Jack Mitchener makes the very first recording of the three-movement Concerto in G minor for solo organ by Graun (contemporary of C.P.E. Bach) and plays other works on the largest existing pipe organ built by America’s first organbuilder, David Tannenberg (1728-1804), at Old Salem Museums & Gardens, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

For this recording, the organ wind was raised entirely by human pumping of the bellows, now more than two centuries old.

Track listing:

1. Toccata primo tono for keyboard in D minor

2. Canzon 'La pace', for consort (Partito de Ricercar et Canzoni)

3. Il secondo libro de toccate, canzone...di cimbalo et organo, No.1, Toccata Prima in G minor

4. Ciacona, for organ in F minor, T. 206

5. Pastorale for organ in F major, BWV 590 (BC J81): Movement 1

6. Pastorale for organ in F major, BWV 590 (BC J81): Movement 2

7. Pastorale for organ in F major, BWV 590 (BC J81): Movement 3

8. Pastorale for organ in F major, BWV 590 (BC J81): Movement 4

9. Schmücke Dich, O Liebe Seel for organ & oboe

10. Wer Nun Den Lieben Gott Lasst Walten

11. Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier (IV), chorale prelude for organ, BWV 730 (BC K133)

12. Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier (V), chorale prelude for organ, BWV 731 (BC K134)

13. Sonata for organ in D major, H. 86, Wq. 70/5: Allegro di molto

14. Sonata for organ in D major, H. 86, Wq. 70/5: Adagio e mesto

15. Sonata for organ in D major, H. 86, Wq. 70/5: Allegro

16. Work(s): Flötenstücke: Allegro

17. Work(s): Flötenstücke: Andante

18. Work(s): Flötenstücke: Menuetto

19. Work(s): Flötenstücke: Presto

20. Work(s): Concerto in G minor: (Allegro)

21. Work(s): Concerto in G minor: Adagio

22. Work(s): Concerto in G minor: Allegro

David Tannenberg (1728–1804) was America’s first native-trained builder of pipe organs—he built at least 40. Emigrating to America in 1749, he settled with fellow members of the Moravian Church in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, working as a joiner. Tannenberg synthesized a German-American style of pipe organ that was preserved and promulgated through succeeding generations of organ builders in Pennsylvania. Tannenberg’s style was based on characteristics of organs located in the central German area where J. S. Bach (1685–1750) grew up and worked. Fading with time in Germany, these characteristics remained intact in Pennsylvania for another century following Bach’s death.

Jack Mitchener is Organist and Artist-in-Residence at the Cathedral of St Philip in Atlanta, GA.