Varied Organ Music Recordings Played on Organs in Continental Europe & Elsewhere

NEW! Karen Beaumont plays a varied program of organ music from the mid-16th century to mid-18th century featuring the music from three parts of Austria: Salzburg, Linz, and Vienna. Karen was the organist and choir director at St. James Episcopal Church in Milwaukee from 1988-2011. She is now the organist at the Chapel of St. John the Evangelist at St. John's on the Lake in Milwaukee.

NEW! Trois Dances features the music of Jehan Alain, Anton Heiller, and Igor Stravinski played by Olivier Latry and Shin-Young Lee. This recording was performed on aux Grandes Orgues Muhleisen de Notre-Dame de Bon Voyage, Cannes. Originally built in 1901 by Vignolo, and was rebuilt in 2008 by Muhleisen.

Produced by Codaex 2013

Released in 2011 Stef Tuinstra performs on the organ and harpsichord in this beautifully made recording. The three-disc set is a collection of Georg Böhm's keyboard works. The included 223 page booklet includes several color photographs of the Schnitger organ, the Hinsz organ and the Zell Harpsichord, and also includes an introduction, biographical information on Böhm, the compositions, performance practice, and biographical information on the performer.

NEW! This German program, performed by organist Megumi Tokuoka, showcases the organ music of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms. This recording is a testament to their achievements as composers reinterpreting the music and style of JS Bach.

Recorded on the Wilhelm Korfmacher Organ (1841)
Eglise Saint-Sebastie, Stavelot (Belgium)

NEW! Massimo Nosetti plays the new organ at the Parish Church of St. Giovanni the Evangelist in Alessandria, Italy.

NEW!
Pierre Labric plays the Cavaillé-Coll organ of St. Sernin, Toulouse.
In the early 1970s, Téléson, a company located in Rouen, convinced Pierre Labric to record a considerable number of repertoire works with, foremost amongst them, the symphonies of Vierne and Widor as well as the works of Demessieux--three large groups that were subsequently given up to the Musical Heritage Society, based in New York at the time. MHS released them in the form of three boxed sets that, owing to their success, soon sold out and have become impossible to find. After more than thirty years of absence, these legendary interpretations are now available again!

New from the OHS Vault!
The Neopolitan Baroque organ from Biaggio di Rosa from 1777 has, after a long odyssey across Europe, found its current home in Lubeck; first in St. Peter's Church, then in time-honored Lubeck Cathedral.

The organ of the Messina Cathedral beautifully lends itself to this recording in which Massimo Nosetti plays transcriptions of famous works. As the third largest organ in Europe, this organ is perfectly suited for a variety of colors heard in this wide range of works transcribed for organ.

A newish organ that sits in the main concert hall in Christchuch, New Zealand. Built by Rieger, its sounds are exciting and for a concert hall not entirely dry. Martin Setchell is well known throughout the world as a concert organist and here he plays the organ which displays the virtuosity of both him and the instrument.

NEW! Konrad Paul plays the Ladegast organ of St. Johannis in Wernigerode.

Now Available! Maurice Clerc plays French Transcriptions for Organ at the Saint-Bénigne Cathedral, Dijon.

Martin Haselböck performs 20th century works on the 2001 Karl Schuke organ (Opus 525) at the Warsaw Philharmonic, Poland. This recording is "a useful record of some recent and important trends in organ music," says The Tracker. "Haselböck performs the music flawlessly, and obviously with great zest and appreciation." Recorded in high quality SACD format and will play in all SACD and CD players.

Jonathan Dimmock plays a rare and almost entirely intact three-manual organ built by "Father" Henry Willis and reinstalled in Örgryte New Church,Göteborg, Sweden in 1998.

John Stiller and Christopher Dearnley begin a 2-CD tour of Australia's Barossa Valley and its wealth of late nineteenth and early twentieth century organs.

Carol Williams makes her second visit to St. Martin's Church in Dudelange, Luxembourg and plays works by Susato, Satie, Verdi, Widor, Fats Waller, Jenkins, and Glass, among others.

Margaret Phillips plays the 2004 Bernard Aubertin organ of 51 stops in the Church of St. Louis-en-L’Île, Paris, inspired by the Hildebrandt in St. Wenzel’s Church, Naumburg.

At Monza: Two new organs (or is it three?), two organists, eleven composers and three centuries of literature!

Munich Domorganist Hans Leitner plays works of composers associated with Munich from the days of Conrad Paumann in the 15th century to the present using two organs built by Jann.

Tribute to 16th century Krakow
The musical diversity of a prominent era in Krakow's history is recalled in the selections of Marcin Szelest performed on the 18th century organ of the city’s Heilig-Kreuz Kirche.

