Episode 186 – September 1, 2019

This week we recognize Labor Day weekend with music about work.

Hosts: Mark Scholtz, Bill Stein, Brent Johnson

Playlist:
Composer: T Tertius Noble
Organist: Marcus Sealy
Album: Hymns from Bath Abbey – Regent REGCD445
Organ: 1997 IV/67 Klais, Bath Abbey, Bath, England

Title: The Saviour and Work
Composer: Gerre Hancock
Organist: Gerre Hancock
Album: Praise the Eternal Light – Nine Organ Improvisations on the Cathedral Windows – Pro Organo CD 7233
Organ: 1962 IV/137 Austin, Cathedral of St. Joseph, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Title: Work for the Night is Coming
Composer: Lowell Mason
Organist: Gordon Turk
Album: Organ Echoes II
Organ: 1908 V/165 Hope-Jones, Ocean Grove Auditorium, Ocean Grove, New Jersey, USA

Title: Seven Prelude or Postludes on Lowell Mason Hymns, op. 42 – WORK SONG, Work, for the Night is Coming
Composer: Seth Bingham
Organist: Christopher Marks
Album: Organ Music of Seth Bingham, Vol 3 – Raven OAR 992
Organ: 1998 IV/95 Schoenstein, First-Plymouth Congregational Church, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

Title: Bouquet de France
  • I. Le pauvre Labourer
  • II. Rossignolet du Bois Joli
  • III. La Fille aux Oranges
  • VII. Voici le joli Mois de Mai
  • IX. Berceuse
  • X. V’là la Saint-Martin

  • Composer: Eugène Reuchsel
    Organist: Simon Nieminski
    Album: La vie du Christ et Bouquet de France – Resonus RES10217
    Organ: 1992 III/81 Rieger, St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland
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    Title: Alleluia, a new work is come on hand Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum of Dean Close Preparatory School
    Composer: David Bednall
    Organist: Carleton Etherington
    Album: A Year at Tewkesbury – Regent REGCD474
    Organ: 1997 IV/83 Jones, Tewkesbury Abbey (Milton Organ), Gloucestershire, England

    Title: Salem Sonata – IV. …let His work your pleasure be…
    Composer: Dan Locklair
    Organist: Peter Sykes
    Album: Salem’s Large Tannenberg Organ Restored – Raven OAR 700
    Organ: 1799 II/13 Tannenberg/Taylor and Boody, Frank L. Horton Museum, Salem, North Carolina, USA
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    Title: Pictures at an Exhibition – Bydlo
    Composer: Modest Mussorgsky
    Organist: Jean Guillou
    Album: Mussorgsky – Stravinsky – Dorian DOR90117
    Organ: 1988 IV/98 Kleuker-Steinmeyer, Tonhalle, Zurich, Switzerland

    Title: Sine Nomine
    Composer: John Weaver
    Organist: John Weaver
    Album: Great Organs of New York – B and V BV-100
    Organ: 1962 III/73 Casavant/Schantz, Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York City, New York, USA

    Title: Variations on Ora Labora
    Composer: Gerre Hancock
    Organist: Bruce Neswick
    Album: The Opening Of Heaven – Pro Organo CD 7251
    Organ: 1954 IV/139 Aeolian-Skinner, Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York City, New York, USA