The City of Brotherly Love is home to some of the largest and rarest instruments of the American Industrial Era.
A delightful demonstration of the diverse flavors of home-grown organ compositions.
Eight different soloists provide a composite look Symphony Number 8, the largest and least-known of Charles-Marie Widor’s ten famous organ symphonies.
Recitals performances, sponsored by Westminster Choir College, on the 1992 Mander organ at Princeton University Chapel.
A visit with the remarkable young blind British organist David Aprahamian Liddle.
Highlights from the 1995 Organ Recital Series of Charleston’s famous springtime music festival.
Scavenging amidst the numerous and imaginative works of Bach’s exceptional pupil Johann Ludwig Krebs.
From concerts and compact discs, performances at Christ Church Cathedral and East 91st Street Christian Church.
Although not as popular among organists as the familiar Sonatas of Opus 65 and the Preludes & Fugues of Opus 37, this week’s broadcast is a collection of repertoire from off the beaten path.
A tour of organs old and new in Milwaukee, Mequon, Madison, and Appleton.
A spring quarterly review of recent organ music CD releases.
A collection of music for the Easter season.
A visit to recent installations in San Diego, Sarasota and New Orleans featuring instruments by builders from Missouri, Minnesota, Texas and Florida.
It is as simple as Bach’s instructions, “Push the right key and the right time and the organ plays itself.” With that in mind, we’ll discover just how much diversity there is behind that seemingly obvious instruction. Listen to six American soloists on as many American instruments will treat us to Preludes and Fantasies, melodious chorale-settings and vibrant fugues. In a cross-country survey, from churches in South Dakota, Georgia, Michigan and Utah and university halls in Arizona and Texas, we celebrate Baroque organ music at its best and show Johann Sebastian the American way. It’s the United States of Bach.
Couples at the console revisit the remarkably flexible repertoire for organ duet.
The mammoth 10,000-pipe former Minneapolis Auditorium Kimball organ, still awaiting restoration and relocation in the city’s new Convention Center, provides some music from its Farewell for Now concert with the Minnesota Orchestra and recordings taped just days before it was dismantled for storage back in 1987.
Performers include Edward Berryman, Tom Hazleton, Robert Vickery and Hector Olivera with conductor Jahja Ling. Unfortunately, restoration plans for this unique instrument have fallen into limbo. We hope it won’t be too long before there’s good news to report. Meanwhile, enjoy these remarkable archive artifacts. In particular, Olivera’s performance of the Jongen is an audio tour de force.
Solo organ and choral selections feature the 153-rank Schantz instrument in New Jersey’s most imposing cathedral church.
More music by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Leo Sowerby, in celebration of his 100th anniversary.
