Organ Music for Four Hands and Feet
-Fifth Avenue Flourishes-
Jennifer Pascual & Lynn Trapp
at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York
Jennifer Pascual is the Director of Music and Organist at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. She is joined in this recording by her colleague Lynn Trapp who is Director of Liturgy and Music at Saint Joseph Church in Baltimore, and an organist at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore. The recording features organ music for four hands and feet and is recorded on the pipe organ at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York.
The organ music they play spans a wide period of compositional styles. From works by Mozart to a contemporary composition by Ralf Bölting. There is something for everyone on this CD from standard organ literature to more well known works like John Philip Sousa’s “The Stars and Stripes Forever” to Richard Wagner’s “The Ride of the Valkyries”. There are some works for a single organist playing but many of the works were written as duets for four hands and four feet like Gustav Merkel’s Sonata in d minor. Orchestral works like Saint-Saëns “Danse Macabre” or Richard Wagner’s “The Ride of the Valkyries” take on a new dimension when played with four hands and four feet.
from the Cathedral of Saint Patrick
in New York City
Dr. Jennifer Pascual, Organ
& Men of the Cathedral Choir
Dr. Pascual has prodigious keyboard skills and gives definitive performances of some of the greatest music created for the organ based on Gregorian Chant. She also conducts the men of the choir in the Gregorian Chant that is heard on this CD. The works by Dupré, Duruflé and Guilmant are presented here as they would have been heard in the Roman Catholic liturgy before Vatican II.
Saint Patrick Cathedral in New York City
Dr. Jennifer Pascual, Organist
Angela Gosse & James Lake, Trumpet
The CD includes hymns, such as "O Come, All Ye Faithful", "Angels We Have Heard on High" and "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing," as well as excepts from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71 transcribed for organ.
Choir of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, NYC
Dr. Jennifer Pascual, Music Director
Daniel Brondel, Associate Director
The CD is a mix of favorite hymns and Mass VIII (also known as the Missa de Angelis) and several anthems based on Latin Chants.
The choir is directed by Jennifer Pascual and accompanied by Daniel Brondel on the cathedral's Kilgen Pipe Organ.