E. Power Biggs

For his contribution to the recording industry, Biggs has a star on California's Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6522 Hollywood Boulevard. He mainly recorded solo organ music, but there are recordings of Biggs collaborating with singers and instrumentalists, for example in the music of Giovanni Gabrieli. Biggs recorded extensively for the Columbia Masterworks Records and RCA Victor labels for more than three decades. He was represented by Mercury Music in the 1950s. • Works for Organ: Essential Classics (1961) • Bach: Organ Favorites recorded on the Flentrop Organ in the Busch-Reisinger Museum of Harvard University, MS 6261 (1961) • The Golden Age of the Organ, Columbia Masterworks ML-5754 (1962) (A tribute to German organ builder Arp Schnitger), organs in Germany and the Netherlands (1963) • Heroic Music for Organ, Brass and Percussion, Columbia Masterworks M2S 697 • Bach Organ Favorites, Vol. 2, Columbia Masterworks MS 6748 (1965) • Mozart: The Music for Solo Organ—Played on the "Mozart" organ at Haarlem, Columbia Masterworks MS 6856 (1966) • Bach Organ Favorites, Vol. 3, Columbia Masterworks MS 7108 (1968) • E. Power Biggs' Greatest Hits, Columbia Masterworks MS 7269 (1969) • Bach Organ Favorites, Vol. 4, Columbia Masterworks MS 7424 (1970) • Plays Bach in the Thomaskirche, Columbia Masterworks M30648 (1971) • Bach Organ Favorites, Vol. 5, Columbia Masterworks M 31424 (1972) • Bach Organ Favorites, Vol. 6, Columbia Masterworks M 32791 (1974) • Bach: Four Great Toccatas & Fugues (Cathedral of Freiburg), Columbia Masterworks M 32933 (1974) • Bach Eight Little Preludes and Concerto in D after Vivaldi, Columbia Masterworks M 33975 (1975) • Stars and Stripes Forever: Two Centuries of Heroic Music in America, Columbia Masterworks 81507 (1976) • Variations on Popular Songs, Columbia Masterworks AMS 6337 • A Festival of French Organ Music, Columbia Masterworks MS 6307 • Buxtehude at Lüneburg, Columbia Masterworks MS 6944 • The Organ in America, Columbia Masterworks MS 6161 • Historic Organs of England, Columbia Masterworks M 30445 • Historic Organs of France, Columbia Masterworks MS 7438 • Historic Organs of Italy, Columbia Masterworks MS 7379 • Historic Organs of Spain, Columbia Masterworks MS 7109 • Historic Organs of Switzerland, Columbia Masterworks MS 6855 • The Four Antiphonal Organs of the Cathedral of Freiburg, Columbia Masterworks M 33514 (music of Handel, Purcell, Mozart, Buxtehude, et al.) • Bach on the Pedal Harpsichord, Columbia Masterworks MS 6804 • Bach: The Six Trio Sonatas (Pedal Harpsichord), Columbia Masterworks M2S 764 • Holiday for Harpsichord, Columbia Masterworks ML 6728 • A Mozart Organ Tour, Columbia Masterworks K3L 231 • Bach: The Little Organ Book, Columbia Masterworks KSL 227 • The Art of the Organ, Columbia Masterworks KSL 219, recorded on twenty different European organs. • Heroic Music for Organ, Brass, and Percussion, Columbia Masterworks MS 6354 • Mozart: Festival Sonatas for Organ and Orchestra, Columbia Masterworks MS 6857 • Haydn: The Three Organ Concertos, Columbia Masterworks MS 6682 • The Magnificent Mr. Handel, Columbia Masterworks M 30058 • The Organ in Sight and Sound, Columbia Masterworks KS 7263 (A technical discussion of the organ and its history) • The Organ Concertos of Handel, Nos. 1–6, Columbia Masterworks K2S 602 (with Sir Adrian Boult) • The Organ Concertos of Handel, Nos. 7–12, Columbia Masterworks K2S 604 (with Sir Adrian Boult) • The Organ Concertos of Handel, Nos. 13–16, Columbia Masterworks K2S 611 (with Sir Adrian Boult) • The Organ, Columbia Masterworks DL 5288 • Bach at Zwolle, Columbia Masterworks KS-6005 • Hindemith: Three Sonatas For Organ, Columbia Masterworks MS 6234 • Famous Organs of Holland and North Germany, Columbia Masterworks M31961 • Music of Jubilee, Columbia Masterworks ML 6015 (Bach Sinfonias, with Zoltan Rozsnyai) • Soler: Six Concerti for Two Organs, Columbia Masterworks ML 5608 (with Daniel Pinkham) • Plays Scott Joplin on the Pedal Harpsichord, Columbia Masterworks M32495 • Heroic Music for Organ, Brass & Percussion, Columbia Masterworks MS 6354 (with the New England Brass Ensemble) • Music for Organ and Brass: Canzonas of Gabrieli and Frescobaldi, Columbia Masterworks MS 6117 • Music for Organ, Brass and Percussion: Music of Gigout, Dupré, Campra, Widor, Strauss, Purcell, Clarke, and Karg-Elert, Columbia Masterworks M31193 (with the Columbia Brass and Percussion Ensemble, Maurice Peress, conductor) • Mendelssohn in St. Paul's Cathedral, Columbia Masterworks MS 6087 • The Glory of Gabrieli Columbia Masterworks MS-7071 • What Child Is This? Traditional Christmas Music, Columbia Masterworks MS 7164 • Bach: Toccata in D Minor, Bach's Toccata in D Minor recorded on 14 of Europe's finest organs, Columbia Masterworks ML 5032 • Rheinberger: Two Concertos For Organ and Orchestra, Columbia Masterworks M32297

• Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance (other than opera) • Vittorio Negri (conductor), George Bragg, Gregg Smith, (choir directors), E. Power Biggs, the Edward Tarr Ensemble, the Gregg Smith Singers & the Texas Boys Choir for The Glory of Gabrieli (Music For Multiple Choirs, Brass And Organ) • Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance • Vittorio Negri (conductor), E. Power Biggs & the Edward Tarr Ensemble, for The Glory of Gabrieli Vol. II (Canzonas for Brass, Winds, Strings and Organ)