Cesar Franck's "Pièce Héroïque" played by Marcel Dupré

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Cesar Franck's "Pièce Héroïque" in h minor from Trois Pieces.
My notes says Marcel Dupre, perhaps this is live?

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[vleermuisje2]

Ik vraag me af of dit werkelijk Marcel Dupre is die hier speelt......

En het is zeker NIET het orgel van de St. Sulpice!

[Blockedify]

G? J?? It's not worth worrying over. As the late Dr. Robert Baker, who I WAS NOT a great fan of, usta say, and he was RIGHT in this, "You're not Marcel Dupre and this is not St. Sulpice. You're NOT Cesar Franck and this is not St. Clothilde." Meaning that it is just way beyond pedantry to insist that an organist, indeed, AN ARTIST, must slavishly try to follow registration ideas set for a particular instrument, when just about every organ in the world is SO different from another.

[Blockedify]

G? J?? It's not worth worrying over. As the late Dr. Robert Baker, who I WAS NOT a great fan of, usta say, and he was RIGHT in this, "You're not Marcel Dupre and this is not St. Sulpice. You're NOT Cesar Franck and this is not St. Clothilde. Meaning that it is just way beyond pedantry to insist that an organist, indeed, AN ARTIST, must slavishly try to follow registration ideas set for a particular instrument, when just about every organ in the world is SO different from another.

[sailormann1]

Sorry- meant G-D Harrison e.g. G. Donald Harrison (not J-D Harrison--- sorry)

[sailormann1]

@Blockedify

concur: I have this recording on CD, Marcel Dupre performing at St Thomas NYC on the Mercury label, I believe. Recorded by a woman whose last name is Cozart, I think? She engineered alot of Mercury's recordings in the 50's... I think using a (then) unique three-microphone recording pattern. Similar to what is now reknowned as the Decca-Tree (3 fine Neumann mics flown on a tri-pattern). Maybe TMI, but yes, this is Dupre at St Thomas. Fine Aeolian-Skinner. J-D Harrison's last.

[Miraphone186Player]

@kempedkemp Good deal. I'll be sure and look it up sometime. thanks

[kempedkemp]

@JFSnail yes and isn't it amazing they only want to spend $8 million doing it. Us country boys have a word for that: HORSEPUCKEY

[kempedkemp]

@Miraphone186Player Jean Guillou was also a student of Dupre and you should give his recording of it a listen here on youtube. It will make your heart race. I normally don't care for Guillou's breakneck speed but he does a stunning job of the bravuric second half.

[Aufsmaul33]

@kempedkemp that's what i thought... but as we know Marcel Dupre composed his own music very exactly, if something isn't written down in the sheet music, you shouldn't play it... maybe he thought the same way while playing the piece? the only problem is that sometimes the things written down in the sheet music aren't included, so it could be a fake

[kempedkemp]

I'm not sure I believe that is Marcel Dupre. Either it is the recording or the acoustics were very dry. No reverb heard. Perhaps it was in a hall somewhere? Even Mons. Dupre's students play it better than that.