania Organs
Philip T. D. Cooper visits the beginnings of organbuilding in 18th-century America.$14.98 |
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Fiesta!
Maxine Thévenot celebrates the colors of music and an Albuquerque Fiesta.$14.98 | | Roaring Ranks with Faythe Freese
Faythe Freese plays the 3-77 Glatter-Götz/Rosales organ in Claremont United Church of Christ Congregational, Claremont, California.$14.98 |
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Bravo Dolce!
Celebrating his own arrival and the 10th anniversary of the Lied Organ at First-Plymouth Congregational Church in Lincoln, Nebraska, Dr. John Cummins makes this recording. Here he demonstrates his own virtuosity and the flexibility of the massive 110-rank Schoenstein instrument.$14.98 | | Double Forte
David Higgs & Todd Wilson Play Duos on the 141-rank Möller at National City Christian Church in Washington, D. C. in this 20-bit CD from Delos.$14.98 |
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Forever Methuen
Frederick Hohman, who is the recording engineer and owner of the CD label Pro Organo, plays beautifully for his first CD on this great landmark, the huge 1863 Walcker/1947 Aeolian-Skinner at Methuen, Massachusetts.$15.98 | | Lofty Ambrosia
Nancy Metzger employs three different organs in a sampling of music by composers born in the 19th century.$14.98 |
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Burned in Boston Jan. 18 2005 -- 1859 E. & G. G. Hook 3m
Tragedy! Great Hook organ destroyed First Baptist Church in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston was destroyed by fire overnight on Tuesday, January 18, 2005.
| | C. B. Fisk Opus 114, Benaroya Hall, Seattle: Carole Terry Plays
Fisk Opus 114 in Benaroya Hall: Carole Terry has chosen a broad program of works to demonstrate the resources of this necessarily eclectic organ$15.98 |
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Gallic in Greensboro
Organist André Lash performs a program of varying French works on C. B. Fisk Opus 82 at Christ United Methodist Church in Greensboro, North Carolina. The 3 manual, 63 rank organ, is particularly well-suited for playing both Classical and Romantic French works. The instrument was visited and heard by members of the Organ Historical Society during the 2001 National Convention.
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Talented OHS Member Scott Foppiano performs varied works on the 4 manual, 103 rank Möller Pipe Organ at The First (Park) Congregational Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The organ was built in 1930 by E. M. Skinner, and then rebuilt in a more classical style by M. P. Möller in 1969. In 1988, a fire severely damaged the instrument, and it was once again rebuilt by Möller. A surprising number of Skinner pipes are retained.
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Amaral Vieira - Obras Completas para Órgão
Organist Iain Quinn performs the complete organ works (as of 1996) of Brazilian composer Amaral Vieira from the Church of the Intercession, Harlem, New York. Vieira, who at one time studied composition with Olivier Messiaen, is one of the most successful musicians in Brazil. He is known for his study and performance of the music of Liszt, (he gave the first public performance of Liszt's 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies in Latin America), and is also responsible for bringing previously unknown music to large audiences in Brazil, through the radio program Laudate Dominum.
