Organ Music
on Radio
Colours of the King 2MBS-FM 102.5MHz (second Saturday of every month
from 5.00pm - 6.00pm).
Presented on behalf of the Organ Music Society of Sydney
Prepared and presented by Andrew Grahame
A new organ programme will commence on Tuesday
11th February 2003 at 12.30
pm on 2MBS-FM.
Prepared and presented by Andrew Grahame,
it will be called The
Theatre
Pipe Organ - Seriously.
This monthly programme of 30 minutes duration
will feature transcriptions of
popular classics, performed on theatre pipe organs.
See below table for details of the programmes. The name of the organist is in
brackets. This will be broadcast on the second Tuesday of each
month, from 12.30 pm to 1.00 pm.
2003
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JS Bach - Early works, arrangements and attributions All played by Simon Preston at the controversial
Klais organ at St. John's, Fugue in B minor on a theme of Corelli
BWV 579 |
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Early English Organ Music
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Dr Harold Fabrikant playing three Adelaide organs
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Two Modern British Organs
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Felix Mendelssohn - Organ Music plus a transcription War March of the Priests - from "Athalie"
(David Drury at Sydney Town Hall) |
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Chorale No 2 in B minor Cantabile Fantaisie Chorale No 3 in A minor |
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Organ Music of Mozart It is believed that Mozart coined the phrase
"King of Instruments" in
Andante and Fugue in A major K 402 Fantasia in F minor K 608 |
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"Combinations" - 2 organists at 1 organ, 2 organists at 2 organs, and 1 organist playing 4 organs Handel - Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Robert Ampt and Amy Johansen at Sydney Opera House - organ duet) Handel - Concerto No 8 in A major (arr. for 2 organs by Maurice Durufle) (Maurice Durufle and Marie-Madeline Durufle-Chevalier at the 2 organs of the National Shrine, Washington DC) Soler - Concerto No 1 for two organs (Robert Ampt and Amy Johansen at Sydney Opera House) Pasquini - Sonatas 2, 9 and 3 for two organs (Marie-Claire Alain and Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini at the two organs of the Basilica of San Petronio, Bologna) Bach - "Dorian" Toccata & Fugue in D minor BWV 538 (E Power Biggs simultaneously playing the four organs of Freiburg Cathedral, Southern Germany) |
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The organ music of Naji Hakim Pange Lingua (the composer at the organ of La Trinite, Paris) The Embrace of Fire Expressions for Organ Nos 19 (Lightly) and 22 (Lively) Hommage a Igor Stravinski (Amy Johansen at the 153-rank Schantz organ in the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Newark, New Jersey, USA) |
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The oldest original and intact 4-manual organ by Earnest M Skinner (1912, restored 1995) played by Frederick Hohman, featuring vintage repertoire. Horation Parker - Festival Prelude Pietro Yon - Speranza Tchaikowsky - Yearning Powell Weaver - The Squirrel Gordon Balch Nevin - Will 'o the wisp Felix Borowski - Sonata No 1 for Organ Vierne - Final from Symphony No 1 for Organ |
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Celebrating the Tuba stop Arthur Wills - Fanfare (Michael Dudman at Newcastle Cathedral) Sunderland - Fanfare (improvisation - Raymond Sunderland at Bridlington Priory) Francis Jackson - Fanfare (Francis Jackson at York Minster) Percy Whitlock - Postlude on Darwall's 148th (Phillip Matthias at Newcastle Cathedral) A E Floyd - Sketch in F (June Nixon at St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne) Petr Eben - Moto Ostinato (Gillian Weir at Ulster Hall, Belfast) Eugene Gigout - Grand Choeur Dialogue (Wayne Marshall at Coventry Cathedral) Elgar - Truimphal March from "Caractacus" (June Nixon at St Pauls, Melbourne) C S Lang - Tuba Tune (Anne Marsden Thomas at St Giles, Cripplegate, London) Stanley Vann - A Fancy for Tuba (June Nixon at St Paul's Melbourne) Dulcie Holland - Tuba Tune (Peter Kneeshaw at St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney) Norman Cocker - Tuba Tune (Carlo Curley at St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol) |
