Raven new releases

Raven announces new CDs:

The Moldau (OAR-979), features Dutch organist Harry van Wijk playing a transcription of Bedrich Smetana’s The Moldau and several other previously unrecorded works on the 1933 Skinner organ at Girard College Chapel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Moldau transcription was created by Barbara Bannash in 1985 and published in 1992 by Christoph Dohr of Cologne. Also offered is Rheinberger’s Organ Sonata No. 4 in an edition by Edwin H. Lemare, as well as works by Mozart, Guilmant, Bossi, Franck, and Margreeth de Jong.

Gaston Litaize, Musique pour orgue (OAR-147), features Jeremy Filsell performing works of this Parisian composer on the Aeolian-Skinner organ of the Church of the Epiphany, Washington, D.C., where he is director of music and organist. Each disc is available for $15.98, postpaid worldwide.

For information: www.ravencd.com.