The Principals of the Thing #2138
. . . an introduction to those pipes which provide organ music its unique voice and character.
Hour One
FRANÇOIS COUPERIN: Plein jeu/Premiere Couplet du Kyrie, fr Messe pour le Couvents –Aude Heurtematte (1768 Clicquot/St. Gervaise, Paris) Raven 153
LOUIS COUPERIN: Prelude (No. 46) –Davitt Moroney (1714 Boizard/St. Michel-en-Thiérache, France) Temperaments 316001-2-3
PAUL HOFHAIMER: Recordare –Herbert Tachezi (1558 Ebert/Court Chapel, Innsbruch, Austria) Teldec 9031-77606
JUAN BERMUDO: Ave maris stella –Andrés Cea (1560 Anonymous/Evora Cathedral, Portugal) Almaviva 0117
LOUIS MARCHAND: Fond d’orgue –Marina Tchebourkina (1995 Boisseau & Cattiaux/Versailles Chapel, France) Natives 05
J. S. BACH: Fantasy in c, BWV 562 –Ewald Kooiman (1732 A. Silbermann/St. Maurice Abbey, Ebersmünster, France) Aeolus 10761/3
JOHANN PACHELBEL: 4 Magnificat Fugues on the 6th Tone –Jürgen Essl (1782 Stumm/St. Stephen’s Church, Simmern, Germany) cpo 777 557
EDWIN T. CHILDS: Come, ye faithful –Brenda Portman (1992 Schantz/College Church, Wheaton, IL) Hood Music 3
ANONYMOUS: Adesto-Firmissime fidem teneamus-Alleluia, fr Robertsbridge Codex –Pieter van Dijk (1511 van Covelens/St, Laurenskerk, Alkmaar, Netherlands) Contrapunctus Musicus 2497
DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE: Passacaglia in d, BuxWV 161 –Martin Rost (1659 Stellwagen/St Mary’s Church, Stralsund, Germany) MD&G 320 1624
GIOVANNI VALENTINI: Canzona in g. J. C. KERLL: Versus secondi toni –Léon Berben (1714 König/Premonstratensian Abbey, Niederehe, Germany) Aeolus 10441
Filler – BACH Fantasy in c, BWV 562 (see above)
Hour Two
GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI: Toccata No. 5 –Ton Koopman (1726 Fedeli/San Barnardin Basilica/Aquila, Italy) Erato 4509-96544
J. J. FROBERGER: Canzona No. 2 –Roland Götz (1776 Holzhey/Ursberg Cloister, Germany) Studio XVII Augsburg 96522
JOHANNES BRAHMS: Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, Op. 122, no. 5 –Jean Bizot (1881 Dalstein & Haerpfer/St. Sebastian, Nancy, France) Gaupillat 2010
BACH: Herzlich tut mich verlangen, BWV 727 –Olivier Latry (1868 Cavaillé-Coll/Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris) La Dolce Volta 69
ORLANDO GIBBONS: 2 Fantasias –John Toll (1693 Anonymous/Adlington Hall, Cheshire, England) Linn 125
HENRY PURCELL: Voluntary in G –Jan-Willem Jansen (1739 Clicquot/Eglise St. Jacques et St. Christophe, Houdan, France) Chamade 5621
BERNARDO PASQUINI: Fuga –Sergio Vartolo (1653 Dallam/Eglise St. Brandan, Lanvellec, France) K617 039
FELIX MENDELSSOHN: Prelude & Fugue in c, Op. 37, no. 1 –Jaroslav Tůma (1843 Spaniel/Holy Family Church, Rychnov Chateau, Czech Republic) Supraphon 3403-2 131
MELCHIOR SCHILDT: Allein Gott in der Höh –Léon Berben (1624 Scherer/St. Stephanuskirche, Tangermünde, Germany) Aeolus 11121
BACH: Contrapuncti Nos. 1 & 2, fr Art of Fugue –Håkan Wikman (1658 van Hagerbeer/Niewe Kerk, Haarlem, Netherlands) Finlandia 4509-98990
Filler – LOUIS COUPERIN (see above)
Click here for a thoughtful explanation of the organ’s ‘principal’ pipes, courtesy of Patrick J. Murphy and Associates, Inc.
For a comprehensive introduction to the pipe organ’s many additional facets, check this page provided by the American Guild of Organists and also Lawrence Phelps’s revelatory discourse, Pipe Organ 101. And the recent discovery of a 12th century pipe organ in the Holy Land makes quite clear that the principal organ sounds comes from principal pipes!
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