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5 hours ago

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (Thomas Heywood, Melbourne Town Hall)

Australian concert organist Thomas Heywood plays his arrangement of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy [from the "Nutcracker"...

5 hours ago

Sergei Rachmaninoff - Prelude in C Sharp Minor (Thomas Heywood, Melbourne Town Hall)

Australian concert organist Thomas Heywood plays Sergei Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C Sharp Minor (as arranged by Arthur Eaglefield Hull) on the 1929...

5 hours ago

Louis Vierne - Communion, Opus 8 (Daniel Roth, Saint Ouen, Rouen)

Un petit bon-bon religieuse de Louis Vierne! This piece, known only as "Communion", is one of Vierne's earliest works and is especially intriguing ...

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Nadia Boulanger - Petit Canon (Daniel Roth, Saint Ouen, Rouen)

Nadia Boulanger (1886-1979) wrote this "Petit Canon" in 1912. Here it is performed by Daniel Roth on the 1890 Cavaillé-Coll organ in the Abbey Chur...

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Nadia Boulanger - Prélude in F minor (Daniel Roth, Saint Ouen, Rouen)

Nadia Boulanger (1886-1979) wrote this Prelude in 1912. Here it is performed by Daniel Roth on the 1890 Cavaillé-Coll organ in the Abbey Church of ...

5 hours ago

Olivier Messiaen - l'Apparition de l'Église éternelle (Daniel Roth, Saint Ouen, Rouen)

L'Apparition de l'Église éternelle is one of Olivier Messiaen's earliest organ works and also the largest of his stand-alone pieces. Here it is per...

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Jehan Alain - Variations sur Lucis Creator (Daniel Roth, Saint Ouen, Rouen)

Jehan Alain's "Variations sur Lucis Creator", performed by Daniel Roth on the 1890 Cavaillé-Coll organ in the Abbey Church of Saint Ouen, Rouen. Th...

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Jehan Alain - Trois Danses [2/3] - Deuils (Christophe Mantoux, Saint Ouen, Rouen)

"Deuils" [Mourning], the second movement of Jehan Alain's last masterwork, his Trois Danses, performed by Christophe Mantoux on the 1890 Cavaillé-C...

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Jehan Alain - Trois Danses [1/3] - Joies (Christophe Mantoux, Saint Ouen, Rouen)

"Joies" [Joys], the first movement of Jehan Alain's last masterwork, his Trois Danses, performed by Christophe Mantoux on the 1890 Cavaillé-Coll or...

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Jehan Alain - Trois Danses [3/3] - Luttes (Christophe Mantoux, Saint Ouen, Rouen)

"Luttes" [Strife], the third and last movement of Jehan Alain's last masterwork, his Trois Danses, performed by Christophe Mantoux on the 1890 Cava...

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Jehan Alain - Intermezzo (Christophe Mantoux, Saint Ouen, Rouen)

Jehan Alain's "Intermezzo", performed by Christophe Mantoux on the 1890 Cavaillé-Coll organ in the Abbey Church of Saint Ouen, Rouen. The recording...

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Jehan Alain - Lamento (Christophe Mantoux, Saint Ouen, Rouen)

Jehan Alain's "Lamento", performed by Christophe Mantoux on the 1890 Cavaillé-Coll organ in the Abbey Church of Saint Ouen, Rouen. The recording is...

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Jehan Alain - Choral Dorien (Christophe Mantoux, Saint Ouen, Rouen)

Jehan Alain's Choral Dorien (Chorale in the Dorian Mode), performed by Christophe Mantoux on the 1890 Cavaillé-Coll organ in the Abbey Church of Sa...

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Jehan Alain - Climat (Christophe Mantoux, Saint Ouen, Rouen)

Jehan Alain's "Climat", performed by Christophe Mantoux on the 1890 Cavaillé-Coll organ in the Abbey Church of Saint Ouen, Rouen. The recording is ...

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Jehan Alain - Deuxieme Fantaisie (Christophe Mantoux, Saint Ouen, Rouen)

Jehan Alain's Deuxieme Fantaisie (the second of two - the clue is in the name!), performed by Christophe Mantoux on the 1890 Cavaillé-Coll organ in...

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Jehan Alain - Choral Phrygien (Christophe Mantoux, Saint Ouen, Rouen)

Jehan Alain's Choral Phrygien (Chorale in the Phrygian Mode), performed by Christophe Mantoux on the 1890 Cavaillé-Coll organ in the Abbey Church o...

