Episodes: 2011

…the annual end-of-the-year reflection, with highlights from recent recordings, concert excerpts, prize-winning performances and more.

…magical music, both old and new, adds immeasurably to the spirit of the Nativity Festival.

…composers and performers from at home and abroad explore diverse compositions in celebration of the gift of Christmas.

…in the countryside and city, a collection of old noëls in settings from three centuries.

…a collection of music by composers (mostly) with important birthday anniversaries in the year 2011.

…performances by soloists from Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, in concert at the Meyerson Symphony Center.

…a collaborative offering of Bach’s famous and thought-provoking set of variations, plus other works in ‘G’.

…performances by and conversation with the outstanding American recitalist, whose international career continues to blossom.

…with a good theme, organist-composers can provide an exceptional ‘tour’ of the tonal resources of any instrument.

…familiar songs take on a new life in the hands of imaginative composers and agile performers playing upon an organ’s many pipes.

…continuing our Franz Liszt Bicentennial tribute with original scores and arrangements by Liszt and others that further realize the pipe organ’s promethean potential.

…to celebrate the bicentennial of Franz Liszt (1811-1886), who made the 19th century pipe organ a vehicle for virtuosos, and for prayers.

…communities rejoice with diversely designed and recently installed pipe organs.

…performances by and conversation with the vigorous virtuoso from Finland, Kalevi Kiviniemi.

…soloists Thierry Escaich, David Goode and Thomas Trotter preside over England’s grandest concert organ in performances from London’s Royal Albert Hall.

…a centenary tribute to the world’s largest functioning musical instrument, a magnificent landmark at Macy’s downtown department store in Philadelphia.

…compositions of lament, reflection and healing in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the tragedy of September 11, 2001.

…a survey of music by the Lüneburg master Georg Böhm[1661-1733], whose exemplary shock-waves inspired, among others, the young Johann Sebastian Bach.