Cathedral Centenary Celebration #1522
…concert performances featuring the renovated organs at the Cathedral of Saint Paul in Minnesota’s capital city.
Hour 1
CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR: Allegro vivace (Variations), fr Organ Symphony No. 5 in F, Op. 42, no. 1 –Olivier Latry (r. 10/24/13)
THOMAS TALLIS: Ecce tempu idoneum (verses). WILLIAM WALTON (trans. McKie): Orb & Sceptre March –Choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London/Andrew Carwood, director; Simon Johnson (r. 4/28/15)
EMILY MAXON PORTER: 3 Hymn Preludes (Lobe den Herren; Schönster Herr Jesu; St. Denio), fr Celebrations of Praise –Marilyn Biery (r. 7/25/03)
LOUIS VIERNE: Adagio (iv.), fr Organ Symphony No. 3, Op. 28 –Janette Fishell (r. 9/25/14)
STEPHEN PAULUS: Cathedral Fanfare for Two Organs –Jean-Baptiste Robin & Samuel Holmberg (r. 10/30/14)
Hour 2
PHILIP MOORE: Laudate Dominum (premiere of revised version). HERBERT HOWELLS: Siciliano for a High Ceremony –Samuel Holmberg (r. 8/21/14)
JEAN-BAPTISTE ROBIN: 3 Solos (USA premiere) –Jean-Baptiste Robin (r. 10/30/14)
LIONEL ROGG: Partita, Nun freut euch lieben Christen –Janette Fishell (r. 9/25/14)
CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD: Nunc dimittis, fr Service in G –Choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London/Andrew Carwood, director; Simon Johnson (r. 4/28/15)
The Cathedral of Saint Paul is blessed with two pipe organs, a 1927 Skinner in the Sanctuary and a 1963 Aeolian-Skinner in the gallery, the latter renovated and expanded by Quimby Pipe Organs in 2013, and both playable from a single (or two separate) console(s).
These additional programs are devoted to the organs of the Cathedral of Saint Paul:
At Saint Paul, in Saint Paul’s (#1442)
Wonder Woman Wilma (#1408)
Bach, Beethoven & Brahms (#0842)
A Minnesota Organ Book (#0818)
Cathedral Concerts (#9903)
Marie-Madeline Duruflé in Concert (#9341)
