Gordon Turk - Summer Echoes (2021)

Gordon Turk plays the 205-rank organ on 5 manuals and pedal at the Ocean Grove (New Jersey) Auditorium, a beachfront building constructed in 1894 to accommodate audiences of 10,000 or more at the Methodist camp meeting grounds. Originally built in 1908 by Robert Hope-Jones as "the largest organ in the world" with 14 ranks of pipes playing on enormous wind pressures (up to 50") and contained in four concrete swell boxes bearing thick, lead-covered swell shades, the organ was enlarged over the years to conform more closely to the expectations of musicians and needs of the concert series which occurs every summer at Ocean Grove. Tremendous sound!