Amarcord CD Reviews
"The CD, recorded on the fantastic French-style Austin Organ in Trinity College's Chapel, is a marvel of both playing and engineering. The recording is crystal clear and absolutely marvelous in terms of sound quality. The organ sounds in top form, and sounds for all the world like an Austin speaking French (fluently!).

Christopher Houlihan has played a very demanding program on this disc..... Taken at a very martial tempo, Widor's Allegro from the Sixth Symphony displays all the pomposity and grandeur due it. Christopher does a fantastic job of manipulating the instrument, with some very deft registration changes (made possible by the French-style registration aids on this instrument), and the glorious reeds are in full bloom here! The wonderful acoustic of the chapel is well suited to the tempo, and the full, muffled, Swell is absolutely stunning and powerful.

The Andante Sostenuto...is played with the ravishingly beautiful Harmonic Flute. One can clearly hear the inner voices and reed counter melody in this beautiful piece.

Christopher again displays clear mastery of the music, and an innate understanding of the composer's intentions....The Vierne 2nd Symphonie is played extremely well throughout...Christophers is certainly up to the task, and his communicative style makes for a wonderful rendition of the Symphonie.

This is a very fine release overall, and I do believe that more great things will come of Christopher Houlihan!" (Nicholas F. Russotto, Chiff-Chat, newsletter of the Springfield MA chapter of the American Guild of Organists)