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Guilmant Organ Sonatas Complete
Once Again Available! Ben van Oosten plays all nine of Alexandre Guilmant’s sonatas on the fabulous 1890 Cavaillé-Coll 4-82 at St. Ouen in Rouen.$58.95 | | Widor Complete Organ Works, Vol. 1: Olivier Vernet Plays
Olivier Vernet begins a series of recordings based on the new critical edition of the Symphonies of Widor edited by John R. Near and published by A-R Editions.$15.98 |
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Vierne Complete: Christine Kamp, Organist
Volume 4 of this fine series is now available with vocal works, a recently discovered fourth improvisation and a thrilling orchestral piece compiled by Vierne for use on tour.
| | Pascale Rouet: Hier & Aujourd’hui
Traditional sonorities and modern compositions are the music of past and present played by Pascale Rouet on the 1725/1991 Moucherel/Formentelli organ in the Abbey at Mouzon.$33.98 |
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Marcel Dupré: Les Vêpres de la Vierge
Harald Feller, Organ, and the Göttinger Choralschola, led by Johanna Grüger, perform Les Vêpres de la Vierge and other works of Dupré in alternatim at St. Martin's in Memmingen.$17.98 | | Charles Tournemire Organ Works
Stefan Kagl plays Tournemire at the organ of Herford Munster, Germany. Kurt Lueders has written a very fine essay for the CD booklet placing Tournemire’s work in perspective.$14.98 |
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Franck Organ Works: Colin Walsh at the Lincoln Willis
At the magnificent Father Willis in Lincoln Cathedral, Colin Walsh performs the three chorales of Franck and other works. At 110, the organ sounds like new!$15.98 | | Charles Tournemire: Complete Recordings
Tournemire Plays the Cavaillé-Coll at St. Clotilde
On archival recordings from 1930-1931, Tournemire himself plays the organ Franck knew.$15.98 |
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Organ Works of Daniel Roth
Daniel Roth, titular organist of St. Sulpice in Paris, professor, recitalist and renowned improviser, is also a composer. This CD presents several of Roth’s works for organ.$14.98 | | Langlais at Notre Dame, Paris
A luminous gathering of musicians, including Langlais himself, performs works of Jean Langlais at Notre Dame, Paris.$14.98 |
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Alain at St. Ouen
This wonderful but very hard-to-find recording of Jehan Alain works is played by Christophe Mantoux on the most beautiful Cavaillé-Coll at St. Ouen in Rouen, France.$14.98 | | Félix Moreau Organ Works
Félix Moreau, son and grandson of organists, student of d’Indy and Vierne, is the organist of Saint-Pierre in Nantes where he and former student, Marie-Thérèse Jehan, play for this CD.$14.98 |
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Briggs, Escaich, Mallié, and Baker Pay Tribute to Cochereau
In a musical festschrift, four organists perform on four different organs honoring Pierre Cochereau at the 25th anniversary of his death.$14.98 | | A Vierne Collection: Truro Cathedral Choir
The complete Vierne choral works performed by the critically-acclaimed Truro Cathedral Choir and the complete organ works written for liturgical use.$15.98 |
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Franck: L'Œuvre d'Orgue
On the Cavaillé-Coll organ at Saint-Sernin de Toulouse, France, organist Pierre Pincemaille performs the complete organ works of César Franck. By throwing off "tradition", Pincemaille may actually be giving a more authentic interpretation of Franck's intentions than those who follow strict convention.
Two-disc set$25.98 | | Jacques Pichard: Organ Works 1991-2005
Works for organ, percussion and voice by young French composer Jacques Pichard$17.98 |
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l'Orgue Contemporain
On the famous Cavaillé-Coll organ at Notre-Dame de Paris, Francis Chapelet and Françoise Rieunier perform contemporary organ works. Rieunier performs the only organ work of Greek composer Iannis Xenakis, Gmeeoorh, and a work that Charles Chaynes composed for the wedding of his daughter: Diagramme.
