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SOP Podcast #35 - Vidas Pinkevicius and Easter Hymn Improvisations

3/30/2016

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Welcome to episode 35 of Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast!

Blessed Easter to you and your loved ones!

Today's podcast will be very special. Exactly 2 years ago back in 2014 I played improvisation recital on some of the most famous Easter hymns at Vilnius University St. John's church. And today I'm going show you exactly how I did it so that you can also improvise like that on any hymn tune that you like. Your listeners will love it.

​Below is a video version of this podcast:
Enjoy and share your comments below.
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And don't forget to help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends.

Thanks for caring.

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SOP Podcast #34: Kimberly Marshall on the Earliest Organ Music

3/20/2016

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Dr. Kimberly Marshall is an organist and organ scholar, holder of the Patricia and Leonard Goldman Endowed Professorship in Organ at Arizona State University. Dr. Marshall is celebrated worldwide for her compelling concerts, master classes, and lectures.  She is a creative advocate for the King of Instruments in many different contexts. Her expertise in the earliest surviving organ music brought her worldwide renown.

In today's amazing conversation, Dr. Marshall will share her insights about the earliest organ music

created some 500, 600, and even almost 700 years ago.

​Enjoy and share your comments below.

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If you like these conversations with the experts from the organ world, please help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends.
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Relevant links:
Kimberly Marshall's website with recordings and publications and her Facebook page
Wayne Leupold Editions: Late Medieval and Renaissance
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SOP Podcast #33: Göran Grahn on the Swedish Organ Culture

3/15/2016

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​Welcome to episode 33 of Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast!

Today's guest is my long time friend - Swedish organ expert and organist Göran Grahn who is active as an organ consultant, making programs for restorations and newbuilding of pipe organs. He is also the secretary of International Society of Organbuilders, a society of around 300 organ builders worldwide and a curator of Museum
of musical instruments and manuscripts - Stiftelsen Musikkulturens Främjande. A dear friend of the Baltics, Göran is fluent in Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian.

In this conversation Göran shares his insights about Swedish organ culture - instruments, history, style, and music.

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If you like these conversations with the experts from the organ world, please help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends.
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Relevant links:
Göran Grahn Orgelkonsult
International Society of Organbuilders
Stiftelsen Musikkulturens Främjande
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SOP Podcast #32: Krzyzstof Urbaniak on the Danzig Organ Culture in the 18th Century

3/8/2016

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​Welcome to episode 32 of Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast!
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Today's guest is Dr. Krzyzstof Urbaniak, a well known organist and researcher from Poland. He teaches at two music academies - in Krakow and Lodz. He is also an organ expert of Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland. Krzyzstof writes articles about historical organ building and performance practice, he also prepares editions of organ music which was largely unknown to the organ world. One of the most important fields of his activities is Baltic Organ Center, a society concerned for documentation and preservation of historical organs of the area around the Baltic Sea.

In today's conversation Krzyzstof will share his insights about 18th century Danzig (Gdansk) organ culture, including instruments, surviving music, performance practice, and registration.

Enjoy and share your comments below.

Here's the video version of the podcast:
If you like these conversations with the experts from the organ world, please help spread the word about the SOP Podcast by sharing it with your organist friends.
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Relevant links:
Daniel Magnus Gronau - Choral Variations for Organ (edited by Martin Rost and Krzyzstof Urbaniak)
Organ by Hildebrandt in Paslek
Jędrzejów, Józef Sitarski from Kraków 1754
Krzeszów / Grüssau, Michael Engler from Breslau 1736
Wrocław / Breslau, Adam Horatio Casparini from Breslau 1718
Olkusz, Hans Hummel and Jerzy Nitrowski 1611-1633: video 1 and video 2
Baltic Organ Center
Danziger Barock II
Krzyzstof Urbaniak on Facebook and YouTube
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