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  • Episode 135 – September 2, 2018

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    This month all of our shows are guided by the letter E. For our first episode of the month, Everything’s English.
    Hosts: Mark Scholtz, Bill Stein, Brent Johnson
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    Title: Imperial March
    Composer: Edward Elgar
    Organist: Thomas Murray
    Album: Edward Elgar Music for Organ – Gothic G49076
    Organ: 1928 IV/197 EM Skinner, Woolsey Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
    Sheetmusic: PDF Purchase sheetmusic

    Title: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, op. 98
    Composer: Edwin H Lemare
    Organist: Frederick Hohman
    Album: Lemare Affair – Pro Organo CD 7007
    Organ: 1966 III/50 Aeolian-Skinner, Church of the Epiphany, Washington, DC, USA
    Sheetmusic: Purchase sheetmusic

    Title: Jupiter, The Bringer of Jollity
    Composer: Gustav Holst
    Organist: Peter Sykes
    Album: The Planets – Raven OAR 380
    Organ: 1933 IV/106 EM Skinner, Girard College Chapel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    Sheetmusic: Purchase sheetmusic

    Title: Come down, O love divine (Down Ampney) The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
    Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Organist: Stephen Cleobury
    Album: Voices of Praise – EMI 7243 5 58088 2 0
    Organ: 1934 IV/75 Harrison and Harrison, University of Cambridge, King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, England

    Title: Three Trumpet Tunes from King Arthur and The Indian Queen
    Composer: Henry Purcell
    Organist: John Kitchen
    Album: Gaudeamus Igitur – Delphian DCD 34163
    Organ: 1897 IV/62 Hope-Jones/Forth, McEwan Hall, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Title: Concert Fantasia on a Welsh March (Men Of Harlech)
    Composer: WT Best
    Organist: Thomas Trotter
    Album: Restored To Glory – Regent REGCD265
    Organ: 1837 V/112 Hill/Mander, Birmingham Town Hall, Birmingham, England
    Sheetmusic: PDF Purchase sheetmusic

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    Title: Allegretto
    Composer: William Wolstenholme
    Organist: Ronald Krebs
    Album: The Art of Two Manuals – Raven OAR 911
    Organ: 2006 II/3 Reuter, The Institute of St. Joseph, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, USA

    Title: Fantasia and Fugue in G major
    Composer: CHH Parry
    Organist: David Goode
    Album: A Parry Collection – Regent REGCD365
    Organ: 1885 IV/63 Hill/Mander, Eton College Chapel, Windsor, England
    Sheetmusic: PDF

  • Episode 134 – August 26, 2018

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    Ralph Vaughn Williams died 60 years ago today. This week we remember him with an hour of his organ music, a transcription of his orchestral music, and a choral work
    Hosts: Mark Scholtz, Bill Stein, Brent Johnson
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    Title: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Transcribed by Peter Beardsley
    Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Organist: David Briggs
    Album: Bursts Of Acclamation – Albion ALBCD 021 & 022
    Organ: 1912 III/51 JW Walker/Mander, Sacred Heart Church, Wimbeldon, England

    Title: Three Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes

  • Hyfrydol
  • Rhosymedre
  • Bryn Calfaria

  • Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Organist: John Chappell Stowe
    Album: The Wadsworth Organ – Ethereal ER-126
    Organ: 1863 III/34 Wadsworth/Yaylor, St. James Catholic Church, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
    Sheetmusic: PDF Purchase sheetmusic

    Title: Toward the Unknown Region
    Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Organist: William Partridge
    Organ: 1965 IV/70 Aeolian-Skinner, Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

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    Title: Fantasia On Greensleeves Rolf Smedvig, Trumpet
    Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Organist: Michael Murray
    Album: Ceremonial Music – Telarc CD-80341
    Organ: 1953 IV/71 Casavant, First United Methodist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
    Sheetmusic: Purchase sheetmusic

    Title: Prelude and Fugue in C minor
    Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Organist: Mark Dwyer
    Album: Great Organbuilders of America A Retrospective, Vol 7 – JAV JAV111
    Organ: 1936 III/77 Aeolian-Skinner, Church of the Advent, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Sheetmusic: PDF