Iain Quinn has given the United States premiere of all of the works on this disc. Here, he performs on a 1968 Schlicker, 90% of which is comprised of retained Aeolian-Skinner pipes.$17.98 | | Tharp at Girard
Virtuoso organist Stephen Tharp plays legendary organ works on the famous 1933 E. M. Skinner of more than 100 ranks at Girard College, Philadelphia. REGER: Fantaisie on Straf’ mich nicht in deinem Zorn
DURUFLÉ: Prelude & Fugue on A-L-A-I-N
HOWELLS: Psalm-Prelude Set II, No. 1 Out of the deep
WIDOR: Variations movement from Symphony 8 in B
DUPRÉ: Trois Esquisses, Op. 41$13.98 |
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World Premieres and Transcriptions: St. Mary-the-Virgin, NY
Virtuoso organist Stephen Tharp records at St. Mary the Virgin, Manhattan, on the 1932/42 Aeolian-Skinner 4-86, rejuvenated by Mann & Trupiano in 1995. LISZT: Totentanz - Danse macabre on Dies Irae (arr. Tharp) DAVID HURD: Arioso & Finale ANTON VAN DER HORST: Étude de concert MCNEIL ROBINSON: Sonata for Organ SERGE PROKOFIEV: Toccata (arr. Guillou) IGOR STRAVINSKY: Three Dances from Petrouchka (arr. Tharp)$13.98 | | Florence Mustric Plays: Volume 1, East of Berlin
NEW!Florence Mustric plays at Trinity ELCA in Cleveland$14.98 |
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Florence Mustric Plays: Volume 2, The Thrill of the Chase
NEW! Florence Mustric plays Bach on the Beckerath in Cleveland$14.98 | | Ken Cowan Plays Romantic Masterworks
Ken Cowan brings stunning virtuosity to landmark masterworks on the 110-rank Schoenstein symphonic organ, Lincoln, Nebraska.$14.98 |
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Benjamin Waterhouse
Waterhouse plays an historic organ built in 1872 by the renowned Montréal organbuiler Louis Mitchell, now scrupulously restored by Denis Juget, at the church of St.-Fabien-de-Panet, Quebec.$15.98 | | L'Orgue Magnifique: Thevenot at Girard
L’Orgue Magnifique
Maxine Thévenot plays the 1933 E. M. Skinner, Girard College, Philadelphia
Fabulous Acoustics, Magnificent Sound$14.98 |
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The Art of Two Manuals
NEW! Three organists at three different two manual organs built by the Reuter Organ Company demonstrate the effectiveness of modest instruments.$14.98 | | Spirited Sounds from a Schoenstein
NEW! Andrew Peters ably shows the flexibility of Schoenstein & Co. Opus 137 in Historic Franklin Presbyterian Church, Franklin, Tennessee.$14.98 |
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Andover Opus 114: Paul Davis Plays
NEW! Paul Davis plays Andover Opus 114, recently completed in Christ Lutheran Church, Baltimore, Maryland.$14.98 | | John Brock in Recital
on a new Richards, Fowkes & Co. Organ
At the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, John Brock celebrates a new addition to the campus.$14.98 |
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Noëls: Karel Paukert Plays Christmas Treasures
Karel Paukert, who for 30 years was Curator of Musical Arts at the Cleveland Museum of Arts, gathers an interesting group of colorful Christmas works from Italy, France, Bohemia, Germany and the New World and performs them with great facility on the Museum’s Skinner/Holtkamp organ.$15.98 | | Works of Bach and Franck
OHS Member James Johnson demonstrates the flexibility of the 1972 Frobenius & Søns organ at the First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, in Cambridge, Mass. This organ, the first Frobenius built in North America, was featured at the 2000 National Convention of the Organ Historical Society.
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Cathedral Echoes: Charles Callahan at the St. Louis Cathedral Kilgen
NEW!
Charles Callahan: Cathedral Echoes
Lush colors and rich acoustics in a fine program!$14.98 | | Now & Then
OHS Member Marnie Giesbrecht plays works of old and newer pieces on two organs, a Létourneau and a Casavant in Edmonton, Alberta Canada.
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Thomsen Chapel Inaugural Recitals
Organist/Choirmaster J. Melvin Butler and associate organist Roger Sherman perform inaugural recitals on the Marion Camp Oliver Organ located in Thomsen Chapel at St. Mark's Cathedral, Seattle. Works of J.S. Bach, Clarke, Stanley, Buxtehude, Brahms, Vierne and Toon Hagen are performed on the 2 manual organ, built by Paul Fritts and Company in 2003. Fritts' opus 22 is entirely mechanical action, and tuned to Kellner "Bach" temperament (1978).$14.98 | | Divine Euterpe
OHS Member Kimberly Marshall plays works of women composers from the 15th to the 20th centuries on the 1987 Rosales Organ (Opus 11) at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Portland, Oregon, which was heard by the Organ Historical Society during the 1997 National Convention.
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Frederick Swann in Hawaii Vol. 2
Frederick Swann plays works as early as deGrigny, and as recent as those composed by the performer himself at Central Union Church, Honolulu, Hawaii. The organ is comprised of 68 ranks and 4023 pipes, controlled by a four manual console. Swann is joined by harpist Nyle Hallman on two tracks.