The Hillebrand firm of Hannover, Germany has built a new organ of 3 manuals and pedal and 46 stops for the Marienbasilika, Gdansk, Poland. Two seldom heard composers are featured.

im Saal der Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig

Arvid Gast, professor of organ performance at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Conservatory, Leipzig, performs works of Elgar, Karg-Elert (an alumnus and former teacher of the school), Reger (former teacher), Franck, Vierne and Dupré on the Romantic 2001 Eule instrument in the concert hall. The instrument is remiscent of the Walcker instrument that was in the concert hall when it was destroyed in World War II, and is modeled after two surviving Walcker instruments.

The Predigerkirche ("Preacher's Church") in Erfurt, Germany was built in the 13th century as a monastery for monks of the Dominican order. On this recording, the ancient building is filled with the sound of current titular organist Matthias Dreißig playing works of J.S. Bach, Pachelbel, Mendelssohn and Karg-Elert on the 1977 Schuke organ.

A proposed new peal of bells at the Cathedral of St. Nikolai in Greifswald, Germany is the inspiration for this recording by Cathedral Organist Frank Dittmer. The "Prayer and Professor Bell", a c' bell cast in they year 1440 which is audible beyond the city limits, is to be joined by six more bells at pitches e flat', a flat', b flat', c", e flat", and f". The works on this recording are based on some of these pitches. Includes an improvisation on the "Prayer and Professor Bell" as well.

NEW! An elegant Silbermann spans the centuries

Maurice Clerc demonstrates his prowess on the organ at the Cathédrale Saint-Bénigne in Dijon, where he has been 'organist titulaire' since 1972. Here, Clerc showcases his ability by playing four centuries of toccatas, (which are written for that purpose), including two of the most recognizable organ works ever written, by Bach and Widor.

Philippe Bardon plays varying works on the Great Organ at the Cathédrale Saint Maclou in Pontoise, near Paris, France. Hear an instrument that has survived the French Revolution, a flood and two World Wars, and has been played by Balbastre, Beauverlet-Charpentier, Lefébure-Wely, Guilmant, Gigout, Boëlmann, Dupré and Litaize.

Christopher Kent plays works of Johann Pachelbel and John Bull on two instruments to demonstrate two of the organ styles that Pachelbel would have encountered in his lifetime.
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Ute Gremmel-Geuchen plays works of Corrette, Muffat, J.S. Bach and C.P.E. Bach on the reconstituted 1752 Ludwig König organ at the Paterskirche in Kempen, Germany.

Carol Williams, San Diego Municipal Organist, visits Luxembourg to play the Stahlhuth organ, built in 1912 as a 3-45 and now enlarged to four manuals and 94 ranks.

Joachim Grubich plays the 1914 Zebrowski organ built into a case dating to 1761 by Józef Weissmann and located in the Monastery Church of St. Paul, Crakow in works of J.S. Bach, Zipoli, and Surzynski. Jan Jargon plays the 1755/1788 Johann Friedrich Rhode organ in the Church of the Dominican Monastery of St. Nicholas in Gdansk as restored in 1977, performing works by J.S. Bach, Nowowiejski, and Jargon.

Würzburg Cathedral Organist Stefan Schmidt performs works for the Feast of Pentecost

The new 4m Rieger organ of 69 stops built in the sumptuous acoustics of Essen Cathedral is played by Jürgen Kursawa, organist of the Cathedral. Click the headline for works by Bach, Vierne, Reger, and Guillou, and to order.

This special release includes two discs for the price of one: one conventional CD and the same program on a second disc produced in DVD-Audio. Roland Muhr plays the restored organ at the former Cistercian monastery church in Fürstenfeld near Munich. Finished in 1736, the organ of 27 stops comprising 43 ranks on two manuals and 18-note pedal was restored by the Sandtner firm and fills the huge and resonant Bavarian abbey church with its original sounds as so amply demonstrated with this happy program of marches by Guilmant, Boellmann, Smart, Purcell, Nowowiejski, Grieg, Fumagalli, Gherardeschi, Hartmann, Mendelssohn, Handel, Balbastre, and Lasceux, many transcribed by Muhr. Click the headline for the marches and to order.

