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The Organ Loft - March 27, 2011
Music for Bells
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 This week on the Organ Loft, we're featuring a program about bells and organ/choral works which include bells or bell themes. Roger Sherman includes a work for bells and organ from the mid-1400s and played on an organ from the same period. Also some Bach organ works played on handbells, and Stephen Kennedy’s new work 3-3-33; written for the inauguration of the new organ at Eastman, it includes extensive parts for the glockenspiel stop and zimbelstern. The program concludes with an unusual version of Dupre’s Cortege and Litany, which most people know as an organ work. There was also a version for orchestra which unlike the organ solo version, included bells. We will hear the orchestral version (with bells) transcribed for organ, and played by Peter Conte on the Wanamaker organ.
A somewhat unusual program — even for us. We hope you enjoy.
Program
- J.S. Bach: Allegro from Sonata V in E-flat, BWV 5251
- Conrad Paumann: Redeuntes in mi2
- Henry Purcell: “Rejoice in the Lord Always” ('The Bell Anthem')3
- Antonio Vivaldi: Allegro (3rd movement) of Concerto in A minor, Op. 3 No. 84
- Stephen Kennedy: 3-3-335
- J.S. Bach: Von Gott will ich nicht lassen, BWV 6584
- Ralph Vaughn Williams: Three Shakespeare Songs6
- Full fathom five
- The cloud-capp?d towers
- Over hill, over dale
- Marcel Dupré: Cortège et Litanie, Op. 197
Recordings Used:
- “The Trio Sonatas of Johann Sebastian Bach” Christa Rakich, organ, Loft LRCD-1102-1103
- “Orgeln in Ostfriesland II” Harald Vogel, organ; Organeum OC-09602
- “Essential Purcell” Robert King Consort, Robert King, director, Hyperion KING 2
- “Classical Sonos” Sonos Handbell Ensemble, James Meredith, Music Director, Well Tempered Productions, WTP 5182
- “The Craighead-Saunders Organ” Stephen Kennedy, David Higgs and William Porter, organ, Loft LRCD-1115
- “There is Sweet Music” Cambridge Singers, John Rutter, director; Collegium COLCD 104
- “The Wanamaker Legacy” Peter Richard Conte, organ; Gothic G-49240
Listen Online:
KING-FM Seattle's Classical Choice — Sundays at 10:00 PM
OREGON: KWAX-FM and the University of Oregon radio network — Sundays at 8:00 AM and 6:00 PM
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