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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Riemuitkaamme! A Finnish Christmas Jan Lehtola (organ) Helsinki Chamber Choir, Nils Schweckendiek [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Dec/2017 ] Riemuitkaamme! is an imaginative and unconventional selection of choral music associated with Christmas as it is celebrated in Finland. Several of the pieces are by Finnish composers - Sibelius, Rautavaara and Madetoja, to name a few - while others... |
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LANQUETUIT / BOULNOIS / MULET / JONGEN / BOWEN / etc
Romantic and Virtuoso Works for Organ, Volume 1 Jane Parker-Smith (organ) [ Avie / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] Jane Parker-Smith is one of the world's leading concert organists, acclaimed by the critics and public alike for her musicianship, virtuosity and interpretative ability. Jane joins the Avie label with a unique programme linking European composers who... |
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EDMUNDSON / KROMOLICKI / IRELAND / VIERNE/ WEITZ/ etc
Romantic and Virtuoso Works for Organ, Volume 2 Jane Parker-Smith (organ) [ Avie / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] "This is the kind of repertoire in which Jane Parker-Smith excels; big, gutsy, colourful, occasionally passionate, occasionally frothy, bristling with opportunities for virtuoso display but with a deeply hidden inner core of intellectual substance... |
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COCHEREAU / LANDMANN / PARRY / BAIRSTOW / LISZT / etc
Romantic and Virtuoso Works for Organ - Volume 3 Jane Parker-Smith (organ) [ Avie / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] "This is an interesting programme, excellently performed and recorded and well presented, as were the earlier volumes. At 77:04, the CD is well filled, too." (MusicWeb April 2009) |
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MARCEL DUPRE
Works for Organ, Vol. 4 (Incls 3 Preludes & Fugues) Janette Fishell (organ) [ Naxos Organ Encyclopedia / CD - released 5/Jun/2005 ] Marcel Dupré was born into a musical family in Rouen in 1886. His father was an organist who had been a pupil of Guilmant, who became Dupré's teacher from the time the boy was eleven. |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Organ Music Janos Sebestyen (organ) [ Naxos / CD ] "these alert, polished and nicely scaled performances could hardly be improved on" Penguin Guide |
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FRANCK
Complete Organ Works Jean Guillou (organ of St. Eustache in Paris) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2010 ] Jean Guillou (organ of St. Eustache in Paris) |
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RAVEL / DEBUSSY / MASSENET / CHOPIN / DURUFLE / etc
Once Upon a Time… At the Walt Disney Concert Hall; Jean-Baptiste Robin Jean-Baptiste Robin (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Mar/2020 ] At its official opening in October 2003, Walt Disney Concert Hall (a generous gift from the widow of Walt Disney) was hailed as an acoustical triumph. A year later the organ was inaugurated, built by Manuel Rosales. |
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JEAN-BAPTISTE ROBIN
Organ Music: Cercles Reflechissants / Regard vers d'Air / Elements d'un Songe Jean-Baptiste Robin (organ) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] As one might guess from their descriptive titles, Jean-Baptiste Robin's works are evocative, poetic and colourful, abounding in strength, energy and passion. When you listen to them, the days of contemporary music devoid of expression and obsessed... |
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JEAN-BAPTISTE ROBIN
Fantaisie Mecanique Jean-Baptiste Robin (organ), Orchestre Regional de Normandie, Jean Deroyer (conductor), Francois Chaplin (piano), Romain Leleu (trumpet) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Mar/2017 ] Jean‐Baptiste Robin (b. 1976) has made two previous recordings for Brilliant Classics: the complete organ works of his fellowcountryman Jehan Alain (BC94233) and an imaginative recreation of 'The American Symphonic Organ' (BC94726) which includes... |
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ALBENIZ / BARBER / BARTOK / DEBUSSY / BIZET / etc
The American Symphonic Organ Jean‐Baptiste Robin (organ of Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, Ohio) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2013 ] Here's a new organ spectacular worthy of the tradition, recorded in 2011 on the mighty EM Skinner organ of Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal (Ohio, USA). The organ is maintained to a superb standard by its curator, Harley V. Piltingsrud, and... |
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BACH / MESSIAEN / WIDOR/ HANDEL / FRANCK / etc
Jeanne Demessieux - The Decca Legacy Jeanne Demessieux (organ) [ Decca Eloquence / 8 CD Box Set - released 19/Mar/2021 ] From her legendary debut through the succeeding years, Jeanne Demessieux brought virtuosity allied to intellect and sensitivity, and went on to become the glory of the French organ school. |
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PETER DICKINSON
Organ Music (complete) Jennifer Bate (organ) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] "Jennifer Bate has given a sympathetic and convincing performance of all these pieces - they were recorded over a period of a quarter of a century. The organs sound excellent and appear to be ideally suited for the pieces chosen for them." (MusicWeb... |
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HENRY COWELL / LOU HARRISON / EDGAR VARESE
American Mavericks Jeremy Denk (piano) Paul Jacobs (organ) / San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas [ San Francisco Symphony SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Dec/2012 ] "Michael Tilson Thomas's time at the helm of the San Francisco Symphony has been marked by a courageous dedication to modernist American outsiders, and American Mavericks bears out the orchestra's experience with such outré material." (The Independent) |
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JEREMY FILSELL / DAVID BRIGGS
Choral Music of Jeremy Filsell and David Briggs Jeremy Filsell and David Briggs (organ) / Vasari Singers, Jeremy Backhouse [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Jan/2014 ] The music of both featured composers is of the highest quality and the performances are surely definitive. The Vasari Singers are on top form, singing with incisiveness and great commitment. |
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FRANCIS POTT
Christus Jeremy Filsell (organ) [ Signum Classics / 2 CD ] Superbly insightful…truly distinguished, compelling and unquestionably authoritative performances" (The Gramophone) |
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LOUIS VIERNE
Symphonies for Organ (Complete) Jeremy Filsell (organ) [ Signum / 3 CD Box Set - released 2/Feb/2006 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1851-1900) - "Filsell, famously untroubled by technical demands, concentrates on wringing every last drop of sonority in deeply-felt, idiomatic performances" BBC Music Magazine |
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GERRE HANCOCK
The Music of Gerre Hancock Jeremy Filsell (organ) The Choir of St Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York, Saint Thomas Brass [ Signum Classics / CD - released 23/Apr/2021 ] The renowned Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys record a fitting tribute to their former Choirmaster and Organist Gerre Hancock (1934-2012). In this post for over 30 years, he was a pivotal figure in the choir's rejuvenation and created a wealth of... |
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RACHMANINOV
Transcriptions & Arrangements for Organ Jeremy Filsell (the Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Philadelphia, USA) [ Signum / CD - released 1/Dec/2014 ] "I like the commitment Filsell shows in exploring this familiar repertoire in unfamiliar ways. Overall this is an excellent disc and greatly enjoyable for those who like their Rachmaninov with a twist." (MusicWeb April 2015) |
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JAMES WHITBOURN
Living Voices Jeremy Powell (soprano saxophone) & Ken Cowan (organ) / Westminster Williamson Voices, James Jordan [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] "Tonal, tuneful, technically accessible, harmonically palliative: James Whitbourn's music ticks many of the boxes beloved by choral societies" (BBC Music) |