Delos Diary

Time marches on! Late last week a bulky brochure arrived in the mail detailing all scheduled concerts of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's 2nd season at Walt Disney Concert Hall. The first season still has 3 months to go, but with current competition for every entertainment dollar, sooner is probably better than later.
The big news is the inauguration of Disney Hall's long-awaited new pipe organ. The celebration will include programming a number of symphonic works which need a real pipe organ to achieve their full impact, plus a series of stand-alone organ recitals by distinguished artists to explore the organ's diversity as a solo instrument.
Happily for us, two of the featured organists have recordings on the Delos label. Wayne Marshall, wildly popular in Great Britain and abroad, is our soloist on A Copland Profile (DE 3221) with the Dallas Symphony conducted by Andrew Litton. His collaboration in the Copland Symphony with Organ shows his special affinity with contemporary music. His other CD, Organ Improvisations (DE 3228) was recorded on the Dallas Lay Family Concert Organ and succeeds in showing the full range of this awe-inspiring instrument, and Wayne Marshall's imaginative improvisations on classic popular songs by Gershwin, Bernstein, Strayhorn, Styne, and Youmans.
Todd Wilson has been featured on five Delos releases: as soloist on the 2-disc set In a Quiet Cathedral (DE 3145), on Great French Virtuosic Organ Music (DE 3123), and Maurice Duruflé's Organ Music - Complete (DE 3047); as a featured artist on the Delos organ sampler King of Instruments (DE 3503); and finally Double Forte (DE 3175), where he teams up with another great American compatriot, David Higgs, to demonstrate the duo-organs of the National City Christian Church in Washington, DC.
Why not preview these great artists on any or all of these Delos CDs and then hear them in person next October at Disney Hall?