French Organ Music

French Organ Music

French Organ Music

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Composer: Alexandre Guilmant
Composer: Louis Vierne
Composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Composer: Jean Langlais
Composer: Joseph Bonnet
Composer: Paul Malengreau
Composer: Leon Boellmann
Composer: Charles-Marie Widor
Performer: Simon Lindley
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1994-02-15
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:

Grand Choeur
Berceuse
Te Deum
Trois Meditations: Pater Noster
Trois Meditations: Noel Nouvelet
Trois Meditations: Veni, Creator Spiritus
Epitaph
Romance
Ste Mariale: Paraphrase I
Ste Mariale: Paraphrase II
Ste Mariale: Paraphrase III
Ste Mariale: Paraphrase Iv
Ste Gothique
Stele pour un enfant defunt
Cantilen-Pastoral, Op.19
Toccata: (Sym No.5)

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Music Review: More Great Organ Music
Rating: 4 Stars

This album evokes the France of the 19th century with her muscular Catholicism, international reputation (despite a drubbing by the Germans in 1870) and air of cultural superiority. Today that Catholicism, indeed, Christianty itself is rapidly disappearing and few take France seriously on the international stage but one can relish in the glorious past. The organists of this time formed a school - ultra-Romantic, original, technically unsurpassed - all made possible by the incredible Cavaillé-Coll organs that literally turned the organ world upside down. For the first time - despite Rheinberger's and Reger's attempts - a true "symphonic" sound was possible for the instrument.

Most all of these are familiar works adn that is a source for a complaint. Why oh why do we ALWAYS get the Vierne First and the Widor Fifth?? Sometimes, the "powers that be" get daring and insert parts of Widor's Fourth or Sixth. Just thinking of the final movement of the Fourth (Vierne) with its almost unearthly "rapture" (as a reviewer so aptly put it) or the Toccato of the Widor seventh makes one wish for a broadening of the offerings to the general public.

The performance was good, semi-inspired, the sound adequate. I hate to leave on a down note for afterall, this was a good CD, but when you have "ultimates" out there with which to compare....
For example, the Suite Gothique lacked the fire that is found in other recordings and even the Guilmant seemed more forced than inspired.

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