Paul Jacobs and the Nashville Symphony present stirring performances of three remarkable American organ concertos, from Horatio Parker’s concerto of 1902 to Christopher Rouse’s of 2014. Parker owes much to his teacher, Rheinberger, and yet there is a clear emerging American voice. Over a hundred years later the concerto genre is transformed into a tour de force of inventive orchestration. Both Oquin and Rouse weave an innovative web of tightly-integrated textures between organ and instruments of the orchestra. For these pieces, the organ is brought closer into the mix and I must congratulate the engineer for capturing both orchestra and organ in exquisite detail. Jacobs concludes with Variations on 'America' by Parker’s pupil, Charles Ives.