  • Episode 133 – August 19, 2018

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    This week all the music on our show comes from Canada!
    Hosts: Mark Scholtz, Bill Stein, Brent Johnson
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    Title: Symphony no. 1, op. 36

  • I. Prélude
  • II. Scherzo
  • III. Aria
  • IV. Toccata

  • Composer: Rachel Laurin
    Organist: Isabelle Demers
    Album: Rachel Laurin Organ Works – Acis APL61256
    Organ: 1920 IV/71 Casavant, Eglise des Saints-Anges-Gardiens, Lachine, Quebec, Canada
    Sheetmusic: Purchase sheetmusic

    Title: Première Suite

  • I. Procession
  • II. Duo
  • III. Basse de Trompette
  • V. Musette
  • VI. Sortie Joyeuse

  • Composer: Andrew Ager
    Organist: Maxine Thévenot
    Album: Helmuth Wolff Opus 47 – Raven OAR-929
    Organ: 2005 IV/84 Wolff, Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

    Title: Elegy Jeff Bailey, trumpet
    Composer: Gerald Bales
    Organist: Wilma Jensen
    Album: Organ Plus with WJ – Pro Organo CD 7282
    Organ: 1986 III/85 Casavant, St. George’s Episcopal Church, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

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    Title: Ave Maria Benoit Le Blanc, Baritone
    Composer: Claude Lagacé
    Organist: Jacques Boucher
    Album: Canticum Novum – Société Métropolitaine du Disque SMD 201-1
    Organ: 1885 IV/52 Casavant, Cathedral of St. Hyacinthe the Confessor, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada

    Title: Cortège Académique
    Composer: Ernest MacMillan
    Organist: Tyler Boehmer
    Recorded live on May 25, 2018
    Organ: 1947 IV/72 Moller/Reuter, Third Baptist Church, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

  • Episode 132 – August 12, 2018

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    Today we explore the music of three influential composers whose deaths all happened on this week in history, Giovanni Gabrielli, Vincent Persichetti, and Leoš Janáček.
    Hosts: Mark Scholtz, Bill Stein
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    Organ Media Foundation’s YouTube channel
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    Introduction
    Title: Fuga del nono tono
    Composer: Giovanni Gabrieli
    Organist: Liuwe Tamminga
    Album: 500 Years of Organ Music, Disc 6 – Brilliant Classics 95310
    Organ: 1596 I/10 Malamini/Tamburini, Basilica of San Petronio, Bologna, Italy

    Title: Canzon Primo Tono
    Composer: Giovanni Gabrieli
    Organist: Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini and Liuwe Tamminga
    Album: 500 Years of Organ Music, Disc 6 – Brilliant Classics 95310
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    Title: Intonation for Organ on the 9th tone, In ecclesiis
    Composer: Giovanni Gabrieli
    Organist: E Power Biggs
    Album: The Glory of Gabrieli – Sony Classical 82876-78762-2
    Organ:

    Title: Canzon Septimi Toni – No. 2 The King’s Brass
    Composer: Giovanni Gabrieli
    Organist: Rebecca Kleintop-Owens
    Album: The Best of Brass and Organ – Summit 403
    Organ: 1974 IV/117 Ruffatti, Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

    Title: Jauchzet dem Herrn, alle Welt Robert Vanryne, Trumpet
    Composer: Heinrich Schütz
    Organist: Christoph Andreas Schäfer
    Album: Trompete und Orgel 1 – Glanz des festlichen Barock – Spektral SRL4-13063
    Organ: 2000 III/20 Vleugels, Christ Church, Tumlingen, Germany

    Title: Ricercare del primo tono
    Composer: Andrea Gabrieli
    Organist: Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini
    Album: 500 Years of Organ Music, Disc 6 – Brilliant Classics 95310
    Organ: 1470 I/9 Prato, Basilica of San Petronio, Bologna, Italy

    Title: Shimah B’Koli
    Composer: Vincent Persichetti
    Organist: Kent Tritle
    Album: Saint Ignatius Loyola, New York City – Gothic G49068
    Organ: 1993 IV/91 Mander, St. Ignatius Loyola, New York City, New York, USA

