Pipe Organ Chartres Cathedral Duruflé (1)

[adegres]

OMG I wrote "the most boring thing in the world" for no reason, and found this! XD

[Alleghenymike]

I gotta quit bitching and set this piece, all three movements, for an electronic orchestral transcription - yeah some of you shudder to think...but this piece really deserves to be put into a medium where its real warmth and beauty can be heard. The organ, which ironically I love and hate at the same time - simply cannot bring out all that is in this work.

[saxorgan]

Wow, 9 minutes for the Prélude... Today, they play that much faster...

[choirboyfromhell1]

Whoa-5:00, somebody needs to tune-but still incredibly haunting nonetheless.

[Lureboy]

I play this piece on my jew's harp!

[mathijs1987j]

Could you put this marvelous video up again?

[ryangeo1]

I first came across this piece in an Erato recording by Durufle and his wife themselves in the early 1970's - sends tingles down my spine and always will. In Contrast to many of the french romantic composers the intricacies of Durufle's music often benefit from a drier acoustic or a small building. This I think being particularly so of his Prelude and fugue sur le nom D'Alain

[cyorgan]

I disagree that Durufle was not prolific.

[a55b47]

Well, my definition of "prolific" is "producing a large body of published work." That definition would seem to exclude Duruflé,whose published work ends at Opus 14. Can you give me an example of a composer whose work was as good as Duruflé's who published less?

[cyorgan]

oh, ok, I was basing my assessment on how popular and how often performed the composer's works were.

[a55b47]

Well, we agree, then ;-) Based on the number of times his work is played, he's prolific. Which, I guess, makes him one of the most EFFICIENT composers who ever lived. Small output, lots of performances. As we say here in Washington, "lots of bang for the buck."

[cyorgan]

no kidding, and the works aren't exactly child's play either.

[2468HOTROD]

I'm in total awe of all the photos. You really put out beautiful videos, Thank you.

[a55b47]

You know, it's amazing how much great photography you can pull off the internet -- which is what I've done in every instance. Again,if you want to see some amazing photos (particularly of organs), I encourage you to go to Martin Doering's Die Orgelseite. That man is a photo whiz.