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Celebrating the pipe organ, the King of Instruments |
2003 Berghaus organ at Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Wilkes-Barre, PA
1965 Beuchet-Debierre organ at Saint Peter’s Cathedral, Angouleme, France
1919 Hill, Norman & Beard organ at Dunedin Town Hall, New Zealand
…some stories, with and without words, prove that music’s universal language is completely comprehensible.
Listen to the program
JOHANN KUHNAU: Sonata Number 1, David and Goliath –Johannes Geffert (1650 vam Jaegjem/St. Paul Church, Antwerp, Belgium) LCS 003
EDOUARD BATISTE: The Storm –Adrian Lucas (1942 Hill, Norman & Beard/Norwich Cathedral, England, UK) Priory PRCD918
GEORGE AKERLEY: A Sweet for Mother Goose, premiere performance –Kathie Freeman, narrator; Mary Preston (1998 Glatter-Götz; Rosales/Claremont UCC, Claremont, CA) Pipedreams Archive recorded July 5, 2004
JOSEPH BONNET: Consolation, Opus 10, number 5 –Frédéric Ledroit (1965 Beuchet-Debierre/St. Peter Cathedral, Angouleme, France) Skarbo 2038
FRANZ LISZT: Funérailles, Number 7, from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses –Kalevi Kiviniemi (1907 Seifert/St. Mary Basilica, Kevelaer, Germany) Fuga 9214
Filler –JOSEPH BONNET (see above)
RICHARD PURVIS: Capriccio, On the Notes of the Cuckoo. SIGFRID KARG-ELERT: Harmonies du Soir, Opus 72, number 1 –Lorenz Maycher (1931; 1962 Aeolian-Skinner/St. Mark Episcopal, Beaumont, TX) Vermont Organ Academy 04
SIETZE de VRIES: Jesus walking upon the water –Sietze de Vries (1999 Edskes/Church of Saints Peter & Paul, Mittenwald, Germany) JSB Records 10114
JOSEPH BONNET: In Memoriam Titanic, Opus 10, number 1 –Mark Laubach (2003 Berghaus/St. Stephen Episcopal, Wilkes-Barre, PA) Pro Organo CD 7210
ALBERT KETÈLBY: In the Mystic Land of Egypt –Hans Uwe Hielscher (1919 Hill, Norman & Beard/Dunedin Town Hall, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand) Organ CD ORG7211
DANIEL GAWTHROP: Noble Gases, Argon; Krypton; Xenon –David Pickering (1996 Wolff/Bales Recital Hall, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS) Grace Notes Media 0701
Filler –FRANZ LISZT (see above)