Chapelet, who admits that instead of music, he would have undertaken study of geology and vulcanology had it not been for poor mathematical ability, performs his own works inspired by the eruptions of volcanoes in Europe and Africa.$14.98 | | Widor: Organ Symphonies 3 & 6 - Hans Fagius
Organist Hans Fagius performs Widor's third and sixth symphonies, as well as selections from the first symphony on the 1975 Åkerman & Lund organ at the Katarina Church (Katarinakyrkan) in Stockholm, Sweden. This organ retained a 1751 facade which previously existed in the church. This is the last commercial recording on this instrument before it was destroyed in a May 1990 fire.$17.98 |
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The Complete Organ Symphonies of Louis Vierne Volume IV
Iain Simcock performs Louis Vierne's fourth and sixth symphonies at Westminster Cathedral, where he serves as Assistant Master of Music.$12.98 | | Jean Langlais Centenary Celebration
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jean Langlais, Motette has compiled over 4 hours of recordings of Langlais and his music onto this reasonably priced 4 CD Set!
This set features recordings of Langlais himself playing his own works and works of others, including improvisations on the Cavaillé-Coll organ at St. Clotilde. Also includes performances by Naji Hakim, Marie-Louise Langlais, the Vocal Ensemble of Cologne Cathedral, and more, from locations throughout Europe, including at St. Clotilde, Cologne Cathedral, Sacré Cœur, and Marienstatt!
Click above for a complete listing of works and performers!$33.50 |
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Pierre Cochereau: Rekonstruierte Improvisationen
Pierre Cochereau's improvisations on folk tunes come to life once again on the great organ at the Église Saint-Eloi in Dunkerque (Dunkirk), France. Organist François Lombard, who has studied under André Isoir, Michel Chapuis and Gaston Litaize, breathes life into Cochereau's works by playing his own transcriptions and a transcription by David Briggs.$14.98 | | Französiche Orgelkunst in St. Augustin
French Organ works in St. Augustin
Romantic French organ works are performed on the 1976 Rieger organ at St. Augustin Church in Vienna, by titular organist Michael Gailit. The four manual instrument is built into a 1730 organ case, and is one of Austria's largest mechanical organs.$14.98 |
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Charles Marie Widor: Complete Symphonies
In seven volumes, all ten of Widor's Symphonies have been recorded on organs built or restored by the Cavaillé-Coll firm. Organists Suzanne Chaisemartin, Marie-Andrée Morisset-Balier, Daniel Roth and Odile Pierre perform on organs throughout France, including Rouen, Toulouse, Paris and Orléans.
BONUS! Several discs also include works by Widor's student, Louis Vierne; One disc includes a track by Félix-Alexandre Guilmant, Widor's successor as organ teacher at the Conservatoire de Paris.
Click the link to view and purchase each of the seven volumes!
| | Litaize spielt Litaize
Litaize plays Litaize
Gaston Litaize plays his own works on the 1979 Winfried Albiez (Lindau / Lake Constance) organ located in the gallery of the Church of St. Mary in Kempen, Germany.$14.98 |
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Louis Vierne: Sämtliche Orgelwerke Vol. 1 & 2
Wolfgang Rübsam plays Vierne's First, Second and Third Symphonies, Selections from 24 Pièces en style libre, and Tryptique on two Cavaillé-Coll organs: At Saint-François-de-Sales in Lyon, and at St.-Antoine-des-Quinze-Vingts in Paris. Over two hours of music on this Two-CD set!$25.98 | | Maurice Clerc in Concert
Maurice Clerc plays 19th and 20th century French works on the Riepp organ at Cathédrale St. Bénigne, Dijon, where he has been titular organist since 1972. Includes works of Franck, Fauré, Boëllmann, and a transcription of an improvisation by Clerc's teacher, Pierre Cochereau. In order to re-create the experience of a live performance, this recording has been edited very little.$12.98 |
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Guilmant: Pièces dans différents styles, Complete
Between 1861 and 1892, Alexandre Guilmant composed 66 organ works in a wide variety of styles and published them in a succession of 18 books bearing the overall title Pièces dans différents styles. For the first time, all of these works are being recorded on period organs by the fine and popular Dutch organist, Herman van Vliet. Some of Guilmant’s most popular pieces will appear in five CD volumes in the order of their composition.
