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Archive of Follow the Star #0627
These brilliant denizens of heaven evoke their rolls as travelers’ guide, focus of prayers and wishes, and symbol of nations, while providing us with a star-studded musical celebration.
MICHAEL BURKHARDT: Variations on How brightly shines the morningstar –Michael Burkhardt (1988 Casavant Frères/Concordia University Center for Worship and the Performing Arts, Irvine, CA) MorningStar CD-11MB
DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE: Fantasy on Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern –Marie-Claire Alain (1692 Arp Schnitger [plus additions]/Martinikerk, Groningen, The Netherlands) Erato ECD-0630-12979
GEORG DIETRICH LEIDING: Chorale-prelude, Wie schön leuchtet –Jan Overduin (1766 Riepp/Ottobeuren Monastery, Germany) ebs 6010
JAMES WOODMAN: Little Partita for Epiphany –Peter Sykes (1989 Roche/Old North Church, Nantucket Island, MA) Raven OAR-320
JOHANN PACHELBEL: Chorale-prelude, Wie schön leuchtet –Marilyn Mason (1985 C.B. Fisk/Moore Hall, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI) MHS CD-5132761
RICHARD PURVIS: Caravan of the Three Kings –Keith Shafer (1994 Casavant Frères/St. Anne Episcopal, Tifton, GA) Saint Anne Productions CD-1001
THÉODORE DUBOIS: March of the Magi –François-Henri Houbart (1845 Cavaillé-Coll/Église de la Madeleine, Paris, France) BNL 112724
LOUIS VIERNE: Etoile du soir, from Fantasy Pieces, Opus 54, number 3 –Wolfgang Rübsam (1880 Cavaillé-Coll/Église Saint-François-de-Sales, Lyon, France) Bayer BR100 015/6
HOAGY CARMICHAEL: Stardust –George Wright (Hollywood Philharmonic Organ/George Wright Residence, Hollywood, CA) Banda CD-109454
JIMMY van HEUSEN: Swinging on a Star –David Peckham (1925 Marr & Colton/Clemens Center, Elmira, NY) Veteran Hill Productions 1961
JOHN PHILIP SOUSA: Stars and Stripes Forever –Simon Preston (1863 E.F. Walcker; 1947 Aeolian-Skinner/Methuen Music Hall, Methuen, MA) Argo 421 731
CHARLES TOURNEMIRE: Communion for Epiphany, from L’Orgue Mystique –Pierre Cogen (1859 Cavaillé-Coll/Basilique Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, France) Cybella CD-883
CHARLES TOURNEMIRE: Offertoire and Fantasie-Chorale for the Sunday after Epiphany, from L’Orgue Mystique –Adrian Gunning (1962 Harrison & Harrison/Coventry Cathedral, England, UK) Libra CD-155
