If you like this video, please rate it! Daniel Chorzempa performed one of the best versions of the 1st Organ Symphony Finale by Louis Vierne in 1987, but it is now out of print (now available from ...
If you like this video, please rate it! Daniel Chorzempa performed one of the best versions of the 1st Organ Symphony Finale by Louis Vierne in 1987, but it is now out of print (now available from Archiv though). Recorded on the Cavaille-Coll organ at the church of Saint-Sernin in Toulouse, France. My slideshow reflects my experience of this grand and magnificent music, one of my favorite organ works. At the beginning, "bustling" broken chords over the exhuberant theme played in the pedals remind me of a galloping horse, and later on the music soars like an airplane performing acrobatic moves over vast and breathtaking scenery. It also reminds me of Wagner's mythical Valkyrie warriors flying down the Rhine. The main theme itself is similar to the opening bars of La Marseillaise, the French national anthem, and this "very French" romantic composer seems to have infused this music with patriotic passion and the modern revolutionary spirit of freedom and progress. When the theme returns, the chords become triplets, symbolizing more-modern means of transportation, but still a wild ride. And the revolutionary spirit continues. For more info see my Vierne website at http://www.sfo.com/~eameece/vierne.htm See my list of organ favorites with links to You Tube: http://www.sfo.com/~eameece/ericorgan... You can still get this CD now at http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/a...
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This is very much the best version of this finale I have ever heard, this organ is said by Daniel Roth to be among his favourite Cavaille Coll instruments. Organ and organist convey the fireworks-like 'ethos' of the piece faithfully
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