Americans Abroad #1515
…though relatively few in number, some significant instruments by organ builders from the U. S. A. have found themselves as musical ambassadors in foreign settings.
Hour 1
W. A. MOZART (trans. Heywood): Don Giovanni Overture. PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY (trans. Heywood): Valse, fr Serenade for Strings, Op. 48 --Thomas Heywood (1930 Skinner/Saalkirche, Ingelheim, Germany) Griola 1033
JEAN LANGLAIS: Dialogue sur les mixtures, fr Suite Breve. JOHN STANLEY: Voluntary in a. MARCEL DUPRÉ: Cortege et Litanie –Benjamin Nicholas (2014 Dobson/Merton College Chapel, Oxford, England) Delphian 34142
PIERRE DuMAGE: Tierce en taille, fr Suite on the 1st Tone. MAURICE DURUFLÉ: Prelude, fr Suite, Op. 5 –Jean-Christophe Geisser (2003 Fisk/Notre Dame Cathedral, Lausanne, Switzerland) Organ 7210-2
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN: Allegro con brio, fr Symphony No. 7 in A, Op. 92 --Thomas Heywood (1930 Skinner/Saalkirche, Ingelheim, Germany) Griola 1033
Hour 2
LOUIS CLAUDE DAQUIN: Noël Suisse (No. 12). LOUIS VIERNE: Impromptu, Op. 55, no. 2. THEODORE DUBOIS: Toccata in G –Gillian Weir (1974 Phelps/Hexham Abbey, England) Argo 460 190-2
ANONYMOUS: 4 Pieces (Wach uff myn Hört; Vil lieber zit; Wolhin lass vögelin sorgen; Praeambulum super C), fr Buxheim Organ Book –Joseph Payne (1992 Brombaugh/Haga Church, Göteborg, Sweden) Naxos 8.553468
HENRY DUNHAM: Fantasy and Fugue in d, Op. 19 –George Bozeman (1871 Hook/Heilig Kreuz Kirche, Berlin) Pape 7044
WILLIAM ALBRIGHT: 6 Pieces (Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland; Sweet Sixteenths; Curio I, Recitative-Chorale, and Mountains, fr Organ Book III; Hymn) –Douglas Reed (1998 Fisk/Minato Mirai Hall, Yokohama, Japan) Equilibrium 35
Hear an between Michael Barone and organ builder Lynn Dobson concerning the Dobson organ installation at Merton College Chapel.
