Organ Tours: Collected Examples of Historic & Modern OrgansThese CDs demonstrate organs in various national regions, eras, or organbuilding styles, or by a specific builder or school of builders. |
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| A Kentucky Organ Tour Organist Schuyler Robinson tours nine great pipe organs of historic and modern vintage in the Bluegrass region of central Kentucky. This recording visits organs not heard on OHS-93 Historic Organs of Louisville. | |
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| Seven Rhode Island Organists play Eleven organs by Aeolian-Skinner, Richard Hedgebeth, Hutchings-Votey, Angerstein & Associates, Foley-Baker, Austin, C. B. Fisk, Ruffatti, and Holtkamp. A nicely produced booklet accompanies the CD with stoplists of the organs. In addition to the performances of the other fine organists on this disc, the Rhode Island Chapter is pleased to present the recording debut of Andrew Galuska, Rhode Island native and student of Olivier Latry, and also composer Martha Sobaje performing two of her own works. Patrick Aiken at Central Congregational Church, Providence Aeolian-Skinner Op. 1440 DUNSTABLE, arr. Biggs: Agincourt Hymn PARRY: Jerusalem Mark Steinbach at St. Paul’s Church (Episcopal), Wickford Richard Hedgebeth 1981 J. S. BACH: Fugue in G (Gigue), BWV 577 Mark Steinbach at Sayles Hall, Brown University, Providence Hutchings-Votey Op. 1480 MESSIAEN: Transports de joie (L’Ascension) Mark Steinbach at St. Dominic Chapel, Providence College, Providence Holtkamp 2001 ALAIN: Litanies Peter Krasinski at First Church of Christ, Scientist, Providence Hutchings-Votey Op. 1637 WRIGHT: Lyric Rhapsody Marthe Sobaje at Phillips Memorial Baptist Church, Cranston Angerstein & Assoc. Op 9 SOBAJE: Trumpet Tune, Chaconne Stephen Martorella at The First Baptist Church in America, Providence Foley-Baker 2000 WIDOR: Adagio (Symphonie V) DURUFLÉ: Toccata on Veni Creator Spiritus James Busby at St. Stephen’s Church, Providence Austin Op. 753 COOK: Fanfare HOWELLS: Master Tallis’s Testament Andrew Galuska At Christ Church (Episcopal), Westerly C. B. Fisk Op. 45 BUXTEHUDE: Prelude, Fugue & Chaconne in C Andrew Galuska at St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church, Newport Aeolian-Skinner Op. 1100 FRANCK: Choral No. 2 in b Andrew Galuska at Our Lady of Grace Roman Catholic Church, Johnston Fratelli Ruffatti 1968 BOSSI: Intermezzo Op. 118 No. 9 Improvisation on Salve Regina | |
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| NEWLY RE-ISSUED! Francis Chapelet, Michel Chapuis, René Saorgin and Helmut Winter offer stylish performances on historic European organs built from the 15th to the 18th centuries. | |
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| Worcester, Massachusetts is proud of its wealth of fine organs. This 2-CD set, produced by the Worcester Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, tours the city and visits organs by Aeolian-Skinner, Russell & Co., Taylor and Boody, Reuter, E. & G.G. Hook, J.W. Walker & Sons Ltd, Dobson Organ Co., Noack, Casavant Frères, Schantz, Skinner, and Kimball. Organists include Peter Stoltzfus Berton, Frank Corbin, John Sittard, Brett Maguire, Wiliam Ness, Will Sherwood, James David Christie, Barclay Wood, Patricia Snyder, Lois Toeppner, Johnathan Bezdegian, Donald Meineke, Lucia Clemente-Falco, Scott Lamlein, Mark Dwyer, William Self and Earl Miller. Proceeds from the sale of the CD set benefit the Worcester Chapter’s Scholarship Fund. | |
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| Organs of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, are toured by eight organists to document on 27 tracks the sounds of 13 organs built 1762 to 1999. Builders include Snetzler, Hutchings, Roche, Casavant, Hook, Holbrook, Beaudry, Clarke, Andover, Aeolian-Skinner, Stephen Russell, and Rodgers (with pipes). The CD was produced by Jack Hart, a Cape Cod organist and recording engineer. Click the headline for a list of organs, works, locations, and organists. | |
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| A book by Dennis G. Waring, and a CD! Together, the book and the CD tell the story of the reed organ in American culture. Click on picture for complete description and ordering | |
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| Organs by Patrick J. Murphy & Associates 2CDs for the Price of One! This Philadelphia organbuilder presents two CDs to showcase three organs built by his firm in 1999, 2000, and 2003 and to showcase two of Philadelphia’s fine organists, Matthew Glandorf and Wesley Parrrott. Murphy, one of three first recipients of the OHS E. Power Biggs Fellowship in 1978, founded his firm in 1987. The three organs are of moderate size and in differing acoustics. The playing of both organists is superb. Parrott plays fanfares and processions by several British composers and fantasies by Mozart, Liszt, and Sowerby. Glandorff improvises brilliantly, transcribes Rachmaninoff and Bartok, and plays Howells and Bach. Click the headline for details and to order. | |
