Vital Organ Project

modern music for the modern organ

ON OUR RADAR

Death \Rot\ (Bach Está Muerto) (2017) // JP Lempke

Still Here (2017) // Carlos Cotallo Solares

Power Dance (2016) // Joan Tower

Études (2014) // S. Andrew Lloyd

Ancient Sunlight (2003) // Judith Bingham

Spires (1998) // George Walker

Zeichenreihen / Rows of Symbols (1993) // Violeta Dinescu

Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (1990) // Eva-Maria Houben

Miroir (1989) // Ad Wammes

That Line Which Is Earth’s Shadow (1987) // Ellen Ruth Harrison

Monument (1984) // Ivana Loudová

Sonata for Organ (1982) // Peter Maxwell Davies

Choralfantasie "Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig" (1981) // Dagmar Kaptein

Hell und Dunkel (1976) // Sofia Gubaidulina

Three Voluntaries for Organ (1976) // Peter Maxwell Davies

I Make My Own Soul from All the Elements of the Earth (1972) // Richard Felciano

Prelude for Organ and Tape (1972) // Richard Stewart

God Plays Hide and Seek (1971) // Calvin Hampton

Hydraulis (1971) // William Bolcom

Coulée (1969) // György Ligeti

Harmonies (1967) // György Ligeti

Black Host (1967) // William Bolcom

Volumina (1966) // György Ligeti

2020’s

A Most Perfect Blue (2023) // Haden Plouffe

The Call of Adventure: Tales of Incredible Journeys and Epic Quests (or Fantasy for Organ) (2023) // Autumn

FLOAT.— (2022) // Amelia Brey

*configurations (2021) // Graeme Shields

*Tänzchen, Rondo in F (2021) // Zacharias Paul Büchner
in collaboration with Ashley Watkins and Found Sound Ensemble

*P-E-A-C-E in motion (2020, rev. 2021) // Graeme Shields
commissioned by Peace Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Haven, MI in celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the move to their new building.

pouring (2020) // Lauren Redhead

Three Meditations for Organ (2020) // Natalie Draper

2010's

*amalgam (2018-2020) // Graeme Shields

*Artificial Virtue and a Fabricated Strength (2019) // Carolyn Borcherding

*Brobdingnagian mouth organ (2019) // Graeme Shields
in collaboration with Sam Gustavson

Interludes pour orgue (2018-19) // Alexandra Fol

*Orgelbüchlein (2019) // Jack Langdon

*Smoke Stacks (2019) // Kris David Bendrick

Bubbled (2018) // Amelia Brey

*/æ/ (one) (2018) // Graeme Shields
in collaboration with Origin Brass and
Russel Brown Brass Quintet

*againandagainandagainand… (2018) // Graeme Shields

*an intimate space (2018) // Graeme Shields

*”…And music shall untune the sky.” (2018) // Graeme Shields

*Christ lag in Todesbanden (2018) // Tyler Pimm

**Postlude (2018) // Tate Pumfrey

*Psalm 22 (2018) // Tyler Pimm

beating (2017) // inti figgis-vizueta

*circle dances (2017) // Graeme Shields

*form reform (2017) // Graeme Shields

*Fünf kleine Choralbearbeitungen (2017) // Justin Rubin

*here(3): sound images of the worker (2017) // Jack Langdon

*Meditation (2017) // Tyler Pimm

*Psalm 39 (2017) // Justin Rubin

*Title Theme (2017) // Ton Tran

*Two Interludes (2017) // Mike Flynn

Xenoglossia (2017) // Benjamin R. Fuhrman

**leóþcwide (2016) // Lauren Redhead

*Quiet Ascension (2016) // Graeme Shields

Pell-Mell Cou(r)ra(e)nte (2015) // Graeme Shields
in collaboration with Sam Gustavson

Herzlich tut mich verlangen (2014) // S. Andrew Lloyd

**Mila-rôdé (2013) // Alexandra Fol

Premonition (2012) // Jocelyn Morlock

O Antiphon Preludes (2010) // Nico Muhly

2000's

Album Leaf (2008) // Justin Rubin

Ozymandias (2008) // Robert Bradshaw
in collaboration with Sam Gustavson

Fantasia for Organ (2007) // Ēriks Ešenvalds

Hudson Preludes (2005) // Nico Muhly

Lied (pub. 2005) // Lucie Robert-Diessel

Pools of Living Water (2004) // Trevor Weston

Notte di maggio - Mainacht (2001) // Barbara Heller

1990's

Hymnus (1998) // Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016)
in collaboration with Sam Gustavson

Laudate für Orgel: aus den Kryptogrammen Gesualdo und Jürg Baur (1998) // Ruth Zechlin

God Is Our Righteousness (1997) // Chris DeBlasio
in collaboration with Jonathon Shields

Aria pour orgue (1995) // Gilles Leclerc

O Come, Emmanuel (1995) // Daniel Pinkham

Wind Songs (1991) // Samuel Adler

Aspects of Glory, III Tambourines (1990) // Libby Larsen

Lamentatio (Ecce lignum crucis) (1990) // Manuel de Elías (b.1939)

1980's

Expressions (1988) // Jean Langlas and Naji Hakim

Organ2/ASLSP (1987) // John Cage

Partita for Guitar and Organ Manuals (1984) // Daniel Pinkham
in collaboration with Jonathon Shields

Pastoral Drone (1982) // George Crumb

Views from the Oldest House (1981) // Ned Rorem

1970's

A Quaker Reader (1976) // Ned Rorem

Trivium (1976) // Arvo Pärt

Toccata in Seven (1975) // John Rutter

Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus [JEFFERSON] (1973) // David N. Johnson

Tower of Power (1973) // Beth Anderson

God of the Expanding Universe (1971) // Richard Felciano

1960's

The Entrance (1966) // Robert Ashley

Alleluyas (1965) // Simon Preston

1950’s

Majdnem Tánc from 6 Stücke für Orgel (1958) // Erzsébet Szönyi

Invocation (1956) // Sieglinde Ahrens

1940’s

Toccata, Villancico y Fuga (1947) // Alberto Ginastera

 

* world premiere

** US Premiere

MODERN MUSIC FOR THE MODERN ORGAN