Word: toccatas
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...till now, Weinrich has been known to the public through these Musicraft discs, recorded on the squeaky, piping little "Practorius" organ at Princeton. Working with that tiny instrument that seems almost like a toy, Weinrich has consistently produced the best organ records on the market. His record of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, for instance, easily surpasses all of the D minor, for instance, casily surpasses all of the other four versions, three of which are recorded on large-scale organs, and one of which is in an opulent orchestral transcription. Certainly if there is any organist...
Here in Cambridge, the Germanic Museum Concerts are getting under way next Monday night with an organ recital by E. Power Biggs, of the Six Trio Sonatas of J. S. Bach and the F major Toccata. This is a marathon concert in any man's language, as the Trio Sonatas are generally conceded to be the most formidable things in the organ repertoire, and whether Biggs, who has never sparkled on Bach, will do them justice, is a question. But the wonderful music in the Sonatas and the fact that there is no adequate recording of them definitely warrants...
...Bach: Toccata and Fugue in C (Dimitri Mitropoulos and the Minneapolis Symphony; Columbia; 4 sides; $2.50). Fine first recording in orchestral form of one of Bach's great organ works...
...composition in the training school on the Disney lot, soon promoted him to the job of color coordinator. His main job: matching Technicolor reproductions with original colored sketches made by other Disney artists. When Disney went to work on his artistically ambitious Fantasia, Phil Dike made sketches for Toccata & Fugue, Night on Bald Mountain, Ave Maria...
...glad to hear that there is still someone floating around who has the taste to transcribe early music and not emerge with something different from the original. Dr. Hans Kindler, conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D. C., has made a firstrate transcription of a Frescobaldi toccata (Victor Record 4537), and he plays this mettlesome music with verve, but without the nervous mannerisms Stokowski puts in Bach--and that is something to get mildly excited about...