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| A NEW DVD! Michel Chapuis Personal Notes, Vol. 3 Improvisation in Germanic Style $26.95 |
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NOW A DVD! Philippe Delacour'sVirtuoso Video An excellent video of virtuoso Delacour playing two fine organs including a Cavaillé-Coll. Dupré, Vierne, Bach, Couperin, Franck, Liszt, Alain, Duruflé, Messiaen. This video is now re-issued as a DVD. $22.50 |
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| Langlais in a DVD Documentary Celebrating the centenary of Langlais’ birth, the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Guild of Organists has produced this documentary featuring Ann Labounsky, student of Langlais and author Jean Langlais: The Man and His Music. Also available in PAL Format |
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| A pioneer in teaching injury-preventive keyboard technique, Barbara Lister-Sink demonstrates a step-by-step method to injury-free technique in this excellent resource to teachers and players of all keyboards. Now available on DVD and VHS. |
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| Philippe Delacour plays the Stahlhuth/Jann Organ of St. Martin, Dudelange in Luxembourg. $22.50 |
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| Filmmaker Bert Shapiro documents the Mander organ in St. Ignatius Church, New York from conception to final sound in a program dedicated to late OHS member Malcolm Wechsler. $21.95 |
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| MaryAnn Crugher Balduf plays the 1890 Steere and Turner organ in the Mabel Tainter Memorial Theater, Menomonie, Wisconsin. $15.00 |
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| The Organistas gives a kaleidoscopic view of the organ and those who build organs and play them. The video visits organs from Eton to Los Angeles. It offers images of famous organs including the Wanamaker organ, Disney Hall and the gloriously decorated façade at Eton. Available in DVD format only. $21.95 |
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| Two short films are combined on one DVD to show the art of tower bell ringing. In a program of about 20 minutes total “the invisible music makers” demonstrate the ringing of bells in traditional style and discuss the community of ringers. Available in DVD format only. $14.98 |
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| The American Guild of Organists' Master Series is designed as a video archive of notable 20th Century performers and teachers. Each volume features an interview with the artist and excerpts from various masterclasses. Click on the Headline for details and to order |
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| Four organs in San Francisco are played on a DVD (and on a CD also included) by Rodney Gehrke, David Hatt, and Robert Huw Morgan at Temple Sherith Israel (1904 Murray Harris 3m, restored), The Cathedral of St. Mary (Ruffati 4m), and Stanford Memorial Church (Fisk and Paul Fritts organs), respectively, as the camera shows us the spectacular interiors and exteriors of the buildings. The organs are exceptionally well recorded, and sound is splendid on the high quality DVD soundtrack. Also featured are beautifully shot scenes of the city and the Bay area and interviews with the organists discussing the organs and the music. Archived on the DVD is information about the organs which may be viewed on a computer equipped with a DVD drive. The included CD contains longer programs from the three organists. Click for complete program, more information and to order. $29.95 |
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| Italian virtuoso Enrico Viccardi plays the fine organ in the Abbey of Muri-Gries at Bolzano, Italy, in this beautifully produced DVD of major Bach works. The 18th-century church affords wonderful visual opportunities for the camera when it is not focused on the hands and feet of the organist. We see difficult passages executed up-close at the keyboard, and long shots of the architecture at other times. The organist speaks to us about the works before he plays each one. 112 minutes. Fantasia and Fugue in g, BWV 542 Partita diverse sopra Sei Gegrüsset, Jesu gütig, BWV 768 Toccata, Adagio adn Fugue in C, BWV 564 Trio Sonata No. 2 in c, BWV 526 Chorale Prelude Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, BWV 663 Prelude and Fugue in e, BWV 548 Wedge $19.98 |
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| Here are the sights, sounds, and stories of the world’s largest pipe organ built 1929-32 at the Atlantic Convention Hall in New Jersey.
