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The Organ Historical Trust of Australia has produced a recording of five historic organs located in New South Wales.  The aim is to showcase instruments which have been restored in recent years by Mark Fisher of Pipe Organ Reconstructions or Peter D G Jewkes.  Two of them, Bonnyrigg and Parramatta, are very successful transplants.

The players are Daniel Canaris, Pastor de Lasala, Peter Guy, Kurt Ison, and Peter Jewkes.  They have selected music which demonstrates the tonal resources of each instrument, ranging from 18th c pieces for manuals only to Handel, S S Wesley, Mendelssohn, Hollins, Thalben-Ball, Whitlock, and William Mathias.  The sound has been vividly captured by Greg Ghavalas, and comprehensive notes by Dr Kelvin Hastie OAM on the instruments have been included in the accompanying booklet.

For more information on the organs, visit:

http://www.ohta.org.au

To order your copy of the CD, visit:

http://www.ohta.org.au/projects/CD.html

or

http://www.ohscatalog.org/visoalhiorof.html

Category:

Music

Tags:

• lasala
• ohta
• organ
• historic
• stanmore
• russell
• voluntary

[sfbonedoc]

Thank you so much for recording these historic instruments. As a long time member of the Organ Historical Society, I appreciate the importance of your endeavor. The photographs, the music and the playing, all very fine and appropriate! Bravo! If interested, you might check my recordings on the historic E and G G Hook Organ (1860) in Bangor, Maine - from a recital I played two years ago. (sfbonedoc)

[tormus1]

Thank you. Yes, I will certainly check your recordings of the Hook organ. I have heard recordings of these organs and they have a wonderful tone.

[gerardbedecarter]

Thanks very much for uploading this Pastor.