Gian Carlo Ristori, Chairman of Organi Storici Cortona, discusses cataloguing, preserving, and organizing restorations of historic organs in Tuscany, Italy. Read now … [Read more...]

Celebrated author, librettist, and poet Marec Béla Steffens presents a new fairy tale about three pipe organs who desperately need repairs, and are willing to use any means necessary to get them. Artwork: “Organ-ised Crime” (2018) by Krystyna Steffens. Three Organs in Need: A New Fairy Tale … [Read more...]

This article by Christopher Holman in Vox Humana’s Historic Organs of the World series features the extraordinary c. 1450 Harmannus organ in Rysum, Germany. voxhumanajournal.com/rysum … [Read more...]

Lukas Frank discusses the life and organ works of J.S. Bach's final pupil, Johann Gottfried Müthel. … [Read more...]

In the November, 25 2018 issue of Vox Humana Douglas O'Neill writes about Charles Tournemire's L'Orgue Mystique and the Ordinary Form Mass ( 1870-1939). It is unparalleled among Roman Catholic organ music; Tournemire had desired to do for the Roman Catholic Mass what J.S. Bach had done for the Lutheran Mass with his Orgelbüchlein. It is a set of 51 suites for nearly every Sunday and select feast days of the church year. Gregorian chant permeates Tournemire’s music, with motives drawn from the appointed proper chants for the day. Each suite consists of five movements: a “Prélude à l’Introït,” “Offertoire,” “Élévation,” “Communion,” and “Pièce terminale”. Read Vox Humana … [Read more...]

In the November 18, 2018 issue of Vox Humana, Kirk M. Rich discusses an organ built by Giovanni Battista Ciurlo between 1788 and 1789. The organ is located in Torrazza, an ancient village situated in the mountainous province of Imperia. Only accessible by car, the medieval Church of St. George the Martyr sits on a hill midway up a mountain. Read Vox Humana … [Read more...]