Christmas Pipe Organ Fantasy-St Mary's, Dayton, Ohio Part 1

Description

starts with a free fantasia, followed by a pastorale and then several variations, where textures and organ stop colors are contrasted. The late organ virtuoso Virgil Fox made this piece familiar to concert goers beginning in the 1940s, however, in the recorded examples we have of this piece as played by Virgil Fox, extensive cuts were made, including both the simple pastorale sections as well as some of the most difficult variations. Gaston Dethier was also not always credited as the ...