Seasonal Salutations #9150
…Seasonal Salutations....a sampler from three centuries of organists' musical greetings for the Christmas festival.
MICHEL CORRETTE: Noel, Ou s'en vont ces gays Bergers and Tambourin Jean-Maurice Capt, oboe; organist Daniel Meylan (Neidhart & Lhote organ/Romainmotier Abbey Church, Switzerland)
J.S. BACH: Canonic Variations on Vom Himmel hoch, S. 769 organist James Johnson (1978 Flentrop/St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Durham, North Carolina)
J.g. Walther: Chorale-partita, Jesu, meine Freude organist David Dahl (1979 Brombaugh/Christ Church Parish, Tacoma, Washington)
Swann: Angels we have heard. DAVID WILLIAMS: Carol-prelude, Bring a torch. NOËL GOEMANNE: Sing we Noel Crystal Cathedral Choir of Garden Grove, California; Frederick Swann, conductor; organist Mark Thallander
Marianus Koenigsperger: Pastorella in F, Op. 18, no. 8 Vienna Capelle Academic/Eduard Melkus, conductor; organist Franz Haselboeck (Neusiedl Parish Church, Austria)
VIRGIL FOX: O little town of Bethlehem. JOHANNES BRAHMS: Lo, how a rose. RICHARD ELSASSER: Deck the Halls organist Dan Miller (1990 Möller/Calvary, Charlotte, North_Carolina)
PIETRO YON: Jesu, Bambino organist James Dale (1981 Moeller/Naval Academy Chapel, Annapolis, Maryland)
FLOR PEETERS: Carol-prelude, Hirten, er ist geboren organist Jozef Sluys (1986 Loncke/St. Salvadore, Bruges, Belgium)
GUY WEITZ: Christmas rhapsody organist James Drake (1991 Austin/National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa, Doylestown, Pennsylvania)
OLIVIER MESSIAEN: Dieu parmi nous (God Among Us), from La Nativite du Seigneur organist Anthony Newman (1987 Rieger/Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity, New York City)
