Going On Record #8727
…another selective quarterly sampling of recent organ recordings, with emphasis on the unusual and the attractive.
This potpourri covers a wide variety of musical types, performance styles, and organ-building attitudes as displayed on LP’s or CD’s of foreign and domestic vintage.
Ritter: Organ Sonata in a, Op. 23 -Joachim Dalitz (Jehmlich organ/Schauspielhaus, East Berlin)
GIUSEPPE VERDI: "Aida" Grand March -Noel Rawsthorne (Harrison organ/Coventry Cathedral)
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS: Prelude in Eb, Op. 99, #3 -Joachim Dorfmueller (1980 Klais/Dom, Altenberg, Germany)
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS: Fantasie in Eb -David Hill (Willis organ/Westminster Cathedral, London)
JOSEPH JONGEN: Menuet-Scherzo -John Scott Whiteley (1863 Hill; 1903; 1960 Walker; 1993 Coffin/Minster, York, United Kingdom)
DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE: Prelude in Bb; Chorale-prelude, "Mensch, willst du leben seliglich"; Prelude and Fugue in G -Wolfgang Rübsam (various Metzler organs)
Pedro Carrera: Versos Clasicos -Jacques van Oortmerssen (1772 Robustelly/St. Lambertuskerk, Helmond, The_Netherlands)
J.S. BACH: Chorale-prelude, "Allein Gott"; Prelude and Fugue in G, S. 550 -Anthony Newman (Rieger organ/State University of New York, Potsdam)
ALEXANDRE GUILMANT: Melody in G, Op. 46, #4 -Charles Callahan (Aeolian –Skinner organ/Church of the Epiphany, Washington, D.C.)
GEORGE M. COHAN: Give my regards to Broadway -Lyn Larsen (1926 Wurlitzer/Century II Convention Center, Wichita, KS)
MARCEL DUPRÉ: 2 Pieces, fr "Le Tombeau de Titelouze", Op. 38 -John Scott (1872 Willis; 1992 Mander/St. Paul Cathedral, London, United Kingdom)
Benoist: Fugue on "Pange lingua" -Kurt Lueders (Cavaille-Coll organ/ St. Godard's Church, Rouen)
CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR: Toccata, fr Organ Symphony #5 -Oliver Latry (1868 Cavaille-Coll/Cathedrale Notre Dame, Paris, France)
