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1878 Cavaillé-Coll organ at Bayeux Cathedral, Bayeux, France
Continental Zephyr
The door is wide open, and the variety and intensity of performers involved in the world of the pipe organ continues to astonish and delight. Our next Pipedreams program explores the vivid work of a dozen European soloists, and the determined involvement of an excellent audio engineer. Christoph Martin Frommen who has documented several grand masters, and some relative youngsters still in their early twenties, for whom musicianship is crucial and the pipe organ is only the means of their expression.
The air is alive with beguiling sounds and an astonishing array of talent, as we sample the catalog of a young European CD label, with fresh breezes from abroad enlivening the realm of the King of Instruments. Sail along with us on the Continental Zephyr new sounds from Aeolus Records of Germany, this week on Pipedreams.
Program Broadcast dates:
- September 3, 2001
Links and Resources
Read Michael Barone's reviews of these and other Aeolus compact discs.- Producer and engineer Christoph Martin Frommen enhances the audible contents of his numerous discs with an astonishingly detailed Web presence: www.aeolus-music.com
Music played in the program
MOZART: Overture in C, L. 399 –Michelle Leclerc (1990 Boisseau & Cattiaux/Saint Stephen's Cathedral, Sens, France) Aeolus CD-10071 (Organ Literature Foundation [OLF]; organlitfnd@juno.com; 781-848-1388)
BACH: Fugue in c, S. 546 –Suzanne Chaisemartin (1974 Kern/l'Eglise Notre-Dame-des- Victoires, Paris) Aeolus CD-10111 (OLF)
BOËLY: 3 Pieces (Duo; Dialogue; Grand-Choeur) –François-Henri Houbart (1878 Cavaillé-Coll/Bayeux Cathedral) Aeolus CD-10101 (OLF)
LANGLAIS: 2 Pieces (Française; Prelude sur les grands jeux), fr Suite Française –Pierre Cogen (1990 Göckel/Holy Ghost Church, Mannheim) Aeolus CD-10081 (OLF)
FLEURY: Carillon sur le 'Victimae' –Denis Comtet (1993 Dargassies/Church of Saint-François-Xavier, Paris) Aeolus CD-10041 (OLF) GUILAIN: Suite du Premier Ton (excerpts) –Francis Chapelet (1754 Dom Bedos-1985 Quoirin/Abbatiale Sainte-Croix, Bordeau) Aeolus CD-10051 (OLF)
WALLENHORST: Scherzo-Improvisation –Ansgar Wallenhorst (1958 Seifert/Saint Matthias Church, Berlin-Schönberg) Aeolus CD-10021 (OLF)
KRÄMER: Pentecost Improvisations –Otto Krämer (1890 Cavaillé-Coll/Saint-Ouen de Rouen) Aeolus CD-10031 (OLF)
SOLDT: 2 Dances. BACH: Chorale-prelude, Allein Gott, S. 711. KELLNER: Fantasia in g –Andreas Schröder (1989 Fischer & Krämer/Saint Konrad Church, Mannheim-Rheinau Casterfeld) Aeolus CD-10011 (OLF)
VIERNE: Carillon de Longpont, fr Pieces in Free Style, Op. 31 –Joachim Neugart (1907 Seifert/Quirinus-Münsters, Neuss) Unda Maris CD-20021 (OLF)
BLANC: Fresque-Improvisation –Frédéric Blanc (1964 Beuchet/Saint Peter's Cathedral, Angouleme) Aeolus CD-10091 (OLF)
REGER: Finale, fr Chorale-Fantasy, Op. 52, no. 1 –Stefan Schmidt (1981 Seifert/Saint Mary's Basilica, Kevelaer) Aeolus CD-10061 (OLF)
Filler–J. S. BACH: Largo, fr Concerto in d, S. 1043 –Wolfgang Rübsam, Jeffrey Campbell (1964 Aeolian-Skinner/Millar Chapel, NW University, Evanston, IL) Pipedreams CD-1002 (651-290-1345; www.pipedreams.org)