The Gothic Catalog

07/05/2021

The Gothic Catalog and the American Prize are pleased to announce that Dale Warland is the 2021 recipient of The American Prize National Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement.

The announcement coincides with the renaming of The American Prize in Choral Conducting to The American Prize Dale Warland Award in Choral Conducting.

Dale Warland has made an indelible impression on contemporary choral music, nationally and internationally. In a quarter century with The Dale Warland Singers, he shaped an all-professional a ca****la ensemble lauded for its exquisite sound, technical finesse, and stylistic range. He commissioned and premiered some 270 works from composers around the globe. Warland’s many honors include awards from ASCAP, The McKnight Foundation, and Chorus America, as well as a Grammy nomination. In 2012 he was inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame.

Warland’s twenty-nine commercially released recordings include Argento’s Walden Pond, nominated for a Grammy® Award for Best Choral Performance in 2003; other popular recordings include Harvest Home: Songs from the heart, Christmas with the Dale Warland Singers, and Lux Aurumque, which was named a Top Ten Classical Album by National Public Radio in 2007. Warland's most recent album is "Hodie!" and features the music of Daniel Pinkham and Benjamin Britten.

A complete list of available recordings of Dale Warland on Gothic can be found here:
https://www.gothic-catalog.com/Dale_Warland_s/402.htm

All of Warland's albums on Gothic are on sale this week...

05/05/2020

In memory of David Boe, James Weaver and Charles Krigbaum: Bach's Prelude and Fugue in B-flat minor from Well-tempered Clavier, book 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHLbjvIVPkI

Posted in memory of David Boe, James Weaver, Charles Krigbaum

11/22/2019

The Gothic Catalog is proud to present the Fall 2019 edition of its printed catalog! Our print catalog features the newest releases of choirs and organists. (You'll want to check out Dale Warland's new Christmas CD, "Hodie!", a new Christmas recording by Dale Adelmann's choir at the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta, the Dedication of Christ Cathedral--music from the former Crystal Cathedral--- 225 voices with orchestra under the direction of John Romeri, and many many more!)

See the catalog here: https://www.flipsnack.com/timber123/gothicfall2019catalog/full-view.html

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Organ and Choral recordings of distinction.

06/26/2019

Just arrived at the Chorus America Conference in Philadelphia where we are showing off our latest choral releases. Dale Warland and John Muehleisen will be at our booth. Drop by for a visit, or to hear our latest work!

03/31/2019

Just finished a week at the former Crystal Cathedral, now Christ Cathedral. What the RC has with this campus is spectacular. The new worship space opens in mid July. I was there to record the Cathedral choirs under the direction of John Romeri, singing the music they will perform at the dedication. 230 singers and a 40 piece orchestra performed in the space called The Arboretum. This building seats about 1500 and includes an early 1950s A-S organ named after Frederick Swann. It is one of the finest A-S organs I’ve heard and David Ball plays it beautifully.

Spent Friday driving to and returning from Palm Desert, where I had the honor of lunch with Fred and George Dickie (who founded Gothic.)

I’m now in Atlanta to record Deanna Joseph and the choirs from Georgia State. If you heard her debut album on Gothic https://www.gothic-catalog.com/product_p/g-49298.htm you will know how special this choir is. We will again be in Peach Tree Road United Methodist Church.

At the end of sessions recording we will record the final concert of the Three Choirs Festival which includes Dan Bara’s choirs from University of Georgia at Athens. We recently recorded Dan’s choir recently as well:

https://www.gothic-catalog.com/product_p/g-49301.htm

The Gothic Catalog offers recordings from Loft Recordings, Gothic Records, reZound, Quilisma, Organeum, Priory, Pro Organo, Clarion Records and many others. These recordings represent the best in organ and choral music.

