Organs and Orchestras #1910
…in any era, the blend of these very different sound-sources always fascinates.
Hour 1
G. F. HANDEL: Concerto in D, fr The Triumph of Time and Truth –Ars Lyrica Houston; Matthew Dirst (2010 Fritts/St. Philip Presbyterian Church, Houston, TX) Loft 1138
JOHN STANLEY: Organ Concerto in C, Op. 10, no. 6 –Langham Sinfonia/Noël Tredinnick; Gerard Brooks (1792 England-1978 Mander/St. James’s Clerckenwell, London, England) Priory 439
CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR: Ouverture portugaise (1865) –Melbourne University Orchestra/Richard Davis; Harold Fabrikant (1929 Hill, Norman & Beard-2001 Schantz/Town Hall, Melbourne, Australia) PD Archive (r. 4/26/18)
JOSEPH JONGEN: Alleuja, Op. 112 –Symphony in C/Rossen Milanov; Peter Richard Conte (Wanamaker organ/Macy’s Department Store, Philadelphia, PA) Gothic 49293
SAMY MOUSSA: A Globe Itself Infolding (2014) –Montreal Symphony Orchestra/Kent Nagano; Jean-Willy Kunz (2014 Casavant/Maison Symphonique, Montreal, Canada) Analekta 8779
Filler – HANDEL (see above)
Hour 2
ANTONIO VIVALDI: Concerto in d for Violin, Organ and Strings, RV 541 –J.C. Bach Akademie/Ingeborg Scheerer; Johannes Geffert (Klais chamber organ) Fermate 20002
ATSUTADA OTAKA: Fantasy for Organ and Orchestra (1999) –Sapporo Symphony/Tadaaki Otaka; Bryan Ashley (1997 Kern/Concert Hall, Sapporo, Japan) Chandos 9876
NAJI HAKIM: Concerto No. 1 for Organ and Strings –Vibrations Ensemble/Nicolas Simon; Marie-Bernadette Dufourcet (2001 Kuhn/Hofkirche, Lucerne, Switzerland) IFO 323
Filler – WIDOR (see above)