    Title: Chorale Prelude on Drop, Drop Slow Tears
    Composer: Vincent Persichetti
    Organist: David Heller
    Album: Blasts from the Century Past – Pro Organo CD 7197
    Organ: 1987 III/85 Rosales, Trinity Episcopal Church, Portland, Oregon, USA
    Sheetmusic: Purchase sheetmusic

    Title: Organ Solo from Glagolitic Mass
    Composer: Leoš Janáček
    Organist: Christopher Herrick
    Album: Organ Fireworks – XI – Hyperion CDA67577
    Organ: 1992 IV/82 CB Fisk, Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, Texas, USA

  • Episode 131 – August 5, 2018

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    Bill and Mark are still away on vacation this weekend, so Brent Johnson will be playing some live performances recorded by the Organ Media Foundation this year.
    Host: Brent Johnson
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    Title: Improvisation on ENGELBERG
    Composer: Dan Miller
    Organist: Dan Miller
    Organ: 2014 IV/59 Reuter, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Springfield, Illinois, USA
    Recorded live in concert May 1, 2018

    Title: Trumpet Tune
    Composer: Robert Lau
    Organist: Bill Stein
    Organ: 2013 III/76 Casavant, First Presbyterian Church, Kirkwood, Missouri, USA
    Sheetmusic: Purchase sheetmusic
    Recorded May 9, 2018 for Organ Media YouTube video.

    Title: Rubrics – IV. And the Peace may be exchanged…
    Composer: Dan Locklair
    Organist: Mark Pacoe
    Organ: 2014 II/27 Martin Ott, Peace Lutheran Church, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
    Sheetmusic: Purchase sheetmusic
    Recorded live in concert January 26, 2018

    Title: Toccata from 24 Pièces de Fantaisie, op. 53 no. 6
    Composer: Louis Vierne
    Organist: Leah Martin
    Organ: 2014 IV/46 Kegg, Bryn Athyn Cathedral, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, USA
    Sheetmusic: PDF Purchase sheetmusic
    Recorded live in concert July 10, 2018

    Title: Prelude and Double Fugue
    Composer: Gaston Litaize
    Organist: Aaron Patterson
    Organ: 2014 IV/46 Kegg, Bryn Athyn Cathedral, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, USA
    Sheetmusic: Purchase sheetmusic
    Recorded live in concert July 10, 2018

    Title: Segundo Libro do Organo: Hommage á Guillaume de Machaut

  • I. Introitus
  • IV. Lamentatio II

  • Composer: Gustavo Delgado Parra
    Organist: David Furniss
    Organ: 2007 III/47 Dobson, St. David’s Episcopal Church, Wayne, Pennsylvania, USA
    Recorded live in concert July 11, 2018

    Title: Introduktion and Passacaglia
    Composer: Max Reger
    Organist: Caroline Robinson
    Organ: 2007 III/47 Dobson, St. David’s Episcopal Church, Wayne, Pennsylvania, USA
    Sheetmusic: PDF Purchase sheetmusic
    Recorded live in concert July 11, 2018

    Title: Two Verses of Meinen Jesum lass ich nicht
    Composer: Johann Gottfried Walther
    Sheetmusic: PDF
    Title: The Battle of Trenton: II. Washington’s March
    Composer: James Hewitt
    Sheetmusic: PDF
    Organist: Philip T.D. Cooper
    Organ: 1770 I/IX Tannenberg, Zion Lutheran Church, Moselem Springs, Pennsylvania, USA
    Recorded July 10, 2018

    Title: Animal Parade

  • III. Barrel organ monkey
  • VII. Sparrows
  • IX. Cheetah

  • Composer: Ian Farrington
    Organist: Shelly Moorman-Stahlman
    Organ:
    2017 III/44 C.B. Fisk, Christ Church (Episcopal), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    Sheetmusic: Purchase sheetmusic
    Recorded live in concert July 12, 2018

    Title: Prelude on Sine Nomine
    Composer: John Weaver
    Organist: Monica Czausz
    Organ: 1933 IV/106 EM Skinner, Girard College Chapel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    Recorded live in concert July 8, 2018