Lovely, expressive interpretation. The performer has a great sense of the amazingly dramatic suspension-dissonance compositional technique, and the organ is tonally wonderful.
Many thanks for your kind comments on the performance, which mean a lot to me from a fellow organist. And, as you can see, the organ is the work of Canadian builder Karl Wilhelm.
Some are my own photos, others from web and other sources, including the cutaway view from Dom Bedos' treatise. Can anyone identify the 8 Parisian churches (or their organs) depicted in this video (other than the UM chapel organ)? Conspicuous by its absence is St. Gervais, which you can see in my Louis Couperin video.
Lovely, expressive interpretation. The performer has a great sense of the amazingly dramatic suspension-dissonance compositional technique, and the organ is tonally wonderful.
Bar, MMus ARCCO
frzewski 3 years ago 5
Many thanks for your kind comments on the performance, which mean a lot to me from a fellow organist. And, as you can see, the organ is the work of Canadian builder Karl Wilhelm.
mudws 3 years ago
I've been wondering Dr. Steel, are these pictures from trips you have made or are they found elsewhere?
birackl1 3 years ago
Some are my own photos, others from web and other sources, including the cutaway view from Dom Bedos' treatise. Can anyone identify the 8 Parisian churches (or their organs) depicted in this video (other than the UM chapel organ)? Conspicuous by its absence is St. Gervais, which you can see in my Louis Couperin video.
mudws 3 years ago
Cathédrale Notre-Dame
Saint-Etienne du Mont
Saint Germain l'Auxerrois
Saint Eustache
Saint Pierre de Montmartre
Saint Merri
GerardRatigan 3 years ago 2
Congratulations for accepting the challenge! A true Parisian! You have four correct answers. The complete series is:
1. Notre-Dame Cathedral,
2. St.-Louis en l'Ile (organ only),
3. St.-Etienne du Mont,
4. St-Germain d'Auxerrois (tower only),
5. St.-Martin des Champs (CNAM),
6. St.-Eustache,
7. St.-Denis abbey
8. St.-Nicolas des Champs
At his death in 1707 Gigault was titulaire at nos. 5 and 8, and l'Hôpital du Saint Esprit.
mudws 3 years ago
But do you know that St.Denis abbey is *not* in Paris :-) ?
GerardRatigan 3 years ago
Quite true; thank you for making this clear. Though is it maybe part of the "unité urbaine"?
By the way, I wish I had included St-Merri, which had an important organ in C17.
mudws 3 years ago
Indeed, St Denis is quite close from Paris.
St Merri's organ had several well-known (?) titulars notably Nicolas Lebègue and Norbert Dufourcq.
GerardRatigan 3 years ago
Sorry, that's 5. St.-Eustache, 6, St.-Martin des Champs (CNAM)
mudws 3 years ago