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E. Power Productions iPod plus headphone optimized recording technology.

Audiophile recordings displaying this logo employ a special microphone technique to produce a precise, 360 stereo image when played through headphones. This proprietary technique is exclusive to E. Power Productions, the in-house recording studio of Loft Recordings and Gothic Records. Our technique combines openess and an extended frequency range which is only possible with small-capsule, omni-directional microphones, with the imaging specificity typical of a single pair of cardiod microphones. It is important to note that this technology is not always the optimal solution to recording a specific organ, choir, or room. In a significant number of situations, we use other recording techniques to produce the best results.

In combination with our 24-bit technology platform (24-bit technology), these recordings provide excellent sound for whatever media is being used, and superior results for those listening over headphones.
 
Listed below are the recordings that employ iPod optimized technology.
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Be Still My Soul - All Saints Beverly Hills - Dale Adelmann
Be Still, My Soul/All Saints' Beverly Hills
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World Premiere Recordings!

A stunning program of contemplative sacred texts set to some of the most beautiful singing we've heard. Slow, focused intensity creates a strong emotional response from many listeners, including us.  The Martin piece alone is worth the price of admission. With première recordings of new anthems by Craig Phillips and Roland Martin, this CD is also the first recording of the widely admired Choir of All Saints, Beverly Hills, under its new director, Dale Adelmann.
Greater Love: The English choral and organ tradition - ECU Chamber Singers - Daniel Bara
Greater Love: The English Choral and Organ Tradition/ECU Chamber Singers, Bara
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The ECU Chamber Singers and organist Janette Fishell are conducted by Daniel Bara in these monuments of the English choral tradition. The choir’s sound is greatly enhanced by the sumptuous acoustics of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Greenville, and its large, new Fisk organ.
Bradley Welch plays at Broadway Baptist
Bradley Welch plays at Broadway Baptist
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Two premieres! The first recording of young virtuoso Bradley Welch, and the first recording of the largest French-style organ in the world. Welch is winner of the coveted Dallas International Organ Competition, and brings fiery enthusiasm to this audiophile recording.  24-bit technology and optimized for iPod/headphone listening.
The Eastman Italian Baroque Organ - William Porter - Hans Davidsson - David Higgs
The Eastman Italian Baroque organ/Porter, Davidsson, Higgs
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The only full-size Italian Baroque organ in North America, Eastman's newly installed and restored instrument reveals the exotic sounds of another culture and time. Played by three virtuosi of the school's faculty, the organ sounds as beautiful as it appears: a genuine work of art.
Pas de Dieu: Music Sublime and Spirited - Janette Fishell
Pas de Dieu: Music Sublime & Spirited/Fishell
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On this first recording of the "French symphonic" Fisk organ, opus 126, Janette Fishell plays a brilliant program that includes the world premiere of Ferko's Livre d'orgue. A superb acoustic also enhances stunning performances of the rarely heard Litaize and Duruflé's masterpiece on "Veni Creator."
Sowerby: Land of Rest - Robert Parris
Land of Rest/Parris
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Acclaimed organist Robert Parris presents a varied selection of works particularly suited to the new C. B. Fisk organ in Macon, Georgia. The program showcases the Fisk brand of eclecticism in a large two manual organ. The organ includes a range of historically derived sounds, which make the authentic performance of certain repertoire possible, but also allowing for a wide range of styles. At the center of the program is the American composer Leo Sowerby's seldom-recorded Prelude on "Land of Rest."
Bach Festival Chorales - Lynn Edwards Butler
Bach: Festival Chorales/Lynn Edwards Butler
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This is the first recording on the new Richards & Fowkes organ in Deerfied, MA, an instrument inspired by the organs Bach would have known. Noted organologist Butler displays her mettle as the performer of this imaginative Bach program organized around the festival chorales of the liturgical year.

