This week we spend the hour with some landmark instruments designed and built by Ernest M. Skinner.
Playlist
Title: Festival Prelude, op. 67 no. 1
Composer: Horatio Parker
Organist: Frederick Hohman
Album: Opus 190 – Pro Organo CD 7042
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Organ: 1910 IV/55 EM Skinner/Quimby, Grand Avenue United Methodist Temple, Kansas City, Missouri USA
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Title: Procession Of Nobles, From The Opera Mlada
Composer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Organist: Thomas Murray
Album: Great Organbuilders of America: A Retrospective Vol 14 – JAV JAV124
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Organ: 1928 IV/197 EM Skinner, Woolsey Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut USA
Title: Nimrod from Enigma Variations
Composer: Edward Elgar
Organist: Thomas Murray
Album: The Transcriber’s Art – Gothic G49054
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Organ: 1928 IV/197 EM Skinner, Woolsey Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut USA
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Title: Symphony no. 6, op. 59 – II. Aria
Composer: Louis Vierne
Organist: Colin Lynch
Album: The Organ of Stambaugh Auditorium, Youngstown, Ohio – Raven OAR-939
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Organ: 1926 IV/58 EM Skinner/Thompson-Allen, Stambaugh Auditorium, Youngstown, Ohio USA
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Title: Grand March from Tannhauser
Composer: Richard Wagner
Organist: Ken Cowan
Album: Art of the Symphonic Organist – JAV JAV 141
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Organ: 1921 IV/59 EM Skinner/Thompson-Allen, St. Luke Episcopal Church, Evanston, Illinois USA
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Title: Beyond The Aurora
Composer: Harry C Banks
Organist: Harry Wilkinson
Album: Girard – The Definitive Recording – Pro Organo CD 7044
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Organ: 1933 IV/106 EM Skinner, Girard College Chapel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
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Title: Prélude et Fugue sur le nom d’ALAIN, op.7
Composer: Maurice Duruflé
Organist: Stephen Tharp
Album: Legendary Organ Works, Volume One – Ethereal ER-108
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Organ: 1933 IV/106 EM Skinner, Girard College Chapel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
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