Organ and Carillon Recordings at Culver

Most recent recording: See details below about Volume 3: A Summer's Night 

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

All of these are available in Compact Disc and Cassette formats.

Details about the recordings are provided here:

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 1 (General):

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Roy Hamlin Johnson: Paraphrase on "Victimae paschali laudes"

Emilien Allard: Image No. 2

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

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

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Each CD is $15 (US)  Each Cassette $10

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