Jean-Pierre Leguay plays Liszt at Notre Dame

Jean-Pierre Leguay plays the Liszt work Introitus in Notre Dame, Paris. The piece was written in 1884 and was coupled with Trauerode. Francois Sabatier said that Liszt's works fall into two categories, the first is filled with spectacular works and the second has pieces that are reflective and more like plainsong, and Introitus certainly comes from the latter.

Jean-Pierre Legauy was born in Dijon in 1939 and studied with André Marchal, Gaston Litaize, Rolande Falcinelli & Olivier Messiaen. He has won serveal prizes for organ/piano improvisation, interpretation and composition. He was titulaire at Notre-Dame-des-Champs, Paris from 1961 until 1984 when he was nominated to be one of the four titulaire at Notre Dame.

This recording comes from the Euromuses label EURM 2014 'Franz Liszt Oeuvres pour orgue' recorded in 1993 not long after the major restoration. It certainly sounds epic on this CD, other works include the Prelude & Fugue on BACH, variations on Weinen, Klagen and Ad nos, and he plays them beautifully.

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Music

Tags:

• Pipe
• Organ
• Notre
• Dame
• Paris
• Jean-Pierre
• Leguay
• Liszt
• Introitus

[vleermuisje2]

Wat een prachtige opname!

Het is alsof je er zelf bij bent. Werk van Franz Liszt is altijd boeiend en ook nu dus.

Merci bien!

[happycachu]

pardon mais nous possèdons tous des disques bien meilleur et en stéréo avant 93...

[birdandthe]

Not heard this composition  before, excellent, seems a smaller brother to funerailles.

[duodecyma]

Co za lipa! I to na tak rewelacyjnym instrumencie! Wstyd, panie Leguay.... :-//

[aurel132]

ça date de 93, donc forcément, il n'y à pas la technologie d'aujourd'hui ...

[happycachu]

je ne sais si c'est l'enregistrement de monsieur carbou qui veux ça , mais les premieres minutes, on dirait simplement un vieux johannus dans une église de campagne, les recordings en mono , ah quel barbe !!

[a55b47]

Nice editing work, as usual. The Euromuse folks,though,seem to suffer from the same malady as Carbou in his early recordings of Cochereau: placing the mikes a little too close to the organ case to capture the full grandeur of the room. Microphone placement is the eternal bugaboo of organ recording in rooms this enormous: too close & you don't get the full benefit of the reverberation. too far & everything becomes a muddle. But keep it coming: there's no such thing as too much Notre Dame organ.