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NOTES FROM FRED: In 2009, some 30 years after this radio series was produced, the original open-reel master tapes were re-opened and digitally transferred at Zarex HD Studio for further preservation. From 1977 to 1979, I recorded and compiled my organ performances into a weekly radio series of 30-minute organ recitals. In addition to playing the music, I also served as program host and producer. The series was called PRO ORGANO, and it was syndicated across the USA to about 20 affiliates with National Public Radio, including all affiliates with Minnesota Public Radio (MPR), WRUR-FM Rochester NY, WNED-NY Buffalo NY, WBUR-FM Boston MA, KTEP-FM El Paso TX, WCNY-FM Syracuse NY, WOSU-FM Columbus OH, WWNO-FM New Orleans, LA, and KFUO-FM St. Louis MO, among others. Pro Organo - the radio series - pre-dated the CD label by the same name, which I adopted as a brand label name in 1985 (See www.proorgano.com for the catalog of the Pro Organo CD label.). The majority of the Pro Organo Radio Series was recorded on Sunday afternoons, using the 2-manual and pedal, 31-rank Schlicker Organ (1970) of the First Lutheran Church of Lyons, New York. This venue had, and still has, this fine organ and an especially fine acoustic for organ music. Occasionally, I recorded some selections at alternate venues when I would travel throughout America to perform as a guest recitalist. These radio broadcast recordings were made at the outset of my career as an concert organist. It is remarkable that the original broadcast recordings, made in an open-reel analog tape format, were found in 2009 to be still intact after 30 years. These now sound far better than the original through applying advanced digital audio remastering techniques. Selections from these radio programs will be posted here at frederickhohman.net as MP3 files, and links - when they appear below - will allow you to download the audio files. Since not all of the organ literature heard in the series is in the public domain, it is not possible to make the copyrighted selections available here for free download; however, many of the public domain musical works shall be available here as free MP3 downloads. The synopsis and repertoire listing for the series is shown below. Whenver an MP3 download of a selectioni is available, the music selection shall contain a link. Just click on the link to start the download. Unless otherwise indicated, all selections were recorded at the First Lutheran Church of Lyons, New York. Please note that not all of the 26 episodes in this series have been transferred yet. Those episodes which have been completed are shown below. The discipline and regimen of recording between 5 to 20 minutes of music each week for broadcast was fine training, and was helpful later as I proceeded to make CD recordings. The recorded performances on the Pro Organo radio series were rarely edited, and were almost always done in "one take." This was a condition imposed by necessity, because the recording medium of the day was open-reel analog tape. The tape speed chosen was slow by professional standards, at only 7.5 inches per second. The slow tape speed made precision editing difficult, and so complete takes were always favored over what would have been tedious tape editing. The fidelity of the recordings made at this slow tape speed were astounding. The majority of the series was made with a Revox A700 half-track stereo version deck, the audiophile little brother to the fully professional (and much more expensive) Studer B67 tape transport, and the microphone set-up included finely tuned microphones from Austria and Sweden. - FH
