Episodes: 1985

…A review and preview of goings-on in the organ world, including excerpts from dedicatory recitals in Pacific Palisades, California (Fisk organ) and Seattle (Fritts-Richards organ), highlights from the first Worcester International Organ Festival, and a feature on the historic Willis concert instrument at London's famed Alexandra Palace.

…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.

…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.

…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.

…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.

…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.

…A survey of the works for organ by the contemporary Czechoslovakian composer, who is heard in comments about his creations.

…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.

…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.

…Performances by the California organist, recorded on Flentrop instruments in Seattle and Palo Alto, Schoenstein organs in Los Olivos and San Francisco, and the Holtkamp/Moeller organ at the US Air Force Academy chapel.

…On this first broadcast of a new Pipedreams series, host Michael Barone surveys the musical and historic variety of the pipe organ, while sampling recent recordings. The emphasis is on the unusual and the unusually attractive, with wide-ranging choices covering many musical styles, performers, and instruments.

…Celebrated composers' musical tributes to Johann Sebastian Bach, using the theme derived from his last name.

…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 digital recording of a concert performance from St. Clement's Catholic Church in Chicago, by organist Wolfgang Rubsam, featuring the so-called German Organ Mass, elaborate chorale-preludes based on melodies of the Lutheran Greater Catechism.This volume is the first of Bach's organ music published in his lifetime, and represents his compositional art at its height. Commentary is provided by Bach scholar Chistoff Wolf of Harvard University.