This week we listen to music performed on instruments built by the W.W. Kimball company of Chicago, Illinois.
Hosts: Mark Scholtz, Bill Stein
Playlist
March, 23 2025
Classic Kimballs
Title: Under the Double Eagle
Composer: Josef Wagner
Organist: Steven Ball
Recorded by the Organ Media Foundation, December 2020
Organ: 1924 IV/51 Kimball, Scottish Rite Auditorium, St. Louis, Missouri USA
Title: Baroques – Sarabande & Voluntary
Composer: Seth Bingham
Organist: Timothy Edward Smith
Album: Two Organ Landmarks in Columbus – Raven OAR-900
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Organ: 1931 IV/80 Kimball, First Congregational Church, Columbus, Ohio USA
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Title: Pastorella, op. 81b
Composer: René Louis Becker
Organist: Damin Spritzer
Album: Organ Music of René Louis Becker Vol 3 – Raven OAR-999
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Title: Benedictus, op. 59 no. 9
Composer: Max Reger
Organist: Eric Plutz
Album: Denver Jubilee – Pro Organo CD7254
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Organ: 1938 IV/96 Kimball, St. John’s Cathedral, Denver, Colorado USA
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Title: Overture to The Bridal Rose
Composer: Calixa Lavallée
Organist: Earl Miller
Album: Worcester War Memorial Auditorium, OHS Convention 1983 –
Organ: 1933 IV/107 Kimball, War Memorial Auditorium, Worcester, Massachusetts USA
Title: Fantasie im Freiem Stile no. 4 in E minor, op. 133
Composer: Gustav Adolf Merkel
Organist: James Hammann
Album: Historic Organs of Chicago – OHS OHS-02
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Organ: 1920 IV/31 Kimball, St. Mary of the Angels Catholic Church, Chicago, Illinois USA
Title: Six Fugues on the name B-A-C-H – I. Langsam
Composer: Robert Schumann
Organist: Schuyler Robinson
Album: A Kentucky Organ Tour – Raven OAR-960
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Organ: 1897 III/35 Kimball/Buzard, First Presbyterian Church, Lexington, Kentucky USA
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Title: Fantasy On Nursery Themes
Composer: Robert Elmore
Organist: Robert Elmore
Album: Boardwalk Pipes – Mercury ACCHOS/CD/01
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Organ: 1931 IV/55 Kimball, Atlantic City Convention Hall Ballroom, Atlantic City, New Jersey USA
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Breaks:
Title: Carnival of the Animals – Aviary
Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns
Organist: Timothy Edward Smith
Album: Two Organ Landmarks in Columbus – Raven OAR-900
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Organ: 1931 IV/80 Kimball, First Congregational Church, Columbus, Ohio USA
Title: Carnival – I Pulcinella
Composer: Robert Crandell
Organist: David Britton
Album: Organo Deco – Delos DE3111
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Organ: 1938 IV/96 Kimball, St. John’s Cathedral, Denver, Colorado USA