Going On Record #8801
…A collection of new recordings to begin the New Year, selected with an ear for good sound and impressive playing. Michael Barone presides, with laudatory or critical comments where due.
FELIX MENDELSSOHN: Prelude & Fugue in c, Op. 37, no. 1 James Hamman (1875 Votteler organ/St. John-St. Luke Church, Detroit)
CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR: Pastorale, fr Organ Symphony No. 2; Prelude, fr Organ Symphony No. 1 Charles Krigbaum (1928 Skinner organ/Woolsey Hall, Yale University)
JEAN LANGLAIS: Supplication (1972); The Holy Spirit fr 3 Meditations on the Holy Trinity (1961) Ann Labounsky (1963 Casavant organ/Calvary Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
COLE PORTER: "Don't fence me in" and "Easy to love" George Wright (Hollywood Philharmonic Organ/Wright studio)
FATS WALLER: "Yacht Club Swing" Dick Hyman (Emery Theatre Wurlitzer/Cincinnati, Ohio)
SIGFRID KARG-ELERT: Ideale, fr Aus den Poesien, Op. 35 Wolfgang & Elke Stockmeie, organ and piano (Stockmeier studio)
FELIX MENDELSSOHN: Scherzo, fr A Midsummer Night's Dream (trans. Warren) Thomas Trotter (1834 Hill organ/Birmingham Town Hall)
Jon Nordal: Chorale
