Justin Bischof recording

Raven announces a new organ CD: Justin Bischof, Organist (OAR-207), featuring Bischof performing the first recording on the Klais Orgelbau organ built for the Episcopal Church of St. James the Less in Scarsdale, New York. Dedicated to Bischof’s mentor, McNeil Robinson, the program includes Robinson’s Dismas Variations and Hommage à Messiaen, Bischof’s transcription of Richard Wagner’s “March to the Holy Grail” from Parsifal, and Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H by Franz Liszt. As well, Bischof improvises a four-movement St. James Scarsdale Symphony and a suite of nine pieces. The recording is available as a CD and streaming or downloads worldwide.

As music director of the Scarsdale parish from 2007 until 2017, Bischof was a catalyst instigating, conceiving the tonal design, and raising funds for the 65-stop Klais organ completed in 2017. The organ is housed in five cases—two located on each side of the divided chancel and a freestanding case at the back of the nave for the ten-stop antiphonal organ. A four-manual movable console plays the organ via electric action to slider windchests, with other actions for some bass pipes and a few duplexed or extended ranks.

For information: ravencd.com  and https://justinbischof.com/