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American Works for Organ and Orchestra.

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| December 01, 2002 | Puccio, John | COPYRIGHT 2002 Sensible Sound. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

David Schrader, organ; Carlos Kalmar, Grant Park Orchestra. Cedille CDR 90000 063.

To help celebrate the new organ at Chicago's Orchestra Hall, Cedille Records present the first recording of the Casavant Freres instrument in a collection of works for organ and orchestra by American composers. The album consists of four works: Samuel Barber's Toccata Festiva for Organ and Orchestra (1960), Walter Piston's Prelude and Allegro for Organ and Strings (1943), Leo Sowerby's Concertpiece for Organ and Orchestra (1951), and Michael Colgrass's Snow Walker for Organ and Orchestra (1990).

Of the four works I preferred Colgrass's Snow Walker by a wide margin. Maybe it's because it's the most accessible, I don't know. It's a program piece depicting the Arctic lands and the Inuit people, their customs and ...

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