FLAC (tracks +Booklet) | Classical | 78:03 | 1CD | 268 MbOn this new release, Charles Callahan plays a program of short, tuneful original organ works spanning the baroque to the 20th century on the great Kilgen organ of the Cathedra Basilica of St.

Louis, Missouri USA.

Charles Callahan, born 1951, is a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Callahan is well-known as an award-winning composer, organist, choral conductor, pianist, and teacher.

He is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia, Pa.

, and The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.

Additional study has been in England, France, Germany and Belgium.

He holds the Associate and Choirmaster certificates of the American Guild of Organists.

An active church musician and concert organist, Callahan has conducted many of the major choral works with orchestra and has performed on many of the great organs of the world.

He has a dozen solo organ recordings to his credit.

Callahan is an award-winning member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.

He has most recently been honored by the American Guild of Organists with its 2014 Distinguished Artist award, “”for his illustrious career as composer, performer, teacher and consultant, and his lifelong service to the sacred music profession.

Tracklist:1. Entrée dans le style Classique, for organ2. Aria for violin & organ3. Prelude for organ on ‘Dies Irae’ in E flat minor4. Pavane & 2 Galliards (‘The Earle of Salisbury’), for keyboard in A minor, No. 2 , MB 15: Pavane5. Air (Sarabande) in E major, HWV 4256. Work(s): Prelude in C7. Fugue for piano in A minor, KK IVc/2 (B. 144)8. Communion for organ in F major9. Prière (Prayer) for organ in C major10. Petite Pastorale, for organ11. Offertoire for organ in B minor12. Prelude for organ in F major13. Cantabilé, for organ14. Capriccio, for organ15. Marche nuptiale, for piano (or piano, 4 hands) in F major16. Pax Vobiscum (Peace be with You), for organ17. Miscellanies (12) for organ, Op. 174: Improvisation in B flat minor18. Organ Sonata No. 1: alla Pastorella19. Organ Sonata No. 2: Fugue on America20. Tansy, for organ21. Invocation for organ in E major22. Pastorale, for organ23. March, for organ, Op. 101