| | York Minster Played by John Scott Whiteley
Minster Organist Whiteley presents finely played French music both familiar and new on the famous organ of York Minster, including several first recordings.$15.98 |
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Organ Music by Marcel Dupré
Formerly separate, now two CDs for the price of one!
John Scott's recordings of works of Marcel Dupré on the organ of St. Paul's Cathedral, London are now available as a set. This Gramophone Critics' Choice CD set contains over two hours of music!
'If you seek a recording of Dupré's works which does full justice to the music's myriad shades and inflections in an acoustic which leaves you quite simply in awe, look no further. One could almost imagine Dupré himself improvising the magical sounds pervading St Paul's. Need I say more,?' -Cathedral Music.$18.98 | | Philippe Delacour plays Marcel Dupré
On two seperate discs (one of which earned the prestigious Choc award from France's Le Monde de la Musique magazine), virtuoso Philippe Delacour plays significant works of Marcel Dupré. Delacour performs on the organs at the two churches where he is currently organist: The 1930 Frédéric Haerpfer organ at the Saint-Maurice church in Freyming-Merlebach, Lorraine, and the Cavaillé-Coll organ at Notre-Dame in Metz.
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Hommage à Pierre Cochereau
From the console of the grand-orgue at the Cathédrale Saint-Bénigne in Dijon, France, titular organist Maurice Clerc brings to life once again the improvisations of the French master, Pierre Cochereau.$14.98 | | Rolande Falcinelli joue Rolande Falcinelli
Falcinelli plays Falcinelli
Hear French organist Rolande Falcinelli play works which she composed and dedicated to organ students at the Paris Conservatory. This 1984 recording was performed on the three-manual Beuchet Grand-Orgue at the Cathédrale Saint-Pierre d'Angoulême.$14.98 |
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Klaas Jan Mulder: St. Ouen, Rouen
Organist Klaas Jan Mulder, who is considered a true romantic, finds himself quite at home playing a program of nineteenth century works (mostly from French composers) on the famous Cavaillé-Coll organ at St. Ouen in Rouen, France. Also includes an improvisation.$14.98 | | Rolande Falcinelli Interprète du XX siècle
Twentieth Century Interpretations
Hear recordings of Rolande Falcinelli playing Marcel Dupré, César Franck and Louis Vierne on the 59 rank Cavailé-Coll/ Merklin & Kuhn organ at the Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste in Belley, France, during the Belley Summer Sessions (1979 - 1987).$12.98 |
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Susanna Veerman at St.-Antoine des Quinze-Vingts, Paris
NEW! Veerman at St.-Antoine des Quinze-Vingts To keep the peace, a home organ goes to church.$14.98 | | Louis Robilliard: Cavaillé-Coll Ste.-Croix Orléans
NEW! Robilliard plays the 1880 Cavaillé-Coll in Orléans now restored.$14.98 |
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Maurice Clerc joue Tournemire, Langlais, Dupré
Maurice Clerc, organist at the Cathédrale St. Bénigne in Dijon, France, plays twentieth century French works inspired by Gregorian chant. Includes Charles Tournemire's Chorale-improvisation on Victimae Paschale Laudes, Suite Médiévale by Jean Langlais, and Marcel Dupré's Symphonie Passion.$14.98 | | Valéry Aubertin
Le Livre ouvert
2ème Livre d'orgue
Works of twentieth-century French composer Valéry Aubertin are performed by four friends and by the composer herself on this two disc set. All performances are on the Cavaillé-Coll organ at l'eglise Saint-Antoine des Quinze-Vingts in Paris.