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Jehan Alain - Petite Pièce (Christophe Mantoux, Saint Ouen, Rouen)

Jehan Alain's Petite Pièce, performed by Christophe Mantoux on the 1890 Cavaillé-Coll organ in the Abbey Church of Saint Ouen, Rouen. The recording...

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Jehan Alain - Variations sur un thème de Clément Jannequin (Pierre Segond, Saint-Pierre, Geneva)

This piece, one Jehan Alain's earliest, "Variations sur un thème de Clément Jannequin", is actually no such thing. Scholarship since Alain's death ...

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Jehan Alain - Le Jardin Suspendu (Pierre Segond, Saint-Pierre, Geneva)

This piece depicts the legendary Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Josephus (ca. 37--100 AD) quoted Berossus, a Babylonian priest of Marduk who lived in ...

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Jehan Alain - Litanies (Pierre Segond, Saint-Pierre, Geneva)

This piece, arguably Jehan Alain's most famous, "Litanies", is prefaced with the text: "When, in its distress, the Christian soul can find no more ...

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Maurice Duruflé - Fugue sur le nom d'ALAIN (André Isoir, Saint Sernin, Toulouse) [2/2]

This is the Fugue from Maurice Duruflé's Prelude et Fugue sur le nom d'Alain, a work written in anguished tribute to a fallen colleague, French org...

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Maurice Duruflé - Prelude sur le nom d'ALAIN (André Isoir, Saint Sernin, Toulouse) [1/2]

This is the Prelude from Maurice Duruflé's Prelude et Fugue sur le nom d'Alain, a work written in anguished tribute to a fallen colleague, French o...

6 hours ago

Tournemire - Pastorale (André Isoir, Saint Sernin, Toulouse)

This is the fifth of six pieces which form Charles Tournemire (1870-1939)'s early (1902) Suite de Morceaux, Opus 19 & 24.

This recording is taken ...

6 hours ago

Louis Vierne - Toccata in B♭ Minor - (André Isoir, Saint Sernin, Toulouse)

This famous Toccata is the last of six pieces which form Suite II of Louis Vierne's Vingt-Quatre Pièces de Fantaisie, Opus 53.

This recording is t...

6 hours ago

Louis Vierne - Impromptu (André Isoir, Saint Sernin, Toulouse)

This lovely little piece, entitled "Impromptu", is the second of six pieces which form Suite III of Louis Vierne's Vingt-Quatre Pièces de Fantaisie...

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Jean-Jacques Grunenwald - Final (Jean-Claude Raynaud, Saint Sernin, Toulouse)

This piece, simply entitled 'Final', is by Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, one of Marcel Dupré's most famous pupils and successor to the same at Saint-Sul...

6 hours ago

Gaston Litaize - Priere (Jean-Claude Raynaud, Saint Sernin, Toulouse)

This piece, entitled "Priere" [Prayer], by the blind Parisian organist Gaston Litaize (1909-1991), pupil of Louis Vierne and Marcel Dupré, is the n...

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Olivier Messiaen - Le Vent de l'Espirit (Jean-Claude Raynaud, Saint Sernin, Toulouse)

Next Sunday is Pentecost so I think I can call this festive! Olivier Messiaen's "Le Vent de l'Espirit" ["The Wind of the Spirit"], the last movemen...

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Olivier Messiaen - Les Oiseaux et les Sources (Jean-Claude Raynaud, Saint Sernin, Toulouse)

Next Sunday is Pentecost so I think I can call this festive! Olivier Messiaen's "Les Oiseaux et Les Sources" ["The Birds and the Springs"], the las...

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Olivier Messiaen - Les Eaux de la Grâce (Jean-Claude Raynaud, Saint Sernin, Toulouse)

Olivier Messiaen's "Les Eaux de la Grâce" ["The Waters of Grace"], the second of nine movements which form his early organ cycle "Les Corps Glorieu...

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Olivier Messiaen - Desseins Eternels (Jean-Claude Raynaud, Saint Sernin, Toulouse)

Olivier Messiaen's "Desseins Eternels" ["Eternal designs"], the third of nine movements which form his early organ cycle "La Nativité du Seigneur"....

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Olivier Messiaen - Transports de Joie (Jean-Claude Raynaud, Saint Sernin, Toulouse)

Well, it's only a day after Sunday within the Octave of Ascension so I think I can still call this festive! Olivier Messiaen's "Transports de joie ...

6 hours ago

Jean Langlais - Evocation (Jean-Claude Raynaud, Saint Sernin, Toulouse)

This is the last of three pieces by the blind Parisian organist Jean Langlais (1907-1991), pupil of and successor to Charles Tournemire at Saint Cl...

