Ken Cowan plays the monumental Skinner Pipe Organ at St. Peter's Church, Morristown, NJ
Track Listings
| 1. Bach: Fugue in G major (The Jig Fugue) | ||
| 2. Bach: Fantasy & Fugue in g minor | ||
| 3. Dupré: Three Preludes & Fugues, Opus 7 | ||
| 4. Roger-Ducasse: Pastorale | ||
| 5. Manari: Salve Regina | ||
| 6. Lemare: Rondo a Cappricco | ||
| 7. Dupré: Variations on a Noël |
Editorial Reviews Contrasting is Lemare’s lighthearted Rondo a Capriccio ("A Study in Accents"), which requires an especially rapid Swell expression mechanism to achieve its nimble accents, unusual in the classical organ literature. The fantastically colorful Pastorale by Roger-Ducasse receives a performance among the most breathtaking in recent memory. Marcel Dupré’s Three Preludes and Fugues, Op. 7, Variations on a Noel, Op. 20 and Raffaele Manari’s rarely performed pedal etude on Salve Regina display Mr. Cowan's formidable instrumental command. Mr. Cowan’s art is fully demonstrated in this recording of a rare instrument with a comprehensive tonal pallet including gentle, beguiling and varied foundation tones, powerful and harmonically rich reeds and a bright and satisfying Diapason chorus. This is a disc intended for organists and non-organists alike who will enjoy experiencing a variety of masterworks performed on this warm and vibrant sounding Skinner instrument.
Album Description
Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church in Morristown, New Jersey – 1930 Skinner Organ, fully restored to "as new condition" by the A. Thompson-Allen Company of New Haven, CT Ken Cowan performs a program spanning several periods and styles of music. While practically none of this music was composed for an American organ of the 1920s or 1930s, it achieves a tremendously beautiful effect, in the same way that the piano sonatas of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert communicate a broad range of emotion on a modern Steinway piano. Bach’s great Fantasy and Fugue in g minor and Jig Fugue demonstrate the transparent choruses of this Skinner Organ, as well as its rich tonal resources. Although the performance of pre-Romantic music on such a symphonic organ is now commonly considered heresy, it was very common at the time this instrument was designed and constructed.
Ken Cowan plays the monumental Skinner Pipe Organ at St. Peter's Church, Morristown, NJ, Music, Manari, Dupre, Bach, Roger-Ducasse, Lemare, Ken Cowan
Ken Cowan plays the monumental Skinner Pipe Organ at St. Peter's Church, Morristown, NJ
Music Info:
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