12/28/2018

In 2018 we had TWELVE new releases! Here they are (organ recordings first, choral below):

Hans Davidsson: Complete organ works of Georg Boehm (3 CDs), North German Baroque Organ in Gothenburg

https://www.gothic-catalog.com/product_p/lrcd-1133-35.htm

Mel Butler in Recital at the 1065 Flentrop organ of Saint Mark's Cathedral (Seattle).

https://www.gothic-catalog.com/product_p/lrcd-1162.htm

Robert Bates: Dances and Chansons of the French Renaissance (Published 1531). Organ from 1568 with the oldest playing facade pipes in France.

https://www.gothic-catalog.com/product_p/lrcd-1137.htm

Matthew Dirst and Ars Lyrica Houston: The First Organ Concertos (Bach and Handel); Fritts organ (2009)

https://www.gothic-catalog.com/The_First_Organ_Concertos_p/lrcd-1138.htm

William Peterson: Recital at Bridges Hall. First recording of the Fisk at Pomona College, includes several premier recordings.

https://www.gothic-catalog.com/product_p/lrcd-1140.htm

Daryl Robinson: American Fantasia. The first commerically distributed recording of the Disney Hall organ (Glatter-Gotz/Rosales)

https://www.gothic-catalog.com/American_Fantasia_p/G-49315.htm

Oregon Repertoire Singers (Ethan Sperry, director): Shadows on the Stars. Pacific Northwest composers, particularly Morten Lauridsen who plays the piano on his own pieces. Includes "Sure on this shining night" and "O Magnum Mysterium" and many first recordings.

https://www.gothic-catalog.com/product_p/g-49318.htm

Dale Warland: Seasons. Dale Warland's new album -- his first in 14 years! Dale Warland conducts the Dale Warland Singers and the Minnesota Beethoven Festival Chorale in this program of music by Argento and Persichetti.

https://www.gothic-catalog.com/product_p/g-49307.htm

Dale Adelmann, Choir of All Saints Beverly Hills: Finzi and Howells: Overshadowed by others in the first half of the 20th century, both Finzi and Howells have emerged as major composers of the period, deserving of their own places alongside Vaughan Williams and Britten. Howells Requiem in particular must be one of the greatest choral compositions of the century.

https://www.gothic-catalog.com/product_p/g-49314.htm

James Kallembach: Most Sacred Body, performed by the Marsh Chapel Choir and Collegium (Scott Allen Jarret, director). Most Sacred Body, pays symbolic homage to seven aspects of the crucified body of Jesus. Kallembach combines Buxtehude’s 17th-century Membra Jesu nostri with visions from Milton’s epic masterpiece Paradise Lost to create a unique musical expression of the Passion.

https://www.gothic-catalog.com/product_p/g-49308.htm

The Incarnation Choir (Dallas) Scott Dettra, director: Choral Evensong for Eastertide. Evensong as specified in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, under the direction of Scott Dettra, former organist of the Washington National Cathedral. Includes Herbert Howells "Dallas" Evensong canticles.

https://www.gothic-catalog.com/product_p/g-49308.htm

University of St Thomas (Houston) Choir, Brady Knapp, director. December's Rose. Repertoire from the popular Lesson and Carols service at University of St. Thomas, with readings and music for both Advent and Christmas is presented here in the rich acoustics of the Chapel of St. Basil. David Ashley White's anthem, Hodie Christus Natus Est receives its recording premier on this album.

https://www.gothic-catalog.com/product_p/g-49312.htm

11/14/2018

New release from Bill Peterson on the Fisk organ at Pomona College on Friday! His program includes a number of previously unrecorded works. This is the first recording of the Fisk in Bridges Hall.

Here is a link to the Amazon/ArchivMusic pre-release page: https://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=2275897

Samples, downloads and CDs are also now available on the Gothic Web site:
https://www.gothic-catalog.com/product_p/lrcd-1140.htm

10/22/2018

Another major choral release this weekend! The Oregon Repertory Singers directed by Ethan Sperry: "Shadows on the Stars"! This album features composers from the Pacific Northwest, and particularly Morten Lauridsen (who has a home on the island next to mine). Lauridsen accompanies the choir on his own pieces. Their are numerous American and World Premiere Recordings on this album. Other NW composers include John Muehleisen, Joan Szymko, Giselle Wyers, Stacey Phillipps, Steven Goodwin and Naomi LaViolette.

And the choir is fantastic! This is a large ensemble -- 100+ -- that sound like 40 because their intonation is so good; yet they have the dynamic range and power of their actual size. Ethan Sperry has done miracles with this Portland-based ensemble.

This album is available now. A high-resolution download is also available, and the CD is offered with free shipping. Track samples and the booklet are available here:
https://www.gothic-catalog.com/product_p/g-49318.htm

The Gothic Catalog offers recordings from Loft Recordings, Gothic Records, reZound, Quilisma, Organeum, Priory, Pro Organo, Clarion Records and many others. These recordings represent the best in organ and choral music.

