
Going On Record #8593
…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 on LP's and CD's of foreign and domestic vintage.
Lubeck: Praeambulum Jacques van Oortmerssen (1679 Huss-Schnitger/St. Cosmae Et Damiani, Stade, Germany)
J.S. BACH: 4 Chorale-preludes, from the Yale Manuscript Joseph Payne (1983 Bozeman-Gibson organ, Brookline)
W.A. MOZART: Church Sonata in C, K. 336 Ensemble London Baroque - Harmonia Mundi HMC-901137 CD
Corrette: Concerto in A, Op. 26, No. 2 Rene Saorgin, organ; Ensemble Baroque of Nice - Harmonia Mundi HMC-5148.
DAN LOCKLAIR: "Pegasus", from "Constellations" for Organ and Percussion Leonard Raver, organ; Richard Brown, percussion - Orion ORS-85481
Camillo Schumann: Sonata No. 3 in C-minor, Op. 29 (2nd mvt) Richard Kluth (Kreienbrink organ, St. Joseph Church, Osnabrueck)
Billy Nalle: Improvisation on "Shenandoah" Billy Nalle (Wichita Wurlitzer, Century II Center)
PIERRE COCHEREAU: Improvisation on a French Folksong Pierre Cochereau (1959 Hartmann positif organ)
JOSEPH CLOKEY: Fugue, from Symphonic Piece (1927) Andrew Gordon; Brian Jones (Aeolian organ of Londwood Gardens)
FRANZ LISZT: Andante Religioso John Rose (1954 Aeolian-Skinner organ, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City)
MAURICE DURUFLÉ: Toccata, from Suite for Organ, Op. 5 Todd Wilson (Aeolian-Skinner organ, Church of St. Mary the Virgin, New York City)