flûte harmonique
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Pierre Pincemaille, there is one great organist, his complete widor played on C.C. organs is outstanding. I bought the boxed set while in Paris a while back, I have not heard better,,,,,,yet
Peter
I do agree with you!
As for Van Oosten, I assume he is a great organist but in his Widor, he has simply played the notes, as Pincemaille has tried to revamp a music which was considered by many as too "oldish".
I heard the 4th symphonie played by him in St Sulpice 2 years ago: it was spendid!
For Franck, he has warned me that he had taken into consideration the "pianist" as well as the "orchestrator" sides of Franck...
Will it be popular or not? Certainly a matter of taste but as always with PP his interpretation can't leave you indifferent
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Blimey - and I thought I played the Pièce Héroïque fast.
By early march, Franck's complete organ music recorded in St Sernin de Toulouse by Pierre Pincemaille.
In my humble opinion worth getting it!!
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I am the happy owner of Pierre Labric's LPs recorded in Saint Ouen in 1972 and 73 as far I can remember.
I warmly recommand to listen to the 24 pièces de fantaisie of this recording!
Labric being from Rouen, knew perfectly well how to register this marvellous organ!
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Well, you almost certainly did not hear the Tutti Général - this is extremely exciting - even from half-way down the nave; I know - I have heard it there, as well as from leaning against the case....
Each titular organist has his own way to compute the general tutti and the progression to it (séquenceur). For example, O.Latry put in the tutti some pedal stops and of course all the 8 and 16' couplings. Lefebvre and Leguay use some other arrangements.
Actually each invited organist can program whatever he wants through the computer which allows thousands of combinations, sostenuti on all the manuals,etc.
This explains why listening to a concert or a mass you hear in different ways the great organ.
For instance I had the pleasure to hear D. Briggs in january 2005 playing
a Cochereau's transcription and a piece of his own: his registrations were particulary so well choosen that you could believe that Pierre Cochereau was still alive...
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Thanks for this, but Amazon are showing the Latry set as deleted. I'll keep trying!
Graham
http://www.fnac.com/Shelf/article.asp?PRID...2ed4a88a74&Fr=3
See on this site: still available
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Indeed - sadly, even N.-D. de Paris is now not like N.-D. de Paris.... Now it is too polite - it sounds more like King's - after a fashion.
One of the biggest mistakes made in 1992, as far as I am concerned, was to remove both chorus mixtures on the Récit-expressif. This (as well as many of the other changes) has had a big impact on the sound of the organ.
Yes that's right, and you also could add the modification on the PC's chamades which are now smoother than before. Cochereau used them as a chorus over the general tutti.
As I had the chance to hear PC live in the late 60's and the seventies, I confirm this organ has deeply changed since then. you may check that by listening to the late CD recorded in NDP in 2005 by Yves Castagnet playing the "Chemin de la croix" (Intrada) and then the Falcinelli's version (Soltice) recorded live in 1981 during PC's time.
That Toccata ...
in The Organ
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He said "nearer to the grave than the organ" (plus près du tombeau que de l'orgue)...