Jeanne Demessieux: Te Deum op.11

[mohavetrail]

Incredible. Beautiful organ and church.  Incredible technique.

[Inspirandus]

Incredible mastery of the Maxime. I've started to really appreciate Jeanne's unique style and techniques through his interpretations.

[organist166]

very good performance. like. 

[funderflick]

Enfin un concert bien filmé ! Il va sans dire que Jeanne Demessieux est un compositeur que l'on aimerait entendre plus souvent...

[tambrosia]

one word: MAGNIFICENT!

[Brockett122]

I agree with Silverdaddy. Composers seldom if ever followed their own score directions. Where do you start, look at a score, then follow a composer's recording.

Acoustics play a huge part in determining a tempo, regardless of what a composer indicates. Most specified tempi are guidelines, not carved in stone.

Mr. Patel does well here, but I would've played it a bit faster, as Andre Isoir once recorded. A little fire in a piece never hurt anyone.

[organistpeter]

Guten Abend! Dieser Organist hat die Orgel wirklich sehr gut in den Händen! Ich wünsche ihm alles erdenklich Gute auf seiner weiteren Laufbahn! Schön das es so gute und vor allem einfühlsame Organisten gibt! MfG Peter Gärtner

[Larsky1010]

Incredible beauty—aural and visual!

[Silverdaddy101]

Get the lead out, man. You play like an old lady

[GeoffreySimonOnline]

@Silverdaddy101 The tempi are those Mlle. Demessieux indicates. Can you play it better?

[carsonstodd]

J'aime la paix. Restitution des Grands

[carsonstodd]

J'aime la pièce

[MrLizardisle]

Demessieux's organ works have been as much of a revelation to me, as those of  Olivier Messiaen.

Maxime Patel is an amazing organist.

[shipsbells]

I didn't know that there were any 6 manual organs in the world outside Philadelphia (Wanamaker's) very interesting the lack of thumb pistons. Very interesting piece.

[11sesquialtera]

I love this composer....she was amazing...great performance, too

[mikedc2020]

the registration at the beginning of the second movement sounds so cool!! Amazing piece, wonderful organist!

[Classicalguy12]

Wow that is a beautiful organ, and performance. What size is this instrument? And specifications if anyone has them, I'm interested.Thanks!

[anubier]

Technik und Interpretation eines wahrlich schweren Orgelstückes,nur wenige vermögen so zu überzeugen in ihrer Klarheit und Kunst , die Orgel zu einem grossen Instrument zu schaffen...

[organfreak23]

Is that marbel on the side of the organ?

[Classicalguy12]

@organfreak23 I'd say yes

[organfreak23]

Amazing piece. I always love the sond of a german organ . He can really make this organ sing!!

[francesca7564]

Extraordinaire !!!

[GloriaJanvier]

Wonderful in every respect! A tutorial for any organist wishing to play this amazing work !

[Larsky1010]

Superb performance! I've purchased Patel's DVD of Demessieux works and highly recommend it. Are there two almost-identical consoles to this organ? In some videos the exterior is wood; whereas this one appears to be marble [faux I presume].

[gcl82003]

this music sends shivers up my spine...wonderful

[robindch]

Brilliant performance -- I loved it!

[luiguilherme]

You are the best

[angie4josh]

I used to tune and repair these big bastards.

I dont recommend anyone to get into organ tuning and repair unless you are just nuts about pipe organs. I think I will stick to Hammond tonewheel organs.

[bunkytony]

@angie4josh The engineering and design that goes into these is incredible. I was an electronic eng. tech student and just from the standpoint of all the tonal production from very high all the way down to 16 and 8 Hz with the monster 32 and 64 or larger pedals boggles the mind. To be a recording engineer and capture this beautiful sound with expensive condensor mics console etc. is a nightmare. So must be all the electro,mechanical and pneumatic work that you did!! BRAVO!!

[angie4josh]

@bunkytony Its a completely different world when you work on the pre 1900's pipe organs that have not been electronically modified in any way, everything from the keys to the bellows (provided the blower) is done completely mechanically and are particularly dangerous, at least in terms of breaking a fragile wooden stop mechanism that would have to be rebuilt as opposed to an electric one that requires little or no matinance.

Thanks for the Bravo and right back at you!

[bennypapd]

@angie4josh I used to tune and repair a 3m Moller in George Washington HS NYC back 1959-1963 and loved it. I now own a Baldwin 3m boy do I miss the Moller.

