Thomas Trotter! #1308

…performances by and conversation with England's premiere Town Hall Organist, king of the Hill (organ) in Birmingham.

Hour 1

W. T. BEST: Concert Fantasia on a Welsh March (Men of Harlech) –Thomas Trotter (1834-2007 Hill-Willis-Mander/Town Hall, Birmingham) Regent 265

MICHAEL FESTING (arr. Thalben-Ball): Allegro, Aria and Variations –Thomas Trotter (1834-2007 Hill-Willis-Mander, Town Hall, Birmingham) Regent DVD-001

ROBERT SCHUMANN: Sketches in c, Op. 58, nos. 1 –Thomas Trotter (1855 Ladegast/Merseburg Cathedral, Germany) Regent 347

ISAAC FLAGLER: Variations on an American Air (Old Folks at Home) –Thomas Trotter (1871-2004 Willis-Harrison-Mander/Royal Albert Hall, London) Regent 322

JOHN STANLEY: Voluntary in D, Op. 6, no. 6. CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR: Allegro (Variations), fr Organ Symphony No. 5, Op. 42, no. 1 –Thomas Trotter (2010 Schantz/Martin Luther College, New Ulm, MN) Pipedreams Archive (r.4/17/2012)

Hour 2

C.P.E. BACH: Prelude in D –Thomas Trotter (Mittenreiter/Flentrop/School Hall, Eton College, England) Regent 314

JEHAN ALAIN: Scherzo & Choral, fr Suite –Thomas Trotter (1983 van den Heuvel/Nieuwe Kerk, Katwijk aan Zee, The Netherlands) Argo 430.833

FRANZ LISZT (arr. Schaab): Orpheus (symphonic poem) –Thomas Trotter (1977 Klais/Ingolstadt Münster, Germany) Argo 430.244

GIOACHINO ROSSINI (arr. Lemare): William Tell Overture. MADELEINE DRING: Caribbean Dance –Thomas Trotter (2010 Schantz/Martin Luther College, New Ulm, MN) Pipedreams Archive (r.4/17/2012)


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