Organ Recordings

Inaugural Recital on 20 April 2012

Morris J. Niedenthal Memorial Organ

Rhonda Sider Edgington, organist  

John Seboldt made the live recording.

Wahl Organbuilders constructed the Augustana Lutheran Church of Hyde Park (Chicago) organ.  The twenty-stop

organ was installed in Fall 2011. 

      (track timing and file size are listed):
 
Bach:  Concerto in a minor (after Vivaldi), BWV 593

    [ Listen ]   [Allegro]  3:50 min   3.6 MB
    [ Listen ]   Adagio  2:58 min   2.8 MB

    [ Listen ]   Allegro  3:41 min   3.4 MB   

Sweelinck:  Mein junges Leben hat ein End

    [ Listen ]   Variations 6:17 min   5.9 MB


C. P. E. Bach:  Sonata in g minor, Wq 70, 6

    [ Listen ]   Allegro moderato   4:18 min   4.0 MB

     [ Listen ]   Adagio  3:29 min   3.3 MB

    [ Listen ]   Allegro  3:16 min   2.1 MB   

       

Variations on A mighty fortress is our God

Larry J. Long (b. 1954)  -  Commissioned by Augustana

       Lutheran Church of Hyde Park, dedicated to Corrine

       Niedenthal and her family.  

    [ Listen ]   I.  Theme   0:49 min   0.8 MB

    [ Listen ]   II.  Trumpet Tune   1:11 min   1.1 MB

    [ Listen ]   III.  Trio (canon)   0:53 min   0.8 MB

    [ Listen ]   IV.  Jig  1:01 min   1.0 MB                                       Ronald Wahl

    [ Listen ]   V.  Hordes of Devils   1.00 min   0.9 MB                            Rhonda Sider Edgington

    [ Listen ]   VI.  Finale   1.19 min   1.2 MB                                                                              Daniel Schwandt

Mendelssohn:  Prelude and Fugue in c minor, Op. 37, #1

     [ Listen ]    Prelude  3:29 min   3.3 MB

     [ Listen ]   Fugue  3:14 min   3.0 MB
       
       

Richard Webster (b. 1952):   Chorale Prelude on Thy holy wings

    [ Listen ]   2:40 min   2.5 MB
       

Leo Sowerby:   Prelude on Picardy (Let all mortal flesh)

    [ Listen ]   6:15 min   5.9 MB

Olivier Messiaen:  from L'Ascension

    [ Listen ]   II.  Alleluias sereins   5:41 min   5.3 MB

     [ Listen ]   III. Transports de joie  3:52 min   3.6 MB

Bach:  Fugue in G Major, BWV 577

    [ Listen ]  3:13 min   3.0 MB

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