Shifting Accents

…a sample of some of the different ‘voices’ with which recently installed instruments in the United States speak.

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Week of September 21, 2009

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German organist-historian Harald Vogel talks us through two sonic demonstrations of the new mean-tone Taylor & Boody pipe organ in Yale University’s Marquand Chapel. Recordings provided by the Yale University Institute of Sacred Music
is of the organ stops and is preceded by a 2-minute Fantasia by Johann Steffens [1560-1616].
is of the tuning system used on the instrument.
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Music played in the program

Hour 1

HERBERT BREWER: Marche Héroïque. HERBERT HOWELLS: Psalm-prelude, Out of the depths Opus 32, number 1 –Thomas Bara (2003 Reuter/St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, Alexandria, LA) Raven OAR-940

J.S. BACH: Fugue in E-flat, BWV 552. JOHANNES BRAHMS: Chorale-prelude & Fugue on O Traurigkeit, o Herzeleid –Joan Lippincott (2001 Taylor & Boody/Bower Chapel, Naples, FL) Gothic G49255

FREDERICK HERBERT WOOD: Chorale-prelude, Monmouth, from Scenes on the Wye, Opus 26, number 2. CHARLES DAWES: Melody in A. FREDERICK HERBERT WOOD: Toccata, Symonds Yat, Opus 26, number 2 –Simon Nieminski (2006 Nichols & Simpson/First Baptist, Abilene, TX) Pro Organo CD 7221

LOUIS-CLAUDE DAQUIN: The Cuckoo. ANTHONY NEWMAN: Fanfare, H2O and Fugue in D –Anthony Newman (2008 Beckerath/Mount Kisco Presbyterian, Mount Kisco, NY) ANCD 2009

Filler –CHARLES DAWES (see above)

Hour 2

JEREMIAH CLARKE: Trumpet Tune –David Burton-Brown (2007 Casavant Frères/Grace Episcopal, Gainesville, GA) DBB 2007

HEINRICH SCHEIDEMANN: Praeambulum ex G. SAMUEL SCHEIDT: Magnificat Quarti Toni, alternatim –Yale Institute Schola; Harald Vogel (2007 Taylor & Boody/Marquand Chapel, Yale University, New Haven, CT) Pipedreams Archive recorded October 5, 2007

CALVIN TAYLOR: Swing low, sweet chariot. TRADITIONAL: Doxology & Blessing. R. MONTY BENNETT: Amazing Grace. FELIX MENDELSSOHN: Sonata in c, Opus 65, number 2 –R. Monty Bennett (2006 Ruffatti/Friendship Missionary Baptist, Charlotte, NC) Pipedreams Archive recorded November 11, 2006

Filler –HERBERT BREWER (see above)