OHS Convention Recordings

These multiple-CD sets playable below survey organs in specific American regions. Each features 17 to as many as 39 organs played by as many organists. The performances are recorded during the annual National Conventions of the Organ Historical Society. Click on each tracklist below to see the wide-ranging repertoire, lists of performers, and organs recorded on each set.

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Playlist Widor

Symphonie Gothique | Moderato

Andante Sostenuto

Moderato Allegro Moderato Andante Allegro

Symphonie Romane | Moderato

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Charles-Marie Widor

Symphonie Gothique, Opus 70
Symphonie Romane, Opus 73
Charles-Marie Widor (1844 – 1937) created the Symphony for organ, of which the only example before him was César Franck’s Grande Pièce symphonique. By the time he was 30, Widor was France’s foremost organ composer and virtuoso. As organist of Saint-Sulpice, he presided over the largest organ in France. Succeeding Franck as professor of organ at the Paris Conservatory, he numbered Charles Tournemire, Henri Mulet, and Louis Vierne among his pupils; and later, as professor of composition, taught Marcel Dupré, Lili and Nadia Boulanger, Darius Milhaud, and Arthur Honegger.

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Playlist American Collection

Fanfare D’Orgue (Harry Rowe Shelley ~ 1858 – 1947)

Pastorale (Horatio Parker ~ 1863 – 1919)

Fantasy And Fugue (Archer Gibson ~ (1875 – 1952)

Adeste Fideles (Charles Ives ~ 1874 – 1954)

On The Coast (Dudley Buck ~ 1839 – 1909)

Fanfare (Virgil Thomson ~ 1896 – 1989)

Pastorale (George W. Chadwick ~ 1854 – 1931)

Cantilena (Arthur Foote ~ 1853 – 1937)

Wondrous Love (Samuel Barber ~ 1910 – 81)

Episode (Aaron Copland ~ 1900 – 1990)

Comes Autumn Time (Leo Sowerby ~ 1895 – 1968)

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The American Collection

Repertoire Recording Society ~ RRS 12
Recorded August 9, 1973
Hilborne L. Roosevelt Organ
Op. 113, 1883

The instrument is charming, deliciously dry in its setting, bright, cheerful, in every way a pleasure. So is the performance.

Virgil Thomson

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Download the Tracklist — 1990

Playlist 1990

1 – 01 Guilmant_ Grand Choeur

1 – 02 Selby_ Jig

1 – 03 Karg ‑Elert_ Symphonic Chorale — Ach Bleib Mit Deiner Gnade

1 – 04 Vierne_ Pieces de Fantasie — Impromptu

1 – 05 Hymn_ Jesu, Meine Freude

1 – 06 Rheinberger_ Monologues, Op. 102 — 1. Con Moto -

1 – 07 Rheinberger_ Monologues, Op. 102 — 5. Andante Amabile — Rheinberger

1 – 08 Rheinberger_ Monologues, Op. 102 — 11. Lento — Rheinberger

1 – 09 Dolmetsch_ Andante Cantabile

1 – 10 Parker_ Arietta

1 – 11 Willan_ Londonderry Air

1 – 12 Macdonald_ Dew of the Morning

1 – 13 Moore_ Inspiration

1 – 14 Stirling_ Air With Variations 1

1 – 15 Stirling_ Air With Variations 2

1 – 16 Stirling_ Air With Variations 3

1 – 17 Stirling_ Air With Variations 4

1 – 18 Karg-Elert_ Legend — Op. 141, No. 1

1 – 19 Reger_ Seigesfeier — Op. 145, No. 7

1 – 20 Manz_ Still, Still, Still

1 – 21 Benoit_ Verset sur l’Allelulia du Samedi Saint

1 – 22 Benoit_ Cinq Versets sur Ave Maria Stella 1

1 – 23 Benoit_ Cinq Versets sur Ave Maria Stella 2

1 – 24 Benoit_ Cinq Versets sur Ave Maria Stella 3

1 – 25 Benoit_ Cinq Versets sur Ave Maria Stella 4

1 – 26 Benoit_ Cinq Versets sur Ave Maria Stella 5

1 – 27 Benoit_ Ave Maria De Lourdes

1 – 28 Carr_ Variations to the Sicilian Hymn 1

1 – 29 Carr_ Variations to the Sicilian Hymn 2

1 – 30 Carr_ Variations to the Sicilian Hymn 3

1 – 31 Carr_ Variations to the Sicilian Hymn 4

1 – 32 Hymn_ O Sanctimisima — Sicilian Mariners

1 – 33 Guilmant_ Fughetta sur l’Hymne du Dimanche de Quasimodo

2 – 01 Bach_ Prelude E‑Flat S. 552

2 – 02 Mendelssohn_ Sonata No. 1 in F — III. Andante Recit

2 – 03 Mendelssohn_ Sonata No. 1 in F — IV. Allegro vivace

2 – 04 Reger_ Wie Schon Leuchtet Der Morgenstern

2 – 05 Noehren_ Fugue for Organ

2 – 06 Bartok_ Dance in Bulgarian Rhythm (Mikrokosmos, Vol. 6

2 – 07 Sodermann_ Swedish Wedding March

2 – 08 Hymn_ Be Thou My Vision — Slane

2 – 09 Brahms_ Es Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen

2 – 10 Brahms_ Herzlich tut mich Verlangen

2 – 11 Brahms_ O Velt ich muss Dich Lassen

2 – 12 Dupre_ Herr Christ Der Eimige Gottes Sohn — Op. 79

2 – 13 Dupre_ Gottes Sohn Ist Kommen — Op. 79

2 – 14 Dupre_ Der Tag Der Ist So Freudenreich — Op. 79

2 – 15 Vaughan Williams_ Prelude on Rhosymedre

2 – 16 Vierne_ Scherzetto

2 – 17 Hymn_ The Word Of God From Heaven Came

2 – 18 Schaeffer_ Postlude in C

2 – 19 Walond_ Toccata in G

2 – 20 Sassmannshausen_ Marche Triumphant

2 – 21 Hymn_ Glory Be To God The Father — Worcester

2 – 22 Murray_ Tour Of Organ Stops

2 – 23 Vierne_ Claire De Lune

2 – 24 Wagner_ Grand March From Tannhauser