Henri Mulet's Carillon-Sortie at St Ouen

Carillon-Sortie by Henri Mulet (1878-1967) recorded in St Ouen, Rouen by Andreas Meisner. Mulet studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Widor and Guilmant. He wrote relatively few works, his most popular being the toccata 'Tu us Petrus' from the Esquisses Byzantines.

The organ needs no introduction, except to say its Cavaillé-Coll's masterpiece IMHO.

The organist, Andreas Mesiner is one of two titulaires at Altenburg Dom. His playing is clear and always thrilling. I will put up a few pieces from his recordings at Altenburg in weeks to come. I found this particular track on his website www.andreas-meisner.de.

This track is from a CD no 16306 from www.mitra-classics.de, if you find it difficult to order from them, try www.jpc.de, they can get hold of it.

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• Pipe
• Organ
• Andreas
• Meisner
• St
• Ouen
• Henri
• Mulet
• Carillon
• Sortie

[midkanzan]

What a fantastic performance on one of the finest organs in the world!

[MrAlex413x]

from 3:35 whn the pedal deparment comes in ! 32' bombrade wins everytime :-)

[ds1868]

@notredameswarrior1 The 32' Bombarde isn't by ACC - most of the 'Grand jeu' is 18th Century Clicquot. ACC kept a great deal of pipework from the previous organ, and added his own 'jeu de fonds' to complete the contract. To use his own words, this 'synthesis of old and new' was the true genius of this organ builder. The greatest example of this 'synthesis' is at St Sulpice, where 40% of the pipework is Clicquot.

[MrBooker39]

Holy Smoke!! What tremendous sound...and playing! It's really amazing to me how much organ sound can be captured on a recording today with remarkable fidelity.

Thanks for posting!

[notredameswarrior1]

This recording proves why St. Ouen to me is the greatest organ in the world. Yea shure there are larger but to me this just beats them all. No other organ to me has a more powerful 32 foot bombard than this. This is just truely music. I really want to know what Cavaille Coll was thinking when he built this 32 foot bombard. Was it the voice of God? I think it might of been.

[AnOrganCornucopia]

@poopingeneral - not really! Are you talking about its tonal design or the design of the case? If the latter, the case is from the 1630 Crespin Carlier organ - in terms of its style and date, it's more Baroque. There are about 20 old ranks from various rebuilds - some may be by Carlier, but not all of them are originally from St Ouen!

[dwarrren9]

It's a real treat to hear a french organ playing a piece by a french composer!

[passacaglia28]

No living room sound system today can come close to a live performance on a wonderful organ such as this. Unfortunately, I have never had the pleasure of being anywhere near this particular organ as I am stuck here across the pond. This must be so magnificent in person.

[mohaa909]

@poopingeneral You can call it a bit that way ;) Those organs were build by Cavaillé-coll, one of the most influencing organbuilders in France and for the French Romantic Era. The most churches were he build his organs were large Gothic ones. They are really fitted in the space where they stand :)

[elgar34]

Thank-you. I loved it! 

[poopingeneral]

Is the design of this organ considered Gothic? Anyone? thanks.

[leedshunk]

that 32 ft bombarde is amazing !!!!!!!!!!!!!