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Christmas Echoes
Recording information: St. Paul Seminary Chapel, St. Paul, Minnesota.
The Great Organ of St. Patrick's Cathedral / Donald Dumler
Both the Chancel and Grand Gallery Organs were built by Kilgen, and are controlled by two new "twin" five-manual consoles. With 177 stops and over 9,000 pipes, the organ is both a grand musical statement, and a priceless antique whose sounds evoke the ideals of organ building in the 1920's. - Gothic Records
Welcome All Wonders! / Cathedral Choral Society
Includes christmas carol(s) by various composers. Ensembles: Cathedral Choral Society, Washington Symphonic Brass. Conductor: J. Reilly Lewis. Soloists: Eric Plutz, Edward M. Nassor.
Hymns Through The Ages / Foster, Phillips, All Saints' Choir Et All
Charpentier: Messe De Minuit Pour Noel / The Virgin Consort
-- Sarah Bryan Miller, New York Times [101996]
Britten: A Ceremony of Carols / McCarthy, Washington National Cathedral
Benjamin Britten: A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28
Britten: A Hymn to the Virgin
Richard Rodney Bennett: Suanni
arr. Robert Lucas de Pearsall: In dulci jubilo
arr. John Stainer: What child is this
Kenneth Leighton: Lully lulla
arr. Sandys, Bramley & Stainer: I saw three ships
Morten Lauridsen: O magnum mysterium
John Rutter: There is a flower
Peter Warlock: Bethlehem Down
Peter Wishart: Alleluya! A new work is come on hand
Christmas Echoes, Vol. 2
I Will Meditate
This recording honors the musical craft of Peter Hallock and Richard Proulx, who wrote much of the music sung by this choir since its founding in the mid-1950s. - Gothic Records
Clarion: New Music For Trumpet & Organ
Maurice & Marie-Madeleine Chevalier Durufle at the Organ
Originally recorded in 1967 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC, this release projects, among other virtues, a tangible sense of occasion. The shrine's two organs had been installed and dedicated in 1965, but the Duruflés' recital of two years later was the first to utilize both instruments simultaneously, in Marcel Duruflé's transcription for two organs of the eighth of Handel's 16 concertos for organ and orchestra. That was, by the evidence on this release, a performance tour de force. The two instruments (the great and the chancel organ) are separated by a distance of some 300 feet, a virtual city block. The Duruflés overcame that vast and vastly disorienting sonic space by resorting to the sounds transmitted via telephone headsets rather than those of the acoustic surround. The result is a breathtaking synchronici-ty of attack and release, not merely of purely technical precision, but of musical affect as well.
Clarity and precision, not merely that of getting the right fingers to the right keys and pedals in a timely fashion, but of going, straightaway, to the heart of the musical discourse at hand, inform each track on this release. The little Schumann Canon in B Minor projects a playfulness that underscores its inherent irony. The Tournemire piece (a vast improvisation by that composer subsequently reconstituted by her husband) becomes, appropriately, César Franck on speed. Mme. Duruflé's clear-eyed realization of its every Easter-chant-derived iota converts it into a grippingly human drama, at once horrifying and consoling.
Of the incense-tinged Prelude and Fugue of Marcel Duruflé, I will say nothing. Mere words become woefully irrelevant.
If you've been lulled to sleep by my verbosity, wake up and get this one before it becomes, as is so much of the best that music has to offer, unavailable.
-- William Zagorski, FANFARE [1/2000]
Silent Night - A Christmas Program / Washington Cathedral
The Spirit of Freedom: Patriotic Songs & Service Hymns
Gothic Record’s original recording, The Spirit of Freedom, features the outstanding Washington Men’s Camerata in a spectacular collection of patriotic classics. The 23 selections include the complete “National Anthem” (all 4 verses!), “God Bless America,” “National Hymn (“God of Our Fathers”), “Chester,” “Anchors Aweigh,” “Yankee Doodle,” “Hail to the Chief,” and many more beautifully-sung favorites! (Gothic)
Edward Elgar At Woolsey Hall - Music For Organ / Murray
Chosen Tunes - Grace Cathedral / Matthews
Includes work(s) by various composers. Soloist: Susan Jane Matthews.
Marches / Douglas Major
Mary Preston - In Concert!
Evensong for Epiphany
!!!Hymns On The Crystal Cathedral Organ / Frederick Swann
Meyerson Center - Mary Preston Plays Durufle & Widor
An Hour to Dance
When I Was a Young Man
Be Still, My Soul
Hymns Through The Centuries Vol 2 / Cathedral Choral Society
Includes hymn(s) by various composers. Ensembles: National Cathedral Choral Society Washington, D.C., Washington Ringing Society. Conductor: J. Reilly Lewis. Soloists: Eric Plutz, Edward M. Nassor, Rachel Barham, James Shaffran, John G. Sprague.
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