This month we’re going on a odyssey, visiting 4 notable American organ installations. Our first stop is at Methuen Memorial Music Hall, home to the mighty 1863 Walker/Aeolian-Skinner organ.
Hosts: Mark Scholtz, Bill Stein
Playlist
All works performed on the IV/112 1863 Walcker/1947 Aeolian-Skinner of Methuen Memorial Music Hall in Methuen, Massachusetts
Title: Prelude and Fugue in G minor (WoO 10)
Composer: Johannes Brahms
Organist: Frederick Hohman
Album: Forever Methuen – Pro Organo CD 7066
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Title: Andante in A-flat
Composer: Henry Morton Dunham
Organist: Steven Young
Album: Henry Morton Dunham – A Boston Classic – AFKA SK-563
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Title: Canon no. 4 in A-flat major (from Six Canonic Studies, op. 56)
Composer: Robert Schumann
Organist: Frederick Hohman
Album: Forever Methuen – Pro Organo CD 7066
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Title: Psalm Prelude, op. 32 no. 3
Composer: Herbert Howells
Organist: Justin Murphy-Mancini
Recorded June 2023 for Organ Media Foundation
Title: Healing Waters, Fantasie on Ubi Caritas
Composer: Angela Kraft Cross
Organist: Angela Kraft Cross
Album: Passages on the Journey – Raven OAR-179
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Title: Finale from Tremonisha – Marching Onward (A Real Slow Drag)
Composer: Scott Joplin
Organist: E Power Biggs
Album: Stars and Stripes Forever – Two Centuries of Heroic Music in America – Columbia LP M34129
Title: Etude Symphonique, op. 78
Composer: Marco Enrico Bossi
Organist: Simon Preston
Album: Organ Spectacular – Decca 421731
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Part 1 of the Organ Media Foundation’s tour of the Methuen organ.