Gail Archer commemorates Liszt bicentennial with new recording

Gail Archer commemorates the 200th birthday of Franz Liszt with a new recording, Franz Liszt—A Hungarian Rhapsody (Meyer Media).



The program includes Ad nos ad salutarem undam, Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H, Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, Am Grabe Richard Wagners, and Liszt’s arrangement of the “Pilgrim’s Chorus” from Tannhäuser.



This marks Archer’s third composer-centric album release. In 2010, she paid homage to J.S. Bach’s 325th birthday in Bach the Transcendent Genius, and in 2008 to Olivier Messiaen with A Mystic in the Making.



Gail Archer holds a DMA in organ performance from the Manhattan School of Music and earned an artist diploma from the Boston Conservatory. She lives in New York City and is college organist at Vassar College and director of the music program at Barnard College, Columbia University.



For information:
www.gailarcher.com.