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   in Choir & Organ (Jul, 2015)
The enormous (125 stop) 1930 Steinmeyer organ in Norway’s National Cathedral has suffered from seemingly endless vicissitudes of luck in its comparatively short history. Although intended for the west end when built, this portion of the church had yet to be completed on delivery from Germany. As a consequence it was squeezed into the north transept until 1960, when it was finally moved to its intended location. At the same time it suffered some particularly brutal neo-classical torture of the sort meted out to so many organs of the era. Much was lost, much put into storage (including, remarkably, the solo division, ordered wholesale by Steinmeyer from Henry Willis III and …