…a concert performance by Yale University organist Charles Krigbaum of Bach's final masterpiece, recorded on the Robert Sipe organ in the Center for Faith and Life at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.
…performances by the California organist, recorded on Flentrop instruments in Seattle and Palo Alto, Schoenstein organs in Los Olivos and San Francisco, and the Holtkamp/Moeller organ at the US Air Force Academy chapel.
…music of American composers performed at Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall, the DuPont estate, Longwood Gardens and Grace Cathedral, San Francisco.
…on this first broadcast of a new Pipedreams series, host Michael Barone surveys the musical and historic variety of the pipe organ, while sampling recent recordings. The emphasis is on the unusual and the unusually attractive, with wide-ranging choices covering many musical styles, performers, and instruments.
…performances by members of the Twin Cities Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, recorded in concert.
…celebrated composers' musical tributes to Johann Sebastian Bach, using the theme derived from his last name.
…a reflective survey of performance practice. As the pendulum of taste swings eternally. music of Johann Sebastian Bach remains a constant attraction. But even his work is not immune to varying interpretation as our notions of the ideal "Bach approach" shift and fluctuate. Here we explore the Bach art in its manifold variety as displayed by such noted personages as Albert Schweitzer. Anton Nowakowski. Marcel Dupre. Louis Vierne, Helmut Walcha. Carl Weinrich, E. Power Biggs, Virgil Fox and several contemporary talents.
…a reflective survey of performance practice. As the pendulum of taste swings eternally. music of Johann Sebastian Bach remains a constant attraction. But even his work is not immune to varying interpretation as our notions of the ideal "Bach approach" shift and fluctuate. Here we explore the Bach art in its manifold variety as displayed by such noted personages as Albert Schweitzer. Anton Nowakowski. Marcel Dupre. Louis Vierne, Helmut Walcha. Carl Weinrich, E. Power Biggs, Virgil Fox and several contemporary talents.
…a digital recording of a concert performance from St. Clement's Catholic Church in Chicago, by organist Wolfgang Rubsam, featuring the so-called German Organ Mass, elaborate chorale-preludes based on melodies of the Lutheran Greater Catechism. This volume is the first of Bach's organ music published in his lifetime, and represents his compositional art at its height. Commentary is provided by Bach scholar Chistoff Wolf of Harvard University.
…performances by members of the Twin Cities (Minnesota) chapter of the American Guild of Organists, digitally recorded in recital on the 1976 Casavant organ (18-stops) at the Church of the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in St. Paul.
…a selective survey of the unique contributions to the organists' repertoire by the man who invented the organ concerto, George Frideric Handel.
…performances by Minnesota organists Howard Don Small and James Melby, recorded on the 4-manual Welte-Moller-Gould organ (1928-1983) at St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
…music for organ and diverse win instruments, from bagpipe to brass ensemble.
…a rare American performance of the 1979 cantata by Peter Maxwell Davies, based on a text by George Mackay Brown evocative of the early Celtic civilization on the Orkney Islands, and some lessons for our own. Recordings were made in concert at St. John's Benedictine Abbey and University Church in Collegeville, Minnesota. Organ by Walter Holtkamp, Sr. (1962)
…a concert recorded at Christ Church Parish in Tacoma, Washington, during the 1982 national convention of the Organ Historical Society. Organ by John Brombaugh & Associates, 1979 (24 stops) and harmonium by Peter Titz.
…a potpourri of music in observance of the 300th birthday year of three renowned composers (Bach, Handel and Scarlatti), the centenary of a legendary recitalist (Lynwood Farnam), and the Feast of the Epiphany.
…a quarterly sampling of recent organ discs, with emphasis on the unusually attractive and the unusual. Our choices are wide-ranging, covering a variety of musical styles, performers and instruments. Domestic and imported LPs and CDs will be aired.
…conversation with and performances by cathedral organist Howard Don Small and his choir, recorded at the most musically prominent church in Minnesota. Assisting artists include the Minnesota Brass Ensemble led by Philip Brunelle; Nancy Grauff, soprano; Emma Small, mezzo-soprano; Andrea Schussler, soprano and the St. Mark's Cathedral Choir.