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| John Brock plays organs by two Tennessee organbuilders: B. Rule & Co. (a rebuilt Pilcher tracker at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville) and Richards, Fowkes & Co. (Westminster Presbyterian, Knoxville), as well as the Lincoln, Nebraska, builder Bedient Pipe Organ Co. (Idlewild Presbyterian, Memphis). The organs contrast greatly: the sumptuous tones of the turn-of-the- 20th-century Pilcher were extended in the rebuild; the richness of the beautifully voiced new organ in essentially German style by Richards, Fowkes speaks the language of the repertoire selected by Brock; and the vastly symphonic French pallette of the Bedient present the French works to perfection. Tennessee Organ Tour, Vol. 1 John Brock Plays | |
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| John Brock plays works from Buxtehude to Zeuner on eight organs: 1888 Felgemaker, Chattanooga; 1987 Wilhelm, Knoxville; c.1840 unknown, Bolivar; 1986 Brombaugh meantone, Collegedale; c. 1845 James Hall, Greeneville; 1891 Jardine & 1974 Beckerath, Nashville; 1986 Noack, Memphis. Click the headline for works recorded and to order. | |
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| Six organs by Willis, Lewis, Hill, Bevington, Forster & Andrews, and Richard Smith, with organists John Kitchen and John Butt. Click the headline for details and to order. | |
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| This set combines important organs, players, and recordings made in the 1960s with excellent digital sound, in stereo. Click the headline for the organs, works, and organists, and to order. | |
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| The master work of French organbuilder Karl Joseph Riepp (1710-1775) in the Basilica of Ottobeuren — actually a double organ — is one of the most treasured historic organs in Europe. It was not until 1957 that a third organ was added by G. F. Steinmeyer & Co, which has recently been renovated and augmented by Johannes Klais, making 100 stops available on 5 manuals. Young German organist Axel Flierl gives an impressive performance amid this wealth of riches. Click the headline for titles and to order. | |
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| 2 CDs for the Price of One Bells & Organs of Aachen, Germany, includes ten organists playing eight organs in eight churches located in and around the city. Click the headline for a list of the organs, the music recorded, and to order. | |
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| Seven Old Organs in Sweden Japanese organbuilder Munetaka Yokota who now works with Go-Art in Sweden selected seven of Sweden’s oldest and most interesting organs for this survey CD. In the summer of 2003, he led a team of five to make this CD while touring the organs. Organist Naoko Imai plays idiomatic works (listed at www.ohscatalog.org) to demonstrate these beautiful instruments, five of which are comprised of one manual and two are comprised of two manuals (some have Pedal). The organs are located in Skokloster, Morlanda, Tjällmo, Leufsta Bruk, Jonsered, Yttergran, and Börstil. They were built by immigrant organbuilders from the Hamburg area, or by their apprentice/successors. The nice package contains notes on the cultural and organbuilding history as well as photos and stoplists. | |
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| The first-ever complete set of recordings of all of the extant organs built by Gottfried Silbermann marks the 250th anniversary of his death in 2003. Color pictures, stoplists, and histories in English are provided for all of the organs. Repertoire includes much J. S. Bach, of course, and many also other appropriate composers. The first four of eight CDs in the series are now available. (Click on title for list.) | |
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| Passionate Dutch Organist Feike Asma (1912-1984) polarized the Dutch organ scene in the latter half of the 20th century, having developed a passionate and expressive style that made him a frequent recitalist who brought large audiences and many people to the organ. Writes organist Herman van Vliet, “His interpretations of the great organ repertoire were monuments in sound. . . He possessed a natural understanding of tension and its release, for timing, rubato, style of playing and touch, and for colorful and dynamic registrations.” The Festivo label presents several retrospective CDs of Feike Asma, both live concerts and recording sessions, playing famous Dutch organs. Click the headline for descriptions of each CD. Feike Asma In Concert Feike Asma Plays Reger, Hoyer, Reubke Asma & Zwart Chorales and Psalms Old Church, Amsterdam | |
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| Despite fire and neglect, the wonderful 1891 Roosevelt op. 494 of 1891 continues to play (when the weather is right and after several sessions of TLC) in the fully gracious acoustics of St. James’ Roman Catholic Church in Chicago. Wolfgang Rübsam, William Aylesworth, and Michael Surratt play on this CD produced by the Chicago Chapter of OHS, compiling from master tapes two selections previously released on LP phonograph records and adding previously unreleased performances, including Michael Surratt’s performances from the 1984 OHS National Convention. Works by Rheinberger, Guilmant, Clarence Eddy, Frederic Archer (organist of this church), and Charles Lee Williams. Click for titles and to order | |
