The Art of Transcription, or Is it Really (Organ) Music?!! #8423
…all the repertoire on this broadcast was originally written for some medium other than the pipe organ. While some of you may consider a transcription “impure,” the tradition of adapting music for organ performance is based on centuries-old precedents. Bach though nothing of playing a Vivaldi violin concerto on the organ.
JOHANN GOTTFRIED WALTHER: Concerto in c minor after Telemann -Wolfgang Rübsam (Felsberg/St. Martin's Cathedral, Colmar, Switzerland)
J.S. BACH/CHARLES GOUNOD: Ave Maria -Jane Parker-Smith (Westminster Cathedral, London)
BELA BARTOK: Romanian Folk Dances -Oskar Gottlieb Blarr (Rieger/Neanderkirche, Duesseldorf)
PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY: Andante, from Symphony No. 6 -Thomas Murray (Skinner/Trinity Church, Boston)
CLAUDE DEBUSSY: Arabesque No. 1 -Keith Chapman (1750 Gabler/Abbey, Weingarten, Germany)
J.S. BACH: Toccata in D, S. 912 -Oskar Gottlieb Blarr (1978 Rieger/Cathedral, Ratzeburg, Germany)
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS: Danse Macabre -Edwin H. Lemare (Welte reproducing organ rolls/Church of the Covenant, Boston)
MAURICE RAVEL: Claire de lune -Virgil Fox (1953 Aeolian-Skinner/Riverside Church, New-York, New_York)
RICHARD WAGNER: Die Meistersinger Overture -Dean Billmeyer (1932 Aeolian-Skinner/Northrop Auditorium, Minneapolis)
