More for Your Money #2035
. . . the magic of organ with orchestra and other instruments has beguiled audiences for several centuries.
Hour One
G. F. HANDEL: Organ Concerto No. 9, Op. 7, no. 3 –Concerto Amsterdam/Jaap Schröder; Daniel Chorzempa (1780 Künkel/Old Catholic Church, Haarlem, Netherlands) Pentatone 5186 109
For an intriguingly ‘different concept’ of this same Handel concerto, consider George Thalben-Ball’s performance, featuring an extensive and unabashedly romantic cadenza, with Walter Susskind and the Philharmonia Orchestra, recorded in 1948 at Kingsway Hall.
PERCY WHITLOCK: Caprice, Reverie, and Fanfare, fr Music for Orchestra –Irish Radio Concert Orchestra/Gavin Sutherland; Malcolm Riley (unknown electronic/O’Reilly Hall, University College, Dublin, Ireland) Marco Polo 8.225162
BÁLINT KAROSI: Organ Concerto No. 2 (for Organ, Percussion & Strings) –Spectrum Symphony of New York/David Grunberg; Charles Kiger, percussion; Bálint Karosi (1977 Klais/St. Peter’s Church, New York, NY) PD Archive (r. 11/4/18). This piece also is available with the same players in a different venue as Hungaroton 32805.
You can listen here to Balint Karosi’s first organ concerto, Consonances, as featured on PIPEDREAMS in 2008.
Filler – HANDEL final movement (see above)
Hour Two
J. S. BACH: Organ Concerto in g, BWV 1058 –Ars Lyrica Houston/Matthew Dirst (2010 Fritts/St. Philip Presbyterian Church, Houston, TX) Loft 1138
NAJI HAKIM: Incantation, Air & Alleluia, fr Suite Rhapsodique –Petri Komulainen, horn; Jan Lehtola (1995 Åkerman & Lund/Kallio Church, Helsinki, Finland) IFO 323
CRAIG PHILLIPS: Pastorale for Bassoon & Organ –William Wood, bassoon; Craig Phillips (1951 Casavant/All Saints’ Church, Beverly Hills, CA) Gothic 49207
MARCO ENRICO BOSSI: Fantasia Sinfonica, Op. 147 –Orchestra Regionale Veneta/Marco Titotto; Giovanni Feltrin (2000 Kuhn-Hradetzky/Cathedral of St. Peter, Treviso, Italy) Opera San Pio X 002
Filler – BACH final movement (see above)
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