Pièce Héroïque

César Franck: Pièce Hèroïque.

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Music

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• organ
• orgel
• orgue
• césar
• franck
• pièce
• héroïque
• mechelen
• wannes
• vanderhoeven
• church

[Aufsmaul33]

I agree with jasonc001, but as you might say "arguments please" I did actually prepare something. first i have to say that i do know quite a lot about french organ music in the romanticism (if that's the english word for the epoch where Franck, Dupré, Vierne etc lived). just imagine the title becoming music, it's heroic, so you can say that it could be something like a ballad, telling the story of a hero. and where is his heroicness when every important dissonance is swallowed because of speed?

[hoefje14]

@Aufsmaul33 There might be a point in this, but i.m.h.o. there is no obliged connection between dissonance and the heroic character of a piece. As there is no obliged connection between slow movement and heroism in music. Neverthelesse, as I already stated in one of my first comments, I appreciate quite some slow interpretations of this piece, on the condition that they respect the bigger musical lines of the composition, without feeling obliged to do the same.

[hoefje14]

And, as far as I'm concerned, this doesn't go for Dupré, who in all of his editions of other composers shows a profound misunderstainding and even disrespect for the original intentions of the composers by adapting quite a lot of things to his own rather rigid system of interpretation. This being said, I have the greatest respect for Dupré als an improviser and a composer!

[jasonc001]

So sad that it's played too rapidly! What's the hurry?

[hoefje14]

Arguments? Please?

[Angultimmarik]

24 is right, much too fast!!!

[hoefje14]

Arguments? Please?

[monoamiga]

Nooo, I think it's quite well! Piece HEROIQUE and it IS heroique! Very well! Congratulations, very very great performance & registration!!

[EccentricRichard]

I'm going to agree that this performance is rather fast... but I don't think that's a problem. I don't think it should go any faster, but this seems fine, to be honest. Also, what an absolutely wonderful organ! Great acoustic too...

[Aufsmaul33]

@hoefje14 i can assure you that i won't ever tell somebody not to play like he wants to. the most important thing about making music is to like his own, so i just gave my personal opinion :) it might just be easier to accent the dissonances which are giving the really dramatic and heroic sound, but as i just said, that's just what i think

[speedstick77]

Oooooh!  Excellent playing. The voicing on the instrument is truly stunning. Thank you for sharing!

[pronyma]

I dont know what the original tempo is for this music piece, but i do have heard recordings of it which were much slower. Now I'm not going to argue about which one is better, but i have to say you really managed to accentuate the melancholy, the morbidity and the tormention of this piece.

While it being slowly played it shows more of a heroic piece, but the tempo you were going for really showed the other side of this piece really well!

Keep up the good work!