Gail Archer: Publications & CDs



	Chernivtsi A Recording of Contemporary Ukrainian Organ Music Gail Archer, organ Click here to read the press release


	The Diapason The Muse's Voice: A Musforum Conference Article in The Diapason magazine by Gail Archer discussing The Muse's Voice conference. Gail Archer, author Click here to read article


	*The Muse's Voice* Gail Archer, organ Meyer Media Now Available BUY MP3s



	The International Alliance for Women in Music Journal The Muse's Voice: A Survey of Women Organists in North America Article outlining a 2012 survey conducted by Gail Archer. Gail Archer, author Click here to read article



	*Franz Liszt, A Hungarian Rhapsody* Gail Archer, organ Meyer Media Now Available BUY CD



	*Bach the Transcendent Genius* Gail Archer, organ Meyer Media Recorded on the Fritts organ at Vassar College in celebration of Bach's 325th birthday, released February 2010. BUY CD BUY MP3s



	*Mendelssohn in the Romantic Century* Gail Archer, organ Meyer Media This mp3 release was recorded live in concert at some of the most cherished synagogues of New York City, including Central Synagogue, Temple Emanu-El and St. Paul's Chapel,Columbia University, in a concert series celebrating the bicentinnial of composer Felix Mendelssohn. BUY MP3s



	*An American Idyll* Gail Archer, organ Meyer Media Parker, Noon, Tower, Sowerby, and Persichetti – All American composers come together on Gail Archer’s latest organ recording to prove that your Idyll is not far. Join us for an experience you will want to listen to over and over by ordering your copy today! BUY CD Listen to MP3 samples:

	1 ASCENT FOR ORGAN by Joan Tower

	*SONATA IN E-FLAT MINOR* by Horatio Parker
		2 Allegro moderato
		3 Andante
		4 Allegro
		5 Fugue

	6 *PRAELUDIUM SUPER "PANGE LINGUA" Op. 200* by David Noon

	*SONATINA* by Leo Sowerby
		7 In a placid and easy going manner
		8 Very slowly
		9 Fast and perky

	*ORGAN SONATA* by Vincent Persichetti
		10 Andante
		11 Larghetto
		12 Vivace



	A Mystic In the Making – Music of Olivier Messiaen Gail Archer, organ Meyer Media Ms. Archer's second solo album, A Mystic In The Making was recorded on the Aeolian-Skinner Pipe Organ at Columbia University’s St. Paul Chapel, produced and engineered by Grammy Award winner Andreas K. Meyer and features L’Ascension and Les Corps Glorieux by Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992). Read reviews BUY CD Listen to MP3 samples:

	L’ASCENSION (1933)
		1 I. Majesté du Christ demandant sa gloire à son Père
		2 II. Alléluias sereins d’une âme qui désire le ciel
		3 III. Transports de joie d’une âme devant la gloire du Christ qui est la sienne
		4 IV. Pière du Christ montant vers son Père

	LES CORPS GLORIEUX (1939)
		5 I. Subtilité des Corps Glorieux
		6 II. Les Eaux de la Grâce
		7 III. L’Ange aux Parfums
		8 IV. Combat de la Mort et de la Vie
		9 V. Force et Agilité des Corps Glorieux
		10 IV. Joie et Clarté des Corps Glorieux
		11 VII. Le Mystère de la Sainte Trinité



	*The Orpheus of Amsterdam* *Sweelinck and his Pupils* Gail Archer, organ Cala Records (CACD88043) Ms. Archer's solo debut album was recorded on the Fisk organ at Wellesley College and it features music by Sweelinck, Scheidt and Scheidemann. Read reviews BUY CD BUY MP3s Listen to MP3 samples:

	1 TOCCATA IN C by Sweelinck

	*ECHO AD MANUALE DUPLEX, FORTE & LENE* by Scheidt
		2 Echo ad manuale duplex, forte & lene
		3 Echo alio modo... antus variante

	*MAGNIFICAT VII TONI* by Scheidemann
		4 Versus 1
		5 Versus 2
		6 Versus auff 2 Clavier
		7 Versus pedaliter

