AGO 1982 IX #8436
…performances by finalists in a National Open Competition in Organ Playing, recorded during the 1982 Biennial Convention of the American Guild of Organists in Washington, DC.
Part 1
J.S. BACH: Toccata, Adagio & fugue in C, BWV 564. PAUL HINDEMITH: Organ Sonata Number 2, 2nd movement –Edwin P. Day, organ
OLIVIER MESSIAEN: Combat de la Mort et de la Vie, from Les Corps Glorieux –Marilyn Biery, organ
Part 2
JEAN GUILLOU: Saga Number 6. MARCEL DUPRÉ: Fileuse, from Suite Bretonne, Opus 21 –Jonathan M. Parker, organ
JEANNE DEMESSIEUX: Etude in Octaves, from 6 Etudes –Peter Fennema, organ
LOUIS VIERNE: Finale, from Organ Symphony Number 6, Opus 59 –David Yearsley, organ
This broadcast, another in a series of programs that marked the full-time return of PIPEDREAMS to the national airwaves in 1983, features the 1970 Aeolian-Skinner organ at National Presbyterian Church.
On-location recordings were engineered by Michael Barone.
