Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin / Improvisation

[Rheinlander95]

I once improvised on the theme "Three Blind Mice" in modal form, just to see if anyone could recognize the tune. Everyone thought it was brilliant. hehehehehe

Next time you hear an improvisation, PAY ATTENTION!

[MegaDani141]

I wish i could be there and could hear it live............

[FromHolbergsTime]

spacious reveries,

tapestries of a heavenly forest,

where voices ascend aloft,

in wondrous sonorities.

Glenn

[DAOFB]

I was sitting next to her on the console when she was improvising a lovely melody with amazing skill and technique for an ordinary workday communion. And she had nothing but a tiny sheet of paper with 6 chords written on it!!

I would kill to be half as good a she is xD

[pianoandpipes]

I agree she is wonderful. I had the great fortune of playing in an improvisation masterclass with her as well as having a lesson a few weeks ago. She's brilliant at repertoire, technique, and all kinds of improvisation - including atonal. But melodic and modal improvisation is definitely where she shines the most I feel (and she stated they are her favorite).

Thanks for posting this video!

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[pipergj33]

Thank goodness for improvisation that isn't just angry dissonant battering. This is lovely.

[miauw777]

Want to see much much more of her improvisation skills. She is the best improviser i know, and much under estimated by much much people!

[peteacher52]

A beautiful serene piece of music, just the right thing to put you in the right frame of mind for a peaceful night's sleep. In all ways I concur with GJmusique, below. I wonder if Ms Cauchefer-Choplin's melody was original or given. Both she and her colleague Daniel Roth have a welcoming and relaxed attitude towards visitors to the organ loft which is great to see.

[elainebmack]

What a beast this instrument is! I am constantly in awe of the abilities of masters like Madame Sophie-Veronique. How anyone learns how to play the organ well is beyond me. Wonderful, very beautiful improvisation.

[DSM1G90]

love how this modulates from the home key of E minor through the relative minor and major keys ...

[miauw777]

There is nowadays a solution for noisy barkermachines, created by the dutch organbuilder Elbertse organbuilders, they keep the orginal barkermachines intact, but they have a clever solution for the noise

[elainebmack]

@miauw777 What is a barkermachine? Is that what makes all that clattering while she's playing?

[VonDuesenberg]

The noisy Barker machines!!!

[miauw777]

Don't understand your message, but i think she is he one that understands what cesar franck was capable of.

She is by far out the best improviser i know!

[Lucicama]

Notre titre Politiquement est un message pour tout ceux qui en on marre d'etre pris pour de cons !

Demain nous appartient à nous de nous battre !!

Le son des Sg, du Vox et du Fender Junior pour les amateurs de son pur ...

Faites montrer ce clip et crier ces paroles autour de vous !!!!!!!!!!!!

[miauw777]

She is really an improviser in the great tradition of Cesar Franck. She is poetic and add magic to her improvisations

[TheDanceofjoy]

wow what an insturment and really cool music, reminds me of age of Empires, i never played the game but watched my friends played it.

[youtubeuserwilly]

fantastic music

[dipankar06]

now only if she had 5 more limbs

[GJmusique]

FINALLY one of the great parisian titulaires who improvise something with an actual melody.

i'm so tired of those atonal pieces. just not my cup of tea I guess.

this is a really great piece =)) and Mme Choplin is a very fine lady.

[elainebmack]

@GJmusique I agree. Sometimes,( with all due respect to other titulaires), their improvisations are so far out harmonically. It is indeed refreshing to hear a simple melody so beautifully improvised.

[maestroinwest]

@DZmusique Actually, I enjoy both. "Atonal" improvisations can be extremely interesting . . . but, only so if the organist is exceptionally skilled with dissonant progressions.

I wholeheartedly agree with you, Mme. Choplin is a fine lady and an prodigious organist.

[GJmusique]

@maestroinwest

I suppose you by DZmusique, you mean me? :P

[miauw777]

She is something special!

[1401JSC]

Nice to see an organist aware that the upper manuals and their colourful stops actually exist!