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| 2 CDs for the Price of One! Organist Alison J. Luedecke plays the earliest four large large organs built for locations in North America by Rudolf von Beckerath, a great light in the Organ Revival worldwide and much appreciated for the beauty and timelessness of his organs. Featured are the very large organs built for Cleveland in 1957, Pittsburgh in 1962, and moderately large organs built for Montréal in 1959 and Stetson University in 1961. Superb sound is captured by engineer Ed Kelly. Click title for repertoire. | |
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| One of the world's unique organ situations exits at the resonant Ögryte New Church (built ca. 1880) in Göteborg, Sweden: the 3m Henry Willis organ built for St. Stephen's, Hampstead, is intact and relocated to a large transept gallery of the Ögryte Church in 1998; in the rear gallery is an astonishingly successful copy of the 3m organ completed in 1692 by Arp Schnitger for the Jacobi Church in Hamburg, the creation of a team of organbuilders, scientists, musicologists, and craftsmen of the Göteborg Organ Art Center (Go-Art) at Göteborg University. Erland Hildén, organist of the Örgryte Church, demonstrates both organs. On the Willis Organ: COCKER: Tuba Tune BRIDGE: Adagio in E HOLLINS: Song of Sunshine ELGAR: Pomp & Circumstance No. 1 in D BACH: Badinerie from Orchestral Suite No. 2 in b-minor LEFÉBURE-WELY: Sortie in E-flat On the 1999 "Schnitger" Organ: BACH: Wir glauben all' an einen Gott; Prelude in C SWEELINCK: Mein Junges Leben hat ein End' TUNDER: Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ ANON. SPANISH: Canción para la Corneta con el Eco ERLAND HILDÉN: Organ Mass on BACH | |
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| Carsten Lenz plays unusual 19th-century music on two 19th-century organs: 1840 Weil organ in Altenkirchen and the 1892 Rassmann organ in Rod an der Weil. Click on the headline for more information and to order. | |
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| The organ city of Bad Homburg possesses several organs reflecting stages of organ building and musical history. The Erlöserkirche possesses both a large, turn-of-the-20th-century Sauer organ and a new Bach organ based on the 1742 Thuringian model. The Bürgy organ at the Schlosskirche represents the late Baroque. Other churches have Dreymann and Klais organs. Hayko Siemens is musical director at Erlöserkirche and organist for this CD. Click picture for repertoire | |
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| Organs & Organ Music of 3 Centuries:This varied anthology of repertoire, organs, and players presents selections from the multifaceted spectrum of south German organ music as a project of the internationalized organ program at the Musikhochschule in Trossingen, including the playing of 16 students. Organs: .... Click on the headline for more information and to order. | |
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| Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the founding of the distinguished label, Motette, the firm produces a brand new set of six CDs which survey the organs of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll of Paris. The set includes a book of more than 200 pages describing the organs. Click on headline for a list of organs and organists heard on this set. | |
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| Little-known works of the Renaissance to the late 20th century and composed in Transylvania, the land “beyond the forests,” demonstrate an important organ tradition. Horst Gehann plays three organs in Mediasch (1756 Hahn), Aeiden (1783 Prause / 1833 Schneider), and Hermannstadt (1915 Sauer / 1932 Wegensteins Söhne). Click picture for repertoire by Greff-Bakfark, Croner, Lassel, Baussnern, Dressler, Gehann, and Anonymous | |
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| Special Price Calvert Johnson explores the tonal resources of five historic 18th-century English organs: St. Mary Rotherhithe (Byfield 1765), Finchcocks (Byfield 1766), St. Helen Bishopsgate (Griffin 1743), Grosvenor Chapel (Wm. Drake 1991 in 1732 Jordan case), St. James Chapel in Great Packington (Parker 1747). The compositions represent English forms, genres, and styles for the organ from the Restoration to the dawn of the Romantic era. Standard English registrations are demonstrated. Click picture for repertoire | |
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| Four individual CDs imported by OHS explore the rich organ history of Austria. Albert Bollinger plays works ideally fitted to the organs heard. Click on the picture for further description and repertoire | |
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| Ten Volumes Many interesting organs built between 1544 and about 1850 are demonstrated in this culture of strong influences from German, Italian, and French traditions. The latest volume (7) surveys organs of the Valais canton, visiting Munster, Visperterminen, Ernen and Reckingen. Albert Bolliger plays. Click on picture for full description of each of the volumes and lists of repertoire. | |
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| At Eton College in England, these two CDs (sold individually) survey four organs of important historical legacies. | |
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| In Cambridge, England, these CDs (sold individually) survey eight interesting organs, old, new and rebuilt, with various performers. | |
