…the annual Olde Yeare-New Year reflection, with highlights from recent recordings, concert excerpts, prize-winning performances, and more.
…glorious sounds resound in historic buildings, testament to the richness of a centuries-old musical art.
…performers, composers, arrangers, and instrument builders join in providing music for the holiday celebration.
…a multi-cultural exploration of diverse musicks for the Festival of the Nativity.
…a collection of seasonal melodies elaborated in the French and German traditions.
…performances from Wisconsin, South Carolina, Massachusetts, Michigan, Iowa and Minnesota showcasing organists in concert.
…a multi-generational exploration amidst contributions to the organ's repertoire by American composers.
…this multi-faceted English organist concertizes, improvises, transcribes and composes with equal enthusiasm.
…premiere performances and first recordings feature music and musicians in Albuquerque.
…a 70th birthday tribute to Daniel Roth, organist of the Parisian church of Saint Sulpice.
…concert performances on instruments by Daniel Jaeckel, Reuter, and the Schantz Organ Company in Duluth, Richfield, and New Ulm.
…organist and archivist Lorenz Maycher reflects on the heritage of Aeolian-Skinner pipe organs.
…performances and compositions by one of Canada's foremost musical talents, Rachel Laurin.
…in tribute to a great American virtuoso, the outspoken and charismatic organist and entertainer Carlo Curley (1952-2012).
…to celebrate his sesquicentennial, we go beyond the famous Gothic Suite to reveal other facets of this intriguing French composer, Leon Boëllmann (1862-1897).
…one of the world's most exciting virtuosos plays a mostly-Bach program (with a twist) on the great organ at Royal Albert Hall.
…with Francesco Cera as our guide, we investigate the organ art in the land that virtually 'invented music'.
…compositions from Sweelinck to Cage, honoring composers whom we celebrate for significant anniversaries this year.
…contrary to common opinion, the supposedly staid old pipe organ can, when it wishes, get down and boogie.
…composers, performers and instrument builders provide a brilliant outlet for musical imagination in Nordic countries.
…from Bath and Bristol and under the big dome of Saint Paul’s, an album of reflections from the PIPEDREAMS spring tour in Britain.
…several select and sonorous scores explore the notion of ‘sacred’ from a different point of view.
…a review of some recent CD releases, testament to the incredible international activity or organ builders, performers, and audio producers.
…a diverse collection of other musical friends teams up with the King of Instruments to make a glorious noise.
…excerpts from a weekend of special Pipedreams Live! events with Michael Barone in his ‘home town’ territory, the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre region of northeastern Pennsylvania.
…we prelude the upcoming centenary of the oldest working municipal pipe organ in the United States, the famed Kotzschmar Memorial Organ in Merrill Auditorium, the pride of Portland, Maine!
…a celebration of the life and work of the industrious and indefatigable American composer Emma Lou Diemer, with comment, compact discs, and concert performances.
…a collection of Canadian composers, competition winners, and pipe organs in celebration of Canada Day.
…music by our resident composers always makes a good impression.
…an exploration of some unusual items found amidst the remarkably rich repertoire of music for organ with orchestra.
…a delectation of French music, with particular emphasis on the organ works of centenarian Jean Francaix (1912-1997)
…intriguing pipe organs revive the aura of past centuries while making beautiful sounds in the Windy City for the Organ Historical Society.
…solo performances of music from France, and a pair of American concertos from the American Guild of Organists’ 2004 national convention, featuring the eye- and ear-catching Glatter-Götz/Rosales organ.
…a collaboration with Ken Double, President of the American Theatre Organ Society for a sampler of the popular-organ art
…after a meticulous multi-year restoration, the 10,000-pipes of the 1930 Aeolian organ in the conservatory ballroom at the former Pierre du Pont estate in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania sound more magnificent than ever.
…a tribute to the memory of one of the most popular, and controversial, organists of all time, who believed in the cause of beauty above history, and above the limitations of any instrument.
…in observance of the 450th anniversary of Sweelinck’s birth, a survey of the organ art in the Netherlands.
…this Parisian church enjoyed the world’s largest musical instrument when its mighty 100-stop Cavaillé-Coll pipe organ was inaugurated 150 years ago, on Easter Sunday, April 20, 1862.
…whether in pagan ritual, songs of sunshine, spiritual revival or April showers, we enjoy the sweet music…and breezes…of springtime music.
…transformative and uplifting music in observance of the Christian festival of Resurrection.
…meditations from the dark side by Bach, Sweelinck, Daveluy and Grunenwald, somber music of sadness, solace, and strength.
…with vibrant performances and exquisite instrumental sonorities, we delight in the work of history’s foremost composer for the pipe organ.
…enjoy a collection of classic and contemporary interpretations of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
…we visit the campus of the University of Oklahoma to investigate a path-breaking new curriculum of organ study begun by Professor John Schwandt.
…invented by the Italians and transformed by composers everywhere ever since, the Organ Sonata encourages different strokes from different folks.
…youthful performers, filled with enthusiasm, carry the King of Instruments with them into the 21st Century.
…prize-winners of the premiere North American contest for young talents perform in Montreal.
…instruments at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and the Catholic Cathedral in La Crosse, Wisconsin demonstrate two divergent ways of approaching the ‘classical organ’.
…whether with chamber orchestra, symphonic ensemble, or just one partner player, the idea of an ‘organ concert’ is totally engaging.
…beyond the pipe organ’s own resources, the sounds of additional trumpets, trombones and horns lend an extra dimension to the sonic spectrum.
…when two keyboard talents team up, the repertoire provides for some very intriguing results.
…the canny British-born recitalist, musician-in-residence at Washington National Cathedral, has made an international reputation with his recordings, arrangements, and compelling performances.
…a sampler of instruments old and new (and performers youthful and mature) as prelude to the Spring 2012 Pipedreams Tour in the UK.
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