$14.98 | | Bach and the Italian Influence
OHS Member Kimberly Marshall not only plays works of J. S. Bach specifically influenced by Italians, but also plays works of Frescobaldi, whom Bach studied. Marshall plays the 1984 Fisk Organ (Opus 85) at Stanford University's Stanford Memorial Church in Palo Alto, California. The four manual organ can be played in equal-temperament or in one-fifth comma meantone.
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Organ Power!
OHS Member Alan Morrison plays works of J.S. Bach, Messiaen, Widor, Dupré and Jon Spong (Morrison's predecessor at Philadelphia's First Baptist Church) on the Heefner Memorial Organ in Bomberger Hall at Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA. The 1986 Austin organ, which may often be overlooked in favor of the many organs in Eastern Pennsylvania, here makes a strong showing, especially when played by the Curtis Institute graduate.
$14.98 | | Dupré Symphonie-Passion · Vêpres du Commun de la Sainte-Vierge
James Biery plays Dupré's Symphonie-Passion, Op. 23, and Vêpres du Commun de la Sainte-Vierge, Op. 18 on the 4-manual, 137-rank 1962 Austin Organ at The Cathedral of St. Joseph, Hartford, Connecticut.$14.98 |
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Franz Liszt - David Mulbury - Methuen Memorial Music Hall
David Mulbury plays works of Franz Liszt on the Great Organ of Methuen Memorial Music Hall, Methuen, Massachusetts. This instrument was heard by the Organ Historical Society during the 1978 National Convention in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
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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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The 1866 Koehnken & Co. Organ at the Isaac M. Wise Temple
A restored organ continues its song at age 141 and counting.$15.98 | | Élan Vital: Andrew Senn at First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia
Andrew Senn at the Reuter Organ in a varied program of virtuosic works$14.98 |
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Sevenfold Gifts
Margaret Martin Kvamme plays Felgemaker Opus 506, 1889 in Holy Cross Church, Santa Cruz, California.$15.98 | | Pipes & Angels
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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Preludes, Fugues, & Variations
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 | | Great Organs of Worcester
Worcester, Massachusetts is proud of its wealth of fine organs. 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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Eleventh of September
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 | | In Bach's Neighborhood
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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James Johnson: "An American Masterpiece"
in Christ United Methodist Church, Greensboro NC.$14.98 | | "James Johnson Plays Bach" on the Flentrop organ,
in Adolphus Busch Hall at Harvard University.$14.98 |
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James Johnson: "Joyeux Noel"
in French Classical style in St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Durham, NC.$14.98 | | French Éclat in the Roanoke Valley
French Éclat in the Roanoke Valley, 2004 Fisk op. 124$14.98 |
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All Glory in the Highest
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 | | Without Boundaries: Maxine Thévenot, organist
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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The Cathedral Organ: Iain Quinn, Organist
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 | | A Lively-Fulcher in New Haven
From Sowerby to Buxtehude to Whitlock and Howells at Christ Church, New Haven$14.98 |
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Celebration
James Welch celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Carmel Mission organ with music for worship, weddings, and memorials.$12.98 | | Cherry Rhodes In Concert
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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Gifts from Above at St. Meinrad's Archabbey
AGO Prize Winner Yoon-mi Lim performs on 3/70 Goulding & Wood in St. Meinrad’s$14.98 | | Catholic Heritage
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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Resounding Joy: 1889 Organ, Port Townsend, Washington
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 | | John Scott Plays the Buzard Organ, All Saints, Atlanta
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 at Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock
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 | | Eleanor Fulton Plays at Yale: Musical Evolution
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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Inaugural Recital, Meyerson Center, Dallas
David Higgs premieres C. B. Fisk Opus 100 at the Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, Texas. Higgs performs works by Conrad Susa, Bach, d'Aquin, Franck, Conte, Hampton, Liszt, and Mozart$14.98 | | Blasts from the Century Past
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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Lyrique Mystique in Wilkes-Barre
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 | | 1926 Casavant Restored, Cathedral Basilica, London, Ontario
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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In the Old World & the New
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 | | Land of Rest: Robert Parris Plays the Fisk, Macon, Georgia
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 Plays 86-rank Holtkamp, Tuscaloosa
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 | | Kotzschmar Organ Summer Concerts from Portland City Hall
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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Pops & Pipes: Yun Kyong Kim Plays in Dayton, Ohio
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 | | Discoveries: Christopher Marks Plays the Holtkamp at Syracuse
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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Fisk Organ at King's Chapel: Heinrich Christensen Plays
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 | | The Los Angeles Cathedral Dobson Organ, 105 ranks!