Of 449 ranks and more than 33,000 pipes, this extraordinary organ is located in eight chambers arranged in a "surround-sound" configuration inside one of the largest interior spaces ever created. This video documentary introduces the visionaries who created the organ: Emerson Richards, Seibert Losh, and others of influence. It describes the evolution of the “municipal organ,” the ongoing restoration of the Atlantic City Hall and organs, tours the chambers, and reproduces old movie footage of the Hall and home movies of the Ballroom organ (built by Kimball), and a separate production on saving old organs with Alan Laufman, Barbara Owen, and Thomas Murray. Click the headline for more information and to order. $19.98 |
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| In this second DVD, Michel Chapuis recreates the atmosphere of the inauguration of the 1859 Cavaillé-Coll at Poligny by Lefébure-Wély through improvisation in 19th-century style. He also improvises on the exquisite 1890 Cavaillé-Coll at St-Ouen in Rouen and discusses both organs and improvisation techniques. The improvisations include demonstrations of various effects and registrations. About 80 minutes. Includes a 24-page booklet. Click for more information, subjects of the improvs, and to order. $26.95 |
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| Famed organist Michel Chapuis improvises in French classical style on the organs built by Robert and François-Henri Clicquot in 1710 at the Chapelle Royale at Versailles and in 1783 at Souvigny to exemplify his commentary on improvisation, French classical style, notes inégals, ornamentation, expression, registration, etc. The superb sound on the DVD includes a soundtrack of the commentary which may be heard in the original French or with English overdubbing. Note: This DVD will not play on American or Japanese television sets or DVD players (NTSC). However, it will play on a computer which is equipped with a DVD drive and also on European TV (PAL). $26.95 |
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| Famed choral director Weston Noble lectures on the principles of choral blend that he has used for longer than 50 years and with the Luther College Nordic Choir. Choral conductors (and organists pressed into service as choral conductors) can now study his technique via this DVD, just as thousands have benefitted from his teachings. Regardless of experience, the principles presented will improve the sound, intonation, and rhythmic clarity of any choir. James Jordan of Westminster Choir College introduces Noble and lays an introduction to the principles discussed. $34.95 |
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| Special Prices! OHS members $11.98 Video visits to famous and out-of-the-way organs, with guest organists and host Fred Hohman playing. Select from 18 programs at organs such as Longwood Gardens, Balboa Park, Portland City Hall, Methuen, the Meyerson Fisk, the Shadyside Reuter, a Wurltizer, and more, with organists including the Andrews/Fishell Duo, Ray Cornils, Justin Hartz, Claudia Dumschat, Matt Curlee, Jeffrey Smith, Robert F. Bates, Susan Marchant, and theatre organist Bob Castle. Click the headline to see the choices and to order. |
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| Records of choristers in King’s College Chapel go back to the 15th century, bridging a tradition of centuries that exists to this day in the illustrious singing of the boys and men in the magnificent acoustic and medieval architecture of King’s College, Cambridge, England. $15.98 |
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| This CD/DVD package features Fox's famous 40-minute audiophile Command Classics recording on a CD and on the audio track of a DVD-Video. The video on the DVD is a collection of kaleidoscopic collages. The great bonus on the DVD is an 11-minute TV interview of Fox at the Wanamaker Organ (1979), and a 30-minute performance videotaped in 1970 for a CBS network TV show. The CBS program was performed in a TV studio on the touring electronic. Click for repertoire and to order. $24.00 |
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| The PBS TV documentary that was introduced nationally in April 2004 describes with fine photography, discussions of outstanding architecture, LaFarge, Tiffany, and other glass, and several organ demonstrations at 16 churches in Buffalo, New York: St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral (Hope-Jones/Schlicker & Choir of Men & Boys); St. Joseph’s Cathedral (1876 E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings 4m, including on the DVD only an extended organ demo not broadcast); St. Stanislaus; St. Louis; Trinity Episcopal; First Presbyterian, Unitarian Universalist, Holy Trinity Lutheran (Möller/Kegg 152 ranks), St. Gerard’s, Blessed Trinity RC, Our Lady of Victory Basilica, Temple Beth Zion, and a few more. Available in VHS Videotape or DVD Click the Headline for details and to order |