Episode #1 - 28'29" Prelude and Fugue in E major - Vincent Lübeck Fugue on BACH (in F major - Scherzo) Op 60 #5 - Robert Schumann Le Romance de Monsieur Balbastre (from Dom Bedos) - Claude Balbastre Variations on a Noël, Opus 20 - Marcel Dupré Episode #2 - 29'32" Partita on: "Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig," BWV 768 - Joh. Seb. Bach Second Organ Sonata in D minor, Opus 60 (final movement) - Introduktion und Fuge - Max Reger Episode #3 - 27'58" Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV 541 - Joh. Seb. Bach Deux Chorals (Choral Dorien and Choral Phyrgien) - Jehan Alain Allegro (first movement) from Sixth Organ Symphony in G, Opus 42 #2 - Charles-Marie Widor Episode #4 - 28'07" Sonate II (complete) - Paul Hindemith Toccata and Fugue in F major, BWV 540 - Joh. Seb. Bach Episode #5 - 27'59" Prelude and Fugue in F major - Vincent Lübeck Suite on the Second Tone (complete) from Livre d'Orgue- Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (recorded on the Casavant Organ at Church of the Risen Christ, Lincoln, Nebraska) Toccata in B-flat minor (from Pièces de Fantasie) - Louis Vierne Episode #6 - 27'51" Trio on: All Glory Be to God on High, BWV 664 (from the Great 18 Chorale Preludes) - Joh. Seb. Bach Prélude, Adagio and Choral Variations on the theme "Veni Creator" Opus 4 - Maurice Duruflé (recorded on the Casavant Organ at Church of the Risen Christ, Lincoln, Nebraska) Episode #7 - 28'35" Concerto II in A minor (after Vivaldi, from Opus 3 #8 in the l'Estro harmonico collection - complete) BWV 593 - Joh. Seb. Bach Canon in C major [#1], and Canon in B minor [#5], from Six Canonic Studies, Opus 56- Robert Schumann Toccata from Suite, Opus 5 (performed with new 1976 ending) - Maurice Duruflé Episode #8 - 28'32" Toccata Alle Rumba - Peter Planyavsky Variations on "Mein Junges Leben Hat Ein End"- Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck Grand Jeu avec le Tonerre - Michel Corrette Prelude and Fugue in C major [the 9/8], BWV 547 - Joh. Seb. Bach Episode #9 - 29'43" Sonata in A major [complete] Opus 65 #3 - Felix Mendelssohn Trio Sonata #1 in E-flat Major [complete], BWV 525- Joh. Seb. Bach Fugue #1 on BACH, Opus 60 #1 - Robert Schumann Episode #10 - 27'38" Prelude and Fugue in F major, BuxWV 1xx - Dietrich Buxtehude Impromptu from Pièces de Fantaisie - Louis Vierne Sonata in F, Opus 65 #1 [complete] - Felix Mendelssohn Episode #11 - 29'59" Prelude and Fugue in E minor [the Great] - Nicolas Bruhns Scherzo in E major (from Ten Pieces) - Eugène Gigout Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 544 - Joh. Seb. Bach Episode #12 - 28'29" Tanz-Toccata [1970] - Anton Heiller Von Gott will ich nicht lassen [from the Great 18 Collection], BWV 658 - Joh. Seb. Bach Divertissement from 24 Pieces in Free Style - Louis Vierne Choral in A minor - César Franck Episode #13 - 29'36" from Suite on the First Tone [Livre d'Orgue 1708]: Plein Jeu, Basse de Trompette - Grand Jeu - Pierre DuMage Chorale Prelude: All Glory Be to God on High, BWV 662 [from the Great 18 Collection) - Joh. Seb. Bach [recorded on the Hradetzky Organ at Saint Louis Prior Chapel, St. Louis, Missouri] Christ, Our Saviour, Who Turns God's Wrath Away from Us, BWV 688 [from Claiverübung, Part III) - Joh. Seb. Bach Prelude and Fugue in G minor, Opus 7 #3 - Marcel Dupré Episode #14 - 28'54" Saga VI - Ikarus - Jean Guillou Five Flötenührstücke - Josef Haydn Canon in A minor #2 [from Six Canonic Studies] - Robert Schumann Second Organ Sonata, Opus 60 - first movement "Improvisation" - Max Reger Episode #15 - 29'42" Prelude and Fugue in D minor "the Fiddle" BWV 539 - Joh. Seb. Bach Postlude for the Office of Compline - Jehan Alain Intermezzo - Jehan Alain Allegro (first movement) from Sixth Organ Symphony Opus 42 #2 - Charles-Marie Widor [recorded at Church of the Risen Christ, Lincoln, Nebraska] Episode #16 - 27'31" Totentanz Variations on "Es ist ein Schnitter, heisst der Tod" - Herbert Collum Sonate I (complete)- Paul Hindemith Episode #17 - 29'17" Variations on "America" - Charles Ives Two Dances to Agni Yavishta- Jehan Alain Dorian Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 538 - Joh. Seb. Bach Episode #18 - A Musical Snuff Box, Opus 32 - Anatol Constantinovich Liadov (organ transcription by Frederick Hohman) Nutcracker Suite, Opus 71a - Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky (early first-draft organ transcription by Frederick Hohman) REPERTOIRE DETAILS FOR EPISODE #19 THROUGH EPISODE #26 ARE YET TO COME, AND SHALL BE POSTED HERE, AS THE REMAINING ORIGINAL RECORDINGS ARE REMASTERED AND ARCHIVED. - FH

