PIPE ORGAN MASTERS
PAUL RIEDO


POMP & PIPES
DALLAS WIND SYMPHONY, FREDERICK FENNELL
WITH PAUL RIEDO, ORGAN
RR-58     [HDCD]

A sonic spectacular featuring the Fisk pipe organ in the Meyerson Symphony Center.   A heart-stopping sonic experience in powerful HDCD sound!
" … The finest wind ensemble collection I've heard in years … has to be heard to be believed … A no-brainer on my Want List." -- Fanfare


JOHN BALKA
THE GREAT ORGAN OF ST.MARY'S CATHEDRAL
RR-98     [HDCD]

Ever since Pomp & Pipes!, we've had many requests for MORE ORGAN MUSIC!
In 1988, "Prof." Keith Johnson recorded this CD to be sold only at St. Mary's Cathedral.   Reference Recordings has obtained rights to issue it in a newly re-mastered edition with superior graphics and entirely new music notes.   Hear some of the most spectacular organ music ever written, brilliantly played on a huge Ruffatti instrument in a superb acoustical environment.
Total Time: 59:08



FELIX HELL

ORGAN SENSATION     RR-101     [HDCD]

An outstanding recital of works by Guilmant, Rheinberger, Vierne and Liszt played by this fourteen year old phenomenon on the Schoenstein organ at First-Plymouth Congregational Church, UCC, Lincoln, Nebraska

VIRGIL FOX

THE BACH GAMUT
Recorded live in San Francisco 1976
RR-107     [HDCD]

Now, these memorable performances can be heard by today's music lovers.   “Prof.” Keith Johnson has lovingly restored and remixed the original three-channel analogue masters and transferred them with HDCD® technology to compact disc.   Although the age of the tapes and the circumstances of the live performances make the sonics unlike Reference Recordings' current work, the importance of these historic Fox performances weighed heavily in our decision to release them.

MARY PRESTON
CROWN IMPERIAL
DALLAS WIND SYMPHONY, JERRY JUNKIN
WITH MARY PRESTON, ORGAN
RR-112     [HDCD]

These colorfully scored pieces provided “Prof.” Keith Johnson “manna from heaven” to work his audio magic.   The justly famous acoustics of the Meyerson Center have all the clarity, warmth and spaciousness we could ask, and when the full ensemble and center-of-the-earth organ pedals come together, the effect is hair-raising.


ORGAN ODYSSEY     RR-113     [HDCD]

For her first solo recital on Reference Recordings, Mary Preston has chosen a wide variety of music - popular favorites, organ “spectaculars,” and off-the-beaten path items to stretch the ears.

JAN KRAYBILL

ORGAN POLYCHROME     RR-133     [HDCD]

Premiere Solo Recording - The Julia Irene Kauffman Organ, Casavant Freres Opus 3875, 2011.   This program of French masterworks was designed to showcase all the colors and nuances of this outstanding new instrument. It includes the world premiere recording of an important piece by beloved composer Florent Schmitt: Prière (Prelude in G minor), Op.11 (1899).

SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No.3 “ORGAN”
Introduction and Rondo Capricciosoo in A minor for violin & Orchestra + La Muse et le Poé for Violin, Cello and Orchestra
RR-136   [HDCD]

SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No.3 “ORGAN”    
RM-1514   [45rpm 180gram LP]


SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No.3 “ORGAN”
Introduction and Rondo Capricciosoo in A minor for violin & Orchestra + La Muse et le Poé for Violin, Cello and Orchestra
RR-136 SACD   [Hybrid SACD/HDCD]

Composed at his artistic peak, Camille Saint-Saëns said of his Symphony No.3 “With it I have given all I could give, what I did, I could not achieve again.”



THE ORCHESTRAL ORGAN     RR-145     [SACD]

In the 19th and early 20th century, organists of exceptional artistic skill developed organ transcriptions of orchestral music into a true art form. Each of the works on this disc is spectacular in its original form.

JOEL FAN.
 
To Esteemed Classical Artists on Reference Recordings
 
MINORU NOJIMA.


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