Organ and Carillon Recordings at Culver

Most recent recording: See details below about Volume 4:  Orchestral Color 

Three older recordings are available as well, also played by John Gouwens. 

The first three are available in Compact Disc and Cassette formats. Volume four is in CD format only.

Details about the recordings are provided here:

Volume 4 (Orchestral Color):

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John Gouwens: Nocturne Sound File

John Courter: Gaudi's Chimneys (complete) Sound File

Federico Mompou: Jeunes filles au jardin  Sound File

Roy Hamlin: Johnson Winter Song   Sound File

Improvisation on "In Babilone"

Gouwens: Sicilienne Ronde  Sound File

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Edward Elgar: Larghetto, from Serenade for Stings  Sound File

Mompou: Cancion y danza no. 15: Pastorale, for organ  Sound File

Claude Debussy: Two Arabesques for piano  Sound File

Gian Carlo Menotti: Ricercare  Sound File

Joseph Jongen:  Prelude and Fugue, Op. 109 Sound File

Volume 3 (A Summer's Night):

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Gouwens: Carillon at Twilight Sound File

Stephen Paulus: Bravo Bells Sound File

John Pozdro and John Gouwens: A Summer's Night (obviously, the "featured item") Sound File

Wendell Westcott: Toccatina: Silver Bells

John Pozdro: Triptych (Intermezzo, Variations-Fantasy, Slavic Dance) Sound File

Improvisation on "Saint Clement"

Libby Larsen: Pealing Fire Sound File

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Cesar Franck: Fantaisie en Ut (Fantasy in C) First Version (1856 - Premiere recording!) Sound File

George Whitefield Chadwick: Theme, Variations, and Fugue Sound File

Volume 2 (Christmas):

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Improvisations: Ding Dong, Merrily on High (Sound File); Come, Divine Messiah; Good King Wenceslas

Albert Gerken: Paraphrase on "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel"

Settings by Emilien Allard: Come, Shepherds; With the Holy Angels Sound File

Settings by Roy Hamlin Johnson: Good Christian Men, Rejoice (3 settings) and Away in a Manger

Settings by Milford Myhre: Masters in this Hall and Unto Us a Boy is Born Sound File

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Sigfrid Karg-Elert: O Come, All Ye Faithful

Hymn Improvisation: See, Amid the Winter's Snow Sound File 

Alexandre Guilmant: Prayer and Cradle Song

Louis-Claude Daquin: Noël IV

Ennis Fruhauf: Of the Father's Love Begotten

Sigfrid Karg-Elert: Good Christian Men, Rejoice Sound File

Volume 1 (General):

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Roy Hamlin Johnson: Paraphrase on "Victimae paschali laudes"

Emilien Allard: Image No. 2 Sound File

Ronald Barnes: Processional, from "Serenade for Carillon"

Arthur Meulemans: Diptych: The Cathedral (Moonlit Night; Sunday Morning in the Summer) Sound File

Hymn Improvisation: Slane (Be Thou my Vision)

John Gouwens: Prelude, Adagio, and Fugue Sound File

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Leo Sowerby: Carillon

Charles-Marie Widor: Final (Tempogiusto) from "Symphonie VIII" for organ

Jules Massenet: Méditation from "Thaïs" Sound File

Jean-Jules Roger-Ducasse: Pastorale Sound File

Edward Elgar: Imperial March Sound File

These are available at the Culver Bookstore, but in all honesty, it's no easy matter to find these items there.

Each CD is $14.98 (US)  Each Cassette is $9.98 plus shipping and handling

OR, you can now order these recordings through Amazon,com. Prices are slightly higher, but the cheaper shipping charge more than makes up for that.

Related links: Instruments and John Gouwens

Also: Complete Organ Stoplist

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