Notre-Dame de Paris, Frederic Blanc, orgue

[chamade216]

Check out esztergomorgan's channel.

[chamade216]

This sounds interesting. There are alots of organ transcriptions of this work.

[Brackhmmarr]

Aurel machin truc,

Tu es un petit frustré tout haineux qui ne ferait même le le centième de ce qu'il fait sur un clavier, même en t'en donnant les moyens.

T'as mauvaise foi en dit long sur ta valeur, d'ailleurs personne ici ne s'y trompe.

F. Blanc est un brillant organiste, dont la connaissance de la musique et de l'orgue est tout à fait exceptionnelle.

(translation : Aurel is a douchebag, B.Blanc rocks)

[chwidder]

Obviously, this last comment says more about aurel132 than it says about F. Blanc...

[chwidder]

aurel132's comment obviously sucks. Frédéric Blanc is one hell of a fine organist (and improviser!).

In this video, he's playing Liszt's "Funérailles". This is originally a piano piece — I wonder who made this transcription.

[jsbach82]

i think that this is Jeanne Demessieux transcription

[chwidder]

Jeanne Demessieux is not the only person to have done an organ transcription of this work. I'm aware of at least three others (Nicholas Kynaston, Louis Robilliard, and Lionel Rogg). Have you spotted specific indices in Blanc's playing that indicate it to be the Demessieux version rather than one of the other three?

[jsbach82]

yes, it's true that there are more than one transcriptions... but I remember that Mr Blanc played the transcription by Demessieux.

[chwidder]

OK, thanks for the info.

By the way, for those who liked this transcription, there is a stunning version of it here: watch?v=Ws9_F-FXqgI

[Bacstam]

@chwidder

istvan baroti made the transcription, he's the titular organist at the Cathedral or Esztergom. ;)

there is a recording when he's playing it on youtube, i think its AMAZING!!