Episodes: 2015

…our annual Olde Yeare-New Year reflection, with highlights from recent recordings, concert excerpts, prize-winning performances, memorial tributes, and more.

…holiday music resounds coast-to-coast, from New York to California, Texas to Minnesota.

…the Christmas festival is rich with pictorial implications that composers have interpreted with intriguing ingenuity.

…with greetings from England, Iceland, France, Austria, Poland, Italy, Canada and the United States.

…selected works by composers celebrating special centennial or sesqui-centennial anniversaries this year.

…despite the organ's origins abroad, our resident composers have rather nicely figured out the King of Instruments.

…an independent approach leads to compelling results in the hands of those who prefer ‘doing it their way’!

…talented and aspiring young soloists show their promise as winners of various national and regional competitions sponsored by the American Guild of Organists.

…a sampler of some of the instruments to be visited during the Spring 2016 Pipedreams Group Tour in northern England and Scotland.

…selections from the increasingly popular festival devoted to Aeolian-Skinner pipe organs designed by Roy Perry.

…recent selections from one of America's prime 'organ labels', and conversations with Raven's curator William Van Pelt.

…the tradition of grand pipe organs in civic halls seems to have been an English invention, one carried on successfully throughout the Empire and still maintained…and emulated…today.

…performances by prizewinners of the 2014 concours held in Montreal last October.

…intriguing combinations of other musical friends add importantly to the organ’s ‘public’ repertoire.

…raising the roof with soulful and sonorous scores for choirs, congregations, solo singers and organs.

…one of the world's best known texts provides us with glimpses into the composer's craft and the organ builder's art.

…classic repertoire, improvisations, and an unusual concerto provide opportunities for soloists on the mighty Royal Albert Hall organ at the BBC Proms in London.

…another exploration of the organ art as practiced in distinctive fashion by soloists and composers from Norway.