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What Used To Be Played is a highly listenable compilation
of organ pieces that once were staples in most organists’ repertoires
but now are largely neglected and forgotten. These pieces were all available
in the United States of
America until a generation or two ago when composers were
unafraid to be programmatic and dramatic. In A Monastery Garden by
Ketèlbey is the best known piece in the group and this
organ arrangement is available from us.
Tastes in organ music change, but these melodious organ pieces once found favor
with a wide audience and deserve to be heard again. CD Download, $8.00, Selections $0.99.
This Is A New Recording
James
Flood made this recording in 2008 in the First Baptist Church
of Niagara Falls, New York, on the historic III/42 Hall organ (1939),
which he rebuilt and enlarged from 1988 to 1996. Booklet includes complete
specification.
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Please click on links below to sample
some of the beautiful American organ music. This would make an excellent
gift for an organist because much of this music is today unknown.
CD Download, $8.00, Selections $0.99.
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- Sortie Brève, Aloÿs Claussmann (wrote 350 organ pieces, student of Eugène Gigout)
- Aubade, Howard S Savage (wrote anthems, songs, and only a few organ works)
- Sortie-Fanfare, J B Maillochaud (1840–1928, known for harmonium and salon music)
- In A Monastery Garden, Albert W Ketèlbey, arranged by Hugh Ware (Ketèlbey served as a church organist and became famous for his exceptionally atmospheric light music)
- Grand Choeur, Henri Deshayes (lived in Paris and wrote music in the style of Lefébure-Wély)
- Legend, Chester Nordman (one of his few extended compositions, wrote The Basics of Music in 1973)
- Processional March, C E Reed
- Pastorale, Aloÿs Claussmann
- Festal March, Scotson Clark (prolific organ composer, he studied in Paris and his mother studied piano with Chopin)
- Rêverie du Soir, Ernest H Sheppard
- Arbutus, Paul Bliss (his most famous piano piece, published in 1917)
- Voluntary in A, John E West (English composer, 1863–1929, nephew of Ebenezer Prout)
- Marche de Fête, Aloÿs Claussmann