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Anyway, congratulations for this interesting post which proves that British people are able to speak to each others without much aggression and respect for others' opinions In the French-speaking forums, such an exchange of views about a concert would have turn into a civil war!!! This is a reason why there is no organ forum in France comparable to this one.

Same opinion: :angry:awful interpretation

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If I understand correctly you mean the more you pay the more you are satisfied??? Strange enough to me!!

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Din???? Pulling my legs?

Thierry Escaich titular at Saint Etienne du Mont (former Duruflé's organ) improvises a sortie de messe. Funny to see that he uses Cochereau's style!

Same programme in Notre Dame de Paris 10:30 AM friday 2nd april by Yves Castagnet (choir organist)

Thierry Escaich in St Etienne du Mont (Paris)

At the beginning of the recording, he says "Bravo Revert". Revert was the choirmaster of Notre Dame and a deep friend of Cochereau.

critics You are not he only one to like this recording!

My favorite recordings are: Vynil: Grünenwald in Saint Ouen de Rouen: this is a true rarity but unforgettable CD: André Marchal (titular organist of St Eustache until 1963 when he dismissed) CD: Pierre Pincemaille in St Sernin In the last 2 recordings I find exciting to listen to musicians who dare to play faster than usual the 3rd Choral. Explanations on this by PP: http://pierrepincemaille.fr/data/franckinterpretation.pdf

Pierre Pincemaille improvises in concert (Saint Martin de Dudelange-Luxembourg, 78 stops neo-classic) Theme and variations Final variations The rest on youtube: total of six uploaded videos of the same concert.

An other video showing Pierre Cochereau playing the 3rd mvt of Evocation of Dupré in NDP. Sorry for the bad quality due to the old VHS tape.

I heard some concertists or organists who use to play in Notre-Dame complaining about this omission at the Récit. One should ask Philippe Lefebvre who was a member of the official Commission of the "orgues historiques" which gave its opinion about the restauration.

The current state of the organ is as good as possible, but it is not exactly the same organ.

Jean Fröhlich, his assistant wrote in a CD leaflet: "Before each of Yves' improvised passages, we would exchange a few words as to the the initial registrations, and here the discussion would end (often through lack of time) with a brief "See you at the pause" ("Au point d'orgue"). "Since August 1983, the GO had been without electric combinations, so all the stops were pulled out by hand. I myself, said Fröhlich, took over the stop-pulling for 107 stops, 1 pedal divider, 6 pedal couplers, 6 reed couplers, 1 tutti, 14 manual couplers, 1 crescendo. I never used the crescendo pedal to crescendo, only to descrecendo! He added: "It was risky to improvise in these conditions as sequences of registrations were not always coordinated and contrapuntal effects were not controlled, but Yves, ever inventive, was always able to adapt to a new situation" I personally heard him improvising in 1986 at the loft 2 years after Cochereau's death: he was the only one to get up to the level of the Genious!

Thank you for what you say on Devernay. I share your opinion on his inspiration which was not impeded by the various failures occuring to the PC's organ at that time!

Devernay in NDP. Dead at 53 years old in 1990. The organ is in very bad condition BUT the essential thing is the talent of this marvelous musician Devernay improvises in 1989

Devernay improvises in NDP on PC's organ. Note that the combinations are out of order (completely dead as said Cochereau): Devernay is helped by an assistant who pulls the stops like in St Sulpice

This is not Mallié but George Baker who reports this fact. I used to visit Cochereau when I was a teenager in the late 60's with several friends of mine who were very curious about listening and seeing this genious musician. All of them when going down from the tribune after a service said they were enthousiastic about what they have heard and about the kindness of PC. One sunday after the masses, we were 5 or 6 fans at the loft with Cochereau, some of them very closed to him. He proposed to everybody to have a lunch with him...seeing me alone and very timid in a corner of the loft, he told me : "Come on and join us ". Obviously he treated us very friendly!! Needless to say that I still consider him as the best organist I have ever heard and a very good man plenty of humour! When I visit the current tribune I still think of him with many regrets.

Yes indeed! But Pierre Pincemaille is abroad for a concert in Germany on the 1st of november. See his agenda here:http://pierrepincemaille.fr/?page_id=79

In general, it's quite easy to visit the parisians tribunes as the titulars are very open minded persons. In addition to St Sulpice already quoted (including not only Roth, but also Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer deputy titular) you may add St Etienne du Mont (Thierry Escaich and Vincent Warnier who are Duruflé's successors) Saint Eustache with Guillou or other ones, Pierre Pincemaille in cathédrale Saint-Denis, François-Henri Houbart in La Madeleine . I would have add Naji Hakim as well, if he had not been fired from La Trinité....

Few music but many words in it. Buying filmed archives is so expensive that Solstice has prefered to interview people who have known PC.... Nevertheless worth getting it.