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 Philadelphia Organbuilder: Wesley Parrott & Matthew Glandorf Play
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 | | Organ Fireworks! with Christopher Herrick
British virtuoso Chrisopher Herrick plays fiery organ works of all periods and nationalities on magnificent organs located all over the world, from an Aeolian-Skinner in New York to huge organs in Iceland, Finland, Paris, England, and many more.
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A Musical Feast
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 | | Permutations of Pot Roast
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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A Small Wonder
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.
Click headline for repertoire$12.98 | | Organa Americana
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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Alla Rumba! for Organ, Brass, Tympani & Organ Solo
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 | | The Mission Inn Organ
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 At the Meyerson Fisk, Dallas
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 | | Salem's Largest Tannenberg, Restored
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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The Lyon Roars, Mary Gifford Plays
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 | | Thomas Froehlich Plays on 3 CDs!
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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50 Years of the Crouse Holtkamp
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 | | Virgil Fox at the Wanamaker Organ
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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Recordings of Felix Hell, Germany's Wunderkind!
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. At age 18, he was the youngest organ major to graduate from the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. In 2008, at age 22, he completed graduate studies at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore. Hell's playing has been featured on television in both the United States and his native Germany, and has been featured on the weekly radio program, Pipedreams.
Click above to view several recordings!
| | Romantics & Classics: The Dobson Organ in St. Joseph's Abbey, Marcus St. Julien, Organist
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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Mystics & Spirits: The Dobson Organ in St. Joseph's Abbey; Marijim Thoene, Organist
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 | | Sunday at 2, Balboa Park
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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Balka at St. Mary's Cathedral, San Francisco
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 | | Thomas Dressler Plays at Round Lake
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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Pilcher Revived in Tennessee:
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 | | James Hicks Plays American Classic Fantastic!
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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Poems & Variations: Tikker at Claremont
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 | | Beckerath Retrospective
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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Thomas Heywood at the 1876 Hook in Buffalo Cathedral, 4m, 81 rks
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 | | Aaron David Miller Plays the Pasi Organ in Lynnwood, Washington
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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Ferré Preludes & Postludes 9-11
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 | | Rose Windows
Anthems from Norfolk
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$1.99 |
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Philadelphia Gothic
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 | | Fast and Sinister: Scott Bennett at Grace Church, Charleston
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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John Scott & 20th C. Masters - Available Again!
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 | | Clyde Holloway Plays the Fisk-Rosales at Rice
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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Blending Voices: Katharine Pardee at Rosales Organ, Seattle
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 | | For Weddings
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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Magnificat: Robert Benjamin Dobey
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 | | Bright & Clear: David Wagner Plays
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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Mighty Organs with Biggs, Newman, Leonhardt & Glenn Gould
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 | | An Organ Pilgrimage
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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Victorian Gems in Chicago
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 | | Music She Wrote
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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Live from Balboa Park II, Robert Plimpton Plays
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 | | 1889 Van Dinter Organ: Praise & Celebration
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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With Pipes of Tin and Wood
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 | | Visions of Eternity: Marcia Van Oyen Plays the Buzard Organ in Glenview, Illinois
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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Pipedreams! & Michael Barone: Organ on the Radio
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
| | Martin Jean at Valparaiso University
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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World's Largest Church Organ in Los Angeles
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 | | Douglas Cleveland: Celestial Fire
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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Alan Morrison at the Newark Cathedral
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 | | Anton Heiller at Harvard:
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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Marilyn Keiser
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 | | 1907 Hutchings-Votey, Seattle, Joseph Adam Plays
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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Rosales in San Antonio
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 | | Will Headlee: 100 Years of Organ Music at Syracuse University
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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David Liddle at St. Ignatius, New York
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 | | Bruce Stevens, Organist
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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Spreckels Sounds Spectacular
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 | | The Wolff at University of Kansas
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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Classic and Romantic on an 1841 Warren/1993 Wolff
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 | | Organ Suites: Haig Mardirosian
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Guilmant in America
Recreating Guilmant’s first recital in America (played in 1893 at the Chicago World’s Fair on the Farrand & Votey) James Hammann records on the restored 1894 Farrand & Votey at St. Martin of Tours Church in Louisville, Kentucky.
