AGO 2018 – A Potpourri With Premieres #2043
. . . additional performances recorded during the American Guild of Organists 2018 National Convention in Kansas City.
Hour One
HANS FRIEDRICH MICHEELSEN: Toccata, Es sungen drei Engel. MARCO ENRICO BOSSI: Giga, Op. 72. ASTOR PIAZZOLLA: Oblivion –Hector Olivera (2003 Ruffatti-Rodgers-Roland/Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Kansas City, MO) PD Archive (r. 7/6/18)
CECILIA McDOWALL: O Antiphon Sequence (premiere) –Vincent Dubois (1969 Reuter-2008 McCord/St. Michael & All Angels Church, Mission, KS) PD Archive (r. 7/3/18)
HERBERT HOWELLS: Master Tallis’s Testament –Christopher Houlihan (1971 Schantz/Country Club Christian Church, Kansas City, MO) PD Archive (r. 7/3/18)
THIERRY ESCAICH: Improvisation on Two Themes –Thierry Escaich (2011 Casavant/Helzberg Hall Kauffman Center, Kansas City, MO) PD Archive (r. 7/6/18)
Filler – BOSSI (see above)
Hour Two
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS: 2 Improvisations, fr Op. 150 (No. 4, Allegretto; No. 7, Allegro giocoso) –Diane Meredith Belcher (2002 Quimby/Gano Chapel, William Jewell College, Liberty, MO) PD Archive (r. 7/5/18)
JEHAN ALAIN: Deuxieme Fantasie –James Higdon (1996 Wolff/Bales Recital Hall, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS) PD Archive (r. 7/3/18)
GRAEME KOEHNE: Gothic Toccata –Katelyn Emerson (1967 Casavant/Central United Methodist Church, Kansas City, MO) PD Archive (r. 7/3/18)
JONATHAN DOVE: Seek him that maketh the seven stars. TARIK O’REGAN: As one (premiere). JAMES MacMILLAN: Te Deum –Te Deum Chorale Ensemble/Matthew Shepard; Kurt Knecht (2017 Richards, Fowkes/Village Presbyterian Church, Prairie Village, KS) PD Archive (r. 7/5/18)
Filler – MICHEELSEN (see above)
Recordings were engineered by Kathrine Handford, William Lund, Tyler Boehmer, and Christian Amonson.
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