…performances by British recitalist Gillian Weir, National Organ Playing Competition finalist David Chalmers, and harpsichordist David Britton, recorded during the San Francisco organist's convention.
…AKA The Remarkable Mean-Tone Organs of Charles Fisk. Remarkable instruments with an historic sound built by Charles Fisk for Wellesley College and Stanford University. Harald Vogel and Fenner Douglass perform in concert settings.
…performances of organ and choral works recorded at San Francisco's most prominent church, featuring soloist Richard Purvis and the Cathedral Choir led by John Fenstermaker.
…regional winners of the 1983 American Guild of Organists competitions perform at St. Luke's Church in San Francisco.
…performances by Simon Preston, Eileen Guenther, and Fenner Douglass on the two organs at Stanford University's Memorial Church, the recently renovated 1901 Murray Harris and the revolutionary 1984 C.B. Fisk. University organist Herbert Nanney comments.
…in recital, John Weaver at Grace Cathedral and Thomas Murray (+) at Trinity Episcopal Church.
…an introduction to the 1984 National Biennial Convention of the American Guild of Organists, featuring digital tapes of concerts and recitals performed in and around San Francisco.
…a selective quarterly sampling of recent organ recordings, with emphasis on the unusual and the unusually attractive. This potpourri covers a wide variety of musical types, performance styles and organ-building attitudes, as displayed on LP's and CD's of foreign and domestic vintage.
…organist Douglas L. Butler presents Marcel Dupre's famous 15 Pieces, op. 18 in a Vespers service at St. Boniface Church in San Francisco.
…a concert on the 1964 Holtkamp organ at St. John's Benedictine Abbey and University Church in Collegeville, MN.
…a survey of the works for organ by the contemporary Czechoslovakian composer, who is heard in comments about his creations.
…another program in a continuing, irregular series devoted to our historic American pipe organ heritage, featuring recordings from the archives of the Organ Historical Society and comments from OHS executive director William Van Pelt. This program focuses on organs in and around Chicago.
…performances by the noted American teacher recorded in concert on the 1979 C.B. Fisk organ at House of Hope Presbyterian Church in Saint Paul, MN, the magnum opus of this pathbreaking American builder.
…an entertaining glimpse at the show-biz cousin to the “king of instruments,” the theater organ, once the ubiquitous accompaniment to the action on the silver screen, now a popular attraction in its own right. Guest commentator Karl Eilers joins host Michael Barone in examining just what a “theater organ” is, and what it can do.
…a concluding program of performances recorded by guest artists at last summer's international organ week in Finland, at Lahti's Church of the Cross.
…solo performances recorded in concert on the 1979 Virtanen organ at Lahti's Church of the Cross.
…the first of three broadcasts featuring performances recorded in the contemporary Church of the Cross in the Finnish city of Lahti, annual site of an international organ celebration.
…an all-Bach recital played by James David Christie on the new Taylor & Boody organ at St. Joseph Memorial Chapel, College of the Holy Cross, in Worcester, Massachusetts. The program includes an in-depth examination of the instrument, as discussed by one of its builders, George Taylor.
