…Going on Record....the spring quarterly sampler of recent releases in review.
…More performances by and conversation with faculty and student artists on the campus of one of America's most prestigious undergraduate music schools, the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio. Campus instruments include a 1955 Aeolian-Skinner (III?66) in Finney Chapel, a 1974 Flentrop (III/44) in Warner Hall, and a 1981 Brombaugh (II/15) in meantone tuning at Fairchild Chapel.
…Record and recital performances by and conversation with the youthful director of the organ and choral arts in London's grandest church.
…Music for the Season of Easter....organ and choral selections on themes of sacrifice and salvation.
…A glimpse at some pages from the volumes and volumes of music left by the most prolific, and perhaps best German organ composer after Bach, Max Reger.
…Outbursts of Joy ... there's always excitement in the air when a new organ is inaugurated, and today we capture some of that in recital highlights featuring Gillian Weir, Gerre Hancock, Walter Pelz, David Mulbury, Eugene Roan and Robert Delcamp on recent instruments in Florida, Virginia, Georgia, Nebraska and Texas.
…An international spectrum of compositions in performances by Black artists.
…An exploratory leafing through pages of some extraordinary and pathbreaking organ works by the quintessential Romantic composer and virtuoso, Franz Liszt.
…Inaugural recital performances by Thomas Trotter, Charles Krigbaum and Thomas Murray in celebration of a major acoustical renovation of the room and a thorough rebuild of the ill-fated 1928 E.M. Skinner organ by the British firm of N.P. Mander, Ltd. recorded 4/5, 5/5 & 6/4/92.
…A New Year's sampler of recent releases.
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…historic and modern meditations on the birth of Jesus, embellished by Gregorian chant and scripture readings.
…seasonal musics old and new in celebration of the Christmas joy.
…holiday selections from churches, shrines, tabernacles and auditoriums around these United States.
…music in anticipation of Christmas on themes of introspection and expectation.
…performances on the new, historically-inspired pipe organ by Tacoma builder Paul Fritts at Arizona State University in Tempe.
…more selections of mostly little-know repertoire from the 16th through 20th centuries.
…completed in 1862 as the largest work of the famous builder Aristide Cavaille-Coll, and immortalized by Widor and Dupre, this noteworthy Parisian instrument received a thorough historic restoration which was completed last year. These performances celebrate its official re-inauguration, and feature works by present and former Saint- Sulpice musicians (r. 10/18/91).
