All Episodes

…performances on historic American instruments recorded during the 1986 Organ Historical Society conclave.

…Harald Vogel plays music by Buxtehude, Scheidt, Praetorius and other Baroque composers on the Brombaugh organs of Southern College in Collegedale, Tennessee.

…a ring of words and music, crowned by Ernst Krenek's imposing setting of mystical poems of John Donne.

…the splendid sounds of historic instruments are all around us, if we care enough to listen and to preserve them.

…a concert on the 1964 Holtkamp organ at St. John's Benedictine Abbey and University Church in Collegeville, MN.

…a memorial tribute to the late American organist, an innovative and outspoken recitalist and composer, who was recorded at Plymouth Congregational Church in Minneapolis in January 1983 (89-rank Holtkamp organ).

…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.

…a reflective survey of performance practice. As the pendulum of taste swings eternally. music of Johann Sebastian Bach remains a constant attraction. But even his work is not immune to varying interpretation as our notions of the ideal "Bach approach" shift and fluctuate. Here we explore the Bach art in its manifold variety as displayed by such noted personages as Albert Schweitzer. Anton Nowakowski. Marcel Dupre. Louis Vierne, Helmut Walcha. Carl Weinrich, E. Power Biggs, Virgil Fox and several contemporary talents.

…a summer quarter sampler of recent releases of organ music, with emphasis on the unusual and the unusually attractive.

…more concert performances from Charleston churches.

…more performances from Lahti’s Church of the Cross.

…finalists in both the national performance and improvisation contests play at Church of the Advent, Boston, and Harvard University’s Memorial Chapel.

…concert performances from Charleston’s summer organ music celebration.

…the notes are the same, but inevitably the accent is a bit different when works of French composer Cesar Franck are interpreted on instruments in the United States.

…built by an ingenius father for his four musically talented children, the instrument which inspired the compositions of Jehan Alain and provided the earliest training for recitalist Marie-Claire Alain now has a new home in Romainmotier.

…members of the New York City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists perform in a benefit/marathon concert at St. Peter’s (Citicorp) Church in Manhattan.

…a memorial tribute, on the 80th anniversary of his birth, to one of the most vital and characterful virtuosos the world has ever known.

…performances at the Church of the Cross in Lahti, home to an increasingly famous organ celebration of international scope, the first of two programs.