Going On Record #8440
…a selective quarterly sampling of recent organ recordings, with emphasis on the unusual and the unusually attractive. This potpourri covers a wide variety of musical types, performance styles, and organ-building attitudes, as displayed in discs of foreign and domestic vintage.
BERNHARD SCHMID: Alemando Novelle -Robert Lynn (1979 2/15 Visser-Rowland/St. Pius V Church, Pasadena, Texas)
JOHN COOK: Fanfare. GERALD BALES: Priere and Finale, from Sonatine -D. Mervyn Games (1975 4/58 Casavant/St. Paul's Cathedral, London, Ontario)
HEINRICH SCHEIDEMANN: Praeambulum in d. J.S. BACH: Jesu, joy of man's desiring Fenner Douglass (1976 Flentrop/Duke, Durham, North Carolina)
J.S. BACH: Fugue in g, S. 542 -Barbara Harbach (1970 2/24 Schlicker/First Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lyons, New York)
SIGFRID KARG-ELERT: Chorale-Improvisation on In dulci jubilo, Op. 75, No. 1 -Douglas Major (1938 Aeolian-Skinner/National Cathedral, Washington, Washington DC)
PERCY WHITLOCK: Divertimento, from 4 Extemporizations -Jennifer Bate (1955 Harrison & Harrison/St. James Muswell Hill, London, United Kingdom)
OLIVIER MESSIAEN: Meditations on the Mystery of the Holy Trinity (VIII) -Jennifer Bate (1979 Danion-Gonzalez/Cathedrale, Beauvais, France)
ANONYMOUS: Three Dances -Robert Lynn (1979 2/15 Visser-Rowland/St. Pius V Church, Pasadena, Texas)
PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY: "Nutcracker" Dances -James Dale (1981 Moeller/U.S. Naval Academy Chapel, Annapolis, Maryland)
J.S. BACH: Chorale-prelude, Dies sind die heil'gen zehn Gebot. J.S. BACH: Chorale-prelude, Wir glauben all -Christina Rakich (1967 C.B. Fisk/Harvard Memorial Chapel, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ARTHUR WILLS: The Fenlands, Symphonic Suite -Cambridge Cooperative Band/David Read, conductor; Arthur Wills (Ely Cathedral)
ALFRED HOLLINS: A Trumpet Minuet -Malcolm Archer (1942-1970 4/101 Hill, Norman and Beard/Norwich Cathedral)
