Raven announces a new organ recording, More of What I Do on Sundays, Volume 2, The Liturgical Year: Daniel Sañez Improvises (OAR-205), featuring Sañez improvising on the 2024 Juget-Sinclair Opus 55 in Sacred Heart Catholic Cathedral, Richmond, Virginia, with 67 stops, 87 ranks, the first album recorded on this instrument.
The improvisations are on chant melodies associated with dates and seasons of the liturgical year, such as Advent, Christmas, Easter, etc., on ten tracks of the album. The first track, “Entrada,” is a highly spirited procession improvisation realized on an original theme and uses the Spanish characteristics of the organ, especially the horizontal trumpet stops as well as a drum effect and a flock of birds.
For a review of Sañez’s Volume 1, see the December 2024 issue, pages 11–12.
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