This is from a live performance on 31 August 2022 at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Peoria, Illinois. The organ is a 1989 Visser-Rowland organ. The recording was made by my co-recitalist Adam Gerik.

Bach: Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV 548

Composed by Frederick Llewellyn Marriott (1901-1989). This piece is my recording made on the organ for which it was composed, the 1927 Skinner Organ Company Opus 634 at The University of Chicago Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. Marriott was the University Organist and Carillonneur to the Chapel from 1932 to 1954.

Audio recording services: Ms. Jaclyn Todd 

Frederick L. Marriott: The Cathedral At Night

This is the great Passacaglia and Fugue composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). This is taken from my junior recital performance at Valparaiso University on the Fred and Ella Reddel Memorial Organ in the Chapel of the Resurrection. 

Recording furnished by the Valparaiso University Department of Music.

Passacaglia And Fugue In C Minor, BWV 582

This is piece is entitled "Modal Nocturne" and was composed by Geert D'Hollander, who is currently the carillonneur at the Bok Tower Gardens in Lake Wales, Florida. 

I recorded this piece on the Fruehauf Memorial Carillon in the Tower of the Apostles at the Kirk in the Hills Presbyterian Church in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. 

Modal Nocturne

Moonlight on the Lake was composed by Frederick Marriott in 1948 while he was serving as the first organist and carillonneur at The University of Chicago. The title was suggested to him by his teacher and friend, the French organist Marcel Dupré while the two of them were walking along the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago. 

Frederick L. Marriott: Moonlight On The Lake

The first of three preludes and fugues by the French organ virtuoso Marcel Dupré (1886-1971). 

This performance is from my third DMA recital at the Kirk in the Hills Presbyterian Church in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. 

Dupré: Prelude And Fugue In B Major

One of the shortest pieces by Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986), this was from a recital I gave on the Great Organ at the Washington National Cathedral on Sunday 19 November 2017.

Recording by Benjamin Straley

Fugue sur le theme du carillon des heures de la Cathedrale de Soissons, op. 12

These are all tracks of me accompanying a choir or congregation.

Howells: Nunc Dimittis 'Collegium Regale'

Howells: Magnificat 'Collegium Regale'

Evening hymn from a 2019 Evening service.

Recording: Andrea Bartolomeo

Christ, mighty savior (Innisfree Farm)

From a 2019 Evening Service.

Recording: Andrea Bartolomeo

Craig Phillips: Preces

Craig Phillips: Responses

The Adult Choirs of Grace and Saint Christopher Episcopal Churches in Oak Park, Illinois
 Andrea Bartolomeo, organ.

From an evening service in 2019.

Recording: Andrea Bartolomeo

Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna I. Requiem Aeternam, II. In te Domine

The adult choirs of Grace and Saint Christopher Episcopal Churches, Oak Park, Illinois. Andrea Bartolomeo, organ.

From an evening service in 2019.
Recording: Andrea Bartolomeo

Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna, IV. Veni Sancte, Spiritus And V. Agnus Dei

This is my own transcription of the Prelude to the first act of Parsifal. Performed on the 1922 Casavant organ at Grace Episcopal Church in Oak Park, Illinois. Recording by Andrea Bartolomeo.

Wagner: Parsifal, Prelude to Act I (transcribed by KC)

These recordings are the snapshots of my work from 2008 to now. Even after all of this time, I think I'm getting better. At least a little. 

“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” -Gustav Mahler

Kipp Cortez

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