Par VIERNE LOUIS. / contemporain / Date parution : 2008-01-24/ Répertoire / Violoncelle et Piano

Transcriptions (1894 / 1901 / 1932) Complete Organ Works 10-New source material incorporatedExtensive trilingual Foreword (Fr/Eng/Ger) with detailed notes on performance practiceComprehensive Critical Commentary (Fr/Eng/Ger)Illustrations and facsimilesLouis Vierne (1870–1937) brought symphonic French organ music to its stylistic climax.Besides being a productive composer he also gained a reputation as a brilliant improviser at his place of employment the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and throughout the world.In 1928 Vierne one of the best-known organists of his day made one of the earliest organ recordings playing Bach works and his own improvisations in Notre Dame.Threeimprovisations released in 1929-30 were transferred to musical notation in 1954 by his pupil Maurice Duruflé. Another previously unpublished improvisation which was recently rediscovered among Vierne's posthumous papers was reconstructed and published in musical notation in 2005 by Duruflé’s pupil Jean-Michel Louchart (b. 1946). These four improvisations join Vierne's transcriptions of works by Johann Sebastian Bach César Franck and Serge Rachmaninoff in this volume bringing our complete edition of his organ works to a close.

Louis Vierne (1870 1937) was a private student of César Franck and was appointed Titular Organist of Notre Dame de Paris in the year 1900. Numerous concert tours throughout Europe and the USA helped him achieve world renown. His circle of students included Marcel Dupré whose own pupil Thierry Escaich has assisted with this edition.Vierne?s compositions are masterpieces of organ music and form a central part of the instrument?s more demanding repertoire. Vierne brought the organ symphony as a genre to its peak and significantly influenced the development of organ-playing worldwide.Based on the work?s first publication Volume II presents the second of a totalof six organ symphonies. Includes a comprehensive critical commentary (Fr/Eng/Ger)Foreword (Fr/Eng/Ger) with details on performance practiceNumerous illustrations and facsimile pages

Description Three majestic lyrical works from French organist and composer Louis Vierne. A student of Franck and Widor, Vierne was organist at Notre-Dame, Paris. Songlist Symphony No.1 Op.14 Symphony No.2 Op.20 Symphony No.3 Op.28

Vierne's six symphonies are stylistic highlights of the French organ symphony taking César Franck as their starting point. Vierne's sixth and last Organ Symphony op. 59 was written in summer 1930. In this work his well-known chromatic style verged on the traditional major-minor tonality.Evaluation of all available autograph manuscripts first printed editions and previously unpublished lettersWith a comprehensive critical commentary (Fr/Eng/Ger)Foreword (Fr/Eng/Ger) with detailed performance practice tipsNumerous illustrations and facsimile pages

Grâce à la transcription de cette correspondance, nous nous immisçons ici dans la vie d'un compositeur de la première moitié du XXe siècle, et plus particulièrement dans deux périodes de sa vie totalement distinctes. La première s'intéresse à la correspondance de l'artiste avec ses parents alors qu'il était encore élève au Conservatoire National de Musique de Paris entre les années 1901 et 1903. Difficultés du jeune étudiant provincial, déceptions, joies et doutes remplissent ses lettres qui attestent déjà à l'époque de la difficulté des concours. On trouve également quelques noms célèbres de musiciens avec quiilentretenaitdesrapports,telsCamilleSaint Saëns,GabrielFauré,CharlesTournemire ou Louis Vierne. / Livre

The Suite Gothique by French composer Leon Boellmann has proved to be of lasting popularity far beyond the boarders of France and is a worthy representation of the typically French school later to be expanded by Widor and Vierne.

Jehan Alain (1911-1940) was a French organist and composer. The third volume of Alain's Organ Works comprise Prélude Profane and Lamento as well as other favourites from the composer. Alain studied with Organ virtuosos Guilmant and Vierne and was primarily an organist and composer of religious music. Whilst at the Paris Conservatoire Alain won many prizes and his composition catalogue comprises some 140 works. The compositions in the third volume of Organ Works by Jehan Alain are full of life mirroring his personality. From lively andcomical pieces to sensitive and unexpected works Alain's pieces are diverse in musicality. Moreover the composer exploits Organ techniques making for an exciting and varied collection for intermediate to advanced level organists.

