The Vermont Organ Academy has announced the release of its new compact disc recording, Aeolian-Skinner: The King of Instruments, Highlights.
The CD features performances by Norman Coke-Jephcott, Thomas Dunn, Marie-Madeleine Duruflé, George Faxon, Edgar Hilliar, Robert Owen, Roy Perry, Ruth Barrett Phelps, Albert Russell, William Watkins, and John Weaver at the organs of Symphony Hall, Boston; Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City; First Presbyterian Church, Kilgore, Texas (pictured); The Mother Church, Boston; St. Mark’s Church, Mt. Kisco, New York; Christ Church, Bronxville, New York; Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis; Asylum Hill Congregation Church, Hartford; Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, New York City; and Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Boston.
This is the first volume in a projected series of CD recordings revisiting Aeolian-Skinner’s original “King of Instruments” series, long out of print, and re-mastered from the original master tapes.
The “Highlights” disc includes previously un-issued performances by Norman Coke-Jephcott, Thomas Dunn, and Marie-Madeleine Duruflé.
The CD may be ordered, along with other volumes in The Aeolian-Skinner Legacy series, at www.vermontorganacademy.com, or by mail for $14, postpaid, from Vermont Organ Academy, P. O. Box 1826, Laurel, MS 39441.
