If you are interested in listening to good audio quality recordings of the amazing sound of the organ of Nantes Cathedral, you can visit my channel: there's music by Moreau, Bach, Reger and Sløgedal performed by me on that wonderful instrument. Its history: Girardet (1619), Lépine (1768), Clicquot (1784), Merklin (1866), Debierre-Gloton (1933), Beuchet-Debierre (1971).
Thanks for the recording. My distant relative architect St. Felix Seheult was responsible for completing the cathedrale in the mid 1800s. I was blessed to be able to give a concert there in 2006 on the organ. It is a wonderful instrument with electropneumatic action. I've posted a clip on you tube of me playing tocatta and fugue in d minor by JSB.
I suspect there's not much of the Cliquot left, given the number of renovations over the years & the damage from the 1943 bombing by the British. The 1971 renovation was done by Beuchet-Debierre, whose shop is in Nantes.
Yes after Ben Van Oosten's Widor and Vierne Intégrales on it, (Thomas Trotter's nice 1992 Widor as well) this 2000 recording is perhaps the nicest sound-wise for me; it is on the Calliope label you certainly know, (and may still order I believe) and Veronique LeGuen is from Rennes and studied with both Susan Landale and Michel Chapuis; her recording coming along as well with Boellman's "2e Suite"; I really recommend you ordering this CD, it is Calliope's "cal9935". Talk to you later!
Beuchet-Debierre from Nantes redid this organ in 1971; (look for Mr.a55b47's comment box on the video) therefore you really don't hear much of the Clicquot in this Elegie! (much more of 1971!) I have and there is this very nice 1993 recording on Forlane label of Mr. Felix Moreau, including quite strickly "French Classical" (we shall say more than "Baroque")works, demonstrating wonderfully the Clicquot fantastic reeds and Classsical combinations, left intact by Beuchet in 1971.
I thought some of those sounds were a bit lush for Clicquot (which I see I misspelled in my last comment - it's evident I just got up!) ...Thanks for letting me in on the name of the most recent builder to lay hands on it :-)
Thanks again Mr.a55b47! Augustin Barié's music is for me (despite the fact he died so early) some kind of a "deep-top-quality" compromise between Widor and Vierne, the last having re-inspired himself with the cyclic form in his Symphonies 4,5,6 from Barié's Symphony, and Dupré dedicating him his P and F in F minor, his maybe most expressive work. I have Véronique Le Guen's recording of Barié at the 1880 C-Coll of St-François-de-Sales in Lyon, and it is very nice. JW
If you are interested in listening to good audio quality recordings of the amazing sound of the organ of Nantes Cathedral, you can visit my channel: there's music by Moreau, Bach, Reger and Sløgedal performed by me on that wonderful instrument. Its history: Girardet (1619), Lépine (1768), Clicquot (1784), Merklin (1866), Debierre-Gloton (1933), Beuchet-Debierre (1971).
DesseinsEternels 11 months ago
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DesseinsEternels 11 months ago
Barié's music is fab, and under-rated..
shirtlifter007 1 year ago
Thanks for the recording. My distant relative architect St. Felix Seheult was responsible for completing the cathedrale in the mid 1800s. I was blessed to be able to give a concert there in 2006 on the organ. It is a wonderful instrument with electropneumatic action. I've posted a clip on you tube of me playing tocatta and fugue in d minor by JSB.
rdseheult 2 years ago
If you hadn't told us, i NEVER would've guessed this to be Cliquot.
Love this piece
PiedPuyper 4 years ago
I suspect there's not much of the Cliquot left, given the number of renovations over the years & the damage from the 1943 bombing by the British. The 1971 renovation was done by Beuchet-Debierre, whose shop is in Nantes.
a55b47 4 years ago
Yes after Ben Van Oosten's Widor and Vierne Intégrales on it, (Thomas Trotter's nice 1992 Widor as well) this 2000 recording is perhaps the nicest sound-wise for me; it is on the Calliope label you certainly know, (and may still order I believe) and Veronique LeGuen is from Rennes and studied with both Susan Landale and Michel Chapuis; her recording coming along as well with Boellman's "2e Suite"; I really recommend you ordering this CD, it is Calliope's "cal9935". Talk to you later!
jmeister321684 4 years ago
Such a sumptuous sound from the Cliquot - do we know who did the most renovation?
posaune16 4 years ago
I seem to have left the word "recent" out of that inquiry - whoops! :-)
posaune16 4 years ago
Beuchet-Debierre from Nantes redid this organ in 1971; (look for Mr.a55b47's comment box on the video) therefore you really don't hear much of the Clicquot in this Elegie! (much more of 1971!) I have and there is this very nice 1993 recording on Forlane label of Mr. Felix Moreau, including quite strickly "French Classical" (we shall say more than "Baroque")works, demonstrating wonderfully the Clicquot fantastic reeds and Classsical combinations, left intact by Beuchet in 1971.
jmeister321684 4 years ago
I thought some of those sounds were a bit lush for Clicquot (which I see I misspelled in my last comment - it's evident I just got up!) ...Thanks for letting me in on the name of the most recent builder to lay hands on it :-)
posaune16 4 years ago
Thanks again Mr.a55b47! Augustin Barié's music is for me (despite the fact he died so early) some kind of a "deep-top-quality" compromise between Widor and Vierne, the last having re-inspired himself with the cyclic form in his Symphonies 4,5,6 from Barié's Symphony, and Dupré dedicating him his P and F in F minor, his maybe most expressive work. I have Véronique Le Guen's recording of Barié at the 1880 C-Coll of St-François-de-Sales in Lyon, and it is very nice. JW
jmeister321684 4 years ago
I don't know the organist on your recording, but St. François-de-Sales is one of my favorite instruments. One of Cavaillé-Coll's best works.
a55b47 4 years ago