From Quatre Motets Sur Des Themes Gregoriens-Duruflé grew up in Louviers in the northern French region of Haute-Normandie (Upper Normandy) where as a boy he was a chorister and studied piano. At the age of 17 he moved to Paris to study organ with Charles Tournemire. A year later Duruflé wasadmitted to the Paris Conservatoire where he studied organ piano and composition and was awarded five first prizes in various subjects. Upon graduation Duruflé became musical assistant to Louis Vierne at Notre Dame but soon after this wasappointed organist at Saint Étienne-du-Mont in Paris where he would remain for the rest of his life. In 1943 he was appointed professor of harmony at the Conservatoire a position he maintained for 27 years. From 1926 until 1977 Duruflé published 14compositions including the Requiem Op. 9 (1947). Duruflé traveled extensively as a concert organist and was active as a recording artist. Later in life he and his second wife often performed as an organ duo. The composer suffered severe injuriesin an automobile accident in 1975 which left him nearly bed-ridden for the final decade of his life.Composed in 1960 Quatre Motets sur des thèmes grégoriens Op. 10 (Four Motets on Gregorian Themes) were dedicated to Auguste le Guennant director of the Gregorian Institute in Paris. Each of the four motets begins with an incipit of Gregorianchant which serves as melodic inspiration for the composition that follows. The four motets are (in order): ?Ubi caritas ? ?Tota pulchra es ? ?Tu es Petrus ? and ?Tantum ergo.? ?Ubi caritas? is an early Christian antiphon traditionally used in the Maundy Thursday service during the washing of the feet an act of Jesus from the Last Supper. The antiphon has become closely associated with the Eucharist and is sometimes alsoused at weddings. Duruflé sets only the first of the four stanzas of the text.

Jehan Alain (1911-1940) was a French organist and composer. His Litanies for Organ was composed in 1937 and is a sublime addition to the instrument's repertoire. Alain studied with Organ virtuosos Guilmant and Vierne and was primarily an organist and composer of religious music. Whilst at the Paris Conservatoire he won many prizes and his composition catalogue comprises some 140 works. Alain's Litanies is his most famous work and is prefaced with the text; 'When in its distress the Christian soul can find no more words to invoke God's mercy it repeats endlessly the same litany....for reason hasreached its limit; only faith can take one further...' From lively and comical pieces to sensitive and unexpected works Alain's pieces are diverse in musicality. Moreover the composer exploits Organ techniques making Litanies an exciting and varied piece for advanced level organists.

The first classical Organ method for children the Suzuki Organ School is based on Dr. Shinichi Suzuki's Mother Tongue Method. The Suzuki Method® of Talent Education is based on Suzuki's view that every child is born with ability and that people are the product of their environment. According to Suzuki a world-renowned violinist and teacher the greatest joy an adult can know comes from developing a child's potential so he/she can express all that is harmonious and best in human beings. Each series of books for a particular instrument in the Suzuki Method is considered a Suzuki music school such as the Suzuki Organ School. The student listens to therecordings and work with their Suzuki Organ teacher to develop their potential as a musician and as a person.This Suzuki Book & CD is essential for Suzuki Organ lessons. In certain pieces the authors have placed small phonetic signs above the notes to indicate differentiated non legato playing. In order to develop pedal technique pedal melodies are included between every manual piece. The included performance CD for Volume 8 is a great tool for Suzuki Organ lessons encouraging practice while featuring recordings by Lars Hagström and Jeremy Chesman.Titles: 'Praeludium' (Bach) 'Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3 BWV 1068' (J. S. Bach / arr. Hagström) 'Postlude' (Guilmant) 'Le cygne from Le carnaval des animaux' (Saint-Saëns) 'Pedal--Exercitium BWV 598' (Bach) 'Prelude in E. Minor' (Bruhns) 'Menuet gothique' (Boëllmann) 'Marche--Sortie' (Dubois) 'Prelude in C' ( Kellner) 'Cortège' (Vierne) 'Verset--Fantaisie' (Guilmant) 'Radetzky March' (Strauss / arr. Hagström) 'Fugue in D Minor BWV 565' (Bach).