Organ music recommendations (church and other pipe organs, not electric ones)

Yeah, those Vierne and Widor symphonies and the Boëllmann suite are included in the Marie-Claire Alain box I mentioned in the first post, they are all very cool!

i was listening to this today. i have hundreds of amazing organ records at my store and i'm kinda the only one who cares about them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1Qxixombe0

I like that one 60s Swedish duo... Knusson + somebody (?).. Hammond and drums, funky stuff, there's a proto-drumnbass tune on their album with earth on the cover.

Oh this thread is just for classical, oops

The fraught thing about choosing organ recordings is that the instruments themselves vary 1000x more than pianos do, and the acoustics of different churches vary 1000x more than concert halls do, and there also seem to be strange styles of rubato in organ playing which take some adjusting to for me

http://retro.recordsale.de/cdpix/g/gerdzacher-mauriciokageljuanallende-blingyoergy-phantasiefuerorgelmitobbligatisonorite%281%29.jpg

Jon Gibson, "Cycles"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyZ68lzPiYU

Popol Vuh, "Vuh"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbQ1v-nCFjA

xp to Tuomas: I'm no expert but I totally love Bryndorf's Buxtehude recordings.

just randomly came across this one again, actually

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlNL0Cc7tr4

There's a disc of koechlin's solo organ works I want to check out. Based on the character of his orchestral music and choral music I'm assuming he will be great at solo organ.

A second vote here for Aine o'Dwyer's Music for Church Cleaners; really lovely stuff. I was annoyed to find it was OP, but you can buy a download here: http://mie.limitedrun.com/products/537633-aine-odwyer-music-for-church-cleaners-vol-i-and-ii-2lp

Third vote for o'Dwyer; I reviewed it for The Wire. It's really beautiful stuff.

Hmm, I guess I could get that digital version then...

http://www.amoeba.com/sized-images/max/500/500/uploads/albums/covers/other//PeterMichaelHamel_Bardo.jpg

Did anybody mention Dolly Collins' work on portative organ?
It tends to be more accompinament to a song than lead instrument but is dashed fine.
Gets pretty psychedelic sounding in places on Power of The True Love Knot and Hangman's Beautiful Daughter but is acoustic.

Terry Riley's also good.

have any of dolly's compositions ever been recorded?

as it happens, currently listening to messiaen plays messiaen which is a blast!

Really recommend checking out Ligeti organ works. One piece (pretty sure it's Etude No 2) requires the organ to be powered by a vacuum cleaner to give it Lowe pressure. Player holds down empty keys with her arm to reduce airflow even further, rolling arm off keys to increase and decrease it, bending pitches of the sounding notes. Am I making sense? Anyway Google that stuff it good

Keith Jarrett's Spheres

The King's College Choir YT channel can be pretty good (outside of the obligatory Xmas music) but oh my stars, this recital with Thomas Trotter, playing works from Duruflé and Rachel Laurin (who I know nothing about) is absolutely stunning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLBkWYLIMYs

Can't find excerpts online but if you want truly monstrous pipe organ sounds, look no further than Jean-Luc Guionnet's 2CD 'Non-Organic Bias'.

Klaus Lang's two 'Organ Works' volumes are excellent moody things.

This Finnish comp is great too:
https://open.spotify.com/album/1KOxkpBgLjMkrrWPfD1lep

Another one I've been hooked on lately is this odd, modernist take on works by Hildegard von Bingen for pipe organ and soprano voice, truly haunting thing from back in 1998 that I found by accident earlier this week: https://www.discogs.com/release/1274746-Hildegard-von-Bingen-Antiphona-Liturgie-F%C3%BCr-Gesang-Und-Orgel

excellent, thank you.