All Episodes

…featuring Naji Hakim’s prize-winning competition performance, as well as other music played by Jean Langlais and resident musician Piet Kee.

…More performances by entrants in the improvisation contest, recorded at the De Doolen Concert Hall, Rotterdam (organ by Flentrop). Each is heard in his competing improvisation upon a given theme, as well as the following repertoire:

…Performances by two of the competitors in the improvisation contest, recorded at the De Doolen Concert Hall, Rotterdam. Each will be heard in an improvisation upon a given theme, as well as the following works:

…The first of four programs recorded at the De Doolen Concert Hall in Rotterdam (4-manual, mechanical action organ by Flentrop) during the Festival's 29th season.

…A selective introduction to the traditions of that musical device which Mozart ranked above all others, and those players Beethoven considered the best of musicians, the pipe organ.

…A dramatic cycle of meditations for Passiontide.

…performances of Baroque repertoire at House of Hope Presbyterian Church, Saint Paul, by German recitalist Harald Vogel; and a Choral Evensong Office sung at the Basilica of Saint Mary, Minneapolis, by the Choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, conducted by Barry Rose, with organist John Scott.

…in a concert performance by Minnesota organist Nancy Lancaster, recorded on the Charles B. Fisk organ of House of Hope Presbyterian Church, Saint Paul, MN.

…recordings by a young, talented and relatively unknown American organist, Robert Barwis Pitman, whose career ended tragically virtually before it had begun.

…recipients of the two top prizes of the American Guild of Organists National Competition in 1980 perform in concert.

…a choral concert recorded at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Mark in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Elmer Iseler conducts, and Edward Moroney accompanies.

… a recital on the C.B. Fisk organ at House of Hope Presbyterian Church in Saint Paul, MN, recorded during the American Guild of Organist’s 1980 National Convention in Minnesota.

…a program of mostly new, commissioned works recorded on the Casavant organ of Central Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, and recorded during the American Guild of Organist’s 1980 National Convention in Minnesota.

… a formal public concert of music from the British cathedral tradition, recorded at Saint Mary’s Basilica, Minneapolis during the American Guild of Organist’s 1980 National Convention in Minnesota.

… performances in Minneapolis on the 1980 Robert Sipe organ at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church, and on the 1981 Holtkamp organ of Plymouth Congregational Church, with commentary by Philip Brunelle and Conrad Susa.

…choral and organ music by the ‘Dean of Canadian Composers’, to commemorate the centenary of his birth [1880-1968], recorded during the American Guild of Organist’s 1980 National Convention in Minnesota.

…a concert with comments devoted to classical and contemporary works.

...from the 1980 National Convention of the American Guild of Organists held in the Minnesota Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul.