At The Organ

Earlier this year we visited Memorial Methuen Music Hall in Methuen Massachusetts to make videos for our YouTube channel. Matthew Bellocchio gave us an extensive history of the organ and the hall, but it didn’t all make it into the video. The entirety of that story is included in this podcast.

Barbara Owen – The Great Organ at Methuen

Music heard in this episode:

Title: Organ Sonata no. 2 in F minor, op. 16 – III. Finale
Composer: Henry Morton Dunham
Organist: Steven Young
Album: Henry Morton Dunham – A Boston Classic – AFKA SK-563
Organ: 1947 IV/112 Aeolian-Skinner, Methuen Music Hall, Methuen, Massachusetts USA
Sheetmusic: PDF

Title: Resignazione, S. 263
Composer: Franz Liszt
Organist: Iain Quinn
Album: Iain Quinn Plays the Great Organ at Methuen – Raven OAR 360
Organ: 1947 IV/112 Aeolian-Skinner, Methuen Music Hall, Methuen, Massachusetts USA

Title: Ride of the Valkyries
Composer: Richard Wagner
Organist: Frederick Hohman
Album: Methuen Century – Pro Organo CD 7234
Organ: 1947 IV/112 Aeolian-Skinner, Methuen Music Hall, Methuen, Massachusetts USA
Sheetmusic: Purchase

In this episode we celebrate the life, playing, teaching, and music of Anton Heiller. This podcast was originally produced for the show King of Instruments heard on the air in St. Louis, Missouri.

Music heard in this episode:

Title: In Festo Corporis Christi – I. Ante Introitum. Pesante, sempre molto rubato
Title: Drei kleine Choralvorspiele – III. Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin. Langsam, frei
Composer: Anton Heiller
Organist: Roman Summereder
Album: Anton Heiller Das Orgelwerke vol 2 – Ambiente Audio ACD-2028
Organ: 1774 IV/118 Krismann/Kogler, Monastery of St. Florian, St. Florian, Austria

Title: Trio super Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland (BWV 660)
Album: J.S. Bach Eighteen Choral Preludes Vol 2 – Vanguard VCS-10040
Title: Vater unser im Himmelreich (BWV 636)
Album: J.S. Bach Orgelbuchlein (Little Organ Book) Vol 2 – Vanguard VCS-10027
Composer: J.S. Bach
Organ: 1964 Metzler III/48 Evangelical Church, Netstal, Switzerland

Title: Danske Salmebog – Min Sjæl, du Herren Love« / Nun lob mein’ Seel den Herren
Composer: Anton Heiller
Organist: Roman Summereder
Album: Anton Heiller Das Orgelwerke vol 3 – Ambiente Audio ACD-2029
Organ: 1774 IV/118 Krismann/Kogler, Monastery of St. Florian, St. Florian, Austria

Title: Danske Salmebog – Sorrig og Glæde de vandre til hobe / Kummer und Freude, zusammen sie wandern (Ruhig, ein wenig tänzerisch)
Composer: Anton Heiller
Organist: Roman Summereder
Album: Anton Heiller Das Orgelwerke vol 3 – Ambiente Audio ACD-2029
Organ: 1774 IV/118 Krismann/Kogler, Monastery of St. Florian, St. Florian, Austria

Title: Jesus Christus, unser Heiland (BWV 666)
Album: J.S. Bach Eighteen Choral Preludes Vol 2 – Vanguard VCS-10040
Title: Trio super Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend (BWV 655)
Album: J.S. Bach Eighteen Choral Preludes Vol 1 – Vanguard VCS-10039
Composer: J.S. Bach
Organist: Anton Heiller
Organ: 1964 Metzler III/48 Evangelical Church, Netstal, Switzerland

Title: Christ lag in Todesbanden (BWV 625)
Album: J.S. Bach Orgelbuchlein (Little Organ Book) Vol 2 – Vanguard VCS-10027
Title: Trio super Allein Gott in der Höh’ sei Ehr (BWV 664)
Album: J.S. Bach Eighteen Choral Preludes Vol 2 – Vanguard VCS-10040
Composer: J.S. Bach
Organ: 1964 Metzler III/48 Evangelical Church, Netstal, Switzerland

Title: Pastorale F-dur, no. 2 from Zwölf Stücke, op. 59
Composer: Max Reger
Album: Anton Heiller plays Organ works by Max Reger – Ambiente Audio ACD-4001
Organ: 1968 I/105 M

Title: Kleine Partita – Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen
Composer: Anton Heiller
Organist: Mark Steinbach
Album: Organ Works of Anton Heiller – Loft LRCD-1116
Organ: 1962 IV/93 Beckerath/Taylor and Boody, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Sheetmusic: Purchase

