This week we hear organ works and transcriptions of orchestral and piano works, all by Russian composers.
Hosts: Mark Scholtz, Bill Stein
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Title: Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila
Composer: Mikhail Glinka
Organist: Eric Plutz
Album: Carnival – Pro Organo CD 7227
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Organ: 1928 IV/135 EM Skinner/Mander, Princeton University Chapel, Princeton, New Jersey USA
Title: Prelude in A-flat major
Composer: César Cui
Organist: Gail Archer
Album: A Russian Journey – Meyer Media MM17035
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Organ: 1986 III/53 Schlicker, St. Joseph’s RC Church, Macon, Georgia USA
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Title: Prelude in G minor
Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff
Organist: Thomas Murray
Album: The Transcriber’s Art – Gothic G49054
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Organ: 1928 IV/197 EM Skinner, Woolsey Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut USA
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Title: Waltz 2
Composer: Dimitri Shostakovich
Organist: Dorothy Young Riess
Album: Music of Joy –
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Organ: 2006 IV/62 Petty-Madden, First Congregational Church, Berkeley, California USA
Title: Piano Concerto no 1 In F-sharp minor, op. 1 – II. Andante cantabile
Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff
Organist: Peter Richard Conte
Album: Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos 1 and 2 – Raven OAR-155
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Organ: 1904 VI/457 Los Angeles Art Organ, Wanamaker Grand Court Organ, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
Title: Russian Conversations for organ and folk instruments – II. Largo
Composer: Pavel Zacharov
Organist: Valeri Rubacha
Album: Russian and Ukrainian Organ Music – Olympia OCD 554
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Organ: 1891 III/65 Walcker/Rieger-Kloss, St. Petersburg Capella, St. Petersburg, Russia
Title: Three Pieces, op. 159 no. 1 & no. 2
Composer: Alexander Grechaninov
Organist: Iain Quinn
Album: The Tsar of Instruments – Chandos CHAN 10043
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Organ: 1851 IV/108 Willis/Harrison and Harrison, Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, England
Title: Pictures at an Exhibition – Baba Yaga and The Great Gate of Kiev
Composer: Modest Mussorgsky
Organist: Thomas Joyce
Album: Historic Organs of Seattle – OHS OHS-08
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Organ: 1965 IV/79 Flentrop, Cathedral of St. Mark, Seattle, Washington USA
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Title: March from Love of Three Oranges
Composer: Sergei Prokofiev
Organist: Keith John
Album: Great European Organs No 2 – Priory PRCD 174
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Organ: 1981 IV/75 Kleuker, Our Lady of Grace Church (Chant d’Oiseaux), Brussels, Belgium
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Title: Children’s Album – Old French Song
Composer: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Organist: Ekaterina Melnikova
Album: A Dance to the Music of Time – Bel Air Music BAM 2002
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Organ: 1975 IV/92 Boisseau/Thomas, Saint Nicholas Cathedral, Monaco-Ville, Monaco