New instruments around the world exploring the French Symphonic ideal

Some are exact replicas, whilst others reinterpret this school afresh, reinforcing the idea that in the past lies the future of the organ.¹ As a thinking organist, melding concerns of musicianship and scholarship at the console,  playing these instruments will greatly inform our sense of performance practice.


¹ Peter Williams, 'French Elements in Bach' 

in L’Orgue à notre époque ed. D. Mackey 

(Montreal: 1981) p.13

 

 

Van den Heuvel: Katwijk aan Zee (1982)

Mander: St. Ignatius Loyola, New York (1993) 

Walker: Exeter College, Oxford (1994)

Helmuth Wolff: Bales Recital Hall, University of Kansas (1996) 

Létourneau: Holy Trinity, New York (1997) 

Manuel Rosales and Fisk: Edythe Bates Old Recital Hall, The Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston, Texas (1997)

Goll: St. Martin, Memmingen (1998) 

VerschuerenArtisten Concert Hall, University of Gothenburg (1998)

Casavant: St Louis, King of France, St Paul, Minnesota (1998) 

Van den Heuvel: Katarina Church, Stockholm (2000) 

Grönlund:  Mikaelinkirkko, Turku (2002)

Fisk: Finney Chapel, Oberlin College, Ohio (2001)

Helmuth Wolff: DePauw University, Greencastle, Illinois (2002)

Woehl: Herz Jesu Kirche, Munich (2004) 

Paschen: Pori, Finland (2007) 

VerschuerenOrgelpark Amsterdam (2009)

Eisenbarth : Cathedral, Zadar (2010)

Fisk: Auer Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana (2010)

Quoirin: The Church of the Ascension, New York (2011)

Eisenbarth: St. Mark's, Zagreb (2011)

Fleiter: Domkirche, Billerbeck (2012) 

From Orgelbau Kuhn of Switzerland come the following instruments:

St. Kunibert, Köln (1993) Listen on You Tube

St. Arunal, Saarbrücken (1995) Listen on You Tube

Johanniskirche, Hamburg-Altona (1998) Simon Harden plays Franck and Messiaen 

Herz Jesu Kirche, Lübeck (1998) to listen, click on Orgel-CD for stunning Langlais

St. Johannis, Lüneburg (2010) Listen to some stylish Vierne