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| Pierre Cochereau was organist of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris from 1955 until his death at age 59 in 1984. This DVD released by the French Solstice firm, producer of most of Cochereau’s recordings, marks the 20th anniversary of his death and comprises almost two hours of material from the French National Audio-Visual Institute Archives and private sources. It is enriched with accounts from other musicians, personalities, students and close friends and family. It traces the career of the brilliant improviser that was Pierre Cochereau, and whose sudden disappearance deprived the musical world of one of its finest. Click the headline for titles and to order. $59.95 |
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| Never before released live concert. In 1976, Fox played two “Bach Gamut” concerts to audiences of 5,500 people at St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco, surveying Bach’s works in all musical keys from A to G. This package comes with both a DVD and a separate audio CD bearing the same program in stereo. Included on the DVD is a TV interview with Virgil Fox. Click for details. $18.98 |
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| The second of Virgil Fox's two “Bach Gamut” concerts played to audiences of 5,500 people at St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco, is contained in this new release. The concerts survey Bach’s works in musical keys from A to G. This release contains both a DVD (surround sound) and a CD (stereo) of the same program. The DVD video track features kaleidoscopic "light show" images. Fox plays some pieces on his touring electronic; the rest are played on the Cathedral’s 4-manual, 89-rank Ruffati pipe organ. Prelude & Fugue in b; Toccata & Fugue in d; Fugue in G Gigue; Toccata in F; I Cry to Thee; Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring; Have Mercy on Me, O Lord; Prelude & Fuge in E Minor Wedge; Sleepers Awake! $18.98 |
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| Celebrating the pipe organ in America, this video features every kind of organ in many places and venues across the country. An exciting introduction to the organ for students, organ committees, congregations, or for your own enjoyment. Now available on DVD as well as VHS Videotape. Click the headline for details and to order |
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| This very well produced 45-minute video visits six organs in England played by seven organists, with pictures of the venues as well as the organists and some historical footage as well. Click on headline for program. $18.98 |
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| DVD & CD of Ruffati Pipe Organ & KaleidoplexTM Digital Light Organ Richard Morris, Organist-in-Residence at Spivey Hall in Atlanta, plays the Albert Schweitzer Memorial Organ of 79 ranks and 4,413 pipes, built in 1992 by the Ruffati firm of Padua, Italy. Virgil Fox coached Morris, a former student, in his way of playing these works. This package comes with both a DVD with 5.1 surround sound and a separate CD bearing the same program in stereo. Included on the video track of the DVD is the digital version of the kaleidoscopic projector that Virgil Fox made famous in his live light shows with organ. The “Kaleidoplex” produces complex, round, colorful, and harmoniously symmetrical images which are rhythmically chosen to accompany the music. The sound engineering is brilliant! $18.98 |
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| A DVD and CD from the Atlanta Fox! In the latest technological advance, this package comes with both a DVD with 5.1 surround sound and a separate CD bearing the same program in stereo. Included on the video track of the DVD is the digital version of the kaleidoscopic projector that Virgil Fox made famous in his live light shows with organ. The “Kaleidoplex” produces complex, round, colorful, and harmoniously symmetrical images which are rhythmically chosen to accompany the music. There are no images of the organ, theatre, or performer. Larry Douglas Embury performs on the Atlanta Fox 4-49 Möller theatre pipe organ, somtimes accompanied by Embury himself playing a Steinway grand piano; also, some arrangements include bass and drums. For program and ordering click on title. $18.98 |
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| Evensong & Vespers from King’s is filmed in the magnificent Chapel of King’s College, Cambridge, and the Choir of King’s College is directed by Stephen Cleobury. Click Picture for Details & to Order $15.98 |
