Organ Festival Canada – Past Concerts

Rachel Laurin – Ommagio Festivo, Op. 89
Daniel Ficarri – Prelude in D
Rachel Laurin – Bagatelle Burlesque, Op. 98 (world premiere)
Raymond Daveluy – "III. Tempo di Minuetto" from Septième sonate pour orgue
Rachel Laurin – "12. Chromatic Trio" from Twelve Short Pieces for organ, Op. 64, Vol. 3
Charles Tournemire – "Paraphrase-Carillon" from L'Orgue mystique, Op. 57, No. 35: "L'Office de l'Assomption"

Norman Reintamm premieres a work by Philip Forde, his colleague in Barbados, & performs a Chorale by modern Canadian composer John Selleck.

Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Alexandre Guilmant – "I. Sinfonia" from Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken, BWV 29
Jean Langlais – "Trio" from Triptyque
Jean Langlais – Chant de paix
Healey Willan – Introduction, Passacaglia, and Fugue, B. 149

Louis Vierne – "II. Scherzetto" from 24 pièces en style libre ("24 Pieces in Free Style"), Op. 31, Book II
Marcel Dupré – Deuxième Symphonie, Op. 26

The Ottawa Bach Choir performs works including a J.S. Bach motet, as well as music from the Requiem by French Renaissance composer Jean Richafort.

Angela Hewitt performs piano transcriptions of J.S. Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" & Passacaglia in C minor in this special concert & interview for Organ Festival Canada.

Duo Majoya (Marnie Giesbrecht & Joachim Segger, keyboards) & percussionist Mark Segger premiere a new arrangement of Jacobus Kloppers' Piece Concertante for piano, organ, & timpani.

Herbert Howells – Rhapsody in D-flat major, Op. 17, No. 1
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, arr. David Simon – "I. Andante – Allegro con anima – Molto più tranquillo " from Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
Herbert Howells – Rhapsody in C-sharp minor, Op. 17, No. 3

Jean-Willy Kunz performs his own arrangement of Camille Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals, outdoors at a Montreal zoo on his new "Bach-Mobile".

Bernardo Storace – Ciaccona
Johann Schneider – Mein Gott, das Herze bring’ ich dir
Johann Sebastian Bach – Trio super O Gott, du frommer Gott, BWV Anh. i.V.
Georg Muffat – Toccata nona

Rare performance of Igor Stravinsky on organ, as Isabelle Demers performs her own arrangement of The Firebird Suite. Performed at St Martin’s Episcopal Church in Houston, TX.

David Enlow opens Organ Festival Canada 2021 with this recital on the 205 rank organ of St. Batholomew's in NYC – the city's largest instrument.

6 semi-finalists perform on the 2018 Wallace tracker organ at Ancaster Canadian Reformed Church in Ancaster, ON. Each program includes one piece by a Canadian composer & one by J.S. Bach.