…for June brides and others, a program of wedding music which includes some of what you'd expect and much than you wouldn't.
…a diverting collection of music in a form which Italians invented but composers in Germany perfected.
…whether inspired by hymn tunes or mere caprice, American composers approach the pipe organ in refreshingly diverse ways.
…a collection of works on the theme of Pentecost.
…a centenary retrospective devoted to the art of the great French organist-composer Marcel Dupre. His own playing is featured.
…with Dupre biographer Michael Murray we explore the life of the master performer, teacher and composer, a towering figure in the 20th century organ world. Representative recording highlight more than 40 years of performance in France, England and the United States.
…a revisit with William Van Pelt of the Orlan Historical So ciety, from which archives we draw a potpourri of performances on noteworthy older American instruments.
…a revisit with William Van Pelt of the Orlan Historical Society, from which archives we draw a potpourri of performances on noteworthy older American instruments.
…concert recordings by the noted French musician, whose original compositions, transcriptions, and improvisations reveal a modern genius of Lisztian proportion. Guillou's vision of the modern organ's potentials is uncommonly arresting.
…a selective quarterly sampling of recent organ recordings, with emphasis on the unusual and unusually attractive. This potpourri covers a wide variety of musical types, performance styles, and organ-building attitudes as displayed on LP's, CD's and tapes of foreign and domestic vintage. Host Michael Barone provides revealing commentary.
…digital concert recordings by Simon Presont and Eileen Guenther, who play music of British composers on the 1984 Fisk-Nanney and 1901 Murray Harris organs at Stanford University's Memorial Church.
…a dramatic cycle of meditations for Passiontide.
…varied and colorful concert performances by Keith Chapman, George Ritchie, Gilliam Weir, Rudolph Innig, and Peter Hurford of music by Johann Sebastian Bach.
…original music and transcriptions from the 19th and 20th centuries inspired by the spirit of J.S. Bach. Douglas L. Butler plays the 1932 Aeolian-Skinner concert organ at Northrop Auditorium, Minneapolis, and the 1980 Sipe organ at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church.
…recital performances by Peter Williams and Nancy Lancaster exploring international influences upon the music of J.S. Bach. The organ was built by Charles B. Fisk for House of Hope Presbyterian Church, St. Paul, MN.
…some performances on the recent Ruffatti organ in San Francisco, featuring digital recordings by Michael Murray, Marilyn Mason, John Weaver and Fred Tulan.
…the organist at Chicago's Church of the Ascension performs on the Moeller organ at St Mark's Cathedral. Minneapolis, digitally recorded.
…featuring recordings of 19th-century instruments from the archives of the Organ Historical Society, with comments from its Executive Director William Van Pelt.
