Episode 230 – November 5, 2023
With all that the organ can do, who needs and orchestra to bring orchestral music to life?
Hosts: Mark Scholtz, Bill Stein, Brent Johnson
Playlist
Title: Sinfonia – Wir danken, dir, Gott, from cantata no. 29
Composer: JS Bach
Organist: Rachel Laurin
Album: Éternel Bach, Transcriptions for organ – Musicus MCD 331192
Organ: 1960 V/117 Beckerath, St. Joseph’s Oratory, Montréal, Quebec Canada
Sheetmusic: PDF
Title: Triumphal March
Composer: Edvard Grieg
Organist: Douglas Major
Album: Marches – Gothic G18828
Organ: 1963 IV/186 EM Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner, National Cathedral, Washington, DC USA
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Title: Love Death from Tristan and Isolde
Composer: Richard Wagner
Organist: James Hammann
Album: A Steere Plays In Brooklyn – Calcante CAL CD012
Organ: 1918 IV/38 Steere, The Baptist Temple, Brooklyn, New York USA
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Title: Adagio in D-flat
Composer: Franz Liszt
Organist: Charles Callahan
Album: Charles Callahan plays the Great Organ of the Saint Louis Cathedral –
Organ: 1949 IV/98 Kilgen/Moller, St. Louis Cathedral, St. Louis, Missouri USA
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Title: Sicilienne from Pelléas et Mélisande, op. 80
Composer: Gabriel Fauré
Organist: Olivier Latry
Album: Voyages – Transcriptions pour Orgue – Erato 0190295888503
Organ: 2015 IV/100 Rieger, Philharmonie de Paris, Paris, France
Title: Overture to Music for the Royal Fireworks
Composer: GF Handel
Organist: Stephen Tharp
Album: Art of the Symphonic Organist, Vol 2 – JAV JAV138
Organ: 1921 IV/59 EM Skinner/Thompson-Allen, St. Luke Episcopal Church, Evanston, Illinois USA
Title: Prelude to Act I of La Traviata
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Organist: Peter Richard Conte
Album: My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice – Gothic G-49294
Organ: 1904 VI/457 Los Angeles Art Organ, Wanamaker Grand Court Organ, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
Sheetmusic: Purchase
Title: Nimrod from Enigma Variations
Composer: Edward Elgar
Organist: Thomas Murray
Album: The Transcriber’s Art – Gothic G49054
Organ: 1928 IV/197 EM Skinner, Woolsey Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut USA
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Title: The Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre
Composer: Richard Wagner
Organist: Jonathan Vaughn
Album: Wagner at the Organ – The transcriptions of Edwin Lemare – Regent REGCD394
Organ: 1911 IV/71 Harrison and Harrison, St. Mary Redcliffe Church, Bristol, England
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