All Buzard organs, including the one on this recording, use Slider and Pallet windchests for low maintenance and stable tuning, and wooden winding systems to reduce noise.
Performer Biography
Stephen Buzard, the organist on this album, is the winner of the 2010 Arthur Poister Competition in Organ Playing and the 2009 Joan Lippincott Competition for Excellence in Organ Performance.
Recording & Production
The recording expenses for this album were partially funded by a grant from Killinger Pfeifen Freiberg.
Instruments
The Buzard Pipe Organ's case stands three stories tall, 24 feet wide, and 12 feet deep, made of solid white oak with a 16-foot diameter wooden ring leafed in 24 karat red-gold.
Instruments
The organ used for this recording is the Buzard Pipe Organ, Opus 37, located at the Second Presbyterian Church in Bloomington, Illinois.
Instruments
The Buzard Pipe Organ, Opus 37, has 43 stops and 56 ranks of pipes, and its visual design is a stylized rendering of a Celtic Cross made from organ pipes.
Performer Biography
Stephen Buzard comes from a musical family; his mother is an organist/choirmaster, and his father, John Buzard, is an organ builder.
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