…the annual Olde Yeare–New Year reflection, with highlights from recent recordings, concert excerpts, prize–winning performances, memorial tributes and more.
…a multi-cultural exploration of diverse musicks for the Festival of the Nativity.
…performers, composers, arrangers, and instrument builders join in providing music for the holiday celebration.
…choirs and organists share a bountiful repertoire drawn from many years of the British holiday tradition.
…a sampler of instruments in Basel, Arlesheim, Neuchatel, Bern, Fribourg, Geneva, Romainmotier, Lausanne, Sion, Lucerne, Zurich and many other venues along the way to be explored during the upcoming PIPEDREAMS Tour of Switzerland (May 12-25, 2014).
…a bicentennial review of some intriguing compositions by the reclusive and legendary 19th century virtuoso Charles-Valentin Alkan.
…a select survey of some sacred music written by one of the 20th century’s most honored composers, Benjamin Britten, on the hundredth anniversary of his birth.
…a glimpse at some intriguing repertoire and exquisite recordings made by engineer-producer Christoph Frommen for his Aeolus Music label.
…positive returns from the numerous soloists who have presented concerts on the instrument Gabriel Kney built for the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, MN.
…prize–winning young organists explore intriguing repertoire beyond the same–old–same–old.
…from Minnesota down to Louisiana, the King of Instruments has many exemplary representatives in the central segment of our United States.
…transcriptions and arrangements of select solos and scenes from the lyric stage seem perfectly at home in the organ loft, too!
…a tri–centenary salute to Bach's favorite and most prolific student, Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713–1780)
…a focus on the man behind the music of prolific American composer Dan Locklair.
…members of the Juilliard School organ studio of Paul Jacobs present a Pipedreams Live! concert at Alice Tully Hall.
…performances from the world's most popular classical music festival, recorded at London's Royal Albert Hall.
…a sesquicentennial salute to turn–of–the–(19th)–century recitalist, composer and teacher, Horatio Parker (9/15/1863–12/18/1919)
…concert performances from a recent conference on organ building and playing.
…a selective survey of some recent releases from a notable English label, with music from Durham, Ely, Oxford, York and Bristol.
…in anticipation of Women's Equality Day, a program to showcase women composers and organists.
…a centenary tribute to the celebrated San Francisco organist-composer Richard Purvis (1913-1994).
…in solos and choral accompaniments, resident and guest artists showcase the 2012 Foley-Baker rebuild of the Welte-Möller organ at the Episcopal Cathedral in Minneapolis.
…having a great time up in the organ loft, with clarinet, trombone, cello, and brass ensemble.
…during his later Leipzig years, Bach revised and prepared a diverse collection of chorale preludes that were his final testament in this format.
…a roundup of live performance events on interesting instruments from throughout the United States.
…solo performances of music from France, and a pair of American concertos from AGO 2004, featuring the eye- and ear-catching Glatter-Götz/Rosales organ.
…the good feeling generated by these diverse and creative works of American composers.
…the format of organ-and-orchestra, first explored in the 18th century, has generated plenty of sizzle in more recent times.
…the splendid sound of organ music in American cathedrals in Seattle, San Francisco, Wilkes-Barre, Toledo, Buffalo and the Twin Cities.
…classical and theatre organists, and some young competition winners, provide some sounds from the deep south.
…the lively and lovely voices of resilient American pipe organs are celebrated by the Organ Historical Society throughout New England.
…we return to upstate New York for performances by students and faculty of the Eastman School of Music recorded during a remarkably popular and successful weekend organ festival.
…performances by students and faculty of the Eastman School of Music during a remarkably popular and successful weekend organ festival.
…showcasing music by the foremost 19th century composer who did not write for the pipe organ, Richard Wagner (1813-1883).
…an international sampler of recent pipe organ installations in Virginia, New Jersey, Louisiana, Austria, Germany and England.
…groups of brief, characterful movements proved a good 'recipe' for organ composers in France, and they stuck with it through centuries!
…instruments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and Cincinnati's Museum Center at Union Terminal reveal two sides of the American organ builder's craft.
…a sentiment-rich collection of 'songs from the heart' recorded in theaters, museums, private music studios and churches.
…composers and performers showcase the traditions of organ music in Stockholm and beyond.
…in Miami (FL), Syracuse (NY), and Appleton (WI), young performers show how their special talents won them special notice.
…with hymns, chorales, chants and organ solos, we reflect on spring's rebirth at Easter.
…the great master, Johann Sebastian, provokes our understanding of historic tradition as well as our sense of adventure.
…though his pages often contain a tumult of notes, Max Reger's compositions also encompass magical moments of reflection and compassion.
…performances on recently inaugurated instruments in Nashville, Chicago, Shreveport, Park Rapids (MN), Victoria (BC) and Tampa.
…performances by and conversation with England's premiere Town Hall Organist, king of the Hill (organ) in Birmingham.
…what started out as a suspect Spanish 'walking dance' evolved into one of classical music's most profound genres.
…from three centuries of compositions, an overview of the 'old-world' organ art as practiced in the 'new world'.
…great instruments and great music can be found in abundance in America's greatest city!
…a centenary tribute to imaginative and virtuosic American composer-organist Robert Elmore (1913-1985).
…an introduction to the Iberian organ experience in anticipation of our upcoming Pipedreams Tour!
…across many generations, songs of faith have provided composers with familiar themes to embellish.
…a focus on female practitioners of the organ art, featured as recital soloists and composers (sometimes simultaneously).
