Historic Organs of Connecticut

Dudley Buck (Composer), Gottfried August Homilius (Composer), W. Eugene Thayer (Composer), Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer), Giuseppe Gherardeschi (Composer), John Knowles Paine (Composer), Robert Schumann (Composer), Hubert Parry (Composer), Traditional (Composer), Edward Elgar (Composer), Max Reger (Composer), Richard [Classical] Wagner (Composer), Emma Lou Diemer (Composer), John Newton (Composer), Marcel Dupre (Composer), Amy Beach (Composer), Percy Fletcher (Composer), Gustav Holst (Composer), Anonymous (Composer), Henri Mulet (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Dudley Buck, Gottfried August Homilius, W. Eugene Thayer, Johann Sebastian Bach, Giuseppe Gherardeschi, et al.
• Audio CD (December 16, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 4
• Label: Organ Hist. Society
• ASIN: B000004AM5
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #103,917 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Variations on 'The Star-Spangled Banner' for organ, Op 23

2. Symphony for organ No. 6: Allegro

3. Schmücke Dich, O Liebe Seel for organ & oboe

4. Choal Prelude for organ 'Allein Gott in der Hoh sei Ehr'

5. Choral Prelude for organ in E minor, 'Christ Lag in Todesbanden'

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Disc: 2

1. Enigma Variations, for orchestra, Op. 36: Nimrod

2. Carillon, for reciter, organ & orchestra, Op. 75

3. O God, Beneath Thy Guiding Hand

4. Fantasia and Fugue for organ in D minor, Op. 135b

5. Tristan und Isolde, opera, WWV 90: Liebestod

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Disc: 3

1. Come Home, Father for soprano & organ

2. Voluntaries (10) for organ, Op. 5: No. 8, Largo; Vivace

3. Opening Voluntary for organ

4. Jerusalem

5. Symphony No. 2 in D major for organ, Op. 13/2: Prelude

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Disc: 4

1. Voluntary for organ, No 5 in G

2. Lord of All Being, Throned Afar

3. Pièces (24) en style libre, for organ, Op. 31: Postlude

4. Toccata on Weinbergli for organ

5. Sonata (Duetto) for keyboard, 4 hands in F major, Op. 18/6, CW A20 (T. 343/3): No. 6 in F

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Editorial Reviews

38 Performers: Leo Abbott, William Aylesworth, Robert Barney, Mark Bighley, Kevin Birch, Margaret Irwin-Brandon, Mark Brombaugh, Gregory Crowell, John Cummins, David Dahl, Mark Dwyer, Lynn Edwards, Donald K. Fellows, Will Headlee, Kimberly Ann Hess, Richard W. Hill, Brian Jones, Glen Kime, Charles Krigbaum, Rachelen Lien, Joan Lippincott, Stephen Long, Lorenz Maycher, Marvin Mills, Rosalind Mohnsen, R. Walden Moore, Thomas Murray, Murray/Lohuis Duo, John Ogasapian, Christa Rakich, Dana Robinson. 35 Organs: 1823 Thomas Hall, Trinity Episcopal, Litchfield; 1827 Appleton, 2nd Congregational, Middle Haddam; 1833 F. S. Whiting, St. Pauls Episcopal, Otis; 1836 Denison Smith, Hampton Cong. UCC, Hampton; c. 1840 anon., Hitchcock Museum, Riverton; 1852 E. & G. G. Hook, United C. of Westville, New Haven; c. 1853 attrib. to Geo. Stevens, Federated Church, Brooklyn; 1857 E.L. Holbrook, St. Pauls Episcopal, Windham Center; 1868 Steer & Turner, St. Thomas Aquinas Chapel, Storrs; 1868 J. H. & C. S. Odell, Derby Methodist, Derby; 1869 Johnson, Greenville Congregational, Norwich; 1870 E. & G. G. Hook, The United Church of Stonington; 1870 Wm. B.D. Simmons, Grace/St. Peters,Hamden; 1871 E. & G. G. Hook, St, Marys RC, New Haven; 1873 Johnson, Cong. C of Thompson, UCC, Thompson; 1874 E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings, St. Casimirs, New Haven; 1874 Steer & Turner, St. Josephs RCC, Willimantic; 1875 E. L. Holbrook, The Cong. C in Killingworth, UCC; 1876 Jardine, St. Pauls Episcopal, New Haven; 1890 Geo. H. Ryder, St. Francis RC, Naugatuck; 1892 Johnson, Sacred Heart RC, Waterbury.