Kotzschmar Goings and Comings

Pipedreams 2014-10-15

Summary:

Pipedreams this week features archive recordings of the renowned Kotzschmar Memorial Organ at the Merrill Auditorium in Portland, Maine, in anticipation of the instrument's "grand reawakening" on Sept. 27 following a major two-year refurbishment.

Program details:

EDWIN H. LEMARE: Toccata di Concerto, Op. 59 –Fred Hohman(Pro Organo 7117).

J. S. BACH: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 –Ray Cornils (AFKA 120).

JOHN KNOWLES PAINE: Concert Variations on the Austrian Hymn, Op. 3, no. 1 –Ray Cornils (AFKA 110).

LEMARE: Summer Sketches (DawnThe BeeThe CuckooTwilightEvening)–Thomas Murray (AFKA 515).

JACQUES OFFENBACH: Orpheus in the Underworld --Thomas Heywood (AFKA 119).

Link:

http://www.wqxr.org/story/kotzschmar-goings-and-comings/

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Date tagged:

10/15/2014, 09:29

Date published:

09/21/2014, 00:00