The Aeolian Organ at Duke University Chapel

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Release Date: 24th Jun 2016
Catalogue No: PTC5186577
Label: Pentatone
Length: 65 minutes

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Sibelius: Finlandia, Op. 26

Work length7:52

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Christopher Jacobson

Howells: Rhapsody in D-Flat Major, Op. 17 No. 1

Work length5:46

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Christopher Jacobson

Fleury, André: Organ Symphony No. 2

Work length4:42

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Christopher Jacobson

II. Vif

Track length4:42

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trad.: Irish Air from County Derry (Arr. E.H. Lemare for Organ)

Work length3:57

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Christopher Jacobson

Dupré: Preludes and Fugues (3), Op. 7

Work length21:20

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Christopher Jacobson

Prelude No. 1

Track length3:11

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Fugue No. 1

Track length3:47

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Prelude No. 2

Track length3:26

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Fugue No. 2

Track length4:04

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Prelude No. 3

Track length3:32

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Fugue No. 3

Track length3:20

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Excerpt, Vaughan Williams: Preludes (3) on Welsh Hymn Tunes (Bryn Calfaria, Rhosymedre & Hyfrydol), for organ

Work length4:36

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Christopher Jacobson

No. 2, Rhosymedre "Lovely"

Track length4:36

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Brewer, H: Marche Heroique

Work length6:43

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Christopher Jacobson

Bolcom: Gospel Preludes, Book 2

Work length5:39

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Christopher Jacobson

No. 4, Jesus Loves Me

Track length5:39

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Gigout: 6 Organ Pieces

Work length5:11

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Christopher Jacobson
Amalgam Brass Ensemble

No. 6, Grand chœur dialogué (Arr. S. McIntosh for Organ & Brass Sextet)

Track length5:11

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The Aeolian Opus 1785 pipe organ of Duke University Chapel in Durham, NC was built in 1932 and completely restored in 2008. It stands today, as it did over eighty years ago, as a towering testament to the twentieth-century symphonic tradition of organ building.

This album presents a collection of equally twentieth-century organ compositions, transcriptions and arrangements, ranging from Irish folk tunes arranged for organ by Edwin H. Lemare and Gospels by William Bolcom, to Marcel Dupré’s monumental Trois Préludes et Fugues Op. 7 and a transcription of Sibelius’ Finlandia, all performed by Duke Chapel’s organist, Christopher Jacobson.

It is the first commercial recording made on the instrument since its restoration and it gives a chance to hear the instrument’s unique voice in a way never possible before. It is particularly the instrument’s unique voice which inspired Christopher Jacobson to record this album: ‘The orchestral sounds of the Aeolian organ at Duke Chapel represent a special and unique voice amongst America’s organs. Designed to rival and complement the sounds of a symphony orchestra the Aeolian’s ability to elegantly whisper and powerfully roar is paralleled by only a handful of other organs across America. Not many of these large symphonic organs have survived in their original state into the twenty-first century. This disc represents a sonic journey one-hundred years back in time to a period when these tremendous instruments were regularly heard by thousands of music lovers in homes, concert halls, and churches across America.’

The Aeolian Organ at Duke University Chapel

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