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Bill Chouinard Premieres
(Audio CD)
Bill Chouinard

Bill Chouinard, resident organist at St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church in Mahtomedi, Minnesota, plays a varied program of organ classics, including some transcriptions, upon the church’s fabulous 1927 Casavant / Schantz pipe organ.

Released as a Digital Audio Compact Disc.

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Format: Digital Audio CD
Label:  PRO ORGANO
Catalog Number:  CD 7184
Length: 78′ 10″
Tracks: 12
Organ: Casavant / Schantz
Venue: St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church, Mahtomedi, Minnesota USA
Recorded: 10/01/2005
Released: 06/01/2006
Producer: Frederick Hohman
Notes Author: Bill Chouinard
Notes Language: English
Graphics Format: 12pp book, traycard, jewel box
UPC #: 636077718427

This album and its tracks are available digitally from the following streaming and download sources:
SPOTIFY
APPLE MUSIC
NAXOS MUSIC LIBRARY
One must be subscribed and logged-in at Naxos Music Library for the Naxos link to work.

01 • Crown Imperial March • trans. Chouinard • Sir William Walton • 9’24”
02 • Adagio in Sol minore • transcribed by Remo Giazotto • Tomaso Albinoni • 7’36”
03 • Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 544 – Prelude • Johann Sebastian Bach • 6’4″
04 • Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 544 – Fugue • Johann Sebastian Bach • 6’8″
05 • Nimrod, from Engima Variations • trans. Chouinard • Sir Edward Elgar • 5’17”
06 • Clair de Lune from Pièces de Fantaisie, Suite 2, Op 53 • Louis Vierne • 7’56”
07 • Pièce Héroïque • César Franck • 8’13”
08 • Seven Variants on “Joys Seven” • Richard Proulx • 8’26”
09 • Irish Tune from County Derry • trans. Chouinard • Percy Grainger • 3’39”
10 • Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue – Introduction • Healey Willan • 3’9″
11 • Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue – Passacaglia • Healey Willan • 7’56”
12 • Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue – Fugue • Healey Willan • 4’18”

Bill Chouinard
Bill Chouinard is Organist and Music Coordinator at St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church in Mahtomedi, Minnesota, a position he has held since 1988. Mr. Chouinard, whose past organ teachers include Dean Billmeyer, Kim Kasling, and Edward Berryman, serves as organist for ­religious conventions, frequently is a workshop presenter on service ­playing and improvisation ­techniques, and has played for ­numerous hymn festivals, most recently for the ­annual conference of The Hymn Society in The United States and Canada. Learn more…