Museum Pieces Revisited #1316
…instruments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and Cincinnati's Museum Center at Union Terminal reveal two sides of the American organ builder's craft.
Hour 1
G.F. HANDEL: Overture to An Occasional Oratorio –Stephen Tharp (Cincinnati Museum, r. 10/24/11)
WILLIAM SELBY: Fugue or Voluntary in D –Victoria Sirota (Metropolitan Museum, r. 4/12/12)
ARTHUR SULLIVAN: The Yeoman of the Guard Overture. RICHARD WAGNER: Pilgrim's Chorus, fr Tannhäuser –Rick Van Matre, saxophone; Peter Conte. (Cincinnati Museum, r. 2005)
ROBERT SIROTA: Holy Ghosts…3 American hymn settings: Helmley-Semley-From Greenland's Icy Mountains (premiere) –Victoria Sirota (Metropolitan Museum)
FRANZ LISZT: Funérailles –Frédéric Champion (Cincinnati Museum, r. 4/23/12)
Hour 2
CHARLES ZEUNER: Voluntary in G "Before Service". ROBERT SIROTA: Festival Prelude (Now thank we all our God) –Victoria Sirota (Metropolitan Museum)
CESAR FRANCK: Choral No. 2 in b –Pierre Pincemaille (Cincinnati Museum, r. 2/13/06)
FRANCIS LINLEY: Trumpet Voluntary in A –Victoria Sirota (Metropolitan Museum)
GUSTAV MAHLER: Ihrlicht, fr Symphony No. 2 –Stacey Rishoi, mezzo-soprano; Jean-Baptiste Robin (Cincinnati Museum, r. 5/2/11)
RICHARD WAGNER: Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music, fr Die Walküre –Peter Conte (Cincinnati Museum, r. 2005)
1830 Thomas Appleton organ1929 E.M. SkinnerApril 29, 2013David BriggsRobert SullivanHarley Piltingsrud