Description: Shipping: All items will be packed safely in a sturdy package for safe shipping.We ship internationally and offer combined shipping for multiple purchases. Expedited, Priority Mail and FedEx shipping available Once payment is received, we ship your item on the next business day. A series of great Solo instrumentals - Piano Violin Cello Harp, Winds and Brass on 78 rpm recordsClick on this link to see more Solo Instrumental Records! Great War Time recording on the revolutionary Baroque Organ built by G. Donald Harrison in the Germanic Museum of Harvard University.In 1937, Biggs persuaded Charles Kuhn, then Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, to let the Aeolian-Skinner Organ Company of Boston install their experimental Baroque-style organ, designed by the famous G. Donald Harrison (another Englishman) in the Romanesque Hall, which many people had already realised would make an ideal location for a concert organ. This instrument caused quite a stir in the musical world; Biggs played the complete organ works of Bach on it in 1937/38. In 1940 he began a famous series of Sunday morning coast-to-coast broadcasts on CBS radio from here that for many people of that generation was their introduction to organ music.E. Power Biggs – Prelude And Fugue In E Minor ("Cathedral")Label: Victor Red Seal – 10-1121Format: Shellac, 10", 78 RPMCountry: USReleased: Jan 1945Genre: ClassicalStyle: BaroqueA PreludeB FugueRecord Company – Radio Corporation Of AmericaComposed By – J. S. Bach*Played on the Baroque Organ by G. Donald Harrison in the Germanic Museum of Harvard University.Orig Issue red RCA VICTOR record 78 rpm Better than EXCELLENT - PRISTINE, plays E+ EXCEPTIONALLY quiet A CHOICE COPYE. Power Biggs was without a doubt one of the most famous concert organists of his day; his recordings are still widely available. Many of those recordings were made right here, on this very organ.Born in England in 1906, Biggs emigrated to the United States in 1930, and settled in Cambridge in 1932. By that time he had already begun to build a name for himself as a touring concert organist.In 1937, Biggs persuaded Charles Kuhn, then Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, to let the Aeolian-Skinner Organ Company of Boston install their experimental Baroque-style organ, designed by the famous G. Donald Harrison (another Englishman) in the Romanesque Hall, which many people had already realised would make an ideal location for a concert organ. This instrument caused quite a stir in the musical world; Biggs played the complete organ works of Bach on it in 1937/38. In 1940 he began a famous series of Sunday morning coast-to-coast broadcasts on CBS radio from here that for many people of that generation was their introduction to organ music.The great concert organist?and sometime radio-broadcast star?E. Power Biggs brought fame to himself and limelight to Harvard on an organ that he came to own, designed by G. Donald Harrison and resident in what was then the Germanic Museum (later the Busch-Reisinger Museum)Into the museum balcony the organ went in 1937, the pipes of the 25 stops laid out on three windchests, standing bravely in the open without any decorative casework or any attempt at visual design; a showroom for the new American Classic idea. Harrison was not interested in becoming a builder of neobaroque organs, but, he wrote at the time, "The organ has been romanticized, and its fundamental character has been lost." Harrison wanted to get back to the basics: "Classical organ music, particularly that of J.S. Bach, is polyphonic in form and, therefore, great clarity of tone is essential for the proper rendition of these works in order that the interweaving of the various voices or parts may be heard distinctly by the listener. It is not surprising, therefore, to find that clarity and transparency of tone are the most striking characteristics of the organs of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. An attempt has been made to recapture these desirable qualities in the Germanic Museum instrument."The opening recitals by Biggs on April 13 and 18, 1937, were a major musical event. He played identical programs of music by Handel, Louis-Claude Daquin, who was the court organist at Versailles during the reign of Louis XIV, and Bach?the Fantasy and Fugue in G minor. The impression the instrument created was as dramatic as he could have hoped for. "The beautiful tone of the instrument, lighter in texture, sweeter and more mellow than that of the average instrument built according to modern specifications, was yet capable of grandeur," the Christian Science Monitor found, and Moses Smith, the Boston Evening Transcript critic, ...wrote,...."The polyphonic development was far clearer than it is on the typical contemporary instrument." That, Smith observed, was "a tonal anomaly, a bad imitation of an orchestra."... [T]he general press covered the new organ, and Biggs as its leading exponent, as major cultural news. The Boston Herald even wrote an editorial about it, entitled "The New Classical Organ: A Victory for Bach."Biggs had found his vehicle, an instrument that in his hands, as [organ expert Emerson] Richards wrote [in the American Organist], "revealed to us a music so new, so arresting, and so alive that we cannot believe it is the same old stodgy, uninteresting and decadent set of notes that have been running through the fingers of our organists since the middle of the last century....If we were writing this for Variety we would say that Mr. Biggs 'laid them in the aisles.'" More Great Records on sale right now: https://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_ssn=carsten_sf&_from=R40&_nkw=&_sacat=0&_sop=1 http://shop.ebay.com/carsten_sf/m.html ==== A Quick NOTE ON GRADING AND SHIPPING: As you can see from my feedback, I try hard to earn your POSITIVE FEEDBACK and FIVE STAR RATINGS. If for any reason your transaction was NOT SATISFACTORY, pls contact me and I will work something out with you. 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Artist: CLICK RIGHT ARROW > FOR CONDITION, E POWER BIGGS, E. Power Biggs
Format: Record
Release Title: BACH Prelude And Fugue In E Minor ("Cathedral") BWV 533
Material: Shellac
Type: Single
Genre: Chamber Music, Classical
Record Label: RCA Victor
Record Size: 10"
Style: Allemande, Ars Nova, Brass, Caprice, Character Piece, Concerto, Duet, Etude, Film Score/Soundtrack, Fugue, Instrumental, Minuet, Music Hall, Nocturne, Octet, Partita, Passacaglia, Prelude, Quartet, Quintet, Rhapsody, Septet, Serenade, Sextet, Sinfonia, Sonata, Suite, Toccata, Trio, Waltz
Speed: 78 RPM
Language: Italian
Catalog Number: 10-1121
Sub-Genre: Opera