[miauw777]

Are there videotakes of Jeanne demmessieux herself????

I like this organist very much, but i like to see the orginal composer!

[DoubleDipperBrian]

BRAVO! BRAVO! BRAVO!!!

[Hauptwerkgek]

Great piece indeed, one of her best compositions.

I love the melody in the center part played by the

8' Principals and the 8' Trumpet.

Very impressive sound (and console) The first

Jann organ I heard was the one in the Munich Dom.

[nicolaidiscostas]

super composition +sound

i love messiaen, alain + demessieux etc

i am considering getting hauptwerk with a chevallier coll for sure. organart? sonus paradisi? or milan digital?

[bagnewauckland]

@nicolaidiscostas this may be a bit late, but I recommend the Milan Digital Cavaille-Coll from Notre Dame de Metz.

[nicolaidiscostas]

@bagnewauckland infact that is what i got and i am very satisfided this very moment i am in metz and tomoriw at 7,30 probably i will atend a concert with philipe delacure plaing bach . The church is under restauration of the fasade and the organ pipes covered with nylon foils i hope they manage ok.

[nicolaidiscostas]

@bagnewauckland if you are interested you can listen to my organ improvisations at contrebombarde concert hall ...( my name in this site is costasnicolaidis)

[mogemoets]

WELL payed! you've gotta love D's music, right...????!????

[LJBSasha]

Find the Website for the Basilica's Parish! There is a link there for the Basilica's organs; when you click on it, you'll then find a link embedded inside it for the stop-list in PDF format.

[Charlestheverger]

Another phenomenal recording ib by Susan Matthews on the organ at Grace Cathedral San Francisco. It's electrifying, and a favorite of mine when showing off my vintage sound system.

[AlainLeboeuf]

j'aime bien la lampe "torche" juste devant la façade de l'orgue à la fin de cette interprétation majestueuse aux sonorités modernes et aux harmoniques prononçées.

[miauw777]

Jeanne Demessieux is the female equivalent of Jehan Alain. Hear death is still moarned by music lovers nowadays. What a great great talent we've lost. And what she have left us if she still have lived today?

[tjugofyra]

Yeah, but you can't think Demessieux was close to the greatness of Alain can you? Some of her works are very good, like this Te Deum. All of Alain's pieces are masterpieces, don't you think?

[zuko1221]

Does anybody have a sheet, please?

[originaltommy]

yes

[DSM1G90]

More manuals, more stops. 6 manuals is like having a good 100 piece orchestra ... prob something that Wannamaker and Sen. Richards wanted when they designed their respective organs .. at Wannamakers, and the Boardwalk Hall.

[willowthebored]

Actually, Wanamaker would be a five-manual, but they installed a sixth when they built a console because they were going to add a Stentor division native to the sixth; needless to say, they never got around to it, so now it's just a spare.

And I agree. Six is too many. Four is plenty, and five is almost opulent.

[LJBSasha]

I'll disagree!! Three is the bare minimum, four is better and five is ideal (plenty)! Six is opulent, and one really can't possibly handle any more than seven.

Even when one's playing with the couplers and other aids going, one simply NEVER knows if and when one can have to switch manuals or do other things...

[LJBSasha]

As far as this instrument is concerned: having seen the stop-list, by North-American standards of organ-building, not great but quite reasonable (great sound!). I could wish for more pistons placed under ALL the manuals (not just the lowest - that's something I loathe about so many European instruments). Furthermore, one more enclosed division that would have chorus reeds to supplement and build upon the Schwellwerk (III). Glad to see a concave/radiating pedalboard for the choir-console...

[willowthebored]

Where DID you find the stoplist? I looked around but couldn't dig one up (this instrument seems to get little publicity considering its size, like a couple others I know). God knows, we'd ALL love to have a floating Bombarde division on our organs somewhere. =)

...except those damn baroqueists. (GRRRRRRRR.)

[LJBSasha]

Otherwise, the Wanamaker 6th manual is used for the orchestral, string and echo divisions on a very regular basis; thus, it's hardly much of a spare!!

It's a great pity that the Stentor division didn't get built as it was going to include a proper Principal-chorus with a proper Fourniture & Cymbale pair of mixtures. The document to authorise the additions was on Mr. Wanamaker's desk when he suddenly was called home from Earth...

