Episode 227 – October 15, 2023
This week we explore some of the earliest organ music, written from the 13th century to the 15th.
Hosts: Mark Scholtz, Bill Stein, Brent Johnson
Opening
Title: Der Mohren Aufzugkh
Composer: Augustus Nörmiger
Organist: Guy Bovet
Album: L’Orgue de Valere, vol 2 – Gallo CD-0281
Organ: 1435 I/10 Unknown Valère Basilica, Sion, Switzerland
Playlist
Title: Agincourt Hymn
Composer: John Dunstable
Organist: Kevin Clarke
Album: Trumpet Tunes – Prospect 09899
Organ: 1961 IV/65 Aeolian-Skinner/Noack, Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, Dallas, Texas USA
Title: Estampie (dal Codex Robersbridge, 1350 circa)
Composer: Anonymous
Organist: Walter Gatti
Album: L’influenza del profano nella musica organistica rinascimentale e barocca
Organ: 1750 I/10 Bonati/Marzi, Church of St. John the Baptist, Luserna San Giovanni, Italy
Title: Franc cuer gentil (116), Se la face ay pale (255)
Composer: Guillaume Dufay
Organist: Joseph Payne
Album: Das Buxheimer Orgelbuch, Vol 2 – Naxos 8.553467
Organ: 1706 I/2 Rindt, Emmaus Chapel, Hatzfeld, Germany
Title: Susanna van Soldt notebook 1599 – VIII. Myn God, XXX. Preludium and XXXI. Untitled, XXXIII. Pavane Prymera
Composer: Anonymous
Organist: Kimberly Marshall
Album: Divine Euterpe – Loft LRCD 1021
Organ: 1987 III/85 Rosales, Trinity Cathedral, Portland, Oregon USA
Title: Fond youth is a bubble
Composer: Thomas Tallis
Organist: Magnus Williamson
Album: More sweet to hear – OxRecs OXCD-101
Organ: 2001 I/7 Goetz and Gwynne, Durham Cathedral – The Wetheringsett Organ, Durham, England
Title: Ave maris stella – Plein chant en basse, Fugue, Canon in diapente Point d’orgue
Composer: Jehan Titelouze
Organist: David Warren Steel
Album: Baroque Pearls – Centaur CRC 2846
Organ: 2001 II/32 Wilhelm, Paris-Yates Chapel, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi USA
Sheetmusic: PDF Purchase
Concert Organs
Title: The Evening Star from Tannhauser
Composer: Richard Wagner
Organist: Earl Miller
Album: Worcester War Memorial Auditorium, OHS Convention 1983 –
Organ: 1933 IV/107 Kimball, War Memorial Auditorium, Worcester, Massachusetts USA
Sheetmusic: Purchase
Title: Lyric Scenes to Eugene Onégin, Act III – Polonaise
Composer: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Organist: Thomas Heywood
Album: Krazy Bout Kotzschmar! – Pro Organo CD 7236
Organ: 1927 V/102 Austin, The City Hall Auditorium, Portland, Maine USA
Title: Marche Heroïque, op. 74
Composer: Edwin H Lemare
Organist: Frederick Hohman
Album: Lemare Affair II – Pro Organo CD 7018
Organ: 1927 V/102 Austin, The City Hall Auditorium, Portland, Maine USA
Sheetmusic: PDF Purchase
Title: Broadway Rhythm
Composer: Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed
Organist: Jelani Eddington
Album: Musical Fireworks
Organ: 1927 V/80 Wurlitzer, Sanfilippo Residence, Barrington, Illinois
Title: Onder een linde groen
Composer: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Organist: Carole Terry
Album: Carole Terry Plays The Watjen Concert Organ – Loft LRCD 1105
Organ: 2000 III/83 CB Fisk, Benaroya Hall, Seattle, Washington USA
Sheetmusic: PDF
Title: Dr Bull’s My Selfe, Dr Bull’s Jewell
Composer: John Bull
Organist: Gillian Weir
Album: King of Instruments – The Art of Gillian Weir – Eloquence/Universal 460 1862
Organ: 1974 II/48 Phelps, Church of St. Andrew, Hexham Abbey, Hexham, England
Title: Gloria de Sancta Maria Virgine
Composer: Anonymous
Organist: Kimberly Marshall
Album: Gothic Pipes, The Earliest Organ Music – Loft LRCD1047
Organ: 1985 II/18 Edskes-Blank, Predigerkirche, Basel, Switzerland