More Organ and Piano Music

As I mentioned in a recent post, I've been helping my friend Tom get some music loaded up on his web site. It's now in place and can be found here. Hit the listen link to hear some of his music.

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Organ and Piano Music

Over the last few months I've been trying to help our church organist get some of his recorded music up on his personal web site. This mostly included converting a lot of CD music into .mp3's, editing out some of the noise and coughs and adding extensive applause to the ends of all the tracks. Just kidding. I work a lot faster on these things than he does, so I got it all ready while waiting for him to figure out how he wants to lay it out. The titles are a bit cryptic but sort of name the piece and the composer. Have a listen if you like. If you don't listen to anything else, try the Vierne_Naiades.

Here's a few pieces recorded on our church organ.

Sonata_I_FirstMovMend

Sonata_I_SecondMovMend

Sonata_I_ThirdMovMend

Sonata_I_FourthMovMend

Naiades_Vierne

O_Gott_du_frommer_Gott

WenWir_Bach

In_dulci_jubilo_Bach

And here are a few recorded around the world.

50th_Chopin_Scherzo

Bach_Concerto_1st_mvt

Bach_Concerto_2nd_mvt

Bach_Concerto_3rd_mvt

Bach_Fugue

Bach_Trio

Bovet

Brahms_1

Brahms_Rhapsodie

Couperin_1&_Fugue

Couperin_Offertoire

Couperin_TenTaille

Debussy_L'Isle

Dupre_Finale

Durufle_Scherzo

Durufle_Toccata

Gigout2

Griffes

Lex_Chopin_Scherzo

Mendelssohn_Songs

Rachmaninoff_Prelude

Reger

Saint-Saens_Chorale

Saint-Saens_Scherzo

Vierne_Naiades

Widor

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