This week is an aural biography of one of Canada’s great organ builders – Joseph Casavant.
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Title: Deuxième Symphonie en ré mineur, op. 13 no. 2 – I. Praeludium circulaire
Composer: Charles-Marie Widor
Organist: Benjamin Waterhouse
Album: Widor – Complete Organ Symphonies – XXI XXI-CD 2 1720
Organ: 1885 IV/52 Casavant, Cathedral of St. Hyacinthe the Confessor, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec Canada
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Title: Ave Maria d’Arcadelt
Composer: Franz Liszt
Organist: Rachel Laurin
Album: Tresors de l’orgue – Fidelio FACD013
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Organ: 1892 III/96 Casavant/Guilbault-Therien, Cathedral Notre-Dame, Ottawa, Ontario Canada
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Title: Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H
Composer: Franz Liszt
Organist: Timothy Jansen
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Organ: 2014 III/76 Casavant, First Presbyterian Church of Kirkwood, Kirkwood, Missouri, USA
Title: Suite Breve – I. Prelude
Composer: Craig Phillips
Organist: Christopher Wells
Album: Fanfare: Christopher Wells plays the organ music of Craig Phillips – Pro Organo CD 7256
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Organ: 2009 IV/88 Casavant, Christ Church Episcopal, Bronxville, New York USA
Title: Suite Breve – II. Impromptu
Composer: Craig Phillips
Organist: Christopher Wells
Album: Fanfare: Christopher Wells plays the organ music of Craig Phillips – Pro Organo CD 7256
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Organ: 2009 IV/88 Casavant, Christ Church Episcopal, Bronxville, New York USA
Title: Suite Breve – III. Fanfares
Composer: Craig Phillips
Organist: Christopher Wells
Album: Fanfare: Christopher Wells plays the organ music of Craig Phillips – Pro Organo CD 7256
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Organ: 2009 IV/88 Casavant, Christ Church Episcopal, Bronxville, New York USA
Title: Suite Breve – IV. Lament
Composer: Craig Phillips
Organist: Christopher Wells
Album: Fanfare: Christopher Wells plays the organ music of Craig Phillips – Pro Organo CD 7256
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Organ: 2009 IV/88 Casavant, Christ Church Episcopal, Bronxville, New York USA
Title: Suite Breve – V. Epilogue
Composer: Craig Phillips
Organist: Christopher Wells
Album: Fanfare: Christopher Wells plays the organ music of Craig Phillips – Pro Organo CD 7256
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Organ: 2009 IV/88 Casavant, Christ Church Episcopal, Bronxville, New York USA
Title: Prelude – Vision in flames
Composer: Akira Nishimura
Organist: Dong-ill Shin
Album: Envisionings – Pro Organo CD 7241
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Organ: 1996 V/191 Casavant, Broadway Baptist Church, Fort Worth, Texas USA
Title: Pie Jesu, Bernard Levasseur, Baritone
Composer: Andre Caplet
Organist: Jacques Boucher
Album: Priez Pour Paix – Eclectra ECCD-2062
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Organ: 1915 IV/92 Casavant, Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Montréal, Quebec Canada
Title: Paraphrase on the Te Deum
Composer: Marcel Dupré
Organist: Janette Fishell
Album: Dupré Complete Works Vol 4 – Naxos 8.553919
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Organ: 1986 III/85 Casavant, St. George’s Episcopal Church, Nashville, Tennessee USA
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