	8 MALLE SIJMEN by Sweelinck

*EST-CE MARS* by Scheidt
		9 Thema-Est-ce Mars
		10 Variatio a 4 voci in cantu
		11 Variatio a 4 voci in cantu colorato
		12 Variatio bicinium in cantu
		13 Variatio a 4 voci triplici contrapuncto
		14 Variatio a 4 voci in cantu colorato
		15 Variatio bicinium duplici contrapuncto
		16 Variatio a 3 voci in cantu colorato
		17 Variatio a 3 voci in cantu colorato
		18 Variatio a 3 voci in basso colorato
		19 Variatio a 4 voci in cantu colorato

	20 RICERCAR by Sweelinck


	Words of Albert Schweitzer and the Music of Bach Gail Archer, Organ Thurston Moore created this musical dramatization using the philosophical writings of Albert Schweitzer (organ theorist, organist, physician, philosopher, editor of Bach's organ works, 1952 Nobel Peace Prize laureate) interspersed with Bach organ works and 276 images viewed by the audience. On this CD, Robert Thurman speaks the text and Gail Archer performs the seven organ works. BUY CD BACH: Toccata in d, BWV 565 Savior of the Nations, Come, BWV 659 Blessed Jesus, We Are Here, BWV 731 By the Waters of Babylon, BWV 653 Kyrie, God Holy Ghost, BWV 671 Sonata (Andante), BWV 527 Triple Fugue in E-flat, BWV 552


	Gail Archer Live in Concert The artist plays four great American organs, the Fisk at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, the Fritts at the University of Arizona, Tempe, the Taylor and Boody at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA and the Aeolian-Skinner at St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, New York City. *A complimentary copy available upon recital request.* *Email booking@sozomedia.com.* March 10, 2002 The College of the Holy Cross, Worchester, MA Taylor & Boody Organ *Fantasia super Komm Heiliger Geist* Sch�cke dich, o liebe Seele by Johann Sebastian Bach March 21, 2001 Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA Fisk Organ Magnificat VII. Toni by Heinrich Scheidemann October 29, 2000 Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Paul Fritts Organ Ciacona in E minor by Dietrich Buxtehude June 3, 2004 L�Organo Piccolo Spoleto, St. Matthew Lutheran Church, Charleston, SC Austin Organ Sonata VI by Felix Mendelssohn Vater unser in Himmelreich: chorale variations, Chorale in a minor by Cesar Franck L�Ascension - II. Alleluias sereins d�une ami qui desire le ciel by Olivier Messaien L�Ascension - III. Transports de joie d�une ame devant la gloire du Christ by Olivier Messaien


	Barbara Strozzi, Cantate, Ariete a Una, Due e Tre Voci w/ accompanying CD: Barnard Strozzi, Arias & Duets Edited by Gail Archer Barbara Strozzi, a unique, feminine figure in a compositional field dominated by such contemporaries as Giacomo Carissimi, Luigi Rossi, Marc’ Antonio Cesti, and Mario Savioni, stands out for the high quality of her vocal publications: seven volumes of secular works and one of sacred music. Compared with Carissimi and Rossi, who published about three percent of their output, Strozzi supervised the publication of just over one hundred works herself, more than any other seventeenth-century composer. Further, she occupied a singularly fortunate social position as the adopted (and very likely illegitimate) daughter of the distinguished Venetian playwright and poet Giulio Strozzi (1583-1652). His intellectual milieu was the Accademia degli Incogniti, a group of philosophers, poets, historians, and clergy who published widely and were a major political and cultural force in Venice. Cantate, ariete una due et tre voci, Op. 3, published by Gardano in 1654, contains eleven cantatas: six solo cantatas for soprano, one duet for soprano and bass, two duets for soprano and alto, and two trios for soprano, alto, and bass. The texts may have been written by the founder of the Incogniti, Giovanni Francesco Loredano. The process of making the modern edition included transcribing the music from seventeenth-century notation and clefs to modern graphic symbols, correcting errors in accidentals, adding regular bar lines, as well as translating the poetry from Italian to English and making decisions about the placement of the original Italian text syllables under specific notes.