in a quiet cathedral
Label: Delos
Format: CD
Composers: Billy Strayhorn, Charles Callahan, Charles-Marie Widor, Dom Paul Benoit, Edwin H. Lemare, Felix Mendelssohn, Frank Bridge, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Giuseppe Tartini, Jean Langlais, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Leo Sowerby, Louis Vierne, Marcel Dupré, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Richard Purvis, Robert Schumann, Samuel Barber, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Walter Hilse, William H. Harris, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performers: Tod Wilson
Available: 5
Price: $19.99
Works of: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), Richard Purvis (b. 1917), William H. Harris (1883-1973), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), Charles Callahan (b. 1952), Edwin H. Lemare (1865-1934), Billy Strayhorn (1915-1967), Frank Bridge (1879-1941), Dom Paul Benoit (1893-?), Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937), Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), Marcel Dupré (1886-1971), Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Louis Vierne (1870-1937), Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), Samuel Barber (1910-1981), Walter Hilse (b.1941), Leo Sowerby (1895-1968), Jean Langlais (1907-1991)
Tod Wilson, organ
The Aeolian-Skinner Organ, Catherdral of St. Philip, Atlanta
One of America's greatest organists, Todd Wilson, offers a unique stress-reducer for all ages and an ideal introduction to the organ for young people. Recorded in one of America's most beautiful cathedrals, this album contains music of melodic simplicity: appealing to all and accessible to the young.
This collection is meant to recreate an experience many of us have treasured: slipping inside the heavy doors of a cathedral and finding oneself alone in a vast, quiet space with light streaming through stained glass windows. Then an organist begins to play gentle music, and one is lost in contemplation, as the cares of the day begin to fade...
Listeners will feel the vastness of the cathedral space, and the enormous range of the organ, but will not feel overpowered. This is not a jolt-you-out-of-your-chair program, but rather a warm, enveloping one.
Todd Wilson's notes for this album are meant to help introduce listeners of all ages to the organ and to some of the great masterpieces written for this "King of Instruments."
As Neil Stannard says in his introduction to the Young People's section of the booklet: "If you are not already in your favorite place of comfort and solitude, then, if you close your eyes and open your heart, the music will take you there."
| Track Listing | Time | MP3 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| CD One | |||
| 1 | Johannes Brahms : Chorale Prelude: Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, Op. 122, No. 5 (Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness) | 2:10 | |
| 2 | Giuseppe Tartini: Air | 3:29 | |
| 3 | Ralph Vaughan Williams: Prelude on the Welsh Hymn Tune "Rhosymedre" | 4:03 | |
| 4 | Richard Purvis: Pastorale on "Forest Green" | 2:21 | |
| 5 | William H. Harris: Prelude in E-flat Major | 2:23 |  |
| 6 | Johann Sebastian Bach: Chorale Prelude: Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier, BWV 731 (Blessed Jesus, we are here) | 3:25 | |
| 7 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Adagio (for Glass Harmonica), K. 356, arr. E. Power Biggs | 3:34 | |
| 8 | Felix Mendelssohn: Adagio (from Sonata I in F Minor, Op. 65) | 3:38 | |
| 9 | J.S. Bach: Chorale Prelude: Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten, BWV 647 (If thou but suffer God to guide thee) | 3:43 | |
| 10 | J.S. Bach: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (from Cantata No. 147) | 3:21 | |
| 11 | Charles Callahan: Aria | 3:30 | |
| 12 | Billy Strayhorn: Lotus (Lotus Blossom) arr. Alec Wyton | 4:05 | |
| 13 | Edwin H. Lemare: Irish Air from "County Derry" (Londonderry Air) | 3:36 | |
| 14 | George Shearing: Jerusalem, My Happy Home - American Folk Hymn | 2:58 | |
| 15 | J.S. Bach: Air on the G String (from Suite in D) arr. Edward Shippen Barnes | 5:39 | |
| 16 | Frank Bridge: Adagio in E Major | 6:17 | |
| 17 | Dom Paul Benoit: The Good Shepherd | 4:22 | |
| 18 | Marcel Dupré: Magnificat I, Op. 18, No. 10 | 2:42 | |
| 19 | Charles-Marie Widor: Andante sostenuto (from Symphonie Gothique, Op. 70) | 6:10 | |
| CD Two | |||
| 1 | Girolamo Frescobaldi: Toccata per l'Elevazione (from Fiori Musicali) | 3:38 | |
| 2 | Johann Sebastian Bach: Chorale Prelude: Meine Seele erhebt den Herren (My soul doth magnify the Lord) | 2:30 | |
| 3 | Marcel Dupré: Prelude and Fugue in F Minor, Op. 7, No. 2 | 8:53 | |
| 4 | Robert Schumann: Canon in B Major, Op. 56, No. 6 | 5:17 | |
| 5 | Louis Vierne: Clair de lune (from Pièces de Fantaisie, Op. 53) | 8:55 | |
| 6 | Sergei Rachmaninoff : Vocalise, arr. Patricia Bird | 4:29 | |
| 7 | Louis Vierne: Berceuse (from Pièces en style libre, Op. 31) | 4:55 | |
| 8 | Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings, Op. 11, arr. William Strickland | 7:41 | |
| 9 | Walter Hilse Meditation | 4:24 | |
| 10 | Leo Sowerby: Very slowly (from Sonatina) | 6:10 | |
| 11 | Jean Langlais: Ave Maria, Ave Maris Stella (from Trois Paraphrases Grégoriennes) | 6:10 | |
| 12 | Jean Langlais: Chant de Paix (Song of Peace) | 3:42 |