Cool Pachelbel (Fugue)

I'm back with more Bach

I've been gone for a few weeks.  My son was married last month in Brooklyn NY and we've just recently returned to our home in suburban Minneapolis.

Bach at his finest

Bach's Little Fugue

The religious right and the Tea party movement connection revealed

Michelle Boorstein in today's Washington Post writes about a new poll that shows the relationship between the religious right and the Tea party movement.   Most Lutherans that I know want to avoid the ludicrous left and the ridiculous right.

I am having trouble posting the link but go to the Washington Post for October 5, 2010.

Louis Vierne - how cool is this?

Espoo cathedral parish organist and music director Petri Koivusalo plays "Carillon de Westminster" by Louis Vierne. This is the final track of CD/Multichannel SACD "Espoon tuomiokirkon urut" (The Organ of Espoo Cathedral, Finland), MKSACD-43/FUGA-9292.

Espoo Cathedral is one of the oldest buildings in the metropolitan area of Finland. It is a medium-sized medieval stone church, built in 1480. The organ of the cathedral has 38 stops and it represents the neoclassic style of the Danish organ reform movement. It was built by Organ Builder Veikko Virtanen (Finland) in 1967, number of stops were added in 1989. The present organ will be dismantled in February 2010 and a new Ladegast-style organ will be installed in 2012.

This CD/SACD was produced as a document of this particular organ, but also as a farewell to the organ. Other composers on this disc are Bach, Rheinberger, Mendelssohn, Merikanto, Lindberg, Kokkonen and Salonen. More information can be found from www.impressions.fi and www.fuga.fi.

Russian music set to organ

an exciting piece of Spanish organ music

Batalla Imperial for Organ composed by Juan Bautista José Cabanilles

A batalla is a piece, in which a military battle is illustrated and in which the organist can use the characteristic reed stops of Spanish organs

Performed by E. Power Biggs at the Cathedral de Segovia (date unknown)

how about some French organ music?

English organ piece

Herbert Sumsion (1899-1995) plays the 'Choral Song & Fugue' of Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876).
Recorded on the Arthur Harrison organ of Gloucester Cathedral.

Bach-The Art of the Fugue - the last fugue

First music of Domenico Zipoli to be posted in this spot

Domenico Zipoli (1688-1726)

Sonate d'Intavolatura per Organo
1. Verso I
2. Verso II
3. Verso III
4. Verso IV
5. Canzona
6. All'Offertorio
7. All'Elevazione
8. Al post comunio

Thomas Schmögner at the Federico Crudeli organ of the San Filippo Church in Lucca

Frescobaldi wrote some pretty good organ music, too

Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)

Toccate e Partite, Libro Secondo
Ancidetemi pur d'Archadelt passagiato

Thomas Schmögner at the Federico Crudeli organ of the San Filippo Church in Lucca

there is always time for a Bach fugue

J.S.Bach Fuga in D major Bwv 580 performed by Hans Fagius

how about some Mozart on a beautiful Thursday morning?

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Fantaisie in f-moll KV 608

Olivier Latry at the Johann Michel Stumm organ (1745) St. Paul's church in Kirchheimbolanden

how about some Mendelssohn?

more coronation music

Johann H. Schmelzer: Sonata I; Antonio Bertali: Veni Sancte Spiritus.
Johann Rosenmüller- Ensemble; Leitung: Arno Paduch

an old blues tune sounds pretty on the organ

Schubert organ music

Improvisation on the theme 'Grosser Gott wir loben dich'