I can't help thinking "Summertime, and the living is easy" for the theme.

[miauw777]

She really is the best of this generation, her only rival is Thierry Escaich of St.Etienne du Mont i suppose. But i love her deep religious endorsement. Also her poems with organ music

[Pedalpoint1]

This is brilliant. I love the organ!

[Schalmey8]

great absolutely great...

[all1rog]

A superb organist, greatly skilled in the difficult art of improvisation

[27bibi27]

c'est assurément une très belle improvisation très mélodique, et qui nous permet de nous évader un peu

[horses1]

Someone should transcribe this.

[miauw777]

improvisation is a great heritage of the french organ school. This women is an exceptional exponent of this art starting with cesar franck.

She is one of the greatest improvisers of our time.

Want to see more of her on the net!

[MaddLagger]

too bad we all do it, you just havnt ebrased it

[florianchurch]

To jest narawdę wielkie i piekne.

This is really great and beautifull.

[miauw777]

The barker machine make a lot of noises. Is that not disturbing you when you're playing. Or do you get used to it? Is there nowadays not a solution for that annoying noises. Still love your improvisation.

[imarayana]

Super beau ! C´est une très belle mélodie, dynamique, et qui revient tout le temps.

[GrandCorps]

Extraordinary improvisation! That's noticable how beautifull solo line sounds first on positif, because of Unda maris and flute, and then on G. Ch. with all the fonds together... but that's St. Sulpice Cavaille-Coll - not a one of many.

[AlainLeboeuf]

how did you  do ?

is it realy possible ?

send it me the score ?

thanks

AL.

[AlainLeboeuf]

peut-on lire ? dans vos arpèges une "part" d'angoisse maitrisée par un sourire , aimant , que l'on regarde aussi bien , que l'on écoute , vôtre virtuosité sur claviers et précision de la registration , avec prouesses de choix des jeux dans une forêt de bâtonnets sur la console de l'orgue ,lors de votre interprétation .

[silentbugler]

WHY!!!! do people persist in writing down others' imrovisations? VILE!!! It is a complete violation of the Art. Either learn how to improvise [as I do very poorly] or study to do it better... or play printed music

[TheB3Nut]

So Maurice Durufle was vile for transcribing some of Charles Tournemire's brilliant improvisations? Sometimes, pure musical genius occurs and is worth preserving. This is one such instance, the JAV vid of Latry improvising an introit at ND is another.  Transcribing a brilliant improvisation for posterity and being able to improvise are not necessarily mutually exclusive...merely a desire to preserve rare magic moments.

[64ftContraBombarde]

I agree completely! Thalben-Ball's 'Elegy' for organ is one of my favourite ever organ pieces, and it started as an improvisation for radio, before it was transcribed due to its popularity.

[elainebmack]

@silentbugler AMEN!!! Take the time to develop the skill or leave it alone!

[Rui02Senor]

La beauté en musique!

[gienowefaa]

Fantastic!! Any chance to get a sheet music of this improvistation? Where I could buy it?

Probably there is only improvistation.. and the sheet music I could find it in Sophie-Véronique mind.

[tjugofyra]

Or write them down yourself. Can´t be that hard, can it? Her left hand is probably the hardest to write down, but still...It´s a pretty logical improvisation.

[BeFrSc]

indeed, the melody is very clear, and the pedal line can be seen and heard clearly, I would just either harmonise the left hand or watch the couplers to get the notes.

[PiedPuyper]

C'etait le paradis les anges en moins, Sophie

[yustinpolska]

niesamowite cudowne spektkularne rewelacja

[BeFrSc]

The Design of the Swell Box pedal is so much better than your modern pedal that gets in the way of your feet.

The design of the one in St. Sulpice shuts the box completely, the modern swell pedal will leave it slightly open.

[gerardesberg]

mooie improvisatie

nice improvisation

[muzical15]

I would give anything to just see this instrument...

[orgaman]

une merveille de finesse et de grâçe

[desabrac]

quand le talent s'associe à la gentillesse sont prénom est Sophie Véronique.

Merci pour cette leçon