Philippe Lefebvre - Balbastre - Marche des Marsei

[jice0610]

Bravo Philippe ! Amitiés JCV

[hangassli]

Monsieur Lefebvre shows us how to show a simple piece of music when having a great organ.He can play all kinds of music and more complicatetd works,but the idea here is to take something easy and simple and turn it into a masterpiece,there is also some

improvisations and that is what the piece

is all about to show talent and inspiration

through a few notes using a well know melody.Sometimes in music what it matters is not the difficult of the piece that

is played,but HOW is played.

Merci.

[lepivert]

Allez l'OM !

[ANIMAOMNIA]

there is NOT the sense of EARLY music!!!! TERRIFIANT!!!!

[FernandRaynaud]

It IS infernal! What amazes me is that nobody seems to recognize that this crude and ridiculous piece is a bitter joke, written by a very refined composer who was at the same time working to save his head from the guillotine of the French Revolution. If you know the sophisticated music he wrote before the terror, this conclusion is inescapable. This picture of the primitive mentality of the revolutionaries is like a message in a bottle, for those who care to read it.

[PrinceArtus]

Ce jour 21 janvier est celui anniversaire dolorosi martir du Roy, exécuté à 10h40. O Louis, o mon roi ! Notre amour t'environne Pour notre cœur c'est une loi Dêtre fidèle à ta personne Reine infortunée ! Ah ! que ton cœur Ne soit plus navré de douleur Il vous reste encore des amis Non sous les lauriers de la gloire Mais sous les myrtes favoris Quoffrent les filles de mémoire. Qu'à votre cœur tout soit amour Fidélité constance, Vous servir est la récompense !

[Arriyad1]

It is a sad thing though that a man of genius like Balbastre, who had been teacher of the Queen, and organ player of the Chapelle royale had to make a living in his old days by putting to music this kind of bloodthirsty stuff, to please the street and the revolutionary tyrants.

He did it well, though.

[Guilloufan]

is this an electronic organ ?

[BeFrSc]

no, its a pipe Organ.

[Guilloufan]

how marvellous

[Bogert100]

Cool organ

[codeman2008]

Those are some nasty reeds at the end! Cool interpretaion though!

[hangassli]

@codeman2008 First I tought like you, till I listened to another one here in YOU TUBE:Put in the Search Box words:

Le Chant des Marseillois,and click on the painting with the man playing a mandoline.See my note there below:

What you listen there at 324 and 340 are reeds imitating fire of canons, like here at 3:14.It is a war music!

[tiarca]

magnifique Marseillaise

puissante,éclatante et magnifiée par l'orgue

et servie par un organiste d'exception

[GrandCorps]

It is getting boring because of a bit too slow tempo and not charming articulation. I prefer Andre Isoir version of this fantastic piece. Balbastre is one of my realy favourite composers (listen to his "Quand Jésus naquit à Noël").

And yes Keraulophone, these clusters and glissandos are from Balbastre. They should sound like a canon by the way.

[keraulophone]

Well, thanks for this information.

[nitroantracen]

Have you got  notes for this wonderful piece?

[GrandCorps]

It is getting boring, because of a bit too slow tempo and not realy charming articulation. I prefer Andre Isoir version of

this fantastic piece! Balbastre is one of my realy favourite composers (listen to his 'Quand Jésus naquit à Noël').

And yes Keraulphone, this glissando + clusters are from Balbastre. They should sound like a canon by the way.

[keraulophone]

How very charming! Lefebvre does not show his technical skills in a very accurate way, though! And by the way, are those clusters en glissandi with the chamades/jeux de fonds in the end really Balbastre?

[nitroantracen]

I think no. But it's cool

[BeFrSc]

Yes, he wrote it so you have a descending scale of C major and all the notes are held, bare in mind this was written for a Piano originally.