THE LEGACY SERIES Volume V
A treasured memento of a style of organ playing that appears – at most – once in a generation, this just discovered concert recording, on a 1963 AEolian-Skinner Organ of 113-ranks at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, is – along with his memoir, Virgil Fox (The Dish) – Ted Alan Worth's public legacy.


THE LEGACY SERIES Volume IV
Virgil Fox recorded these definitive performances on the Aeolian-Skinner organs at Riverside Church and Lincoln Center in New York City, and at Symphony Hall, Boston, in 1963 and 1965 for the Command Classics audiophile recording company, and they were released as four LP phonograph records and perhaps a few reel-to-reel tapes. Now, they are released for the first time on CD.

"The program is more serious than [Virgil Fox's] usual fare, and the sound remains fully up to today's 44.1 audio standards and then some. Even if you have no other pipe organ CD in your collection, you should consider this package." -John Sunier, Audiophile Audition

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The Legacy Series Volume III is Virgil Fox's "Great Protestant Hymns," recorded in 1956 on the new Aeolian-Skinner Organ in Riverside Church. After his Wanamaker Organ recording of 1964, this is the most frequently requested release--and for good reason. 21 hymns are treated to Virgil's rhythmic, dramatic, bold artistry. In over 57 minutes, the listener will be moved, exhilarated, inspired, and satisfied. Anyone who ever attended a Virgil Fox concert in a church will recall how he ended programs with the congregation singing, lustily, to his inevitable musicality.

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THE LEGACY SERIES Volume II comprises the three sets of recordings Virgil Fox made in 1946 & 1953 for RCA Victor at the Gloucester, Massachusetts, John Hays Hammond Castle. The Brahms Complete Chorale Preludes were never recorded elsewhere by him, and this is his only commercially released recording of the Reubke Sonata on the 94th Psalm. Franck’s Grande Pièce Symphonique is included, as is Mozart’s Fantasy in F minor (K. 608), Dupré’s Prelude and Fugue in G minor, Mendelssohn’s Organ Sonata No. 1 in F minor, and the Fugue à la Gigue of Bach. 78 rpm and LP recordings digitized by John Wilson.

2 Compact Disc Set

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Fox's first recordings of
Bach's
"Gigue" Fugue
and "Come, Sweet Death"

OrganArts inaugurates a series of historic recordings by various artists with a CD of Virgil Fox’s first commercial recording sessions. When Fox was 29, RCA Victor recorded him on the magnificent E.M. Skinner Organ in the Chapel at Girard College, Philadelphia. He plays his arrangement of Bach’s “Come, Sweet Death,” Healy Willan’s “Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue” (which he never recorded elsewhere), and ten more pieces he helped make famous. RCA released, on 78 rpm discs, only eight of the twelve works recorded. John Wilson has digitized all twelve pieces to inaugurate this series. Liner notes by Jonathan Ambrosino.

These recordings have not been commercially released since their original 78 RPM direct-to-disc pressings.

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