This year's PIPEDREAMS GROUP TOUR (June 10–22, 2015) will visit Poland, a country with a rich organ heritage that has been largely overshadowed by our concentration on the masters of western Europe and Scandinavia.
The tour itinerary, focused on the central and eastern parts of Poland, will embrace a remarkable variety of instruments from five centuries, including the monumental 96-stop organ at Oliwa Cathedral; the richly ornamented installation by Stanislaw Studzinski from 1680 in Lezajsk, with its celebrated high–pitched, multi-rank cymbal mixture; the oldest historic instrument in Poland from 1620 at the parish church in Kazimierz Dolny; several late-romantic organs by Schlag und Söhne, with their distinctive 'symphonic' voice; new concert hall installations by Schuke in Warsaw and Rieger in Lodz; and Christian Wegscheider's careful restoration of the 1719 Hildebrandt organ in Paslek.
Find more information, including the detailed tour brochure and application, at http://www.pipedreams.org.tour or by calling 651/290-1539.
Enjoy a prelude-experience listening to some of the organs to be visited as displayed on a recent PIPEDREAMS broadcast: http://pipedreams.publicradio.org/listings/2015/1501/
