Bach, Bull & Bombardes, Isabelle Demers
Canadian-born Juilliard-trained organist Isabelle Demers performs a lively and varied program upon the new 3 manual organ at St. Patrick’s Church, New Orleans, Louisiana, built by Philadelphia-area firm Patrick J. Murphy & Associates, Inc. The program contains original works by Max Reger as well as a Reger transcription of Bach’s Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue. Works by Canadian organists Amadée Tremblay and Raymond Daveluy round out this eclectic program. J. S. Bach, transcribed by Max Reger - Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, BWV 903 Max Reger - Ave Maria in D-flat major, Op 80 No 5Gigue in D minor, Op 80 No 4 Max Reger - Romanze in A minor, Op 80 No 8 Max Reger - Scherzo in F-sharp minor, Op 80 No 7 John Bull - Bull’s Good-night Widor - Allegro - first movement - from Sixth Organ Symphony Op 42 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, trans. Demers - Scherzo from Symphony No 5 in D, Op 107 Amédée Tremblay - Prélude-Carillon from Suite for Organ Sir George Thalben-Ball - Elegy Raymond Daveluy - Toccata from Sixth Organ Sonata
2013, Pro Organo