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Heiller at Harvard
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Opus 46   Heiller at Harvard: The Legendary Performances
Performer: Anton Heiller Label: private issue
 
 
The legendary organist and teacher Anton Heiller visited Harvard University several times to teach and to present recitals on the Fisk organ at Memorial Church, an organ which he greatly admired. Here, four of his live recitals which have never been released on LP or CD, as well as his famous recordings of the three Hindemith Organ Sonatas released on LP and unavailable for years, are combined into a set of four CDs.

CD 1: from the recital of 28 December 1967
BACH: Canonical variations on Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her, S.769
BACH: Prelude & fugue in C, S547
REGER: Phantasia & fugue on Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, Op. 52 no. 2
HEILLER: Improvisation on a submitted theme

CD 2: Recital of 8 November 8 1968
CLÉRAMBAULT: Suite dudeuxième ton
BUXTEHUDE: Chorale-Fantasy on Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern
BACH: Partite diverse sopra Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig, S.768
REGER: Introduction and Passacaglia in f (from Monologue, op. 63)
HEILLER: Improvisation on a submitted theme

CD 3: Recital of 7 October 1971
BACH: Prelude & fugue in G, S.541
BACH: Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend', S.709
BACH: Toccata & fugue in d, S.565
BACH: Chorale preludes from the ClavierÜbung part III
BACH: Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit, S.669
BACH: Christe, aller Welt Trost, S.670
BACH: Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist, S.671
BACH: Jesu, meine Zuversicht, S.728
BACH: Wir glauben all' an einen Gott, Vater, S.740
BACH: Passacaglia & fugue in c, S.582

CD 4
BACH: Trio sonata V in C, S.529 (recital of 7 October 1971)
HINDEMITH: Organ sonatas 1, 2, 3 (recording of 1973)

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Marian Ruhl Metson at Harvard
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Opus 46   Christmas Rhapsody
Performer: Marian Ruhl Metson Label: RAVEN
Catalog #: OAR 260  
 
Marian Ruhl Metson tours five historic organs in the Boston area: the large 1897 Hutchings in the vast acoustics of the Mission Church; the beautiful 1889 Treat at St. George’s, Methuen; 1848 Stevens 2m, Shirley Center; 1991 A. David Moore organ, Old North Church; and the famous but rarely recorded 1967 Fisk 4m, Harvard University.

GIGOUT: Rhapsody on Noëls
YON: Gesu Bambino
GUILMANT: Noëls Polonais, Ecossais, & Brabançon
DIEMER: Go Tell It on the Mountain, What Star is This
DUPRÉ: Adeste Fidelis; In dulci jubilo
BUCK: Silent Night
DANDRIEU: Noël de Saintonge
HEILLER & BRAHMS: Es ist ein Ros’
FLEURY: Variations sur un Noël bourguignon
VILLARD: Appelons Nau, Noël Poitevin
PIETRO YON: Gesù Bambino
BACH: Vom Himmel hoch, BWV 606
PINKHAM: Pastorale on The Morning Star
JOHN BULL: Prelude & Carol Laet ons met herten reijne
SAMUEL WESLEY: God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
LÉON ROQUES: Noël, Pastorale after Couperin
LÉON ROQUES: Noël, Les Anges dans nos campagnes
RAYNOR TAYLOR: Varitaions on Adeste fidelis
THEODORE DUBOIS: Noël

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Carols at Harvard
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Opus 46   Carols from the Yard
Performer: Memorial Church, Harvard University Label: GOTHIC
Catalog #: G49075  
 
A service of lessons & carols at Memorial Church, Harvard University
The Harvard University Choir
The Bach Society Orchestra
Murray Forbes Somerville, director
Nancy B. Granert, organist

Since 1910, the tradition of the Harvard Carol Service has grown so popular that it is now sung on two successive evenings. With Memorial Church's large 4-manual Fisk organ and the excellent Harvard University Choir, this is a service that deserves its immense popularity.

Prelude: Woodman: In dulci jubilo
Introit: In dulci julbio
Processional Hymn: Adeste fideles
Palestrina: Canite tuba
Callahan: Come rejoicing, praises voicing
Schütz: Ein Kind is uns geboren
Hymn: Holst: Personent hodie
Brahms: Ave Maria
Spiritual, arr Dawson: Mary Had a Baby
Spanish trad: Riu, Riu, Chiu
Niedmann: In the ending of the Year
The Third Lesson
Darke: In the bleak mid-winter
arr. Near: And all in the morning
Basque carol, arr Willcocks: Sing lullaby
Praetorius: To us is born Immanuel
arr. Schulz-Widmar: Jesus, Jesus, rest your head
Hymn: Silent Night
Hymn: Joy to the world
Byrd: Benediction and Choral Amen (sung from the Memorial Room)
Postlude: Cook: Paean on Divinum Mysterium

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