LEMMENS: Sonata No. 1 Pontificale BACH: Toccata in F BWV 540 SCHUMANN: Canon in B Minor, Op. 56, No. 5
MENDELSSOHN: Sonata No. 3 in A GUILMANT: Marche Funebre et Chant Seraphique; Invocation in B-Flat, Final in E-Flat$14.98 | | A Sleeping Giant Awakes for a CD!
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Deferred Voices:
Christa Rakich Plays Organ Works of Women
At the Seattle AGO National Convention in July, 2000, Christa Rakich played magnificently at St. Mark's Cathedral. This program features women composers. She plays the 1933 Kilgen 3-39 at St. Justin's, Hartford, Connecticut$14.98 | | Meditations from Grace
For organ and oboe: GIAZOTTO: Adagio in G (after Albinoni) KROL: Litanie Pastorale WEEKS: Pastoral Morning
KREBS: Fantasia in F PINKHAM: Nocturne
For organ solo: BACH: Jesus Christus, unser Heiland BWV 665a MENDELSSOHN: Prelude & Fugue in G JONGEN: Chorale in E COUPERIN: Elevation (Tierce en taille) BAIRSTOW: Evening Song with piano: arr. C. CALLAHAN: Amazing Grace
Meditations from Grace Most of the selections here were recorded on the large A. R. Strauss organ (Op. 35 /1991) at Grace Episcopal Church, Elmira, New York, and played by George E. Damp. He is joined in several selections by William Denton on oboe and on one selection on piano by Alice Bancroft Damp. Some selections were recorded on the Strauss organ (Op. 23) at First Baptist Church, Ithaca, New York.$14.98 |
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Keith Chapman at Wanamaker’s
The famous recordings made by Keith Chapman at the famous organ in the Wanamaker Store, Philadelphia. A 2-CD set.$25.98 | | The Wanamaker Organ on the Radio
Taken from radio broadcasts which began in 1971, these programs capture the enthusiasm and artistry of the young Keith Chapman. A 2-CD set$24.98 |
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Wanamaker Organ on the Radio, Vol. 2
Volume II is a single CD featuring more outstanding interpretations by legendary Wanamaker Organist Keith Chapman, gleaned from the vaults of Chapman's radio broadcasts. Works by Purvis, Handel, Bach, Debussy, Froberger, Buxtehude, and the full resources of the organ in a Reger selection.Regular price: $17.00
Sale price: $12.50 | | Inaugural Recital, Meyerson Center, Dallas
David Higgs premieres C. B. Fisk Opus 100 at the Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, Texas. Higgs performs works by Conrad Susa, Bach, d'Aquin, Franck, Conte, Hampton, Liszt, and Mozart$14.98 |
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Mary Preston at the Meyerson Vol. I
Widor: Symphony 3
Duruflé: Suite, Op. 5
Prèlude, Adagio et Choral varie Venie Creator$14.98 | | Mary Preston at the Meyerson Vol. II
Works by Reger, Stifler, Greiter, Reubke, Rinck, and Doppelbauer$14.98 |
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Sounds of Splendor at the Metropolitan Museum
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Doug Reed & Fisk Op. 98
$14.98 | | Joyce Jones: The Colors of the Organ
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Joyce Jones & the Baylor Létourneau
$12.98 | | Joyce Jones at Spivey Hall
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Joyce Jones at West Point
Great sound and playing of Bach, Roberts, Rheinberger, Tournemire, Dupré, and Joyce Jones' own improvisation on The Red Dragonfly$14.98 | | West Point – 325 Ranks!
