Christa Rakich - Compact Discs

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Deferred Voices
presents organ music by women,
recorded on the 1933 Kilgen organ
at St. Justin's Church in Hartford, CT.

The composers & their music:

Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)

Prelude in F (1829)

Ethel Smyth (1858-1944)

Short Chorale Preludes (1914)

Amy Beach (1867-1944)

Prelude on an Old Folk Tune

Lili Wieruszowski (1899-1970)

6 Chorale Preludes

Edith Borroff (b. 1925)

Passacaglia (1946)

Jeanne Demessieux (1921-1968)

Chorale Preludes on Gregorian Themes

Emma Lou Diemer (b. 1927)

Fantasie (1958)

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Transcriptions from St. Justin's
presents music originally composed for orchestra or piano, transcribed for organ.

The composers & their music:

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

Liebestod, from Tristan & Isolde

Clara Schumann (1819-1896)

3 Preludes & Fugues, op. 16 (1845)

Billy Strayhorn (1815-1967)

Lotus

Modeste Mussorgsky (1839-1881)

Pictures at an Exhibition

Samuel Barber (1910-1981)

Adagio for Strings

Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)

Overture to William Tell

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Christa Rakich in recital
at St. Mark's Cathedral
is a live recording of her performance
for the Year 2000 AGO Convention
in Seattle.

The composers & their music:

J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist, BWV 671
from Clavierübung III

Fantasie in A (1878)

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)

Sonata I (1937)

Pamela Decker (b. 1955)

Rio abajo Rio (1999)
first performance

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