Marcel Dupre's Prelude and Fugue in G minor

[redletterchurch]

Most people have no idea how difficult this sort of music really is. I bow before those who can properly play the most complex French Romanic Organ Music. Thank-you for a terrific performance! Namaste.

[MrBrysonD]

Great work! I performed that work at my undergraduate recital as well. It is fun to play and a great one to keep your technique going. I also learned the No. 1 in B major. You should be proud your performance was great!!!

[hangassli]

Monsiuer Dupre won a Prize for this composition that is considered one of the most famous and difficults ever written for the organ.Congratulations!

[titulaire1977]

A TREACHEROUSLY difficult piece! Way to manage the manual changes and the registration in the recit was RIGHT ON! AWESOME pedal technique, also! The audience, surely, had a treat with this one! BRAVO!

[zippylad77]

Excellent performance, and who cares about the odd mistake. The fact you can actually play this piece shows already you are a very accomplished player. And the fact you're playing it in a room with flat accoustics makes it even more harder, as you can't hide behind the reverb. As for Karlakor's comment, perhaps he can show us all the correct speed personally?? Well done!

[andretchaikowskycom]

Thanks for posting. I could really hear everything very clearly and well played.  Just love this piece.

Congrats on your skill. Dave

[YKW2]

Excellent pedal-work :D

[karlakor]

The acoustics here here are rather dry, but they allow the listener to hear the various lines of counterpoint. The Prelude was played at a good tempo, but the fugue is entirely too slow. Perhaps the organist knows the prelude a little better than he knows the fugue, hence the disparity in tempos.

[plays2live]

great job on this piece; I studied it with my teacher Dan Locklair and it took the majority of a semester to get under my fingers!

only criticism would be the acoustics- "carpet bedrooms, not churches"! the tempo spot-on too

[obxemt]

Lovely and well done.

[redletterchurch]

Wickedly difficult...and you played it well!

[Reesman95]

Didn't Widor say this peice was unplayable

[tjugofyra]

yes he did, but Marcel re:wrote it...

The first version of it was unplayable for everyone exept Widor and Dupre.

[chwidder]

Dupré rewrote it? What is your source for that claim, tjugofyra?

As for playability, my hunch is that even Widor would not have been able to play those works. Back in the 1910s, Dupré was still alone on the peaks of virtuosity he had managed to climb. The second person to play those P&Fs might have been Lynwood Farnam.

[tjugofyra]

To be honest, I don't remember! I did read it somewere but I don't think it's true anymore! My guess is that Widor didn't have any problem with the op7 P&F and that he was the second to play them.