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
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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.
Originally released as a Digital Audio Compact Disc.
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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…