10/22/2018

We've just released a new recording on this organ which
has the oldest playing frontpipes in France (1568). Robert Bates plays Dances and Chansons from two books published by Pierre Attaingnant in 1531. Samples, and the complete online booklet are here: https://www.gothic-catalog.com/product_p/lrcd-1137.htm

The Gothic Catalog offers recordings from Loft Recordings, Gothic Records, reZound, Quilisma, Organeum, Priory, Pro Organo, Clarion Records and many others. These recordings represent the best in organ and choral music.

01/11/2018

Robert Bates' five CD set, "The Complete Organ Works of Correa de Arauxo" will be the sole subject of the first hour of Michael Barone's weekly radio program Pipedreams. The program can be heard here:

https://www.yourclassical.org/programs/pipedreams/episodes

The entire set was recorded on Spanish-influenced organs in the New World, including 17th-18th century organs in Mexico. The CD set includes a 120 page full-color book. Details can be found here:

https://www.gothic-catalog.com/Complete_Correa_p/lrcd-1141-45.htm

05/27/2017

Requiems for Memorial Day

05/16/2017

New Releases from The Gothic Catalog

04/14/2017

We are very pleased to announce that our recording of the Complete Organ Works of Jehan Titelouze, featuring the incredible artistry of Robert Bates, has won the Quarterly Critics Choice award in Germany, part of the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. The quarterly awards are for “new releases of outstanding importance”, and the recording will be a candidate for their annual award. Recordings are rated according to strict criteria: interpretation, artistic quality, repertoire value, presentation and sound quality.

The award included the following citation: "Jehan Titelouze, who lived from 1562 until 1633, was organist at the Cathedral of Rouen and is considered the father of French organ music. So far, there has not been a complete recording of his surviving work. This situation has now changed with the American Robert Bates brilliant performance on the restored 1630 organ at Saint-Michel in the Norman town of Bolbec.The instrument offers ideal conditions for Titelouze's great art of counterpoint, and Bates skillfully and imaginatively exploits all the possibilities. A magnificent organ, with sound full of rigor, poetry and depth, is captured by the perfect recording technology, revealing all dimensions of the Church acoustic."

https://www.gothic-catalog.com/Organ_Works_of_Jehan_Titelouze_p/lrcd-1120-22.htm

(or just type 1120 in the search tool)

12/14/2016

Even more distinctive recordings for the season

01/01/2016

Our new recording on Loft, "Bach: Under the Influence" (https://www.gothic-catalog.com/Bach_Under_the_Influence_p/lrcd-1156.htm) with Roger Sherman playing the Flentrop organ at Saint Mark's Cathedral, will be featured this weekend on the national radio program, Pipedreams (www.pipedreams.publicradio.org). It is the final piece in the program, and also the final track on the CD!

Live concert on the Flentrop organ of Saint Mark's Cathedral (Seattle) featuring composers that influenced Bach, and Bach influencing others. Roger Sherman, organist.

06/15/2015

The past week we recorded Joan Lippincott playing Orgelbuchlein on the Paul Fritts organ at Princeton Theological Seminary.

The recording was the first we have made in in multichannel DXD format. DXD is an ultra-high resolution format, with a sampling rate of 352.8k per second, with 24-bit samples. From the DXD master we can downsample to DSD or high-res PCM masters. The sound quality was extraordinary, as was Joan Lippincott and the organ!

04/26/2015

We've recently repressed a number of popular but older titles. From now through April 30 you can get these recordings for 30% off. Use the code repress15 at checkout to get your discount. Go to www.gothic-catalog.com/category_s/954.htm to see what we have! Supplies are limited--get them while you can!

The Gothic Catalog offers recordings from Loft Recordings, Gothic Records, reZound, Quilisma, Organeum, Priory, Pro Organo, Clarion Records and many others. These recordings represent the best in organ and choral music.

09/30/2014

Post Haste: Life Stories - an important new recording by Choral Arts (Seattle) http://www.gothic-catalog.com/Barnum_Life_Stories_p/g-49290.htm

Barnum is young composer with a large following among high school choirs, in addition to professional and collegiate choirs. He has received numerous awards and prestigious grants including the Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship and a McKnight Foundation Grant. He has also held residencies with Chora…