The 1919-29 Hill, Norman & Beard organ now in Dunedin Town Hall, Otago, New Zealand, was restored by the South Island Organ Company 1993-95 and lovingly given the name “Norma.” Hans Uwe Hielscher plays a diverse program to demonstrate the fantastic sound of the 75-stop organ which was originally built as a touring concert organ and billed as the “Bathurst Mammoth Touring Cathedral Organ” that moved around on seven trucks with a crew of 10 men who could remove, pack, and reinstall the 23-ton organ in just 14 hours. After less than a decade of use in England, the organ was sold to Dunedin in New Zealand and greatly enlarged in 1929 by Hill, Norman & Beard.Click headline for repertoire

In the Kashubian Ethnographic Park
Roman Perucki plays the 5-rank organ built by Gottfried Weinert of Gdansk. It and the church which contains it were moved in 1987 to an historical park. Click the headline for titles and to order.

The first American-built organ in a European cathedral was completed by the C. B. Fisk firm in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2003. This first CD features Jean-Christophe Geiser playing works in four styles: German Baroque, French Classic, German Romantic, and French. LÜBECK: Praeludium in d DUMAGE: Suite du 1er ton LISZT: Évocation à la Chapelle Sixtine DURUFLÉ: Suite, op. 5

the venerable Swedish organbuilder, created a 2-21 in French style for the music school occupying the villa Stora Sköndal in Stockholm. Mikael Wahlin plays interesting works superbly. Click the headline for titles and to order.

Dutch virtuoso Christine Kamp explores more Romantic repertoire on the 4-m Sauer (1914-15) in Sibiu, Romania. Click the headline for works by Bartmuss, Karg-Elert (Bach transcriptions), Merkel, and Liszt.

Cathedral organist Clemens Ganz plays the new “swallow’s nest” organ and the famous 1948-51 Klais 4m of 68 stops in the transept, enlarged in 1956 to 86 ranks,and rescorded before the 2001 rebuilding by Klais. RHEINBERGER: Sonata 6 JOACHIM BLUME: Fantasia Kosmologica (Sonata V) ALAIN: Première Fantaisie; Le jardin suspendu VIERNE: Clair de lune FRANCK: Choral 2

The Walker Organ of Adelaide Town Hall
Australia’s oldest Town Hall houses a 4-84 J. W. Walker & Sons instrument from England, the largest mechanical action organ built in the United Kingdom in 100 years, says the CD booklet. Calvin Bowman, a resident of Australia and Yale University Fulbright scholar, performs.

Hans-Ola Ericsson plays works in symphonic style by Respighi, Gounod, Bellini, Smetana, and Elgar on an 87 rank organ built in 1998 by Gerald Woehl. Click picture for repertoire

Sophie-Véronique Choplin plays at St. Sulpice: Messiaen, Mendelssohn, Rheinberger, Grunewald; and she improvises La Creation.

Christoph Bossert plays the 1906 Gebrüder Link 3m, 57-rank organ (of which 26 are at 8’ pitch, 10 are at 4’ pitch, and 7 are at 16’ pitch!) now restored at St. Mary’s Evangelical Church in Giengen-an-der-Brenz. A book about the Link firm (in German text) is also available here. Works by Franck, Reger, John Cage, and Bach. Click picture for repertoire

The Klais Organ of The Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane
Jane Watts performs on the 4 manual, 122 rank instrument.

"From the first few bars, you can tell why Jane Watts’ performances have gathered such superlatives,” raves Gramophone Magazine.

Quick-Time Movie Included! on the second CD in this 2-CD set for the price of one CD! The world's only organ with pipes made of bamboo can be seen and heard: on a conventional CD, the fine Australian organist Douglas Lawrence nicely plays Zipoli, Pachelbel, Galuppi, Bach, Couperin, and Handel (with orchestra in the last). Place the second CD of "extras" in your PC or Mac computer and view an 8-minute movie of the organ with stereo sound! Click for more information

Jean-Paul Imbert plays the 1885 Cavaillé-Coll 3-70 at St. Etienne in Caen. In sets of variations by Lemare, Bossi, Lefebure-Wely, Reger, Guilmant, and Flor Peeters. Click on headline for repertoire and to order.

Dietrich Wagler plays the 1735 Silbermann at St. Peter's Church, Freiberg, Germany. Works: Kuhnau, Bach, Beyer, Homilius, Merkel

Herman van Vliet presents a program of beautiful and interesting rarities played in live acoustics on the 1845 C. F. A. Naber organ Amersfoort, Holland.

The organ in Dresden's Cathedral was finished by Zacharias Hildebrandt after Gottfried Silbermann’s death, played by Mozart, and most recently restored by the firms of Wegschneider and Jehmlich.

NEW! Varied repertoire played by well-known organists on important instruments. Click the link for a detailed list of repertoire!

Pieces by Mawby, Nixon, Moore, Vann, Bonighton, Blinko and more!