Episodes: 1993

…A Summer quarter sampler of recent releases.

…Performances from special Summer concerts at the Church of the Cross in Lahti, Finland. Recordings from the 1992 Lahti Festival were made available by the Finnish Radio Service.

…A Summer Mecca and an American legend, the famous instrument of the Music Hall in Methuen, Massachusetts provides ample opportunity for resourceful players.

…A celebration of Canadian composers and performers of organ music.

…Original music and transcriptions from the 19th and 20th centuries inspired by the spirit of J.S. Bach. Douglas L. Butler plays the 1932 Aeolian-Skinner concert organ at Northrop Auditorium, Minneapolis, and the 1980 Sipe organ at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church.

…A selective survey of the unique contributions to the organists' repertoire by the man who invented the organ concerto, George Frideric Handel.

…for June brides and others, a program of wedding music which includes some of what you'd expect and much than you wouldn't.

…Concert recordings from the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, Florida, Gulf-coast recitals featuring the 59-stop Casavant organ.

…Sounds of mostly antique American-built instruments recorded in recitals of the Organ Historical Society.

…Gillian Weir at Spivey hall....selections from dedication concerts on the new Albert Schweitzer Memorial Organ at Clayton State College in Morrow, Georgia.

…Further exploration of the resources of one of America's most exceptional and anticipated new instruments in Dallas, Texas.

…At the Meyerson…sounds of the spectacular new Herman W. and Amelia H. Lay Family Concert Organ at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, from inaugural-series events.

…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.