The Pro Organo Radio Series
A weekly half-hour series of organ literature hosted and performed by Frederick Hohman
[ 1977-1979 ]

[ Scroll down to view the repertoire for the individual episodes. ]

NOTES FROM FRED: In 2009, some 30 years after this radio series was produced, the original open-reel master tapes were re-opened and digitally transferred at Zarex HD Studio for further preservation.

From 1977 to 1979, I recorded and compiled my organ performances into a weekly radio series of 30-minute organ recitals. In addition to playing the music, I also served as program host and producer. The series was called PRO ORGANO, and it was syndicated across the USA to about 20 affiliates with National Public Radio, including all affiliates with Minnesota Public Radio (MPR), WRUR-FM Rochester NY, WNED-NY Buffalo NY, WBUR-FM Boston MA, KTEP-FM El Paso TX, WCNY-FM Syracuse NY, WOSU-FM Columbus OH, WWNO-FM New Orleans, LA, and KFUO-FM St. Louis MO, among others.

Pro Organo - the radio series - pre-dated the CD label by the same name, which I adopted as a brand label name in 1985 (See www.proorgano.com for the catalog of the Pro Organo CD label.). The majority of the Pro Organo Radio Series was recorded on Sunday afternoons, using the 2-manual and pedal, 31-rank Schlicker Organ (1970) of the First Lutheran Church of Lyons, New York. This venue had, and still has, this fine organ and an especially fine acoustic for organ music. Occasionally, I recorded some selections at alternate venues when I would travel throughout America to perform as a guest recitalist.

These radio broadcast recordings were made at the outset of my career as an concert organist. It is remarkable that the original broadcast recordings, made in an open-reel analog tape format, were found in 2009 to be still intact after 30 years. These now sound far better than the original through applying advanced digital audio remastering techniques.

Selections from these radio programs will be posted here at frederickhohman.net as MP3 files, and links - when they appear below - will allow you to download the audio files. Since not all of the organ literature heard in the series is in the public domain, it is not possible to make the copyrighted selections available here for free download; however, many of the public domain musical works shall be available here as free MP3 downloads.

The synopsis and repertoire listing for the series is shown below. Whenver an MP3 download of a selectioni is available, the music selection shall contain a link. Just click on the link to start the download. Unless otherwise indicated, all selections were recorded at the First Lutheran Church of Lyons, New York.

Please note that not all of the 26 episodes in this series have been transferred yet. Those episodes which have been completed are shown below.

The discipline and regimen of recording between 5 to 20 minutes of music each week for broadcast was fine training, and was helpful later as I proceeded to make CD recordings. The recorded performances on the Pro Organo radio series were rarely edited, and were almost always done in "one take." This was a condition imposed by necessity, because the recording medium of the day was open-reel analog tape. The tape speed chosen was slow by professional standards, at only 7.5 inches per second. The slow tape speed made precision editing difficult, and so complete takes were always favored over what would have been tedious tape editing. The fidelity of the recordings made at this slow tape speed were astounding. The majority of the series was made with a Revox A700 half-track stereo version deck, the audiophile little brother to the fully professional (and much more expensive) Studer B67 tape transport, and the microphone set-up included finely tuned microphones from Austria and Sweden. - FH

Episode #1 - 28'29"
Prelude and Fugue in E major - Vincent Lübeck
Fugue on BACH (in F major - Scherzo) Op 60 #5 - Robert Schumann
Le Romance de Monsieur Balbastre (from Dom Bedos) - Claude Balbastre
Variations on a Noël, Opus 20 - Marcel Dupré

Episode #2 - 29'32"
Partita on: "Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig," BWV 768 - Joh. Seb. Bach
Second Organ Sonata in D minor, Opus 60 (final movement) - Introduktion und Fuge - Max Reger

Episode #3 - 27'58"
Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV 541 - Joh. Seb. Bach
Deux Chorals (Choral Dorien and Choral Phyrgien) - Jehan Alain
Allegro (first movement) from Sixth Organ Symphony in G, Opus 42 #2 - Charles-Marie Widor

Episode #4 - 28'07"
Sonate II (complete) - Paul Hindemith
Toccata and Fugue in F major, BWV 540 - Joh. Seb. Bach

Episode #5 - 27'59"
Prelude and Fugue in F major - Vincent Lübeck
Suite on the Second Tone (complete) from Livre d'Orgue- Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (recorded on the Casavant Organ at Church of the Risen Christ, Lincoln, Nebraska)
Toccata in B-flat minor (from Pièces de Fantasie) - Louis Vierne

