We continue our organ odyssey with a stop at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Evanston, Illinois and it’s mighty E.M. Skinner organ.
Hosts: Mark Scholtz, Bill Stein
Playlist
All works performed on the 1921 IV/59 EM Skinner/Thompson-Allen of St. Luke Episcopal Church, Evanston, Illinois USA
Title: Choral Song and Fugue
Composer: Samuel Sebastian Wesley
Organist: Ken Cowan
Album: Art of the Symphonic Organist – JAV JAV 141
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Title: Hymn to St. Patrick’s Breastplate
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Organist: Stephen Tharp
Album: Art of the Symphonic Organist, Vol 2 – JAV JAV138
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Title: Lo! He comes, with clouds descending (HELMSLEY)
Composer: Richard Webster
Organist: Charles Snider
Album: Blow Ye the Trumpet in Zion – Advent Press
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Title: The Ride of the Valkyries, from Die Walküre
Composer: Richard Wagner
Organist: Ken Cowan
Album: Art of the Symphonic Organist – JAV JAV 141
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Title: Nutcracker Suite – Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairies
Composer: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Organist: Richard Webster
Album: Great Organbuilders of America: A Retrospective, Vol 12 – JAV JAV 125
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Title: Master Tallis’s Testament
Composer: Herbert Howells
Organist: Richard Webster
Album: Great Organbuilders of America: A Retrospective, Vol 12 – JAV JAV 125
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Title: Triptych for Transfiguration – I. Plein jeu on Jesu dulcis memoria, II. Meditation on Wareham, III. Sortie on Tibi, Christe, splendor Patris
Composer: Richard Webster
Organist: Richard Webster
Album: Brass Organ Quires – Advent Press
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Title: Allegro Vivace from Symphony no. 5, op. 42
Composer: Charles-Marie Widor
Organist: Ken Cowan
Album: Art of the Symphonic Organist – JAV JAV 141
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Breaks
Title: Paschal Suite for Trumpet and Organ – Pastorale on a theme of Palestrina
Composer: Richard Webster
Organist: Richard Webster
Album: Great Organbuilders of America: A Retrospective, Vol 12 – JAV JAV 125
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Title: Gott des Himmels und der Erden
Composer: Sigfrid Karg-Elert
Organist: Richard Webster
Album: Great Organbuilders of America: A Retrospective, Vol 12 – JAV JAV 125
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Video of the Organ Media Foundation’s tour of St. Luke’s organ.