The Wanamaker Legacy
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Composer: Louis VierneComposer: Alexandre Guilmant
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer: Marcel Dupre
Performer: Peter Richard Conte
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-02-01
Music Label: Gothic Records
Soundtracks:
- Toccata
- Dedicase
- Marche Religieuse
- Come, Sweet Death
- Cortege Et Litanie, Op.19
- I. Le Monde Dans L'Attente Du Sauveur
- II. Nativite
- III. Crucifixion
- IV. Resurrection
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Music Review: The World's Best and Biggest Organ Is Back!
Rating: 5 Stars
Countless years ago in a college course on American music taught by the Music School's organ teacher I learned that the Wanamaker organ was the world's biggest. Subsequently I bought an LP of Virgil Fox playing the instrument (in the 60's, as I recall). I enjoyed the LP very much and in spite of flaws and clicks I played it many times.
Through the many intervening years, however, the organ (and, indeed, Wanamaker's department store) suffered some setbacks and we heard little or nothing from the unique, but increasingly delapidated instrument. But in recent years organized efforts to restore this pride and joy of John and Rodman Wanamaker have paid off big time, and the organ is pretty much back in shape today. (Indeed it is even improved in some respects.)
To celebrate its return we have Peter Conte playing an excellent recital of pieces mostly connected in some way or other with the organ. This, then, is an historic recording: a monument of sorts to the devotion of organ-lovers past and present who just would not let a great instrument die. And it IS a great instrument, not only in size, but in the sheer beauty and enormous richness of its sound. (There are several large organs around today, some perhaps larger than this, but none of them is so beautiful.)
So if you are a fan of organs and/or organ music, you really ought to have this recording. No collection of organ music would be truly sufficient without it. The organ is unique and this is a very fine sample of what it can do.
My old teacher told only part of the story: the Wanamaker is not only the biggest (?), but also the best! (And if you want to compare its sound today with that of the 60's, I'm pleased to say the Virgil Fox recital has finally been re-released on CD!)
Description of The Wanamaker Legacy
The Wanamaker organ in Philadelphia is the world?s largest functioning musical instrument, and this is the first recording of it restored to full playing condition in the last 30 years. Recorded in 24-bit technology?audiophile quality sound. Booklet contains pictures of the organ, an extensive and colorful history of the organ and its place in American musical society, and notes by the organist, as well as 13 pages of detailed organ specifications!Classical CDs
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