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J.S. Bach - four of the Trio Sonatas played by Christopher Herrick at the organ of St Nikolaus, Bremgarten, Switzerland. No 2 in E minor BWV 526 No 5 in C major BWV 529 No 4 in E minor BWV 528 No 6 in G major BWV 530 |
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SATURDAY
10th January 2004
6.00 pm
Note new timeslot! |
Organs of Provence Anon - Suite de Danses Francis Chapelet - Church of Roquemaure Frescobaldi - Toccata Settima; Canzona Lucienne Antonini at Notre-Dame des Doms, Avignon Muffat - Toccatas 10, 2 and 9 Rene Saorgin at Malaucene (organ of 1637) Roberday - Fugue Dixieme Michel Chapuis at L'Isle-sur-Sorge (organ of 1648) Couperin - Gloria from Messe des Paroisses Michel Chapuis at Basilica de St Maximin (organ of 1772) |
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8th February 2004
6.00 pm
Note new timeslot! |
The Gabler organ at Weingarten Abbey (completed 1750) Pachelbel - Praeludium in D minor (Piet Kee) Krebs - Chorale Prelude "Ach Herr mit Armer Sünder" (Gerhard Gnann) JS Bach - Fugue in F minor BWV 534 (PK) Krebs - Toccata and Fugue in A minor (GG) Krebs - Chorale Prelude "Allein Gott in her Hoh' sei Ehr" (GG) JM Bach - In Dulci Jubilo (PK) Lebegue - Les Cloches (PK) Krebs - Prelude and Fugue in C major (GG) |
| SATURDAY
13th March 2004
6.00 pm
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Organ Music of Heinrich Scheidemann (1565 - 1663) Karin Nelson at the Brombaugh Organ (1992) at the Haga Church, Gothenburg, Sweden Praeambulum in D minor WV 33 Chorale Prelude "Lobet den Herren" Fantasia in G major Chorale Variations "Christ Lag in Todesbanden" Chorale Variations "Es spricht der unweisen mund wohl" Toccata in C WV 85 Magnificat |
A new organ programme will commence on Tuesday
11th February 2003 at 12.30
pm on 2MBS-FM.
Prepared and presented by Andrew Grahame,
it will be called "The Theatre
Pipe Organ - Seriously".
This monthly programme of 30 minutes duration
will feature transcriptions of
popular classics, performed on theatre pipe organs.
The name of the organist is in brackets. This will be broadcast on the second Tuesday of each month, from 12.30 pm to 1.00 pm.
The Theatre Pipe Organ - Seriously
(Tuesdays, 12.30 till 1.00 pm)
Tuesday 11th February 2003, 12.30 pm
Debussy - Arabesque No 1 (Hector Olivera)
Rossini - La Danza (Jelani Eddington)
Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 (Quentin Maclean)
Strauss - The Emperor Waltz (Chris Elliot)
Tuesday 11th March 2003, 12.30 pm
Bernstein - Overture to "Candide"
(Walt Strony)
Strauss - On the Beautiful Blue Danube (Lyn Larsen)
Elgar - Chanson de Matin (John Giacchi)
Saint-Saens - Danse Macabre (Chris Elliot)
Tuesday 8th April 2003, 12.30 pm
Glinka - Overture to "Russlan and Ludmilla"
(Simon Gledhill)
Sibelius - Finlania (Jonas Nordwall)
Puccini - Musetta's Waltz Song (Tony Fenelon)
Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries (David Wickerham)
Tuesday 6th May 2003, 12.30 pm
Von Suppe - Overture to "Poet and Peasant"
(John Giacchi)
Massenet - "Meditation" from "Thais" (Jonas
Nordwall)
Ponchielli - Dance of the Hours (Lyn Larsen)
Tuesday 3rd June 2003, 12.30 pm
Bizet - Carmen Suite (Tony Fenelon)
Offenbach - Overture to "Orpheus in the Underworld"
(Jonas Nordwall)
Tuesday 1st July 2003, 12.30 pm
Strauss - Voices of Spring
(Margaret Hall at the Orion Centre, Campsie - 3/17 Wurlitzer)
Ketelbey - In a Monastery Garden
(Quentin Maclean at the 4/20 Wurlitzer at the Trocadero, Elephant & Castle)
Smetana - Dance of the Comedians
(Jonas Nordwall at the 4/47 Wurlitzer in the Organ Grinder Restaurant,
Portland, Oregon)
Gounod - Funeral March of a Marionette
(Reginald Foort at his "travelling" 5/27 Moller organ
Curzon - March of the Bowmen
(Simon Gledhill at the 3/57 Kimball organ at the
Dickinson High School, Philadelphia
Tuesday 12th August, 12.30 pm
