This page is under construction and represents a test to see if the radio broadcasts will work on the website. It is in rather rough format at the moment, but we hope to make it better and add many more broadcasts in the coming year.
Boston AGO Radio Broadcasts
The first items in this list are broadcasts made by E. Power Biggs from Adolphus Busch Hall at Harvard University on the E. M. Skinner that was there at the time. They were originally recorded on 78 rpm discs, and then put on cassettes by the Library of Congress. These cassettes are now being digitized, and the files uploaded to this site. Editing to “knit together” the sides of the records, and to reduce noise has not yet been accomplished, but we hope to do so as time allows. These recordings are the sole property of the AGO Organ Library, and may not be recorded or used without permission, other than for private listening from our site.
E. Power Biggs Tape 1, Side 1, Broadcast from Skinner at Harvard, with Chamber Orchestra & Arthur Fiedler conducting: 1947 April 4 [sides of the discs not yet stitched together]
Handel Concerto No. 4
J. S. Bach: Easter Chorale settings from the Orgelbuchlein
Handel Concerto No. 5
E. Power Biggs Tape 1, Side 2, Broadcast from Skinner at Harvard: June 29, 1947 [sides of the discs not yet stitched together]
Handel: Fugues 5 and 6
Reger: Fantasia on “BACH”
Bach: Trio Sonata No. 1
E. Power Biggs Tape 2, Side 1, Broadcast from Skinner at Harvard: August 24, 1947 [edited/restored, but needs de-crackling and de-clicking throughout]
Franck: Chorale in A Minor
Franck: Pastorale (in E Major)
Bach: Toccata in F
E. Power Biggs Tape 2, Side 2, Broadcast from The Salt Lake City Tabernacle: February 9, 1947 [glitch in B.A.C.H. is on original]
Liszt: B.A.C.H.
Walford-Davies: Solemn Melody
Schreiner, Alexander: Our Redeemer and Our Lord
Karg-Elert, Sigfrid: Pastels from Lake Constance, The Reed-Grown Waters
The following are Radio Broadcasts that were aired on WCRB. There are 50 years of these broadcasts, in five different recording formats, to be digitized and put up to the site. A small sample is below, more will be added as time and staffing permits.
NOTICE: These recordings are the property of the Boston Chapter AGO and are for listening only; they may not be copied or disseminated in any format.
Christa Rakich – Old West Church, Boston – Broadcast March 2, 2008
J.S. Bach: Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend
J.S. Bach: Von Gott will ich nicht lassen
J.S. Bach: Variations on Nun komm der Heiden Heiland
Carl Klein – The Mission Church, Boston – Broadcast March 9, 2008
Eugene Gigout: Scherzo in E
Louis Vierne: Andante & Finale from Symphony No. 1
Mary Preston – Christ Church, Cambridge, MA – Broadcast September 30, 2007
John LaMontaine: Evensong
Joseph Jongen: Sonata Eroica
Brian Jones – Allin Congregational Church, Dedham, MA – Broadcast Aug 12, 2007
Lefebure-Wely: Concert Bolero in G
Edward McDowell: A.D. 1620
Edwin Lemare: Toccata & Fugue in D Minor
Louis Vierne: Finale (Symphony No. 1)
John Finney – St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Wellesley, MA – Broadcast Aug 12, 2007
J.S. Bach: Variation on “O God, Thou Faithful God”
Charles Marie Widor: Allegro (Symphony No. 6)
Leo Abbott – Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Boston, MA – Broadcast Jan 6, 2008
Felix Mendelssohn: Sonata # 3, 1st Mvt
Charles-Marie Widor: Symphonie Romane, 1st Mvt
George Whiting: Concert Etude in D Minor
Andrew Shenton – University Chapel, Princeton University – Broadcast Jan 13, 2008
J.S. Bach: Fantasia on Nun komm der Heiden Heiland
Georgy Mushel: Toccata
Joseph Bonnet: Concert Variations
