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At last! This comprehensive DVD is the first complete filmed tour of the Wanamaker Organ. Curt Mangel and Michael Barone (Public Radio's Pipedreams) explore every nook and cranny of the world's largest playing pipe organ.
Thrill to backstage areas and detailed vistas of a forest of almost 29,000 pipes, including areas not safe to take most visitors.
Shot in letterbox format but playable on any U.S. DVD player and TV or any computer, the film lasts more than three hours.
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Gorgeous Rhapsodies for Piano and Wanamaker Organ!
In a landmark pairing, the lyric majesty of the Wanamaker Organ is interwoven with Grand Piano. Peter Richard Conte and Jeremy Filsell triumph in two beloved Rachmaninoff masterpieces for Piano and Wanamaker Organ. Here is the Wanamaker Organ at its lyric and most enchanting as the sheer thrill of Jeremy Filsell's piano virtuosity is interwoven with the matchless string division, profound bass and limitless color-play of the world's largest playing musical instrument. The mighty Wanamaker has the tonal resources of three symphony organs spread among 28,750 pipes. 16-page CD booklet includes biographies, background and a full specification.
RACHMANINOFF PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1 IN F-SHARP MINOR, Op. 1
Vivace
Andante cantabile
Allegro scherzando
RACHMANINOFF PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2 IN C MINOR, op. 18
Moderato
Adagio sostenuto - Pio animato - Tempo
Allegro scherzando
TOTAL TIME: 63:46
Deck the Hall - The Mammoth Boardwalk Hall Organs at Christmas!
NEW DVD and CD! See and hear the Wanamaker Organ in all its majesty in this two-disc set featuring Peter Richard Conte and Maestro Rossen Milanov with Symphony in C! Includes Saint-Saens’ towering “Organ” Symphony No. 3, Elgar’s Cockaigne Overture and Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4, and the spine-tingling Poulenc Concerto in G Minor for Organ Strings and Tympani!
Thomas Murray narrates the DVD, which also includes behind-the-scenes glimpses of the concert a segment on gilding the Wanamaker Organ display pipes; a rare recording of the voice of John Wanamaker; a Bob Krist tribute to the Wanamaker Organ called “The Voice of Philadelphia,” a film showing the spontaneous eruption of the Hallelujah Chorus by the Opera Company of Philadelphia during a daily concert; the Friends of the Wanamaker Organ Story; several bonus video extras; plus a full-color 12-page booklet!
Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 in C Major “Organ”
Elgar: Cockaigne Overture and Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4 (Organ/Orchestra)
Poulenc: Concerto in G Minor for Organ, Strings & Tympani
