The Road to Calgary #9102
…Highlights from the recent and auspicious Calgary International Organ Festival celebrating a new Canadian concert hall and instrument, outstanding talent, and an enterprising community.
CHARLES IVES: Variations on "America" Simon Preston
CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR: "Allegro vivace", from Organ Symphony No. 5 Gillian Weir
PETR EBEN: Finale, from "Sunday Music" Heidi Emmert
NICOLAS de GRIGNY: Piece, from "Livre d'orgue". MAURICE DURUFLÉ: Scherzo, Op. 2 Matthew Dirst
LOUIS VIERNE: Finale, from Organ Symphony No. 6 Kevin Bowyer
MICHAEL COLGRASS: "Snow Walker" (premiere) Jonathan Biggers; Calgary Philharmonic/Mario Bernardi, conductor
These excerpts, presented through the cooperation of the CBC, were taped during the week-long event in November 1990. Two judges and the four prize-winners are heard playing the 110-rank Casavant organ.