Lois Toeppner – St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Worcester, MA – Broadcast May 20, 2007
Martha Sobaje: Trumpet Tune
Jehan Alain: Berceuse
Felix Mendelssohn: Sonata in B-flat
Gregory Peterson – Methuen Memorial Music Hall – Broadcast May 27, 2007
Cesar Franck: Pastorale
J.S. Bach: Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor
Heinrich Christensen – King’s Chapel, Boston – Broadcast May 6, 2007
Joseph Rheinberger: Last two mvts Concerto in C Minor
Leo Abbott – Methuen Memorial Music Hall – Broadcast May 13, 2007
Max Reger: Fantasy on Hallelujah, Gott zu Loben
Barbara Bruhns – St. Michael’s Church, New York – Broadcast October 26, 2008
Serge Rachmaninov: Vocalise
Hugo Distler: Partita on Nun Komm der Heiden Heiland
Frigyes Hidas: Domine, Dona Nobis Pacem
Erik William Suter – Parish of All Saints, Ashmont (Boston) – Broadcast June 3, 2007
Bach: Allein Gott in der Hoh sei Ehr
Durufle: Scherzo, Opus 2
Dupre: Prelude and Fugue in B Major
Dong-Ill Shin – Methuen Memorial Music Hall – Broadcast June 3, 2007
Durufle: Sicilienne
Bach: Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C
Roger Vine – Methuen Memorial Music Hall – Broadcast April 22, 2007
Durufle: Meditation
Joseph Jongen: Sonata Eroica
Andrew Shenton – University Chapel, Princeton – Broadcast November 11, 2007
Georg Bohm: Partita on Ach wie nichtig, ach wie fluchtig
Joe Utterback: Variations on “There is a Balm in Gilead”
Mendelssohn: Sonata in A, first movement
Peter Sykes – Old West Church, Boston – Broadcast November 18, 2007
J. S. Bach: Three Chorale Preludes:
Komm, heiliger Geist; Jesu Christus, unser Heiland; O Lamm Gotte, unschuldig
John Finney – St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Wellesley, MA – Broadcast July 15, 2007
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in G major
Charles Marie Widor: Symphony No. 6, Cantabile
Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Stuart Forster – Christ Church, Cambridge, MA – Broadcast July 22, 2007
Cesar Franck: Chorale in A Minor
Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, Finale
Jeremy Bruhns – Church of the Immaculate Conception, Boston – Broadcast November 4, 2007
Mozart: Andante in F
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Variations on Mein junges Leben hat ein End
Charles Marie Widor: Symphony No. 6, Vivace
Lee Ridgeway – First Parish, Lexington, MA – Broadcast December 9, 2007
Dieterich Buxtehude: Preludium in C Major
Buxtehude: In dulci jubilo; Komm, Heiliger Geist
Nicholas Bruhns: Praeludium in E Minor
Olivier Latry – Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Boston – Broadcast December 16, 2007
Thierry Escaich: Vers l’esperance
Nicolas Sejean: Noel Suisse
Jean Langlais: Theme and Variations
Maurice Durufle: Scherzo
Olivier Latry – Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Boston – Broadcast October 21, 2007
Vierne: Finale from Symphony No. 2
Franck: Chorale No. 2 in B Minor
Dong-Ill Shin – Methuen Memorial Music Hall
Durufle: Sicilienne from the Suite for Organ
J. S. Bach: Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C
C. Martin Steinmetz – Arlington Street Church (March 1963)(Aeolian-Skinner)
N. Le Begue: Le Cloches (The Bells)
Franck: Chorale in A Minor
J.S. Bach: Vater unser im Himmelriech
F. Couperin: Offertoire sur les Grandes Jeux
C. Martin Steinmetz – First Congregational Church, Braintree June 1964 (Austin)
J.S. Bach: Piece d’Orgue
Brahms: “O Welt, ich muss dich lassen
Dupre: Two Antiphons:
“I am black but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem”; “How fair and pleasant art thou”
Buxtehude: Prelude, Fugue & Chaconne