Title: Präludium und Fugue A-Dur
Album: Anton Heiller Das Orgelwerke vol 1 – Ambiente Audio ACD-2027
Sheetmusic: Purchase
Title: In Festo Corporis Christi –
I. Ante Introitum. Pesante, sempre molto rubato
II. Post Offertorium. Andante – 2:31
III. Post Communionem. Un poco andante – piú lento
Album: Anton Heiller Das Orgelwerke vol 2 – Ambiente Audio ACD-2028
Sheetmusic: Purchase
Title: Postludium super Ite Missa Est XI. Un poco andante
Organist: Roman Summereder
Album: Anton Heiller Das Orgelwerke vol 2 – Ambiente Audio ACD-2028
Organ: 1774 IV/118 Krismann/Kogler, Monastery of St. Florian, St. Florian, Austria

Title: Ecce lignum crucis – A Meditation
Composer: Anton Heiller
Organist: Kevin Jones
Album: The Musical Sound World of Rudolph von Beckerath –
Organ: 1972 III/73 Beckerath, First Congregational Church (Gallery Organ), Columbus, Ohio, USA

Title: Intonation, Choral un drei Variationen uber die Melodie Aus tiefer not schrei ich zu dir
Composer: Anton Heiller
Organist: Roman Summereder
Album: Anton Heiller Das Orgelwerke vol 3 – Ambiente Audio ACD-2029
Organ: 1774 IV/118 Krismann/Kogler, Monastery of St. Florian, St. Florian, Austria

Title: Es ist ein Ros’ ensprungen
Composer: Anton Heiller
Organist: Thomas Baugh
Album: Christ Church Voluntaries –
Organ: 2004 II/38 CB Fisk, Christ Episcopal Church, Roanoke, Virginia, USA
Sheetmusic: Purchase

Last month the Organ Media Foundation visited the Unitarian Universalist Meeting of South Berkshire at their building in Housatonic, Massachusetts. We made a video about the organ there, but some of the audio didn’t make it on to the video, so it’s been presented here. Brent Johnson interviews Karen Clark and Lynn Burroughs, members of the church.

Music performed by Peter Sykes.

The video about this organ on YouTube: https://youtu.be/_IoQKDrDAGQ

Unitarian Universalist Meeting of South Berkshire: https://www.uumsb.org/

Album: J.S. Bach Organ Works, Vol. 3
The Bach Guild – BGS 70675

Organist: Anton Heiller

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV 565)
Fantasia and Fugue in G minor (BWV 542)
Partita sopra “Sei gegrüsset Jesu gütig” (BWV 768)
Choral Prelude “Liebster Herr Jesu” (BWV 730)
Choral Prelude “Liebster Herr Jesu” (BWV 731)

Organ: 1959 Marcussen & Son, St. Mary’s Church, Hälsingborg, Sweden

Album: J.S. Bach Organ Works, Vol. 2
The Bach Guild – BGS 70674

Organist: Anton Heiller

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

Prelude and Fugue in E minor “Wedge” (BWV 548)
Prelude and Fugue in A major (BWV 536)
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor (BWV 582)
Fantasia in G major (BWV 572)

Organ: 1959 Marcussen & Son, St. Mary’s Church, Hälsingborg, Sweden

Congratulations to Phillip Taylor, the Organ Media Foundation sponsor whose name was randomly drawn to receive this autographed copy of an album of Bach organ works by Anton Heiller!

We got a little off schedule due to some unforeseen circumstances. We’ve also been on the road making videos for our YouTube channel. Here’s a little update and a sneak peak at an upcoming video, as well as a track from a past video, all performed by Dylan Shaw.

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Album: Fernando Germani at Selby Abbey (Vol. 1)
Angel – S 35687
Organist: Fernando Germani

Composer: Franz Liszt
Prelude and Fugue on BACH

Composer: César Franck
Pièce Heroïque

Composer: Max Reger
Fantasia on Hallelujah! Gott zu Loben

Composer: Charles-Marie Widor
Toccata from Symphonie no. 5

Organ: 1909 Hill Organ, Selby Abbey, Selby, England

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Album: Bach-Vivaldi: 4 Concerti for Organ
The Bach Guild – BG 637

Organist: Anton Heiller

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

Concerto in A minor (BWV 593)
Concerto in D minor (BWV 596)
Concerto in C major (BWV 594)
Concerto in G major (BWV 592)

Organ: 1959 Marcussen & Son, St. Mary’s Church, Hälsingborg, Sweden

Our copy of this album was autographed by Anton Heiller in 1965.

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Album: The American Classic Organ – AS 301

Narrator: G. Donald Harrison

Principals
Flutes
Strings
Mixtures
Reeds

Organist: Unknown

Organ: Unknown

Album: The Wicks Organ Concert Series – Volume One, Series Three

Artist: John Weaver

William Walond – Introduction and Toccata in G major
Thomas Arne – Flute Solo and Gavotte
John Stanley – Trumpet Voluntary
Johann Sebastian Bach – O Sacred Head How Wounded
Johann Sebastian Bach – O God, Be Merciful
Johann Sebastian Bach – Sinfonia: Now Thank We, God
Charles-Marie Widor: Andante Cantabile from Symphony 4
Louis Vierne – Divertisement from 24 Pieces in Free Style
John Weaver – Toccata

Organ: Unknown