…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.
…an iconic instrument, fiery conductor, iconoclastic soloist, and probing new score make for memorable listening.
…a tribute to the artistry of English-born organist and choral conductor John Scott, who died unexpectedly at age 59 on August 12, 2015.
…excerpts from inaugural concerts on new Utah-built Michael Bigelow pipe organs at St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral and St. Ambrose Catholic Church.
…harmonious counterpoint played on historic instruments, including the recently restored Kotzschmar Organ in Portland.
…music and conversation featuring internationally touring British recitalist Christopher Herrick, in celebration of his 40th anniversary as a recording artist.
…composers from four centuries create energetic musical manifestations of a timeless, singular song of praise.
…whether in recently discovered scores, unusual arrangements, or pieces forgotten in dark corners, the genius of Johann Sebastian Bach always delights (b. 3/21/1685).
…performances by and conversation with one of today’s most dynamic organ virtuosos, Wayne Marshall.
…imaginative composers and performers explore the varied opportunities of the King of Instruments.
…in which we blend a huge romantic pipe organ into a full symphonic wind and percussion ensemble, with clearly audible results!
…who knew that when wind blew through an organ’s pipes the results would be, among other things, ‘the blues’?
…a bit of this and a bit of that, from Bach to Boëllmann, enjoying organs and repertoire from diverse destinations.
…concert performances featuring the renovated organs at the Cathedral of Saint Paul in Minnesota’s capital city.
…since the 18th century, the combination of organ with other instrumental ensembles has provided many good vibes.
…intriguing, invigorating, and inflammable compositions on themes for the Feast of Pentecost.
…a concert performance by one of England’s foremost virtuosos, featuring the Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ in Philadelphia’s Verizon Hall.
…along with the usual sorts of musical hookups, the pipe organ gets along pretty well with guitar, panflute, bassoon and taragot.
…concert performances of American music from an American Guild of Organists convention in the Minnesota twin cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul.
…the original ‘touch piece’ has manifested itself in many different ways, dependent on time and place.
…though relatively few in number, some significant instruments by organ builders from the U. S. A. have found themselves as musical ambassadors in foreign settings.
…with focus on a further collection of compositions, instruments and performers from Poland.
…whether in Baroque chorale-preludes, Victorian anthems, or contemporary meditations, compositions for the Resurrection Festival always uplifts.
…a multi-performer, multi-venue presentation of Marcel Dupré’s provocative and profound musical interpretation of Paul Claudel’s vivid fourteen-poem cycle, Le Chemin de la Croix.
…in celebration of the Vernal Equinox and a special birthday, we delight again in more of the ever resilient music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
…though his roots are inextricably in Central German soil, transplanted his music never ceases to flourish here in the United States.
…after more than three decades as director of the Choir of King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury knows his job and still keeps on his toes as an organ soloist!
…virtuosic music by two of the towering legends of the early 20th century keyboard, explored by Jeremy Filsell.
…finalists from the 2014 Miami International Organ Competition and other soloists perform in concert.
…eight superb soloists celebrate the 10th anniversary of the iconic Glatter-Götz/Rosales pipe organ at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
…the music and insights of a prominent American composer of organ and church music, Gerald Near.
…youthful finalists in the First Longwood Gardens International Organ Competition demonstrate the versatility of the Conservatory’s 1930 Aeolian pipe organ.
…the unflappable American virtuoso Stephen Tharp talks about his career and introduces us to some pieces for which he has a strong attraction.
…archive performances by resident and visiting musicians recorded in the North Star State.
…in anticipation of our upcoming group tour, here’s a sampler of instruments in and compositions from the Republic of Poland.
