We’ve reached the last show of 2025. To celebrate, we’ve gathered around the holiday table with some friends to join us, and they’ve brought some of their favorite organ works to talk about and hear.
Hosts: Mark Scholtz, Bill Stein
Including: Heather Martin Cooper, Chantal Incandela, Kevin Chunko
Playlist
Title: Praeludium in D minor (BuxWV 140)
Composer: Dietrich Buxtehude
Organist: Hans Davidsson
Album: Buxtehude – The Mean-Tone Organ – Loft LRCD 1090-91
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Organ: 2000 IV/92 GOArt, Örgryte New Church, Göteborg, Sweden
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Title: Sonata no. 1 – II. Sehr langsam (Very slow)
Composer: Paul Hindemith
Organist: Piet Kee
Album: Piet Kee plays Hindemith and Reger – Chandos CHAN9097
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Organ: 1738 III/64 Muller/Marcussen and Son, Grote Kirk, Haarlem, Netherlands
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Title: Toccata planyavska
Composer: Guy Bovet
Organist: Guy Bovet
Album: Bovet plays Bovet – MDG MDG 320 0675-2
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Organ: 1993 III/63 Woehl, Church of St. Peter, Cuxhaven, Germany
Title: Troisème Symphonie pour grand orgue, op. 28 – IV. Adagio
Composer: Louis Vierne
Organist: Ann Elise Smoot
Album: On A Sunday Afternoon – Volume 4 – JAV JAV-143
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Organ: 1963 IV/186 EM Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner, National Cathedral, Washington, DC USA
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Title: Prélude, Adagio et Choral varié sur le thème du Veni Creator, op. 4 – Choral varié
Composer: Maurice Duruflé
Organist: Douglas Cleveland
Album: Celestial Fire – Gothic G49113
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Organ: 1997 III/70 Goulding and Wood, St. Meinrad Archabbey, St. Meinrad, Indiana USA
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Title: Sonate I pour Saxophone Alto et Orgue – II. Barcarolle
Composer: Denis Bédard
Organist: Jacques Boucher
Album: Oeuvres pour Orgue et Saxophone – Société Métropolitaine du Disque SMD 227-1
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Organ: 1918 III/36 Casavant, Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola, Cap-Saint-Ignace, Quebec Canada
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Title: Symphony no.1 in D minor for Organ and Orchestra, op.42 – III. Final
Composer: Felix-Alexandre Guilmant
Organist: Simon Preston
Album: French Organ Concertos – ABC 8.77000 8
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Organ: 1877 IV/85 Hill and Son/Walker, Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide, Australia
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Closing
Title: Variations on Auld Lang Syne, op. 30
Composer: Eugene Thayer
Organist: Simon Nieminski
Album: The Organ at the Grand Lodge – Pro Organo CD 7240
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Organ: 1913 III/33 Brindley and Foster/Forth, Freemason’s Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland
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