Here's what I'm listening to at the moment - please click on track 6 on Disc 2:
http://play.rhapsody.com/cesarfranck...layBounce=true
The instrument that this was recorded on was completely destroyed by a horrific fire in 1990 which also consumed the whole church building, leaving just a shell. This church(Katarina Kyrka = St. Catherine's Church) was rebuilt and finished in 1995 and the new organ got installed 2000. I witnessed the conflagration with tears streaming down my eyes since this Church is a part of my boyhood experience.
The new organ does not have any of the charm that the original instrument had. The original was built by Åkerman & Lund. Carl Åkerman had apprenticed with Aristide Cavaille-Coll in Paris and had been given the formulas for pipe construction, scaling, voicing, and tonal finishing used by Cavaille-Coll himself.
Here's what the Church looked like before and after the fire and after rebuilding:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...n%26safe%3Doff
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...rkan_View1.jpg
Looking at these pictures still put alot of pain in my heart but since the Church was rebuilt the healing process has begun.
Cheers,
Corno Dolce