Pipe Organ Videos
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Howard Goodall CBE is one of Britain’s best-known composers of choral music, stage musicals, TV and film scores. He is also a distinguished music historian and broadcaster. In this series, he visits and demonstrates pipe organs all over Europe. This entertaining series focuses on historical organs and the stories behind them.
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Programme 1 - USA, ChicagoUnionCenter: Frank Pelico (Chicago Black Hawks resident organist) improvises to ice hockey game; Howard Goodall plays Rondeau from Henry Purcell’s Abdelazar Italian-Austrian Tyrol,ChurburgCastle: HG improvises Spain, Salamanca Cathedral, Salinas Organ: HG plays Antonio de Cabezón Fabordones del septum tono IV: Glosado en el bajo, ed. Felipe Pedrell/Higinio Angles; HG plays Intonationen Terzo Tonoby Andrea Gabrieli At Manders Organ Factory: HG plays on the Salinasorgan of Salamanca Antonio de Cabezón Fabordones del octavo tono IV. Glosado en el bajo, from Collected Works for organ Volume II edited by Felipe Pedrell & Higinio Angles Austria, Innsbruck Imperial Chapel: Richard Jaudt plays Eterne rerum alias (iii) by John Blitheman, from The Mulliner Book Germany, Lüdingworth church: HG plays Toccata (Ionian) by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck; HG plays Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten by Georg Böhm​
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Programme 2 -- Spain, Villalon church: HG plays Herzlich lieb hab ich Dich, O Herr by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck Spain, Abarca church: Kimberley Marshall plays 18c Portugese Battle Music Germany, WartburgCastle: HG plays Ein’ feste burg, Lutheran chorale; HG plays J S Bach chorale prelude Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (BWV 645) Germany, Stormthal church: Cornelia Schneider plays J S Bach Wer nur den Lieben Gott lässt walten Germany, Hamburg St Jacobi church: HG plays J S Bach ‘St Anne’ Prelude (BWV 552) Holland, Haarlem, St Bavo church: Jos van der Kooy plays W A Mozart Fantasie in F minor (KV 608) France, Paris, Basilica of St Denis: Pierre Pincemaille plays Choral no.3 in A minor by César Franck Paris, St Sulpice: Daniel Roth plays Toccata from Organ Symphony no.5 by C M Widor
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Programme 4 -- USA, The Jacques Littlefield Organ, San Francisco, California: HG plays L Boëllman, Toccata from Gothic Suite, opus 25 USA, Jazz Café, CamdenTown: James Taylor Quartet Creation USA, San Diego, California, BalboaPark: Bob Plimpton plays J S Bach Toccata in D minor UK, AlexandraPalace, London: Alex Mason & Nick O’Neill play Louis Vierne, Finale, Organ Symphonie no.1, opus 14 USA, St Ignatius Loyola, New York: Kent Trytle plays Olivier Messiaen, Dieu parmi nous from La Nativité du Seigneur