Episode #6 - 27'51"
Trio on: All Glory Be to God on High, BWV 664 (from the Great 18 Chorale Preludes) - Joh. Seb. Bach
Prélude, Adagio and Choral Variations on the theme "Veni Creator" Opus 4 - Maurice Duruflé (recorded on the Casavant Organ at Church of the Risen Christ, Lincoln, Nebraska)

Episode #7 - 28'35"
Concerto II in A minor (after Vivaldi, from Opus 3 #8 in the l'Estro harmonico collection - complete) BWV 593 - Joh. Seb. Bach
Canon in C major [#1], and Canon in B minor [#5], from Six Canonic Studies, Opus 56- Robert Schumann
Toccata from Suite, Opus 5 (performed with new 1976 ending)
- Maurice Duruflé

Episode #8 - 28'32"
Toccata Alle Rumba - Peter Planyavsky
Variations on "Mein Junges Leben Hat Ein End"- Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck
Grand Jeu avec le Tonerre - Michel Corrette
Prelude and Fugue in C major [the 9/8], BWV 547 - Joh. Seb. Bach

Episode #9 - 29'43"
Sonata in A major [complete] Opus 65 #3 - Felix Mendelssohn
Trio Sonata #1 in E-flat Major [complete], BWV 525- Joh. Seb. Bach
Fugue #1 on BACH, Opus 60 #1 - Robert Schumann

Episode #10 - 27'38"
Prelude and Fugue in F major, BuxWV 1xx - Dietrich Buxtehude
Impromptu from Pièces de Fantaisie - Louis Vierne
Sonata in F, Opus 65 #1 [complete] - Felix Mendelssohn

Episode #11 - 29'59"
Prelude and Fugue in E minor [the Great] - Nicolas Bruhns
Scherzo in E major (from Ten Pieces) - Eugène Gigout
Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 544 - Joh. Seb. Bach

Episode #12 - 28'29"
Tanz-Toccata [1970] - Anton Heiller
Von Gott will ich nicht lassen [from the Great 18 Collection], BWV 658 - Joh. Seb. Bach
Divertissement from 24 Pieces in Free Style - Louis Vierne
Choral in A minor - César Franck

Episode #13 - 29'36"
from Suite on the First Tone [Livre d'Orgue 1708]: Plein Jeu, Basse de Trompette - Grand Jeu - Pierre DuMage
Chorale Prelude: All Glory Be to God on High, BWV 662 [from the Great 18 Collection) - Joh. Seb. Bach [recorded on the Hradetzky Organ at Saint Louis Prior Chapel, St. Louis, Missouri]
Christ, Our Saviour, Who Turns God's Wrath Away from Us, BWV 688 [from Claiverübung, Part III) - Joh. Seb. Bach
Prelude and Fugue in G minor, Opus 7 #3 - Marcel Dupré

Episode #14 - 28'54"
Saga VI - Ikarus - Jean Guillou
Five Flötenührstücke - Josef Haydn
Canon in A minor #2 [from Six Canonic Studies] - Robert Schumann
Second Organ Sonata, Opus 60 - first movement "Improvisation" - Max Reger

Episode #15 - 29'42"
Prelude and Fugue in D minor "the Fiddle" BWV 539 - Joh. Seb. Bach
Postlude for the Office of Compline - Jehan Alain
Intermezzo - Jehan Alain
Allegro (first movement) from Sixth Organ Symphony Opus 42 #2 - Charles-Marie Widor [recorded at Church of the Risen Christ, Lincoln, Nebraska]

Episode #16 - 27'31"
Totentanz Variations on "Es ist ein Schnitter, heisst der Tod" - Herbert Collum
Sonate I (complete)- Paul Hindemith

Episode #17 - 29'17"
Variations on "America" - Charles Ives
Two Dances to Agni Yavishta- Jehan Alain
Dorian Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 538 - Joh. Seb. Bach

Episode #18 -
A Musical Snuff Box, Opus 32 - Anatol Constantinovich Liadov (organ transcription by Frederick Hohman)
Nutcracker Suite, Opus 71a - Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky (early first-draft organ transcription by Frederick Hohman)

REPERTOIRE DETAILS FOR EPISODE #19 THROUGH EPISODE #26 ARE YET TO COME, AND SHALL BE POSTED HERE, AS THE REMAINING ORIGINAL RECORDINGS ARE REMASTERED AND ARCHIVED. - FH