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  1. A part from the former console , one can see him at his private organ which was located in his (big) flat of boulevard Berthier in Paris.
  2. Undoubtedtly the best gifted NDP "co-titulaire". Too bad he died too early!
  3. Pierre Pincemaille improvising on the ACC opus 1
  4. New recording: Messiaen's early organ Music http://pierrepincemaille.fr/?page_id=8
  5. Funny thing: "Sevice" in French means "physical abuse". Mind the music you will be hearing in NDP....it might cause some troubles for your ears!!
  6. Philippe Lefebvre improvises at NDP http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=RYHHmF_7VvM
  7. Pierre Pincemaille improvising on the ACC organ of Cathédrale de Saint Denis. Play Video
  8. I also heard Latry play a whole concert on Dupré's organ in Meudon some years ago. I don't remember the Bach he started with but I do remember he missed some bars in the middle of it . The rest was good enough as usual, but I don't see the real interest of playing from memory from the listener point of view! By the way, Marcel Dupré when he was teacher at the Paris Conservatoire used to oblige his pupills to play from memory while reading a newspaper on the music stand...Good exercise?
  9. Unstead of beeing almost obliged to compare 4 different styles of improvisation and 4 different styles of organ making, I would prefer to listen to other unpublished Cochereau's impros... Strangely enough, nor Philippe Lefebvre, nor Pierre Pincemaille will participate in this recording...and the same for the NDP organ!! A part from that I don't question the talent of the 4 organists choosen for this CD.
  10. This organ was played in april 2004 at the occasion of the 20th anniversery of Cochereau's death by Maurice Clerc titular organist (former Cochereau's pupil) and Pierre Pincemaille amongst others. To me this instrument is representative of the neo classical organs fit to play a broad variety of litterature. You may listen to it on this site(bottom of the page): the improvisation by Cochereau has been of course recorded prior to the restauration (1996) http://www.orguecathedraledijon.com/vente.html
  11. "Berceuse à la mémoire de Louis Vierne" transcribed by Frédéric Blanc (impro for Philips May 1973)
  12. Saint Ouen is first in my top five, and curiously enough, Saint Denis which I did'nt know 8 years ago has become the second in this top five since I'm lucky enough to listen to it on a very regular basis. I say "curiously", because ACC considered it as a prototype. He wanted 4 manuels unstead of 3, he wanted to add a set of chamades: due to a lack of money his projects were not finaly met. As for, the Bombarde 32: it sounds extremely strong and violent and when the nave is empty the tutti seems stronger than the one of NDP!
  13. As for the young generation, I'm sad to announce that the last prize winers in Chartres impro contest (Baptiste Florian Marle-Ouvrard and Noel Hazebrouck) are thinking to drop organ in so far as they can't earn their life with it. The second one is now shop assistant in a sort of electronic hyper and the second one (much more gifted) is still titular organist, but as it is surely not enough to afford the daily expenses in the Paris region, he is seriously considering his reconversion as aircraft pilote!
  14. If we want to speak about the current best improvisers I would'nt leave out people like: .Pierre Pincemaille whose style is very well described by pncd! I would add he is also able to improvise "alla Bach" as he uses to do it almost every sunday in Saint-Denis...To me he is the best one even his music is not really innovative, but as for rythm and melody he is perfectly in line with Cochereau!. David Briggs whom I heard twice in Notre Dame: extraordinary concerts by a virtuoso! Thierry Escaich whom I heard improvising very often in St Etienne du Mont (playing with big tennis shoes!)or in concert. Brilliant in his own style not very innovative, although rather modal. I would place at distance the other ones, including Latry who does'nt pretend to be a real improviser, Hakim, Blanc, Guillou ( peculiar case as you know). Devernay was a very brilliant improviser alas to early died. Lefebvre and Taddei were considered by Cochereau as potential successors: actually with regards this subject, he has been wrong!
  15. Sorry if I'm besides this topic After a concert in Notre Dame done by Suzanne Chaisemartin ( former titular organist of the ACC organ of St Augustin in Paris and former Dupré's pupill) Pierre Cochereau congratulates her: " what a brilliant concert Suzanne!...it was fantastic...what is your secret?" And Suzanne replies out of the blue:"I sleep alone as for myself!"
  16. Daniel Roth is certainly an excellent improviser like many others French organists (Blanc, Warnier, Cauchefer-Choplin, Lefebvre, Robilliard, Taddei...) but he however stays below my personal top 5 (including the dead) in which there are Tournemire, Dupré, Cochereau, Pincemaille, Guillou (ante 1975).
  17. I rather agree with you for NDP, but saying that, Cochereau wanted probably to tell that the changes brought by Boisseau were never questionned by the concertists invited each sunday afternoon... For the rest St Sulpice is an amusing relic of the XIX st century but IMHO not the best example of ACC's work.
  18. Quite so! And what about La Trinité?: without the changes by Beuchet how Messiaen could have imagine to keep composing for organ? And Widor at St Sulpice: everyone knows that he thanked ACC many times for his magnificent organ constructed on the basis of Clicquot'work! Cochereau himself was very cool about the organ conception: to his visitors who complained about the deep changes that occured on his NDP organ, he allways said there was a button which would allow them to only use the Vierne tutti and the numerous registrations allowed the concertists to draw aside the new stops! Music changes...organs have to
  19. See also the famous bright ramp on the right side of the console displaying the crescendo pedal...
  20. Taste the difference!: http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=M9bGjHQI5a8
  21. Actually, this video is a fragment of a recording that was used by Solstice for the DVD. The improvisation lasts about 20 minutes in the form of "Thème et variations". The abstract you can see on youtube comes just before the toccata finale. One of the reason why Solstice (Yvette Carbou)did'nt use the old recordings to show PC' performances more in details is linked to financial issues. One minute of programme tv recording costed so much that it impeded them to fully benefit from the images bank managed by INA (institut national de l'audiovisuel)!
  22. No he was'nt 59 when this video was shot. I suspect it was rather in the late 70's. This improvisation lasts around 20 minutes of which 2 mn have picked out for the DVD purpose.
  23. Video abstract broadcasted in 1984 after PC's death. http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=CEnfwY6rYU4
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