[redletterchurch]

Sometimes French organ music seems as though it could not possibly be composed by a mere mortal human being. So much of it is so abstract and devilishly difficult. By the way...who was the architect of Chartres Cathedral? I wonder if the architect was also a composer. Brilliant performance of a very difficult piece.

[27bibi27]

Merci Monsieur Patel.

Cette nregistrement vous honore et témoigne de votre excellence.

[tubamaxima]

For all those that criticize his performance, go away. He is brilliant. It is a stellar performance, worthy of the greatest praise.

[horses1]

Who is the organist playing?

[musichiere70]

It is the French organist Maxime Patel.

[blogson]

I second dougjensen's remarks. The DVD is a super bargain at $28.99 plus ship. from OHS. The visual recording is amazing, and the audio contains enough sonic material so that it plays well on a surround sound system. The DVD also has bonus material in addition to the musical part.. According to the accompanying booklet, Patel had Demessieux's complete organ works recorded concert style, in one performance. Also, with the video one can see that much of her music is quite challenging to play.

[Aaronorganist19]

He is a master organist indeed nice peace played

[Silverdaddy101]

Pity. Such a difficult work, you would think one would give it your 'ALL'.

Rhythmically , this is relatively flat.

At times , the registration is understated. I wonder if Mssr Patel has ever heard a rousing rendition of this masterpiece.

[Sesquiltera]

He doesn't have the french agression for this

[miauw777]

jeanne demessieux still mourned in 2009, what a great, great composer we have lost too early!

What can be hidden still in the conservatoria of Luik and Paris still to be discovered! Someone to make a studyproject of this???

[hikitsurisan]

Absolutely brilliant! This performance has inspired me to try to learn it (although I shall never approach Patel's kind of mastery). I am sure this is exactly how the piece should be played. The fellow looks so relaxed but is in total command.

[dougjensen]

These spectacular Demessieux videos are on the Fugatto 025 DVD. I bought it from the Organ Historical Society (it is also available elsewhere). Aside from the wonderful performances, notice how well Federico Savio has recorded the performer so that you can see has hands and feet. These videos set a new high standard for the quality of organ performance recordings on YouTube (regardless of whether you appreciate Demessieux's compositions).

[Streetcar1743]

6 manuals! It turns out to be that there are more of these 6-manual ones popping up here. But they are nice to see and hear.

[1401JSC]

Maine Cathedral too has a 6 manual instrument.

I well remember a teacher saying he couldn't understand these instruments as you can never play more than two manuals at a time with one hand, so you would never need more than 4 in all!

You will notice that many Youtube recordings show organists who never use more than one or two manuals, relying on pistons and swell pedals to change registration.

[jmeister321684]

Those Georg Jann 32' are fantastic !

[OrganBuild]

This is fantastic! :) You're great! :)

[latribe]

By the way, it would be super to hear both you and Hugh Potton playing together one day . . .

[latribe]

FANTASTIC playing in brilliant acoustic. Thanks for posting! Information on this organ elsewhere on the net suggests it is (was) 5 manual . . . When was it enlarged? What was added onto it?

Thanks!

[jmeister321684]

Yes a 6th manual was added to both (!) of the 2 5 manual consoles around 1996 I believe; the "new section" (of stops already existing) is a "Chamadenwerk" playable on the 6th manual

[rossini90]

Jeanne Demessieux was a genius. This piece is amazing!

[cinj9]

Incredible!! Great to hear Demessieux. Thanks for posting!

[KB7777777]

fantastic

[ivyebb88]

I'm learning this piece and am wondering why the performer is taking it so much faster than the marking of quarter note = 69.

[Diapasonic]

Do not put too much stock in metronomic markings. Both of Demessieux's own recordings of this work were faster than the metronomic markings. Pierre Labric's recordings from the early 70s on MHS are also very fine.

[1401JSC]

Schumann's metronome marks are notoriously unperformable and many of Beethoven's seem rather too fast.

MM are not strict rules. One of the factors to take into consideration is the acoustic. One would not play the same tempo in the Church of La Madelaine in Paris as in St Thomas Leipzig.

[lee1984yate]

Hello!

Could you tell me who this performer is please?

Thanks, Lee :-)

[musichiere70]

The name of the performer is Maxime Patel; this is written everywhere...

[a55b47]

Great music & GREAT camera work !!!