News from New Haven #9117
…concert performances from an American Guild of Organists regional convention featuring several new works and historic instruments.
FELIX MENDELSSOHN: Organ Sonata No. 4 in B-flat, Op. 65 —Christa Rakich (1871 E. & G.G. Hook organ/St. Mary's Church)
JAMES WOODMAN: Sinfonia pur orgue (premiere) —Thomas Murray (1928 E.M. Skinner/Woolsey Hall, Yale University)
ROBERT SIROTA: Concerto for Organ, strings and percussion (1985) —Victoria Ressmeyer Sirota; Orchestra New England; James Sinclair, cond. (1951 Holtkamp/Battell Chapel, Yale University)
Bruce Simonds: Prelude on Iam sol recredit igneus —Thomas Murray
MARCEL DUPRÉ: 5 Antiphons, Op. 18 (1920) —Christa Rakich
These concerts, recorded June, 18-21, 1989, were presented under the auspices of the Connecticut Chapters of the A.G.O.
