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James Kibbie

holiday recordings


JAMES KIBBIE'S ANNUAL "AUDIO HOLIDAY CARDS,"

RECORDED ON HIS RESIDENCE ORGAN


The 2002 Recording:

Hugo Distler (1908-1942)

Variations on "Wo Gott zu Haus nit gibt sein Gunst"


Thema (Hans Leo Haßler, 1608)

1. Variation: Flinke

2. Variation: Ruhige

3. Variation: Mäßig rasche

4. Variation: Etwas breiter, aber immer noch fließende

5. Thema--Echo


"Where God gives not the house God's grace,

All labor there is done in vain;

Where God Guards not the city gates,

For naught is watchmen's might and main."

--trans. Karl Schrock

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Registrations:

Thema: I: 8, 4; Ped: 16, 8, I/P

1. Var.: I: 8, 1 1/3; II: 8, 2

2. Var.: I: 8; II: 8, 2

3. Var.: II: 2

4. Var: I: 8, 1 1/3; II: 8

5. Thema: All registers and couplers


Audio engineer: David Lau, Brookwood Studio

® 2002 James Kibbie

James Kibbie's residence organ, Orgues Létourneau Opus 7

Residence of James Kibbie and Gary Christensen, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Orgues Létourneau
St-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada
Opus 7, 2000

Manual I (58 notes):
Rohrflöte 8’
Principal 4’
Quintflöte 1 1/3'

Manual II (58 notes):
Gedackt 8’
Blockflöte 2'

Pedal (30 notes):
Subbass 16’
Bordun 8'

II/I
I/Pedal
II/Pedal
Tremulant

Mechanical key and stop action