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A first CD release for a thrilling recital of dazzling toccatas and fantasias from the French organ tradition by one of the world’s most celebrated musicians.
Installed in 1972 and built by the Austrian firm of Hradetzky, the four-manual organ at the Royal Northern College of Music was just four years old when Gillian Weir recorded this album. She draws from it a robust, vibrant sound and a dazzling array of French-accented colours in a showpiece recital which shows off both organ and organist to best advantage.
As she relates in a newly written booklet note for this release, Gillian Weir played many recitals on the Hradetzky organ. She found its fresh, exciting sounds and array of pungent reed stops ideal for this repertoire. The album opens and closes with spectacular pieces by Marcel Dupré, the epitome of the French organist-composer tradition. The prodigious polymath Saint-Saëns had himself been acclaimed by Liszt as the greatest organist in the world, and he composed the carefree Fantaisie in his early twenties to display his own gifts at the console.
Vierne succeded Widor as titular organist at Notre Dame, and his own Pièces de fantaisie are steeped in the cathedral’s acoustic and the possibilities of the instrument designed by the king of French organ builders, Aristide Cavaillé-Coll. Among them, Naïades is his most loved piece, a perpetuum mobile of rippling scales summoning up a vision of laughing water nymphs diving through the water.
Perhaps the most demanding piece in Gillian Weir’s recital draws from the Vierne tradition via Olivier Messiaen, in L’ange à la trompette by Messiaen’s pupil Jacques Charpentier. Her performance of its exuberant, culminating toccata elicited particularly glowing critical praise when the album was released, for her absolute rhythmic security and assured mastery of both music and instrument. (© Decca Music Group Limited / Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd.)
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Variations sur un Noël (Marcel Dupré)
Marcel Dupre, Composer - Gillian Weir, Organ - Chris Bernauer, Producer
℗ 2019 Gillian Weir
Marcel Dupre, Composer - Gillian Weir, Organ, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Bernauer, Producer
℗ 2019 Gillian Weir
Marcel Dupre, Composer - Gillian Weir, Organ, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Bernauer, Producer
℗ 2019 Gillian Weir
Marcel Dupre, Composer - Gillian Weir, Organ, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Bernauer, Producer
℗ 2019 Gillian Weir
Marcel Dupre, Composer - Gillian Weir, Organ, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Bernauer, Producer
℗ 2019 Gillian Weir
Marcel Dupre, Composer - Gillian Weir, Organ, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Bernauer, Producer
℗ 2019 Gillian Weir
Marcel Dupre, Composer - Gillian Weir, Organ, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Bernauer, Producer
℗ 2019 Gillian Weir
Marcel Dupre, Composer - Gillian Weir, Organ, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Bernauer, Producer
℗ 2019 Gillian Weir
Marcel Dupre, Composer - Gillian Weir, Organ, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Bernauer, Producer
℗ 2019 Gillian Weir
Marcel Dupre, Composer - Gillian Weir, Organ, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Bernauer, Producer
℗ 2019 Gillian Weir
Marcel Dupre, Composer - Gillian Weir, Organ, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Bernauer, Producer
℗ 2019 Gillian Weir
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS, Composer - Gillian Weir, Organ, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Bernauer, Producer
℗ 2019 Gillian Weir
24 Pièces de fantaisie, Opp. 51, 53-55 / Suite No. 2, Op. 53 (Louis Vierne)
Louis Vierne, Composer - Gillian Weir, Organ, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Bernauer, Producer
℗ 2019 Gillian Weir
24 Pièces de fantaisie, Opp. 51, 53-55 / Suite No. 4, Op. 55 (Louis Vierne)
Louis Vierne, Composer - Gillian Weir, Organ, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Bernauer, Producer
℗ 2019 Gillian Weir
24 Pièces de fantaisie, Opp. 51, 53-55 / Suite No. 2, Op. 53 (Louis Vierne)
Louis Vierne, Composer - Gillian Weir, Organ, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Bernauer, Producer
℗ 2019 Gillian Weir
Jacques Charpentier, ComposerLyricist - Gillian Weir, Organ, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Bernauer, Producer
℗ 2019 Gillian Weir
Symphonie No. 2, Op. 26 (Marcel Dupré)
Marcel Dupre, Composer - Gillian Weir, Organ, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Bernauer, Producer
℗ 2019 Gillian Weir
Marcel Dupre, Composer - Gillian Weir, Organ, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Bernauer, Producer
℗ 2019 Gillian Weir
Marcel Dupre, Composer - Gillian Weir, Organ, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Bernauer, Producer
℗ 2019 Gillian Weir
Albumbeschreibung
A first CD release for a thrilling recital of dazzling toccatas and fantasias from the French organ tradition by one of the world’s most celebrated musicians.
Installed in 1972 and built by the Austrian firm of Hradetzky, the four-manual organ at the Royal Northern College of Music was just four years old when Gillian Weir recorded this album. She draws from it a robust, vibrant sound and a dazzling array of French-accented colours in a showpiece recital which shows off both organ and organist to best advantage.
As she relates in a newly written booklet note for this release, Gillian Weir played many recitals on the Hradetzky organ. She found its fresh, exciting sounds and array of pungent reed stops ideal for this repertoire. The album opens and closes with spectacular pieces by Marcel Dupré, the epitome of the French organist-composer tradition. The prodigious polymath Saint-Saëns had himself been acclaimed by Liszt as the greatest organist in the world, and he composed the carefree Fantaisie in his early twenties to display his own gifts at the console.
Vierne succeded Widor as titular organist at Notre Dame, and his own Pièces de fantaisie are steeped in the cathedral’s acoustic and the possibilities of the instrument designed by the king of French organ builders, Aristide Cavaillé-Coll. Among them, Naïades is his most loved piece, a perpetuum mobile of rippling scales summoning up a vision of laughing water nymphs diving through the water.
Perhaps the most demanding piece in Gillian Weir’s recital draws from the Vierne tradition via Olivier Messiaen, in L’ange à la trompette by Messiaen’s pupil Jacques Charpentier. Her performance of its exuberant, culminating toccata elicited particularly glowing critical praise when the album was released, for her absolute rhythmic security and assured mastery of both music and instrument. (© Decca Music Group Limited / Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd.)
Details of original recording : Manchester, UK, November 1976
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 19 track(s)
- Total length: 00:51:58
- Main artists: Gillian Weir
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Decca
- Area: France
- Genre: Klassiek
- Collection: Eloquence
© 2019 Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd. ℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
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