Pipe Organ Chartres Cathedral Duruflé "Fugue on ALAIN"

[SIRC0L0RS]

Chartres' north rose and this piece of music played on its organ:

they both blow you away

AWESOME

[cliveso]

Five stars for Philippe Lefebvre, but the in my opinion the Chartres organ is disgusting!

[organum74]

I don't like so much Gonzales organs, but I heard already the Chartres one, it sounds like a big organ, stops sound clear, and "disgusting" is a too strong word, really.

Right that a Cavaillé-Coll is much better for symphonic pieces.

The video sound is here not very good, and does not give the real colour of this organ.

[pegrueneis]

@cliveso I understand - but look: lets say,this organ has charm - ist not a perfect CC organ ,but ist very special: unperfect -and therfore "charming - " compare it with a charming girl´s face: maybe not perfect -but.....loveley

[choirboyfromhell1]

Why is this organ pitched a full step higher than anything else?  It's not A=440 for sure...

[wsanders1]

Haven't been to the Cathedral to check the tuning (I am sure the people there know what they are doing ;) ) but there are a lot of ways a video could be off-speed on playback.

[UnoriginalJess92]

@choirboyfromhell1

Some organs are tuned at different pitches, etc- it can be off-putting at first! It's also a complete pain to try to get other instrumentalists to accompany such pipe organs...

Whatever the case, this organ has a lovely timbre and Philippe Lefebvre interprets this piece marvellously.

[codeman2008]

Wow. From 3:35-4:11 he has the voices from the manual and pedal parts (and then some) from the section from 1:42-2:33. I think Durufle was too much of a genius for any of us to understand... there's nobody else like him. Absolutely unbelievable.

wow.

[codeman2008]

Every time I hear this piece I love it more and more and more! One day I HAVE to learn it!

:D

[KB7777777]

this is so fantastic played, i can´t hear it enough! 5*

[taishob]

I love Lefebre's interpretation. It's very crisp, but the small lyrical phrases in the alto and tenor are very clear and appreciable. Other recordings of this tend to be a bit faster and muddy up the delightful little melodies that are hidden beneath the cantus firmus. Pretty sweet!

[organum74]

Yes, what you said is very true, this interpretation is very clear, not fast, but neither slow nor boring. Very interesting, great professionnalism.

[2468HOTROD]

Wow! This was awesome. You've done it again. Thank you for these videos.