2004 Glatter-Götz/Rosales organ in the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA

Walt Disney Concert Hall Inaugural

…American organist Frederick Swann plays the first public recital on the unique 109-rank Glatter-Götz/Rosales organ in Los Angeles…and Samuel Soria offers a side trip to the nearby Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, too.

Program Broadcast dates:

• Week of May 19, 2008

Links and Resources:

• Printable program listings

Music played in the program

Part I

WILLIAM MATHIAS: Fanfare

JOSEF RHEINBERGER: Introduction & Passacaglia, from Sonata No. 8 in e, Op. 132

FANNIE DILLON: Woodland Flute Call

CÉSAR FRANCK: Pièce heroïque

Part II

ERIC DeLAMARTER: You raise the flute to your lips, from Four Eclogues. PAUL DRAYTON: Pavan. PETER HURFORD: Paean –Samuel Soria (2003 Dobson/Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles) Delos CD 3343

Part III

GEORGE BAKER: Berceuse-Paraphrase

HEALEY WILLAN: Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue in e-flat

FREDERICK SWANN: 2 Encores (Allegro after Corelli; Trumpet Tune)

Filler –DILLON (see above)

 

This instrument was a collaborative project, with tonal-design by Manuel Rosales and mechanical design by Caspar von Glatter-Götz and the German firm of Orgelbau Glatter-Götz. The organ’s façade (and the hall in which it stands), was designed by Frank Gehry, a dramatic array of pipes both memorable and fully functional. Pipedreams Archive (recorded 9/30/05). Check the Los Angeles Philharmonic website for information about the ongoing Disney Hall Organ Series and read our story about Concert Hall Organs.