…leading us to the marvelous Marcussen organ at Wiedemann Hall of Wichita State University and the wonderful Wurlitzer at Century II Convention Center.
…The Longwood Legacy, featuring the world's largest “house organ” at the duPont estate near Philadelphia, the 177-rank Aeolian at Longwood Gardens.
…The organ may seem like one instrument, but it really is a pipe choir of many voices as David Engen shows us. Mr. Engen was recorded in concert on the 1980 44-rank Hendrickson organ at First Lutheran Church in St. Peter, Minnesota and on the historic 1877 58-rank Johnson & Son organ at Our Lady of Good Counsel Chapel in Mankato, Minnesota.
…Some old favorites and other surprises reveal a delicious diversity for which the organ –music, instruments and performers –is legendary.
…a glimpse at the Australian scene through recordings of several famous (and large) instruments, plus new-music performances (and commentary) by Ralph Morton.
…diverse delicious distractions dedicated to variety and tuneful pleasure.
…Recital performances by Michael Schneider and Gaston Litaize, notable musicians who celebrate 80th birthdays in 1989.
…Guest commentator Karl Eilers joins host Michael Barone for some repertoire from the lighter side, a genial and general survey of theater organ recordings.
…Musical as well as political attitudes changed when the Bastile fell.
…Recital performances on the famous Aeolian-Skinner organ at the historic Methuen Memorial Music Hall in Massachusetts.
…A quarterly survey of recent organ recordings which emphasize the unusual and the unusually attractive. Program host Michael Barone plays arbiter of taste.
…A Langlais Landscape... viewing the composition terrain of the famous blind Parisian octogenarian organist Jean Langlais.
…Harald Vogel and Megumi Tsuji perform historic repertoire on new instruments in the old style built by Daniel Jaeckel, Hiroshi Tsuji, and the shop of Taylor and Boody.
…performances from an Organ Historical Society gathering in and around Newburyport, Massachusetts.
…Whether in Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, the Netherlands or Germany, the music of Johann Sebastian Bach is always “at home.”
…Recital performances on the celebrated Kotzschmar Organ in the City Hall Auditorium of Portland, Maine.
…the amiable and peripatetic Swiss musician introduces us to historic sounds south of the border, plus other delights.
…Dupre in Boston, performances at Old south Church and the Mission Church in Roxbury Crossing of music by the celebrated Parisian organist Marcel Dupre. These performances were presented by the Boston chapter of the American Guild of Organists to celebrate the Dupre Centenary in 1986.
