A real jewel!
author: Dr. Alberto Pedretti
One of the most excinting CD of organ transcriptions (and I have about 150 af this kind in my 1500 organ CD collection...) perfect playing, polished, with energy. The organ is a real surprise! It sounds like it would be twice in stop number! I never heard an organ so powerful with only 36 stops...apart the French Cavailé-Coll! Buy this CD! don't miss it!
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A pipe organ party!
author: Toronto Star
Southwestern Ontario organist Marty Smyth has a ball transcribing orchestral faves for his own instrument. Recorded at the versatile instrument at Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Chatham, this is a fine romp of music that is hard to catch in live performance.
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Beethoven would have approved.
author: Wholenote Magazine - John S. Gray
This organ is the very antithesis of tracker-action purism, and so Edwin Lemare's 'Carmen Fantasia' seems just the right things to do. Dvorak's 'Humoresque' shines under these conditions. Lemare's version of Saint-Saens' 'Danse Macabre' will raise the hairs on the back of your neck. But the real surprise is the arrangement of the Andante of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, in Smyth's own transcription. Beethoven would have approved. Smyth's playing carries a real sense of enviable breadth with these works, and there is joy, too.
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