Glorious Pipes: Organ Music Through the Ages

Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer), Dietrich Buxtehude (Composer), Nicolas de Grigny (Composer), Louis Marchand (Composer), Felix [1] Mendelssohn (Composer), Franz Liszt (Composer), Max Reger (Composer), Cesar Franck (Composer), Johannes Brahms (Composer), Charles-Marie Widor (Composer), Olivier Messiaen (Composer), Ton Koopman (Performer), Wolfgang Rubsam (Performer), Simon Preston (Performer), Peter Hurford (Performer), Gillian Weir (Performer), Helmut Walcha (Performer), Marcel Dupré (Performer), Peter Planyavsky (Performer), Thomas Trotter (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Ton Koopman, Wolfgang Rubsam, Simon Preston, Peter Hurford, Gillian Weir, et al.
• Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Dietrich Buxtehude, Nicolas de Grigny, Louis Marchand, Felix [1] Mendelssohn, et al.
• Audio CD (August 10, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Deutsche Grammophon
• ASIN: B0002KVV7E
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,731 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #1 in Music > Classical > Historical Periods > Modern, 20th, & 21st Century > Composers > Reger, Max
  • #10 in Music > Classical > Chamber Music > By Period > Romantic (c.1820-1910)
  • #13 in Music > Classical > Forms & Genres > Sonatas > Sonatinas

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Genre: Classical Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 10-AUG-2004

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Breathtakingly beautiful! - Deserves 10 stars!, November 7, 2009

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Blind man Wayne (JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA United States) - See all my reviews

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`Glorious Pipes' takes the listener on a wonderful journey to the most exquisite pipe organs in the world! The beautiful organs featured in this lovely 2-CD recording sound majestic and powerful, and quite frankly make me feel tiny! There are many goodies here by well-known, as well as lesser-known composers and performers. It opens with Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, which is hauntingly beautiful. It is played in a way with which I was unfamiliar and feels very dark indeed. I have read that Ton Koopman, the organist on this piece, strives for authenticity so that the hearer experiences how it would most likely have been played when originally composed. The sound quality of these masterpieces is astounding! The organs presented here are as fierce as thunder and as gentle as butterflies. Listen to these on a decent audio system, and you will simply be amazed! Each disc features over 70 minutes of spine-tingling music. This album is truly a jewel in my music collection.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wide spectrum of performance, September 12, 2009

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Leroy Martinson - See all my reviews
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Glorious Pipes gives a rare opportunity to hear Bach's work as envisioned by many master organists on a variety of organs. Organ recordings are scarce enough; this makes it possible to enjoy a variety without tiresome searching through the limited number of disks that are available.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful music selections played on numerous organs by several organists, March 2, 2011

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John in SoCal "J" (Southern California) - See all my reviews

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This is a 2-CD set with 20 music selections. The music is splendidly performed by several different organists on equally as many different magnificent pipe organs in several cathedrals and music venues throughout the world. There are masterwork selections that will be familiar to anyone who has ever heard one of these grand organs play at concert and there are selections that are not so well known that are included (I assume) that display an organist's fine skills. The CD is certainly a good buy and I recommend it to anyone who loves pipe organ music played on the world's finest instruments.

There is one thing glaringly missing on this CD, and I cannot understand why the producers of this CD chose to omit it. The CD is a collection of numbers from several previously released organ CDs. The booklet narrative accompanying this CD goes into sufficient detail about the musical selection being played, the composer with given selection title and number, hints to the reader as to what outstanding passages in the selection to listen for, a substantial description of said passages, and the name of the organist performing (not listed in the narrataive, but listed following each selection on the title pages). BUT noplace in any of the literature or on the title page is the listener informed as to what organ is being played where. To me, this is a most critical omission. Not that I can identify one grand organ from another, being played by whomever, I cannot. But, I would love to know the organ being presented in all its splendor for each musical selection on the CD, and the cathedral or music venue home where the organ is located.

For this huge omission in information, I find that I must give this CD only 4 stars. It would certainly been a 5 star CD, if only for its value (a bargain for sure), for the wonderful presentations played, for the skills of the most accomlished organists, and for the magnificent music recorded, but not knowing the organ being demonstrated is to me a tragic omission.