Langlais Pasticcio in Pau, France

A little French pastry, recorded by Marie Ducrot at the Church of St. Martin in Pau. It's a lovely city in the far southwestern part of France, in the foothills of the Pyrenees. Pau (rhymes with "no") is very popular with British ex-pats. Great climate, good food, and not too far from Bordeaux or Toulouse for big-city stuff. I know next to nothing about this organ, and, as you can see from the shortage of pictures, the church is one of the most under-photographed in France. The basis for the current organ was installed in 1871 by Georges Wenner. It was renovated 3 times prior to this recording -- and there was another restoration in 1997, when a second console in the nave & 4 ranks of chamade reeds were added. I'm uploading the Pasticcio, not because of the instrument, but because the piece is almost never recorded -- which is a shame.

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• pipe
• organ
• orgue
• orgel
• organo
• Jean
• Langlais
• France
• Pau
• classical
• St.
• Martin
• Marie
• Ducrot
• Bordeaux
• Toulouse
• Pyrenees
• Georges
• Wenner

[posaune16]

I bought a book of Langlais stuff just for this piece... It's too bad it got lost in my last move, BEFORE I had a chance to work on it. Bah!

[a55b47]

I lost a lot of old LP's the same way ;-). In exploring the internet after I posted this, I did some across a couple of recordings of Pasticcio that I wasn't aware of -- for instance one by Jacques Kauffmann (unknown to me) at the Angoulême cathedral (nice instrument, as I recall -- maybe a Cavaillé-Coll). But it's still under-recorded. I hate to use the word "perky" to describe something by Langlais, but I think it fits here.

[chwidder]

Just for the record (pun not intended): Angoulême was not built by Cavaillé-Coll, but by Beuchet-Debierre in 1965.

[a55b47]

Thanks for the input. It's usually one or the other isn't it? ;-)

[TheMysticalOrgan]

Dare I say it, it sounds a bit like William Mathias on holiday in France!

[ebie0967]

Is it just me or does the cloud formation at the beginning look like the Starship Enterprise?

[tjugofyra]

Or Merklin...

[erato8106]

bravo pour cette interpretation de cette pièce que j'aime beaucoup...

[chwidder]

Sometimes it's also Gonzalez...

[accousticdecay]

Awesome!