Thomsen Chapel Organ Recitals - J. Melvin Butler - Roger Sherman
The Thomsen Chapel Organ Inaugural Recitals (St Mark's Cathedral, Seattle)/Butler & Sherman
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This recording documents the inaugural recitals given on the new Paul Fritts organ of Thomsen Chapel at St. Mark's Cathedral, Seattle in 2003. Based on north European practices of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this beautiful organ has singing principals, piquant reeds, and luscious flutes. In addition there are a set of strings which give this organ a wide range of sonic possibilities not usually expected in a small, Baroque-style instrument. The program contains repertoire well-suited to a chapel organ, and includes the first recording of Toon Hagen's partita on 'Vater Unser im Himmelreich.' Features St. Mark's Cathedral organist and choirmaster J. Melvin Butler and associate organist Roger Sherman.
Great Organs of Japan v.2: Toccata! - Hatsumi Miura
Great Organs of Japan v.2: Toccata!/Miura
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Great Organs of Japan, volume 2 C.B. Fisk organ Minato Mirai Hall, Yokohama Hatsumi Muira, organ The second in the Loft Recordings series "Great Organs of Japan" features the C. B. Fisk organ of Yokoyama Minato Mirai Hall, showcasing the artistry of organist Hatsumi Miura. The largest American tracker organ in Japan, this instrument is ideal for the two most famous toccatas ever written for the organ, which "bookend" this program. Includes the rarely performed Adagio assai for organ by Beethoven, Yamada's "Red dragonfly" in an arrangement by Guy Bovet, and Bovet's own satirical French Baroque Noël.

Hatsumi Miura is a well-known international concert artist and has been a featured soloist for several American Guild of Organist national conventions. Extensive booklet, with full specification of the organ.
Clemens non Papa: Requiem and Motets - Tudor Choir - Douglas Fullington
Clemens: Requiem & Motets/Tudor Choir
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The Tudor Choir adds to its critically acclaimed collection of recordings with this new CD of music by Renaissance composer Jacob Clemens non Papa (c.1515-c.1555). Clemens composed in all of the expected genres of his time. Much of his music is infused with a personal quality that differs from the generally abstract nature of much Renaissance sacred music. The music on this disc is a survey of his Latin-texted sacred polyphony, including his intimate Requiem, plus a Magnificat setting and a sampling of motets. The pieces chosen for this recording reveal texts that portray such themes as relationships, family, and remembrance, and therefore demonstrate the unusual "personal" quality to be found in Clemens' works.
Scandinavian Christmas - Choral Arts - Richard Sparks
A Scandinavian Christmas/Choral Arts
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The rich musical heritage of Scandinavia is represented by one of the finest choirs in the country. David Dahl also plays seven organ works on the new Fritts organ at PLU in Tacoma. 24-bit recording.
Bach Encounters Buxtehude - Kimberly Marshall
Bach Encounters Buxtehude/Marshall
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Bach Encounters Buxtehude
Kimberly Marshall, organist

In the autumn of 1705, Johann Sebastian Bach traveled to Lübeck to learn what he could from the famous organist, Buxtehude. Accounts suggest that his organ playing changed dramatically. On this CD you can explore the often intangible links between these two composers, bringing together some of their most popular works for the organ.
Bach - Clavierubung III - Schubler Chorales - Joan Lippincott
Bach: Clavierübung III & Schübler Chorales/Lippincott (2 CDs!)
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Joan Lippincott continues her Bach series with two of the most substantial collections published during Bach's lifetime. The Clavierübung III follows Book I (Italian Concerto) and Book II (Goldberg Variations) and precedes Book IV (Art of Fugue), and altogether represents Bach’s highest achievements in the art of writing for the keyboard. Clavierubung III, sometimes called “The Organ Mass” begins with settings of the Kyrie and Gloria, but is structured after the German Lutheran catechism. Included in this recording are both the large chorales, the alternative chorales for manuals only and the four duetti. Bach’s collection of cantata movement transcriptions for organ published by Schübler in 1742 includes the famous “Wachet Auf!”, and rounds out this two-CD collection.

