Yves Devernay Notre Dame de Paris Christmas Noël 1988

[DecimaNona45]

J'adore les improvvisations de Yves Devernay ...

[FromHolbergsTime]

A remarkable document,

a highly gifted artist,

& a brilliant instrument!

**********

Glenn

[peteacher52]

Superb playing, of course, but the registration assistant was a maestro in his own right! It reminded me of the then newly rebuilt organ in the Auckland Town Hall in 1970. George Thalben-Ball, no less, was giving the inaugural recital, but the parts for the combination action had not arrived in time, so Ken Aplin from the organ building company, had to do the same job as the gentleman in this video, and those in the know understand the difficulties of precision, knowledge and timing required.

[mjfreeman]

Amazing improvisation....who was changing the stops did a heck of a job. I know in the 80's the Notre Dame organ was not in good shape had the combination action failed?

[bombarde1701a]

@mjfreeman Yes the combination action had failed among other things.

[organomagno]

And then "Il est né le divin enfant"!

[organomagno]

The theme is Haendel's "For unto us a child is born"!

[Angultimmarik]

Is there a cut at 4:00?

[bombarde1701a]

A true genious indeed!

[chamade216]

Genius!