Copland - "Hoedown" from the ballet "Rodeo"
(Walt Strony at the 4/19 Wurlitzer at St Mary of the Lake Auditorium,
Illinois
Fibich - "Poeme" - extract from symphonic poem "At Twilight"
(Chris Elliot at the 4/48 Wurlitzer in the Wilcox residence, USA)
Strauss II - Nuns' Chorus from "Casonova"
(Phil Kelsall at the 3/14 Wurlitzer in the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool
Grieg - The Last Spring
(Lyn Larsen at the 5/80 organ in the Sanfilippo residence, Illinois
Strauss II - Thunder and Lightning Polka
(Simon Gledhill at the 4/21 Wurlitzer in the Castro Theatre, San Francisco
Tuesday 9th September, 12.30 pm
Sullivan - selection from "Pirates of Penzance"
(Douglas Reeve at the 4/51 Hill, Norman & Beard concert organ in the
Brighton Dome)
Romberg - selection from "The New Moon"
(Ken Double at the 3/12 Page organ in the
Paramount Theatre, Anderson, Indiana)
Tuesday 14th October 2003, 12.30 pm
Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
(Quentin Maclean at the Regal, Marble Arch - Christie 4/36)
Erik Satie - Gymnopedie No 1
(Nigel Ogden at Stockport Town Hall - Wurlitzer 4/20)
Wagner - "Liebestod" from "Tristan und Isolde"
(Walt Strony at the Gilson residence, USA - Wurlitzer 4/27)
Monti - Czardas
(Joseph Seal at Brentford Musical Museum - Wurlitzer 3/12)
Tuesday 11th November 2003, 12.30 pm
Khatchaturian - Sabre Dance
(Tony Fenelon at the Dendy, Brighton - Wurlitzer 3/15)
Kreisler - Liebsfreud
(Al Melgard at Chicago Stadium - Barton 6/51)
Heykens - Serenade
(Reginald Foort at BBC Theatre Organ No 3 - Wurlitzer 3/12)
Mendelssohn - On Wings of Song
(Billy Nalle at the Senate Theatre, Detroit - Wurlitzer 4/34)
Boccherini - Minuet
(Reginald Dixon at the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool - Wurlitzer 3/14)
Rachmaninov - Prelude in C sharp minor
(Stuart Barrie at the Granada, Tooting - Wurlitzer 4/14)
Strauss - Wine, Women and Song
(Joseph Seal at the Regal, Kingston-upon-Thames - Wurlitzer 3/12)
Tuesday 9th December, 12.30 pm
Music for Christmas
William James - Australian Christmas Carols Medley
(David Johnson at the Capri Theatre, Adelaide)
JS Bach - In Dulci Jubilo
Traditional (Scotland) - "Wee Lambs in the Heather"
Langlais - La Nativite
Purvis (arr) - Carol Rhapsody
(Tom Hazleton at the 3/43 Kimball organ in the auditorium of the
Dickinson High School, Philadelphia)
January 2004 (NB broadcast times for 2004 yet to be confirmed)
Von Suppe - Light Cavalry Overture
(Russell Holmes at the Wynton House 3/18 Wurlitzer)
V Herbert - Fleurette
(Lyn Larsen at the Sanfilippo residence 5/80 Wurlitzer)
Chovaux - March in A
(Simon Wright at the 4/20 Wurlitzer in the Paramount, Manchester)
C Dawes - Melody in A
(Carlo Curley at the 5/80 Sanfilippo Wurlitzer)
Poulenc - Presto in B Flat
(Barry Baker at the 4/36 Ronald Wehmeir residence Wurlitzer)
Puccini - "Nessun Dorma" from "Turandot"
(Walt Strony at the 5/80 Sanfilippo residence Wurlitzer)
February 2004 (NB broadcast times for 2004 yet to be confirmed)
Duncan - March from "A Little Suite"
(Joseph Seal at the 3/12 Wurlitzer in the Regal, Kingston-upon-Thames)
Mozart - Ronda Alla Turca
(Tony Fenelon at the 2/10 Wurlitzer in Pulteney Grammar School, Adelaide)
Mendelssohn - Scherzo from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
(William Davies at the 4/14 Wurlitzer in the Granada, Tooting, London)
Chopin - Waltz in A flat
Von Paradis - Sicilienne
(Gerald Shaw at the 5/17 Compton in the Odeon, Leicester Square)
Lehar - Selection from "The Merry Widow"
(Al Bollington at the Compton organ in the Odeon, Tottenham Court Road)
Sullivan - Selection from "The Gondoliers"
(Joseph Seal at the 3/12 Wurlitzer in the Regal, Kingston-upon-Thames)
March 2004 (NB broadcast times for 2004 yet to be confirmed)
Bull - Rondo in G
(David Wickerham at the 4/24 Wurlitzer in the
Trinity Presbyterian Church, San Diego)
All remaining tracks recorded at the 4/29 Wurlitzer in the Capri Theatre, Adelaide
Sibelius - Valse Triste (Charlie Balogh)
Gould - Pavanne (Simon Gledhill)
Rubenstein - Kamenoi Ostrow (Lew Williams)
Saint-Saens - "The Aquarium" from "Carnival of the Animals" (Chris McPhee)
Stanley - Trumpet Tune in D (Clark Wilson)