Lee Detra plays$12.98 |
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St. Patrick’s, NY
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Little Church Around-the-Corner
DE GRIGNY: Veni Creator BACH: Allein gott; Trio super Allein Gott; Fantasie & Fugue in g MENDELSSOHN: Sonata 2 BRAHMS: Fugue in a-flat ROREM: Episode, Song, Serenade from Organ Book VIERNE: Carillon de Westminster FRANCK: Cantabile
Donald George plays the famous 1988 C. B. Fisk op. 92 of 48 ranks at the Little Church Around the Corner (Church of the Transfiguration) in New York City.$14.98 | | Festive Wedding
Desiderius Klempay plays the large Visser-Rowland organ at Wooddale Church, Eden Prairie, Minnesota, in a program of music appropriate for weddings or other festive occasions. Choose from two CDs!$15.98 |
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In Search of the Lost Chord
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Murray at Immaculate Conception
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March On! at Longwood
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Orchestral Hors d’oeuvres
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Bruce Neswick, Organist
Pacific Northwest native Neswick brought raves for his recitals at Pacific Lutheran University during the Seattle AGO National Convention, July, 2000, playing the Fritts organ there, where he studied with David Dahl as a student. On this CD, he plays Gerre Hancock, Scheidemann, Distler, Sowerby, Bach, and his own Improvisation on a Richards, Fowkes & Co. organ in Connecticut.$14.98 | | James Welch Plays a Schoenstein: Around the World in Under 80 Minutes
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Pullman Promenade: Mary Gifford Plays a Steere & Turner
$14.98 | | The Dobson Rebuild: Wolfgang Rübsam at Valparaiso
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Music from Grace, Kent Hill Plays
At Grace Church, Elmira, New York, the 67-rank organ built in 1991 by A. Richard Strauss provides grand sounds for works by Nielsen, , Karg-Elert, Franck, Couperin, and Bach$14.98 | | Christopher Young
On the great Martin Pasi organ, Christopher Young brought waves of admiration for his playing during the Seattle AGO National Convention, July, 2000. Here, Young plays Te Deum settings by several composers on two organs recently built by John-Paul Buzard in Champaign, Illinois.$14.98 |
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Brombaugh in Appleton
The Brombaugh at Appleton Wisconsin, Lawrence University, is played by George Damp. The 3m, 48-rank organ was completed as op. 33 in 1995.$14.98 | | A Century of Splendor
Jesse Eschbach and Richard Proulx play and Michael Barone produces this CD to celebrate the 1898 Felgemaker in the Sacred Heart Music Center, Duluth, Minnesota.$14.98 |
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Ensemble Barbaroque
Ensemble Barbaroque comprises seven virtuosos who have employed, as the eighth player in their ensemble, an automatic pipe organ — a ‘’barrel organ.’’$17.98 | | A Centennial Celebration at Waterbury, Connecticut
Waterbury’s 1892 Johnson 3m at Sacred Heart Church is played by Susan Armstrong.$14.98 |
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Romantic Masterpieces
Played in All Saints Cathedral, Albany, N. Y., by Susan Armstrong on the 6-division, 58-stop organ rebuilt by Austin in 1974 and ‘86 from Aeolian-Skinner’s 1956 rebuild of Austin’s op. 45 of 1904 and 1923.$14.98 | | Organ Music of Reger and Vierne
David Craighead plays Rosales opus 11 of 87 ranks in Trinity Episcopal Church, Portland, Oregon.
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Alan Morrison & Schantz
Hear the 1987 Schantz 3-37 in good acoustics at St. Luke’s Epis. Church, Dunwoody, Georgia.$15.98 | | Go Tell It on the Mountain
Calvert Johnson plays the 1990 Bosch 2-22 at Sharp Memorial United Methodist Church in Young Harris, Georgia, in music by women and early Dutch works.$14.98 |
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Douglas Reed & . . .Taylor & Boody
The Maple Mount Taylor & Boody at St. Joseph Ursuline Motherhouse Chapel, Maple Mount, Kentucky, Douglas Reed plays.$14.98 | | Viaticum (A 20th-Century Collection)
On 3-CDs, Robert Bates takes a journey of works by himself, Calvin Hampton(1), Joan Tower(1), Arvo Pärt (5), Jean Guillou (1), Olivier Messiaen (1), Jehan Alain (2), Jeanne Demessieux (1), and György Ligeti (3), all played at Stanford University on the two organs in the chapel: the famous and large dual-temperament C. B. Fisk, and the magnificent and large 3m Murray Harris organ, restored by Manuel Rosales. Whether one buys into the entirety of the brilliant experience or one simply enjoys hearing exemplary performances by a consummate musician at work with fine organs, the set is greatly rewarding and is taking on some well deserved praise.Regular price: $27.98
Sale price: $27.98 |
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Traditions
Special Price! Susan Marchant plays the C.B. Fisk Opus 106 Organ at Pittsburg State University.$3.99 | | What a Classic!
