Organ Recordings

Organ Recordings Until the introduction of electrical recording in the mid-1920s there was very little recording of the solo pipe organ. The earliest known is a cylinder made by Colonel Gouraud at Westminster Abbey in 1888, the organist being “Prof. Bridge.” There was organ accompaniment for a series of 15 sacred songs on Columbia two-minute cylinders made in early 1901. S.C. Porter was the singer, but the organist is not named. The first of the series was Nearer My God, to Thee (#31356)…