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Andre Lash in Greensboro
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Opus 82   Gallic in Greensboro
Performer: Andre Lash Label: Pro Organo
Catalog #: 7213  
 
In recognition of the 25th year since the installation of the Fisk organ, Opus 82, at Christ United Methodist Church, Greensboro, North Carolina, Andre Lash, who currently serves the music program of this parish, plays an all-French program spanning the French Classic to the 20th-century eras. This includes a rare recording of a most unusual work by Gaston Litaize.

Choral in A minor · Franck
Fantaisie in C · Franck
O Filii et Filiae · Dandrieu
Noël sur les Flutes · Daquin
Carillon de Westminster · Vierne
Piece en forme de canon · Alphonse Schmitt
Jeux de Rythmes · Gaston Litaize
Scherzo, Opus 2 · Maurice Duruflé
Prelude & Fugue in f, Op 7/2 · Dupré
Toccata from Symphonie V · Widor

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Opus 55   "Unchu Kuyo Bosatsu"
Performer: Mamiko Iwasaki Label: Private Issue
 
 
Music of: Hideo Mizogami, Scheidemann, Bach, Mendelssohn & Atsutada Otaka

Available from the Old West Organ Society

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Colin Andrews--Messiaen
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Opus 126   Hommage à Messiaen
Performer: Colin Andrew Label: Loft
Catalog #: LRCD 1099  
 
Hommage à Messiaen
La Nativite du Seigneur

Olivier Messiaen’s French-Catholic mysticism is reflected in his unique musical vocabulary—it forms the basis of one of the most important organ repertoires of the twentieth century. His “Nativity Suite” is one of the most popular of his early organ works, offering musical meditations on the themes and characters of the Christmas story. Also included is the premiere recording of Lionel Rogg’s Hommage à Messiaen.

Hommage à Messiaen (1992)—Lionel Rogg (b. 1936)

La Nativité du Seigneur (1935)—Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)

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Christa Rakich
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Opus 55   Christa Rakich plays the Bach Trio Sonatas
Performer: Christa Rakich Label: Loft Recordings
Catalog #: 1102-1103  
 
The Trio Sonatas of Johann Sebastian Bach
performed on a diverse collection of period instruments

Dana Maiben, violin (Nicola Amati, 1658)
Wendy Rolfe, flute (Rod Cameron, after G.A. Rottenburgh)
Alice Robbins, 'cello and viola da gamba (Thomas Urquhart, and William Turner, respectively, after instruments from London c. 1680)
Christa Rakich, harpsichord (French double after Blanchet by Willard Martin)

Christa Rakich, organ (Brombaugh, Taylor/Boody, Fritts, Fisk, Richards/Fowkes, and Harrold)

Scored for organ (or pedal clavichord), the Bach trio sonatas can be played on a variety of instruments, as Christa Rakich demonstrates in this imaginative program. Six different organs, six different organ builders, and an assortment of period chamber music instruments are used on this double-CD set!

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Organ Odyssey
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Opus 100   Organ Odyssey
Performer: Mary Preston Label: Reference Recordings
Catalog #: RR-113  
 
An Adventurous Musical Journey!

MARY PRESTON, soloist with the Dallas Wind Symphony on RR’s recent smash audiophile hit CROWN IMPERIAL, shows on ORGAN ODYSSEY that she doesn’t need help to demonstrate the capabilities of themighty Fisk instrument in the Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas.

Designed with unusual power to support a full symphony orchestra, the Fisk Op. 100 is renowned as one of the finest and most thrilling concert organs on the planet.

Mary Preston is one of the most in-demand organists in the world. She is the Resident Organist and Principal/Lay Family Chair with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Curator of the Lay Family Concert Organ – so she knows its colors, range and possibilities better than anyone.

For her first solo recital on RR, she has chosen a wide variety of music – popular favorites, organ "spectaculars," and off-the-beaten-path items to stretch the ears. In the former category are two selections by the French master WIDOR, including the evergreen Fifth Symphony Toccata in an especially brisk, bracing performance. American eccentric Charles IVES contributes irreverent Variations on "America," which are sure to bring a smile to the face. MENDELSSOHN’s substantial First Sonata and a stately chorale-prelude by KARG-ELERT will satisfy organ mavens, while water-nymphs depicted by VIERNE and an evening reverie by LA MONTAINE provide welcome contrast. A highlight of the program is a powerful work by MESSIAEN to test the dynamic capabilities of any high-end sound system.

Sigfrid Karg-Elert: "Now Thank We All Our God"
Louis Vierne: Naïades
Felix Mendelssohn: Sonata No. 1 in F
Charles-Marie Widor: Gothic Symphony—Andante sostenuto
Charles Ives: Variations on "America"
Olivier Messiaen: Dieu Parmi Nous
John La Montaine: Even Song
Charles-Marie Widor: Symphony No. 5—Toccata

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