…french organ music for the Christmas season, in digital recordings by Wolfgang Rubsam and Todd Wilson.
…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.
…digital recordings of concert performances on the Ruffatti organs at San Francisco's Davies Symphony Hall and Saint Mary's Cathedral, including premieres of several spectacular works for organ, brass and percussion.
…a recital by Mark Laubach, first prize winner at the National American Guild of Organists Open Competition in Organ Playing, digitally recorded at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral.
…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.
