Sept Chorals-Poèmes d’orgue pour les Sept Paroles du Christ are played by Georges Delvallée on the Cavaillé-Coll at St-Sulpice, Paris. Charles Tournemire (1870-1939) succeeded his teacher César Franck as titulaire at St-Clotilde in Paris and composed these seven works for organ on the Seven Last Words of Christ in February and March, 1935. He had completed his monumental L’Orgue Mystique in 1932 and composed the Sept Chorals almost simultaneously with Messiaen’s composition of La Nativité. Dupré’s major organ works on the crucifixion, Symphonie-Passion, op. 23, and Le Chemin de la croix, op. 29, had been completed in 1924 and 1931, respectively. |