On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:53:54 -0500, Emmons, Paul <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>
> It had made for a most impressive contribution to the Great Cathedral
> Organ Series of recordings in the sixties.  The then organist Mr. Cook
> (What was his first name?  He later moved to Canada.) drew from it jaw-
> dropping accounts of Langlais' "Incantations pour un jour saint" and
> Jongen's "Sonata Eroica" among other works.
>

That would have been Melville Cook.

It was a wonderful recording and was my first introduction to both
the "Sonata Eroica" and also Durufle's "Prelude & Fugue sur le Nom
d'Alain"

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