Traditions: C.B. Fisk Opus 106 Organ

Susan Marchant (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 29, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Pro Organo
• ASIN: B00005J6X0
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,763,891 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Ciacona for organ in E minor, BuxWV 160

2. Suite pour le Magnificat du Second Ton: Prélude

3. Suite pour le Magnificat du Second Ton: Tierce en taille

4. Suite pour le Magnificat du Second Ton: Duo

5. Suite pour le Magnificat du Second Ton: Basse de Trompette

6. Suite pour le Magnificat du Second Ton: Trio de Flûtes

7. Suite pour le Magnificat du Second Ton: Dialogue

8. Organ Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 65/3: Con moto maestoso

9. Organ Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 65/3: Andante tranquillo

10. Ricercar for keyboard in A minor

11. An Wasserflüssen Babylon (I), chorale prelude for organ, BWV 653 (BC K76)

12. Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist (I), chorale prelude for organ (Clavier-Übung III/3), BWV 671 (BC K3)

13. Triptique for organ, Op. 58: Communion

14. Chorals (3), for organ, M. 38-40: Choral in E major

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Genius At Work, September 15, 2004

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RBK "ryan_the_gorilla" (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Traditions: C.B. Fisk Opus 106 Organ (Audio CD)

Dr. Susan Marchant is a brilliant woman to say the least - an organ oficionado, a flawless pianist, and a Yale graduate. Her performances on this CD are amazing, although PSU's hall isn't the best accoustically for an organ. However, Marchant makes the most of what she has and makes magic happen. A truly impressive disc.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Mostly admirable playing, but sound a severe disappointment, May 16, 2004

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R. J. Stove (Gardenvale, Victoria Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Traditions: C.B. Fisk Opus 106 Organ (Audio CD)

An appealingly unhackneyed recital, benefiting from booklet annotations - by the organist herself - written in so attractive a style as to make you want to hear the disc right away. All the more severe, then, is the disappointment induced by the sonics. The engineers have captured this organ's ambience well enough, but that is just the trouble, because Pittsburg State University's hall is hopeless for almost all of this repertoire. It sounds as if the instrument was recorded in someone's potting shed, so dry and unforgiving is the acoustic, especially at any volume level above mezzo-piano. Only Bach's BWV653, a meditation (on the Lutheran chorale melody "An Wasserfluessen Babylon") so glorious as to be indestructible even in this aural environment, survives adequately (though one wonders why the pedal part's upper reaches are missing: is a different edition from the standard one being used?).

Susan Marchant's performances are for the most part fine (she conveys with particular skill the pitiless forward momentum of the Buxtehude and Sweelinck pieces), if rather cold (the Vierne and Franck have sounded much more luscious elsewhere, while Mendelssohn's elaborately notated phrasing in the Sonata's second movement goes largely ignored amid the prevailing uniform legato). Had the present CD been made in a more tonally opulent, or at least less tonally ugly, venue, it would have been worth seeking out.