Chosen Tunes: Grace Cathedral

Track Listings
1. Dupré: Cortège et Litanie, Opus 19, no. 2    
2. Balbastre: Romance    
3. Elgar: Nimrod (from Enigma Variations, Opus 36)    
4. Lefébure-Wély: Sortie in E-flat    
5. Barber: Adagio for Strings, Opus 11    
6. Walton: Crown Imperial: A Coronation March    
7. Howells: Chosen Tune (from Three Pieces for    
8. Violin and Piano, Opus 28, no. 29)    
9. Mendelssohn: Sonata III in A Major, Opus 6    
10. Cocker: Tuba Tune    
11. Halley: Outer Hebrides    
12. Demessieux: Te Deum, Opus 11    

Editorial Reviews
From the Artist
The Chosen Hill of Churchdown (between Gloucester and Cheltenham), with its spectacular views of the Malvern Hills, was a favorite destination of Herbert Howells in the long walks of the English countryside he so enjoyed from boyhood. Howells composed his "Chosen Tune" in celebration of his engagement to the singer Dorothy Dawe who was a native of Churchdown. This recording gathers together eleven chosen tunes from France, England, and America that display the incredible beauty of Grace Cathedral's treasured 1934 Aeolian-Skinner Organ, Opus 910.

About the Artist
Susan Jane Matthews joined the staff of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco in 2001 as Assistant Organist, and in 2003 was appointed Principal Organist, the first woman to hold these positions. Dr. Matthews completed her Masters of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts in organ performance and literature at the Eastman School of Music as a student of David Higgs. A native of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, she is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Haverford College. Following graduation from Haverford, she... read more

Chosen Tunes: Grace Cathedral

Chosen Tunes: Grace Cathedral, Music, Susan Matthews, Chamber Music & Recitals, Classical, Classical Artists

Track Listings:

  1. Clerk: Odo di mesto intorno; Dic mihi saeve puer
  2. Coloratura Opera Arias [Import]
  3. Concerto for Sitar & Orchestra [Import] [Live]
  4. Copland:Billy the Kid/Rodeo
  5. Désiré-Emile Inghelbrecht Conducts Debussy
  6. De Sabata: Gethsemani; Notte di Plàton
  7. Dido & Aeneas / Dawson, Joshua, Finlay, Kiehr, Bickley, Visse, Blaze; Jacobs
  8. Dreams in the Pleasure Garden
  9. Edward Elgar: Enigma Varations/Pomp & Circumstance Marches
  10. Everlasting Light/Footprints in the Snow

Track Listings

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Track Listings

Garage Beat '66, Vol. 2: Chicks Are for Kids!

Meta Seinemeyer - Verdi, Weber, Giordano, Puccini, etc.

Paul's Boutique

Ken Burns JAZZ Collection: Dizzy Gillespie

60's Rock: Feelin' Groovy

Private Dancer

Peter Pan

Man From Utopia [Original recording remastered]

Pearl Harbor '79 [Import]

Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 3 - 5 [Box set] [Import]

Miles Davis All Stars, Vol. 1 [Live] [Import]

Los Panchos y sus Voces

Mas Suave Que Nunca

Chicago/The Blues/Today!, Vol. 2

Ultimate Mancini