The Organ at Home #0338
One problem a few lucky organists don’t have to deal with is knowing where they’re going to practice. This week, we go to the homes of several fortunate organists and organ lovers to experience the instruments that they have had installed. While some are modest and have only a few stops, others are as big as a house and even play themselves. Each providing incredible enjoyment to all who listen. Whether in an English manor room, a musician’s private studio, or the parlor of a successful American businesman, our music comes from neither church nor concert hall. These are pipe dreams come true. Has the King of Instruments been domesticated? Find out, as we visit The Organ at Home.
COLE PORTER: From this moment on –Chris Gorsuch (1927 Wurlitzer/Place de la Musique, Sanfilippo Residence, Barrington, IL) Maglab CD (private issue)
WALT STRONY: 1920s Medley –Walt Strony (1927 Wurlitzer/Place de la Musique, Sanfilippo Residence, Barrington, IL) Maglab CD, private issue
HUGO DISTLER: Variations on Wo Gott zu Haus nit gibt sein Gunst –James Kibbie (2000 Letourneau/Kibbie-Christensen Residence, Ann Arbor, MI) Kibbie CD
J.S. BACH: Canzona in d, S. 588; 2 Chorale-preludes, from Orgelbüchlein: Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, S. 604; Wir danken dir, Herr Jesu Christ, S. 628 –Patrick Hawkins (1995 Harrold/Kay-MacBird Residence, Brentwood, CA) Arkay AR6170
RUDOLF FRIML: Rose Marie. OLEY SPEAKS: On the Road to Mandalay –organ rolls (1923 Aeolian/Granogue Manor, Wilmington, DE) Granogue CD
HERMAN FINCK: In the shadows. RICHARD WAGNER: Lohengrin Prelude to Act 3 –organ rolls (1910 Aeolian/Dinmore Manor, Herefordshire, England, UK) Dinmore Records CD-003
MORITZ MOSZKOWSKI: Etude in F, Opus 72, number 6. JOHANNES BRAHMS: Neue Liebes-lieder Waltzer, Opus 65 –Ken Cowan, Peter Stoltzfus Berton (1931 Skinner/Elm Court, Butler, PA) JAV CD-123
JOHANN ERNST EBERLIN: Der Morgen und der Abend, selections –Gerd Pitzen (1985 Oberlinger/Genius Musiksaal, Mayen, Germany) OrganoPhon 90110
JOHN IRELAND: Vilanella –Mikael Wahlin (1996 Åkerman & Lund/Stora Sköndal, Stockholm, Sweden) ESH CD-0101
CARL MARIA von WEBER: Oberon Overture –Ken Cowan (1927 Wurlitzer/Place de la Musique, Sanfilippo Residence, Barrington, IL) Magneticlab CD, private issue
