Symphonic Splendor — Wanamaker Organ and Orchestra! CD and DVD!



Symphonic Splendor — Wanamaker Organ and Orchestra! CD and DVD!
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
NEW: See and hear the Wanamaker Organ in all its majesty in this CD / DVD 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; and several bonus video extras.
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