About This Recording

This recording comes courtesy of Joe Vitacco of JAV Recordings. JAV Recordings has a massive selection of organ CDs available at pipeorgancds.com. Joe has made it a mission to record as many Skinner Organs as possible. The particular piece featured here, performed a Skinner Opus 783, comes from a double CD set recorded at Elm Court in Butler PA. Opus 783 is from approximately the same time as Columbia's 637. Neither the Columbia Skinner nor the Elm Court organ are large instruments, but Elm Court is definately the smaller of the two. The purpose of selecting a piece performed on a small Skinner is to show just how much can be brought out of a normal-size organ.

This particular recording is interesting because the smaller Elm Court organ has a self-playing mechanism. Even though this recording was made only recently, the performer is actually the long-dead Marcel Dupré!

Hopefully one day Joe Vitacco will be at Columbia High School, recording our fine organ.

What Columbia's Skinner Should Sound Like

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