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| Anthems from King’s Stephen Cleobury directs the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Includes a 30-minute documentary on the King’s Choristers, with insights into the life of the boy chroisters of King’s College Choir. Also, organ scholar Daniel Hyde’s fine performance of the Stanford Postlude in D is recorded from three angles that may be selected at will by the viewer of the DVD. Click the headline for details and to order. $29.98 |
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| Stephen Cleobury conducts the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, in a service recorded recently in DTS Surround Sound and PCM stereo. Also included is a rare, 45-minute film of much of the 1954 Service of Nine Lessons and Carols directed by Boris Ord, and a 20-minute conversation among Sir David Willcocks, Sir Philip Ledger, and Stephen Cleobury. Click on headline for details $24.98 |
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| O Magnum Mysterium captures the Christmas Spirit in choral works from the Renaissance (Scheidt, Praetorius, Gabrieli) and the 20th Century (Poulenc). Matthew Best conducts the Corydon Singers. Click Picture for Details & to Order $15.98 |
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| The Lamentations offer profound Renaissance choral music in which composers like Palestrina, Gesualdo, Josquin, Tallis, Weelkes, Byrd, and Allegri express sorrow and dispair in the most exquisite vocal sounds, here produced by the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. $15.98 |
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| Handel Coronation Athems are sung by the Holland Boys Choir directed by Sir David Willcocks. Click Picture for Details & to Order $15.98 |
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| Bach Cantatas In the year 2000, the superb Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists directed by John Eliot Gardiner presented on tour all of the almost 200 extant cantatas of J. S. Bach as The Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, marking the 250th anniversary of Bach’s death. The DVD includes a 60-minute documentary of the tour, with samples of performances (and other Cantatas) in Weimar, Leipzig, Hamburg, Eisenach, Arnstadt, Blythburgh, Kirkwall, Iona, Dyfed, Cologne, and New York. As well, complete and wonderful performances of Cantatas 179, 199, and 113 are presented as recorded at St. David’s Cathedral in Dyfed. Click the headline for details and to order. $29.98 |
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| SIX VIDEOS! One on DVD or VHS Videotape the rest on VHS videotape: on the latest (DVD or VHS), Daniel Roth plays both of the famous Cavaillé-Coll organs of 1857 at St-Sulpice: the choir organ at the front and the Grand Orgue of 100 ranks at the back, and describes the musical history of the church. On another program, Frédéric Blanc improvises and teaches how to improvise. In a set of two earlier videotapes, Daniel Roth demonstrates the Grand Orgue at St-Sulpice. Three earlier videos concern St-Clotilde and Jean Langlais: Marie-Louis Langlais gives a master class on Franck at St-Clotilde; Jean Langlais lectures and performs in his studio and at his home; and the organ and organists of St-Clotilde. |
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| Carol Williams shows off the 1891 “Father” Henry Willis 4-56 in the ancestral home and birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill. The organ boasts 32’ stops in the pedal and mixtures and reed choruses in all divisions. The 53-minute video and musical tour of Blenheim Palace also includes the Postill Organ in the Family Chapel and a Steinway piano in the Long Library. The VHS Hi-Fi stereo sound track sounds excellent. Click picture for repertoire $18.98 |
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The Wender Organ in Arnstadt Reconstructed Bach on DVD! First of its kind, this 90-minute DVD brings cutting-edge video and sound quality to a TV program of music by J. S. Bach. Of great importance to the organ world is the very first recording of the newly reconstructed Wender organ at the Bach Church in Arnstadt, where J. S. B. worked for two years. Also included are excellent performances of works for chorus and small orchestra with organ, solo harpsichord, and small string ensemble. Sites of the concerts and of importance in Bach's life include Arnstadt, Mühlhausen, Weimar Castle, Köthen Castle, Leipzig St. Thomas Church and the Old Bourse. Also, a 20-minute program on the life and work of Bach, spoken in English, with video of important places in his life.$19.95 |
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| Expert presentations on technical aspects of the organ. Choose from many titles. |