Thomas Heywood plays the 1927 Casavant Grand Organ at Saint Andrew's Lutheran Church in Mahtomedi, Minnesota.
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John Sittard plays Russell & Co. Opus 38
Old organs integrated into a new whole with two consoles
In the Cathedral of St. Paul, Worcester, Massachusetts, Russell & Co. has rebuilt the 1952 Casavant grand orgue containing Johnson pipework and a 1960’s Wicks orgue de choeur to create a new instrument in French Romantic style.$14.98 | | Soaring Sounds of Majestic Antiquity
An organ to be heard at the 2007 OHS National Convention, this J. W. Steere organ was built for First Presbyterian Church, Franklin, Indiana in 1912 and expanded in 1988 by Goulding & Wood.$12.98 |
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Exultate
Music of Daniel Gawthrop
Mary Mozelle plays organ works of Daniel E. Gawthrop on the Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner/Mander organ in Princeton University Chapel.$12.98 | | Moments of Majesty
Seasons of Celebration
When OHS visited the Archabbey of St. Meinrad in 1993, Goulding & Wood had not yet installed the present organ of 70 ranks and three manuals.$14.98 |
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Pageant: A Pipe Organ Spectacular
Thomas Bara, one of the organists and accompanists at St. Thomas Church in New York City under Gerre Hancock for many years, plays this recent (2003) organ built by The Reuter Organ Company for the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. Francis Xavier in Alexandria, Louisiana.$14.98 | | Water and Light
Scott Montgomery, 2006 First Place Winner in the American Guild of Organists National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance plays the 4-92 Mander organ completed in 2003 for Peachtree United Methodist Church, Atlanta, Georgia.$14.98 |
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Organ Odyssey
Mary Preston Plays Fisk Opus 100
$16.98 | | Music of Leo Sowerby and Frederic Chopin
Charles Callahan and Lorenz Maycher play on this recording to document the sound of the 1903 Hutchings-Votey 4-69 organ in the First Church of Christ, Scientist, New York City.$16.50 |
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Cherry Rhodes...live
NEW!
Cherry Rhodes plays on the Berghaus in Chicago’s Queen of All Saints Basilica$15.98 | | The Longhorns of Abilene: Simon Niemienski
NEW! Simon Nieminski Plays a new Nichols & Simpson in Abilene$15.98 |
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Grogan at the National Shrine
Robert Grogan at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D. C., plays the 1964 Möller of 142-stops.$14.98 | | Hohman By Request
Frederick Hohman plays the 1996 Austin 3-64 at St. John’s Episcopal Church, West Hartford, Connecticut, home church of the Austin family, where the previous Austin was destroyed in a devastating fire. Hohman plays favorites requested by Austin employees who built the organ: Wagner, Vierne, Purvis, Ducasse, Bach, Franck.
Click ikon for repertoire$14.98 |
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Envisionings
NEW! Young virtuoso Dong-ill Shin performs an interesting variety of 19th-century and later works on the largest organ in Texas and largest Casavant in the world. Shin performs two works of Asian origin, including a work by a fellow Korean whose life tells a fascinating and poignant story.$15.98 | | In Light or Darkness
For its recording premiere, Stephen Buzard sits at the 2008 Buzard Pipe Organ (Op. 37) with a superb choice of repertoire. Second Presbyterian Church in Bloomington, Illinois rings with the music of Mendelssohn, Paulus, Vierne, Reubke, Howells, and Schubert in bright registrations that do full justice to the instrument built by the performer’s father.$14.98 |
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