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| In the environs of Oxford, England, these two CDs (sold individually) survey several interesting organs, old, new and rebuilt, with various performers. | |
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| GUAMI: Canzon La Lucchesina for 2 organs SOLER: Adantino & Minué from Concerto No. 3 for 2 organs ALAIN: Variations on a theme of Jannequin; Le Jardin suspendu; Litanies REGER: Fantasy & Fugue on BACH PETER MIEG: Rencontres pour deux orgues (1982) Two Cathedrals, One Roof Since the Reformation, Protestants and Catholics have shared St. Peter’s Cathedral in Bautzen, Germany. In the Catholic section of the large building stands an 1866 Leopold Kohl organ of two manuals and 32 stops. In the Protestant section is the 1910 Hermann Eule 3m of 62 stops, his largest organ. Eule was an apprentice of Kohl and established his organbuilding firm in Bautzen, where it is still located and directed by a Eule. Protestant organist Friederike Werner and Catholic organist Friedemann Böhme (both great players) join forces for three of the works on this fine sounding, well recorded CD, and each takes a solo section, too. The booklet describes both others, with stoplists and the history of this unusual church. | |
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| Peter Sykes plays five organs built 1831-1989 by Appleton, Goodrich, Hutchings-Votey, Roche, and Steere, the latter exactly duplicating the organ for which Elgar composed his Vesper Voluntaries. | |
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| Marian Ruhl Metson plays seven historic organs in Newburyport, Massachusetts by Hook, Stevens, Alley, Morss, Lane and Hutchings. ‘‘. . . beautiful sounds [are] recorded here, and it is wonderful to hear someone play (so well!) music appropriate to those sounds," reviews The American Record Guide. Click on picture for list of organs and repertoire | |
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| Marian Ruhl Metson tours five historic organs in the Boston area: the large 1897 Hutchings in the vast acoustics of the Mission Church; the beautiful 1889 Treat at St. George’s, Methuen; 1848 Stevens 2m, Shirley Center; 1991 A. David Moore organ, Old North Church; and the famous Fisk 4m at Harvard. Click ikon for repertoire | |
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| Four historic organs in the Hannover area of Germany — Dransfeld, Hemeln, Gimte, and Varlosen — are documented by organist Felix Friedrich, assisted by Bernd Bartels, trumpet. Organs are by Eule (1843-45), Heeren (?) (ca.1770 & 1791), and Kuhlmann (1820). Works by Handel, Kellner, Baldassare, Rinck, Homilius, Telemann, Bach Click ikon for repertoire | |
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| Felix Friedrich and Albrecht Dietl play the Silbermann organ at Ponitz, the Schuster organ in Gößnitz, the Poppe organs in Wintersdorf and Zürchau, and the Donati organ in Weißbach. Works by Kuhnau, Agricola, Krebs, Pachelbel, Stölzel, Bach, Richter, Stade, Mendelssohn. | |
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| Seven organs are documented with very fine, high-tech recordings, color photos, stoplists, and histories. Included is the first recording of the new, 71-stop Klais in "swallows nest" position in Cologne Cathedral. Acoustics of all are very good to majestically reverberant. Click for more information. | |
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| Eight organs in Leipzig are beautifully recorded on the CD and their color pictures appear in the 28-page booklet, with stoplists. Includes the 1902 Sauer organ in the Thomaskirche. click for more information | |
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| Seven organs in Bremen are documented in the 24-page CD booklet. Includes the magnificent 1894 Sauer 4-114 restored at St. Petri, and recent organs by Jürgen Ahrend, Fischer & Krämer, and others. Excellent acoustics abound and the technical quality is first-rate. | |
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| Seven organs in Dresden are well presented in this CD that includes stoplists and color pictures in the 24-page booklet. Includes the 1739 Gottfried Silbermann in the Hofkirche, 1995 Wegscheider in the Wilschdorf church, the 1992 Eule in Dreikönigskirche, and 19th-century examples by Kreutzbach and Jehmlich. | |
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| Seven elegant organs built 1812-1843 by Bostonian Thomas Appleton are played by Lois Regestein in five Eastern states (South Carolina to Maine), drawing much praise for her indefatigable effort that has yielded stellar results. The CD booklet includes notes and photos of each organ, notes on the vast array of repertoire, and historical notes by Appleton’s greatest biographer, Barbara Owen. Click ikon for repertoire and list of organs | |
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| Priory Records gathers 30 different organs on one CD with great tracks of instruments such as the Adelaide Town Hall in Australia, 10 cathedrals worldwide, and Woolsey Hall at Yale University in the USA. And the artists are as interesting as the instruments. It’s an organ disc for everybody! SPECIAL PRICE! Click on the headline for more information and to order. | |
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