All Episodes

…completed in 1862 as the largest work of the famous builder Aristide Cavaille-Coll, and immortalized by Widor and Dupre, this noteworthy Parisian instrument received a thorough historic restoration which was completed last year. These performances celebrate its official re-inauguration, and feature works by present and former Saint- Sulpice musicians (r. 10/18/91).

…an autumn quarter sampler of recent releases of organ music, with emphasis on the unusual and the unusually attractive.

…the young Swedish recitalist performs his first concert in the United States at the Riverside Church in New York City (r. 7123/91).

…on beyond ubiquitous familiarity to a diverse and delightful repertoire by the master-player of Nuremberg, Johann Pachelbel.

…performances on historic American instruments recorded during the 1986 Organ Historical Society conclave.

…Harald Vogel plays music by Buxtehude, Scheidt, Praetorius and other Baroque composers on the Brombaugh organs of Southern College in Collegedale, Tennessee.

…a ring of words and music, crowned by Ernst Krenek's imposing setting of mystical poems of John Donne.

…the splendid sounds of historic instruments are all around us, if we care enough to listen and to preserve them.

…a concert on the 1964 Holtkamp organ at St. John's Benedictine Abbey and University Church in Collegeville, MN.

…a memorial tribute to the late American organist, an innovative and outspoken recitalist and composer, who was recorded at Plymouth Congregational Church in Minneapolis in January 1983 (89-rank Holtkamp organ).

…a revisit with William Van Pelt of the Orlan Historical Society, from which archives we draw a potpourri of performances on noteworthy older American instruments.

…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 summer quarter sampler of recent releases of organ music, with emphasis on the unusual and the unusually attractive.

…more concert performances from Charleston churches.

…more performances from Lahti’s Church of the Cross.

…finalists in both the national performance and improvisation contests play at Church of the Advent, Boston, and Harvard University’s Memorial Chapel.

…concert performances from Charleston’s summer organ music celebration.

…the notes are the same, but inevitably the accent is a bit different when works of French composer Cesar Franck are interpreted on instruments in the United States.