Guillou plays Alice au pays de l'orgue Op. 53 part 4/2

Guillou plays Alice au pays de l'orgue with narrator (Francois Castang) Op. 53 Part 2.
Guillou writes in the preface of Alice in Organ Land:
"Ever since my earliest encounters with the organ, I have always considered the organ stops-that is, various different registers of the instrument-as resembling a collection of living beings, their character corresponding less with the form of the sound they produce. Certanly the very shape of some pipes is such thatit can give rise to what is almost a psychoanalytical interpretation; thus the idea occured to me quite naturally of bringing these different stops to life in a kind of musical story, with an accompanying narrative to introduce them and their individual sounds as sentient beings endowed with the power of movement. Lewis caroll and his heroine Alice offered an ideal framework for a dramatisation of my musical idea. Thus i imagined Alice retracing the steps which took her thought the looking-glass and, this time, stepping into world quitedifferent from that of the chessboard, a world with no Queen, no Tweedledee, no Humpty Dumpthy, but with organ stops brought to life as animated flowers, with dancing Flutes, oboes, chettering Bourdons, pedantic Bombardes, biting Cromornes, rugged Clarinettes or harsh, snake-like Ranquettes. This entire universe sets itsefl in motion and gradually takes shape, suggesting snippets of dances or conversations in such a way that a sort of symphonic poem is built up, featuring contrasting or challenging sequences in which certain figures and themes recur with, after a strange moment of calm, ends in a wild outburst with all the stops combining in a feverish and dazzling frenzy. Alice in Organ Land may equelly well be preformed without the Narrator, by giving the audience the text to read, or, again, by playing just the two Waltzes together with Tarantella, or even the Tarantella alone. In this case, the pauses marked become simply a bar's rest, without a longer pause"
Jean Guillou

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[MrBoneFixer]

I had the great pleasure of attending the English premier of this piece at Selby Abbey and meeting maestro Guillou afterwards -I will never forget that night

[MrBoneFixer]

I remember attending the English premier of this piece at Selby Abbey and meeting maestro Guillou afterwards- I will never forget that night

[sakrble]

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