Paris Pipe Organ Tournemire Plays Tournemire (1)

[gerardbedecarter]

Thanks for uploading this!

[td2901]

Is it me or are there some clear differences between the recording and the transcription? For example, in bar 6, Tournemire plays low pedal Ds on the 2nd and 4th beat but Durufle writes the first of these an ocative higher. And both those beats have a B natural in there somewhere. Significantly changes the harmony.

[Sesquiltera]

WOW! Didn't know that the famous Te Deum came from an improvisation by Tournemire, now I find it even a more brilliant piece!

[tjugofyra]

Does the church don't have much reverb or is it just the recording?

Fantastic to hear tournemire play!!

[a55b47]

It's the recording. Consider that in 1930, portable electronic recording equipment was in its infancy, & the microphone was probably set up in the organ loft. Ste. Clothilde is not huge, but it's got a pretty good reverberation time. Unfortunately, given its heritage (Franck, Tournemire, Langlais) the organ hasn't been recorded very much.

[Organistcomposer21]

Do you mean that is is so famous that it is hard to get too to play?

[a55b47]

Sometimes -- most times -- it's the church management (i.e. clergy) that poses the problem. They are not organ0friendly.And sometimes the organ is not maintained well enough to be playable for performance. Some times it's both. I don't know what the proble is at St.e Clothilde. It's a very prosperous parish, but that probably doesn't mean much these days, when so few of the French actually attend church except for weddings & funerals.

[Organistcomposer21]

What a shame. Thanks for the info.

[Organistcomposer21]

If you listen very very closely, you can actually hear the reverb. It took me a long time to hear it!

[gerardbedecarter]

@tjugofyra ..... Ste Clothilde has an incredibly reverberant and, almost overpowering, acoustic.

[Organistcomposer21]

Great music. where did you get the pictures?

[a55b47]

Downloaded from the internet. It's amazing what you can fin if you look hard enough ;-)

[Organistcomposer21]

Wow!

Great piece of history!

Does any body know where you can get free sheet music for this on the web?

[Organiste06]

I believe Tournemire's work aren't in public domain, so impossible to get them free.

[Organistcomposer21]

Vous est Francais?

[Organiste06]

Oui.

[ThirtyTwoFoot]

......Escaich wrote;..."Tournemire is my best composer since more than 16 years. His music is the most wonderful and heavenly for me. (the L'orgue mystique, and the Symphonie Choral except). I hope I will listen his music in the heaven:)".

This also goes for me. My favourite music above all. I also want it in heaven (as well as on Earth!)

[DRJFK1986]

Wow; great historic document!

[ThierryEscaich]

Thank You this music!

Tournemire is my best composer since more than 16 years. His music is the most wonderful and heavenly for me. (the L'orgue mystique, and the Symphonie Choral except)

I hope I will listen his music in the heaven:)

[a55b47]

Etes-vous Thierry Escaich du St. Etienne-du-Mont? Votre CD "Hommage a Maurice Durufle" est SUPERBE !! Pardon my French ;-) Durufle et Dupre sont MON "best composers."

[ThierryEscaich]

Dear a55b47!The Hommage a Maurice Durufle is superbe, I agree! (sorry my English is not to good, certainly I'm not Escaich, I just like his music very well.)

[posaune16]

This piece is such a favourite of mine - to hear Tournemire himself in the recording that Durufle used to transcribe this improvisation is a real treat. Yet another of your videos makes it onto my favourites list!

[jmeister321684]

Mr.a55b47 again: Thanks! I've been wanting for years to get that double CD EMI release of the French Masters themselves; Tournemire (that I hear finally play for the first time thanks to you)is my very "Alma Mater" of inspiration for this repertory and Messiaen(wich I venerate of course but differently) and I would get along on that; l'Orgue Mystique ultimatly being the expression that the organ and Gregorian chant can bring us out of (or into) exalted Mystic or beautiful soothing. JW