ORGAN VOICES
ORGAN VOICES - Organ of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels - Samuel S. Soria, organist (DE 3343)
This second Delos recording of the Organ of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles again features the Cathedral’s principal organist Samuel S. Soria. The first CD of about a year ago was the premiere recording of the superb instrument that graces the new Los Angeles Cathedral. Results were so spectacular and well received they automatically called for an encore.
This new disc is more than an encore. Samuel Soria has chosen to differentiate this recording from the first by selecting repertoire that accentuates the various and diverse “voices” of his unique instrument. Thus we encounter compositions by composers as different a De Lamarter, Hurford, Lemare, Drayton, Reuchsel and McAmis, as well as the more familiar Duruflé, Franck, Dubois and Messaien.
Repertoire emphasizes specific qualities of this organ: its flutes, strings and chimes; its trumpet fanfare, Franch horn, and English horn stops. Add to this a plentiful supply of full organ outbursts that will test any sound system and you have a disc which helps define the portrait of this instrument, perhaps only sketched in on the original debut recording.
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