Olivier Latry Final improvisation of the Sunday Mass - Notre Dame de Paris

[Peronter77]

He is the best improviser

[middelkoop10]

Wonderfully played, but all from the Grand Orgue. Hardly any subtility of reflection. Just the turbo on it and go! The effect is great, but not grand. Ohers, like Latry's predecessor Louis Vierne, could do this better. And also was the organ in those days not so much 'crying'.

When I visit a Paris church this summer for the music, I don't think it will be Notre Dame.

Succes anyhow.

[TheWiscats]

@middelkoop10 Visit St. Sulpice. Glorious Cavaille-Coll organ NOT compromised as is Notre-Dame's, and wonderful organist in Daniel Roth. You cannot go wrong visiting St. Sulpice! It's always been my favorite tribune to visit since the "big" organists are no longer (Messiaen, Langlais, Dupre).

[KulturBanateu]

@TheWiscats & @middelkoop10 Check out the other videos from this account with the organ from Saint Sulpice...

[willwoodhouse]

fantastic to hear!! some textures, rhythms and harmonies seemed to remind me of a piece called "fluorescence" (sadly the name of the composer escapes me) but it's just phenomenal how he plays!!

[juanmaMCMLXXXII]

@willwoodhouse Penderecky?

[camitful]

Mi sembra di capire che l'originalità delle improvvisazioni dipende dalla successione di particolari accordi ( credo già introdotti durante l'affermarsi dell' impressionismo musicale); ho ascoltato in Chelsea Chen (organista cinese ma che suona negli stati uniti ,con un repertorio gigantesco) uno stile analogo nelle improvvisazioni che nel concorso di Chartres hanno una premiazione a parte.[[ Chelsea sei veramente straordinaria così giovane]]

[middelkoop10]

Fantastisch gespeeld, maar alles vanuit het onderste klavier. Weinig tot geen subtiele wendingen, bijna geen reflectie. Gewoon het gas erop en gaan. Het effect is groot, maar niet groots. Dit konden anderen, onder wie Latry's verre voorganger Louis Vierne, beslist beter. Bovendien brulde het orgel toen ook niet zo.

Ik denk niet dat als ik in Parijs een kerk bezoek voor de muziek, dit Notre Dame is.

Succes evengoed.

Leo

[KulturBanateu]

@middelkoop10 can we have the translation in English please? Thanx!

[Thijs1981NL]

@middelkoop10 Leo, als een van de organisten van de Notre Dame te Parijs, raad ik je aan om als je de kans krijgt eens uitgebreid te luisteren naar het orgel. Veel mensen die kritiek hebben geuit op opnames (vnl youtube) komen terug van hun besluit. Behalve het gebrul wat in het echt veel meer in proporties is, is het orgel ook in staat om mooie zachte solotonen te produceren. Ik zou het orgel vervolgens vergelijken met het C.C. orgel in de St. Sulpice en dan een oordeel vellen :)

[Thijs1981NL]

@Thijs1981NL Overigens kun je het orgel in de St. Eustache ook nog beluisteren, maar qua geluid is dat geen vergelijk met beide orgels. Het van den Heuvel orgel is de grote winnaar !

[hinakomalin]

"This is boring, that is boring.....", please paraphrase this statement, because it's clearly more boring than Latry's paraphrasings and improvisations. I guess there's is one thing you can do with the organ but not do with any other instruments: feeling awed but the sheer size and volume the organ produces. Thanks for this video. Hopefully Latry may improvise during a concert at the Malaysian Phil later.

[Rui02Senor]

Merveilleux, comme toujours!!!

[darkprose]

This is how Catholicism should sound to me: overwhelming, indescribable scope, emotions like skyscrapers, dwarfing the angels, reaching to God. Incredible, thanks for sharing!

[mynippon]

Woah..... Absolutely amazing.. !

[mrstevecbournias]

Improvisations can rarely be compared to a well-conceived masterwork; that said, improvs afford a musician an opportunity to put something together at the spur of the moment; so it is not apples to oranges; this work is the best effort for a piece off the cuff......

[louislancelotti]

I hope that he will decide, as soon as possible to compose great symphonies.

[Crudblud89]

How could anyone find this boring? Then again, how could anyone find seven minutes to be a long stretch of time?

[KulturBanateu]

@Crudblud89 Don't ask me...for me it was totally fascinating! :-) and I thought that I should share my joy to everybody but it seems that there are some people who don't appreciate that :-(

[organistpeter]

Ist der eigentlich verheiratet, bzw. hat eine Familie?

[Sulpice32]

Er war verheiratet und hat eine Tochter. Diese Ehe ist Geschichte. Olivier Latry hat jetzt eine neue Partner aus Süd Korea. Sie war eine Studentin von ihm.

[organistpeter]

Also dieser Organist ist wirklich der totale WAHNSINN! Ich beneide ihn für sein absolut gutes Können!

[KulturBanateu]

@organistpeter Na ja er hatte ein bisschen Glück gehabt und eine gute Erziehung von den besten der besten gekriegt Dazu ist er auch ein netter Mensch...

[Rui02Senor]

@KulturBanateu This is not enough. Latry is a genius: «Genius is born, not paid.» Oscar Wilde

[BOEINGPILOT777]

@KulturBanateu doofe Frage, aber mich interessiert es irgendwie: Spricht Latry Deutsch?

[KulturBanateu]

@BOEINGPILOT777 Leider Nicht....aber er kann sehr gut English...

[fw890]

@BOEINGPILOT777

ja doch, er kann Deutsch, mit einem charmantem französischen Akzent:)

[DecimaNona45]

Beatiful fabulous improvisation !

[huitcents]

Long and boring...

[KulturBanateu]

@huitcents and that's really a boring remark...just to let u know :-)

have a nice evening!

[benteague1]

@huitcents Yeah, sure.

[93Chamade]

haha - how appropriate that theme of this improvisation is a fire engine siren!!

[Eisenhoit]

Mass for the bicentenary of the Paris Fire Brigade...