Todd Wilson - In A Quiet Cathedral (1994)

One of America’s greatest organists, Todd Wilson, offers a unique stress-reducer for all ages and an ideal introduction to the organ for young people. Recorded in one of America’s most beautiful cathedrals, this album contains music of melodic simplicity: appealing to all and accessible to the young. This collection is meant to recreate an experience many of us have treasured: slipping inside the heavy doors of a cathedral and finding oneself alone in a vast, quiet space with light streaming through stained glass windows. Then an organist begins to play gentle music, and one is lost in contemplation, as the cares of the day begin to fade… Listeners will feel the vastness of the cathedral space, and the enormous range of the organ, but will not feel overpowered. This is not a jolt-you-out-of-your-chair program, but rather a warm, enveloping one. Todd Wilson’s notes for this album are meant to help introduce listeners of all ages to the organ and to some of the great masterpieces written for this ‘King of Instruments.’ As Neil Stannard says in his introduction to the Young People’s section of the booklet: ‘If you are not already in your favorite place of comfort and solitude, then, if you close your eyes and open your heart, the music will take you there.”