Program notes by noted Bach scholar, George Stauffer.
Randall Thompson - The Light of Stars - Choral Arts
Thompson: The Light of Stars/Choral Arts
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The Light of Stars
The Choral Music of Randall Thompson
Choral Arts, directed by Richard Sparks

Randall Thompson is one of the most important American composers of choral music. Writing in an unabashed Romantic style, this music is ideal for a choir like Choral Arts, which prides themselves in purity and breadth of choral sound.

This recording contains Thompson’s “Alleluia,” probably the most popular American choral work ever written, as well as six works never before recorded.
Great Organs of Japan v.1, Bach at Ferris University - Tomoko Miyamoto
Great Organs of Japan v.1: Bach at Ferris University/Miyamoto
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The first in the Loft Recordings series "Great Organs of Japan" features the Taylor & Boody organ at Ferris University, and showcases the artistry of J. S. Bach and organist Tomoko Miyamoto. The first large American tracker organ in Japan, this instrument has started a wave of new significant instruments by other great American builders, including C. B. Fisk and Brombaugh. Booklet in English and Japanese, with full specifications of the organ, and organ registrations.
Recital at Christ Church, Tacoma - Sherman
Recital at Christ Church, Tacoma/Sherman
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"The organ is magnificent, featuring generous scaling resulting in broad and powerful principal stops and singing flutes. The marriage of performer, organ, room, and repertoire is triumphant." - The Living Church

 
This recording documents a recital given in February of 1996 on the Brombaugh organ of Christ Church Parish, Tacoma, Washington. The program features works by composers known to Bach, including Brunckhorst, J. Praetorius, Pachelbel, Buxtehude, CPE Bach, and JS Bach himself. Christ Church is a concrete building with generous acoustics, and one of the best settings ever for a Brombaugh organ.
1785 Schiörlin organ of Tryserum, Sweden - William Porter
The 1785 Schiörlin Organ--Tryserum, Sweden/William Porter
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The Schiörlin organ at Tryserum breathes new life into these works by Böhm, Bach, and Walther. A lively wind system, idiomatic voicing, and sensitive keyboard action make this organ sing in the hands of international artist William Porter.
Music Sweet and Serious: Organ music of Jacob Praetorius and Heinrich Scheidemann - William Porter
Music Sweet and Serious/Porter (2 CDs!)
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Two organists, both students of Sweelinck, dominated the organ scene in Hamburg in the early 1600's, but their temperaments and music are a study of contrasts.  William Porter plays the landmark North German Organ of Gothenburg Sweden.

Includes demonstration-improvisations of individual stops of the organ.  2-CDs, extensive notes on the music and the organ.  Full registrations are included.
 
Ja kyung Oh plays the Yokota/GOArt organ of Seoul, Korea
Ja kyung Oh plays the Yokota/GOArt organ of Seoul, Korea
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Munetaka Yokota—researcher, designer, and organ builder at GOArt (the Göteborg Organ Art Center) at Göteborg University, Sweden—designed the organ at Korea National University of Arts (K'Arts) according to the style of Arp Schnitger and based on the extensive Schnitger research done by GOArt.  Yokota especially modeled this organ after an example of Schnitger's in Charlottenburg (Berlin), which demonstrates some significant differences from Schnitger's North German instruments.

K'Arts organist Ja kyung Oh is director of the Early Music Institute at K'Arts.
Bach, Improvisations and the Liturgical Year/Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra
Bach, Improvisations and the Liturgical Year/Ruiter-Feenstra
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This recording documents a recital given by Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra on the Martin Pasi organ of Trinity Lutheran Church in Lynnwood, WA.  Compositions of J. S. Bach were organized by the liturgical year, and interspersed with Ruiter-Feenstra's own improvisations. Based on ideas found in Bach’s works and stemming from genres he most commonly used, her improvisations create new works using Bach’s compositional processes. In her roles as artist and teacher, Ruiter-Feenstra is a major advocate of improvisation and performance on historically-based instruments.
   
 
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