6 hours ago

Duruflé Suite Opus 5 - Toccata - Julien Bret - Saint Ouen, Rouen (3/3)

Maurice Duruflé (11 January 1902 -- 16 June 1986), one of the most gifted pupils of Charles Tournemire, wrote this Suite in 1932. This, the famous ...

6 hours ago

Duruflé Suite Opus 5 - Sicilienne - Julien Bret - Saint Ouen, Rouen (2/3)

Maurice Duruflé (11 January 1902 -- 16 June 1986), one of the most gifted pupils of Charles Tournemire, wrote this Suite in 1932. This, the Sicilie...

6 hours ago

Duruflé Suite Opus 5 - Prélude - Julien Bret - Saint Ouen, Rouen (1/3)

Maurice Duruflé (11 January 1902 -- 16 June 1986), one of the most gifted pupils of Charles Tournemire, wrote this Suite in 1932. This, the Prélude...

  • 2 weeks ago

    Three new videos uploaded to my other account [AnOrganCornucopia] - a fabulous recording of the Duruflé Suite at Saint-Ouen, Rouen! Enjoy - and PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THAT ACCOUNT!!!

6 hours ago

Charles Tournemire - "Victimae Paschali Laudes" (Julien Bret)

Julien Bret plays Charles Tournemire's improvisation on "Victimae Paschali Laudes" (as reconstituted by Maurice Duruflé) on the 1890 Cavaillé-Coll ...

6 hours ago

Karg-Elert - Valse Mignonne

A delightful miniature by the criminally-underrated Sigfrid Karg-Elert - played by English organist Jonathan Holmes with his customary style and pa...

6 hours ago

Rawsthorne - Dance Suite

A delightful piece by English organist and composer Noel Rawsthorne - played by Jonathan Holmes with his customary style and panache upon the magni...

6 hours ago

Bossi - Étude Symphonique

Marco Enrico Bossi (1861-1925) - Étude Symphonique, Op. 78, played by English organist Jonathan Holmes with his customary style and panache upon th...

6 hours ago

Dupré - Suite Bretonne - (3) - Les Cloches de Perros-Guirec

The third and last part of a three-piece suite of delightful miniatures by Marcel Dupré - played by English organist Julie Ainscough upon the magni...

6 hours ago

Dupré - Suite Bretonne - (2) - Fileuse

The second part of a three-piece suite of delightful miniatures by Marcel Dupré - played by English organist Julie Ainscough upon the magnificent 1...

6 hours ago

Dupré - Suite Bretonne - (1) - Berceuse

The first part of a three-piece suite of delightful miniatures by Marcel Dupré - played by English organist Julie Ainscough upon the magnificent 18...

6 hours ago

Saint-Saëns: Danse Macabre (arranged for organ by E. H. Lemare)

Camille Saint-Saëns' very well-known Danse Macabre, in the form of an almost equally well-known transcription by Edwin Lemare, played by English or...

6 hours ago

Ralph Vaughan Williams - A Vision of Aeroplanes - Finzi Singers/Spicer, Bicket

Performed by the Finzi Singers, director Paul Spicer, organist Harry Bicket, in the church of Saint Alban the Martyr, Holborn, London, on 26th & 27...

6 hours ago

Liszt - Funerailles (Pierre Labric on the organ of Saint-Ouen, Rouen)

A stupendous performance of Funérailles, a huge piano piece (the seventh of the 'Harmonies poétiques et religieuses') by Franz Liszt (as transcribe...

1 week ago

Simon Johnson 'at illi succlamabant dicentes'

Simon Johnson writes:

....at illi succlambant dicentes was the sixth of a set of improvised meditations that I gave in St. Alban's Cathedral during...

TheMysticalOrgan TheMysticalOrgan commented:

Was commenting there on Wolverhampton Civic - an organ which was never intended to be a theatre organ, where the theatre ranks don't sit well with the rest. In a proper theatre organ, they fit in far better - though the Kinura is a sound I don't particularly enjoy. Anyway, I've recently helped pu...

1 week ago

Europe - The Final Countdown (orgue freestyle)

Cathédrale St Vincent - Mâcon (France, 71)

http://www.orguest.fr/

TheMysticalOrgan TheMysticalOrgan commented:

I'd be interested to hear what you know about organ tuning. The uploader himself agreed with me (and identified a particular rank which was out of tune), which I think says a lot.

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