French Virtuoso Organ Music
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4818742
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 14th February 2020
Contents
Works
L'Ange a la trompetteSymphony no.2 in C sharp minor, op.26
Variations sur un vieux Noel, op.20
Fantaisie no.1 in E flat major
Pieces de fantaisie (24): Suite no.2, op.53
Artists
Gillian Weir (organ)Works
L'Ange a la trompetteSymphony no.2 in C sharp minor, op.26
Variations sur un vieux Noel, op.20
Fantaisie no.1 in E flat major
Pieces de fantaisie (24): Suite no.2, op.53
Artists
Gillian Weir (organ)About
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 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.
‘Miss Weir plays with her customary elan.’ - Musical Times, April 1978
‘Gillian Weir returns once more on this record to the French organ repertory which seems to draw out her highest powers of expression and which she interprets with such imaginative flair... The quality of the recording matches the distinction of Miss Weir’s performance.’ - Gramophone, July 1977
‘Her performance ... is magnificent: sensitive, meaningful phrasing; virtuosic technique; musical intuition of the highest order ... acquisition of this disc is a must.’ - Fanfare, March 1978
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