Aeolian-Skinner - Aeolian-Skinner Records

Aeolian-Skinner Records

Beginning In 1954, Aeolian-Skinner produced a series of LP records titled, "The King of Instruments". These LP's are devoted to the tone and history of the modern organ. Volume 1-"The American Classic Organ" contains a descriptive discussion written over both sides of the LP cover by Tyler Turner and Joseph Whiteford on the beginnings of "The American Classic Organ". The five recorded sections on the record, with G. Donald Harrison being the narrator, himself describing the five selections-being of: I-Principles, II-Flutes, III-Strings, IV-Reeds, and V-Mixtures and Mutations. Organ demonstrations come from the Aeolian-Skinner organs of St. John the Divine, Symphony Hall, St. Paul's Cathedral (Boston), and First Presbyterian Church, Kilgore, Texas.

• Volume 1: "The American Classic Organ"
• Volume 2: "Organ Literature-Bach to Langlais"
• Volume 3: "Organ Recital" - Robert Owen, Christ Church; Bronxville, New York.
• Volume 4: Edgar Hilliar at St. Mark's; Mount Kisco, New York
• Volume 5: "Music of Richard Purvis" - Grace Cathedral; San Francisco, California
• Volume 6: "The Cathedral of St. John the Divine" Alec Wyton-Organist
• Volume 7 "Marilyn Mason in Recital" St. John's Chapel; Groton, Massachusetts
• Volume 8: "Norman Coke-Jephcott at St. John the Divine
• Volume 9: "The Mother Church; Boston, Massachusetts" - Ruth Barrett Phelps
• Volume 10: "Music of the Church" - Organ and choir recital at the 1st Presbyterian Church in Kilgore, Texas
• Volume 11: "Henry Hokans at All Saints" (Worcester, Massachusetts
• Volume 12: "Pierre Cochereau at Symphony Hall" (Boston, Massachusetts
• AS313: "Organ Music and Vocal Solos" - Ruth Barrett Phelps and Frederick Jagel, tenor, at The Mother Church, Boston
• AS315: "Catharine Crozier Program I" - RLDS Auditorium, Independence, Missouri
• AS316: "Catharine Crozier Program II" - RLDS Aufitorium, Independence, Missouri
• AS317: "Phillip Steinhaus" - organ of All Saints Church, Pontiac, Michigan
• AS318: "Two Great Organs" Albert Russell, organs of Philhamonic Hall, New York, and Asylum Hill Cong. Church, Hartford, Connecticut
• AS319: "Duruflé Requiem" Albert Russell and choir
• AS320: "John Weaver Playing Liszt and Mozart" - Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity, New York
• AS322: "Maurice and Marie-Madeleine Duruflé" - organ of Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis, Missouri
• AS323: "Ronald Arnatt" - organ of Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis, Missouri
• AS325: "Clyde Holloway" - organ of National Presbyterian Church, Washington, DC
• AS327: "Robert Anderson in a Program of 20th Century Music" - organ of Zumbro Lutheran Congregation, Rochester, Minnesota
• AS328: "Robert Anderson in a Program of 19th Century Music" - organ of Zumbro Lutheran Congregation, Rochester, Minnesota
• AS329: "Robert Anderson in a Program of 18th Century Music" - organ of Zumbro Lutheran Congregation, Rochester, Minnesota

• AS 306: Ruth Phelps at the Mother Church; Boston, Massachusetts
• AS 322: Maurice and Marie-Madeleine Duruflé at Christ Church Cathedral; St. Louis, Missouri
• AS 326: Alexander Boggs Ryan at the Cathedral of Christ the King; Kalamzoo, Michigan
• ASC 502: Catherine Crozier at the RLDS Auditorium, Independence MO (No. 1309, 1959) - Program I (Reubke, Langlais, Roger-Ducasse, Alain) (Ampex reel-to-reel tape)
• ASC 503: Catherine Crozier at the RLDS (Community of Christ) Auditorium; Independence Missouri (Ampex reel-to-reel tape)