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| Theatre Organ Video Concerts are played by Donald Mackenzie, Phil Kelsall, John Mann, and John Ogden on famous Wurlitzers and Comptons. Also, classic silent films are recorded with fabulous theatre organ sound tracks. |
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| The organ on TV! Choose from dozens of titles. These entertaining videotapes feature visits with interesting organs in the U. S. and in Europe. Diane Bish plays the organs, sometimes with other instruments. |
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| The most complete and communicative TV documentary about the organ and the way it works yet devised, this 50-minute videotape draws one’s attention and holds it through an explanation of the organ’s many types of mechanism, the way pipes produce tone, the instrument’s history, acoustical theory, and visits to two organbuilders’ factories. Available in VHS and DVD Formats |
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| Ernest Skinner’s captivating and nostalgic motion pictures feature Clarence Eddy, Lynnwood Farnam, G. Donald Harrison, Vierne, Dupré, Widor, the organ shop, England & France in 1924, Niagara Falls, Yosemite, California, Hawaii, family summers at the lake, etc. $24.95 |
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| Tavener: Choral Ikons The Choir, James Whitbourn, conductor, sings music of Sir John Tavener (b. 1944), whose fame spread wide when his Song for Athene was sung during Princess Diana’s funeral in 1998. He writes,”I see music as a ‘window of sound’ on to the Divine World . . .” The DVD includes the virtual recreation of the interior of the Hagia Sophia, Justinian’s great 6th-century church. Click the headline for details and to order. $29.98 |
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| In this church on October 9, 1989, a “Protest of Silence” led to the reunification of Germany and demolition of the Berlin Wall beginning exactly one month later. The DVD includes a documentary on the event. The concert recorded here was given 10 years later, to the day, for benefit of this church, where Bach was cantor simultaneously with his position at St. Thomas Church. Click the headline for details and to order. $24.98 |
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| Christmas Carols Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, directed by Timothy Brown; Jonathan Brown, organ. Filmed at St. Edmondsbury Cathedral, Bury St.Edmonds, England. Click the headline for details and to order. $15.98 |
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| BACH: St. John Passion The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury, director; Brandenburg Corsort led by Roy Goodman. Soloists John-Mark Ainsley, Stephen Richardson, Catherine Bott, Michael Chance, Paul Agnew, Stephen Varcoe Click the headline for details and to order. $15.98 |
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| BACH: St. Matthew Passion King's College Choir, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury, dir.; Brandenburg Consort Click the headline for details and to order. $15.98 |
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| Choral Classics St. John's College Choir, Cambridge, directed by Christopher Robinson; Peter Davis, organ; Alison Atkinson, cello; Naomi Rudoe, harp Click the headline for details and to order. $15.98 |
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| Henry Purcell Sacred Music Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Timothy Brown, dir.; Jonathan Brown, Keri Dexter, organs; Baroque Brass of London; Andrew Manze, Marshall Marcus, violins; Jan Schlapp, viola; Jenny Ward-Clarke, bass violin; Liz Kenny, William Carter, theorbos. Filmed at Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge. Click the headline for details and to order. $15.98 |
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| Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, directed by Timothy Brown; Organ: The Wallace Collection; Rachel Masters, harp; *Lawrence Zazzo, counter-tenor. Filmed at St. Matthew's, Northampton, England. Click the headline for details and to order. $17.98 |
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| Poulenc: Stabat Mater and other music inspired by the Black Madonna of Rocamadour is performed by Judith Howarth, soprano; the Choirs of St. John’s, Clare, and Gonville & Caius Colleges, Cambridge, England, with the BBC Philharmonic, Christopher Robinson, conductor. Documentary on the Black Madonna. Click the headline for details and to order. $24.98 |
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| Banquet of the Senses At the Palazza Te in Mantua, Italy, The Consort of Musicke performs 14 madrigals by Monteverdi Click the headline for details and to order. $17.98 |
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