This week we hear works by the Famous Blind British organist and composer Alfred Hollins and some of his contemporaries.
Hosts: Mark Scholtz, Bill Stein
Playlist
Title: Triumphal March
Composer: Alfred Hollins
Organist: Eric Plutz
Organ Media Foundation recording, March 2025
Organ: 1928 IV/135 EM Skinner/Mander, Princeton University Chapel, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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Title: A Song of Sunshine
Composer: Alfred Hollins
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: Symphony in G minor, op. 35 – II. Adagio cantabile
Composer: Edwin H Lemare
Organist: Roger Fisher
Album: Edwin H Lemare Symphony No 1 and other romantic rarities – JAV JAV 128A
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Organ: 1930 IV/63 EM Skinner/Thompson-Allen, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Morristown, New Jersey USA
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Title: Bell Scherzo, op. 89
Composer: Edwin H Lemare
Organist: Frederick Hohman
Album: Lemare Affair – Pro Organo CD 7007
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Organ: 1966 III/50 Aeolian-Skinner, Church of the Epiphany, Washington, DC USA
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Title: Bohemesque
Composer: William Wolstenholme
Organist: Christopher Herrick
Album: Organ Fireworks – IX – Hyperion CDA67228
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Organ: 1930 IV/78 Kuhn, Bern Cathedral, Bern, Switzerland
Title: Elfentanz
Composer: Bernard Johnson
Organist: Simon Nieminski
Album: Alfred Hollins And Friends – Regent REGCD 473
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Organ: 1947 IV/72 Moller/Reuter, Third Baptist Church, St. Louis, Missouri USA
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Title: Concert Overture in F minor
Composer: Alfred Hollins
Organist: Timothy Byram-Wigfield
Album: Alfred Hollins Organ Works – Delphian DCD34044
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Organ: 1923 IV/50 Harrison and Harrison, Caird Hall, Dundee, Scotland
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Title: Cortège Académique
Composer: Ernest MacMillan
Organist: Eric Plutz
Organ Media Foundation recording, March 2025
Organ: 1928 IV/135 EM Skinner/Mander, Princeton University Chapel, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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Title: Bourée in B minor
Composer: Alfred Hollins
Organist: Paul Derrett
Album: The Voice of Yesteryear – Benchmarks Records 806839CD
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Organ: 1928 IV/51 Harrison and Harrison, Halifax Minster, Halifax, England