This recording earned the prestigous "Diapason Découverte" award from France's Diapason magazine, and the "Choc" award from France's Le Monde de la Musique magazine, the highest award offered by that publication.$31.98 |
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The Tradition of Saint-Sulpice: Organs & Choirs
In the Paris of the 1870s, the musical establishment of Saint-Sulpice included two Cavaillé-Coll organs, a male choir of more than 200 voices, and a very accomplished boys’ choir of 40. Recreating the effect for this recording are organists Daniel Roth at the Grand Orgue, Sophie-Véronique Choplin at the orgue de choeur, and the professional Mainz Figural Choir. Click the headline for works by Widor, Dupré, Grunenwald, Roth, and Bach.$14.98 | | Le Christ en ses Mystères
Jeanne Maitre plays Tournemire and Messiaen on the 53-stop Cavaillé-Coll organ at Notre-Dame d'Auteuil in Paris. Includes extensive notes on the works, instrument and performer in French and English.
This disc earned the 4 star award from the French magazine, Le Monde de la Musique.$17.98 |
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Frauenkirche Dresden: Louis Vierne: Symphonies No. 3 and 5
Samuel Kummer plays Symphonies 3 and 5 of Louis Vierne at the Frauenkirche in Dresden, Germany. The instrument includes 67 registers and proves itself quite capable of playing 19th century music.
This hybrid Super Audio CD plays on all SACD and CD players.$27.98 | | Jehan Alain Organ Works
Organist Stephen Farr plays works of Jehan Alain on the 1979 mechanical action/ electric stop action Rieger organ at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.$15.98 |
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Cathédrales
Vierne · Boëllmann · Langlais · Messiaen
At the Cathédrale d'Amiens, principal organist Gérard Loisemant plays French works whose composition was inspired by great cathedrals. The organ dates back to 1429, and has been modified and expanded several times since then.
Total playing time: 60:28$18.98 | | Jean Langlais: A Centenary
George C. Baker performs works of his teacher at St.-Sernin de Toulouse on the 1889 Cavaillé-Coll which was a favorite of Langlais.$14.98 |
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Caro Mea "Messe Solennelle"
Langlais in an elegant liturgy$12.98 | | Cochereau La Legende
Re-issuing famous recordings made by Phillips, this CD indeed captures the legendary facility at improvisation which was Cochereau’s.$14.98 |
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Tribune libre
Suzanne Chaisemartin narrates a tour of three organs, her brilliant career and Dupre’s studio at Meudon$17.98 | | Pierre Cochereau Plays the Vierne Symphonies
The six Vierne organ symphonies recorded in the 1970’s at Notre Dame in Paris. 3-CD Set$35.98 |
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Daniel Roth Plays Vierne Symphonies 1 & 2, St.-Sulpice
Roth Plays Vierne Symphonies 1 and 2 at St-Sulpice in Paris on the 5m Cavaillé-Coll, using the latest surround-sound technology to capture the acoustical ambience of the famous building and its organ. Aeolus owner and engineer Christoph Frommen has given Daniel Roth the finest digital reproduction possible so that every nuance of the colorful registrations and enormous gravity of this famous organ are captured as never before. The CD is produced in SACD Surround Sound, so that it is entirely compatible with conventional CD players.$17.98 | | Tournemire "Pre-Mystical"
Composed before 1902, these works predate Tournemire’s mystical leanings and epitomize extroverted symphonic thought in the vein of late Widor. The Suite de morceaux comprises seven works organized into two opus numbers published in 1900 (op. 19) and 1902 (op. 24) and aimed at highly proficient organists. Michelle Leclerc plays the 1868 Cavaillé-Coll at Iglesia San Vicente in San Sebastián. Click the headline for titles and to order.$17.98 |
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Guilmant's Harmonium! Kurt Lueders Plays
Guilmant’s Harmonium is an exquisite Mustel still owned by the Guilmant family and, silent since 1911, refurbished for this recording. Using the instrument’s vast expressivity, Kurt Lueders plays Guilmant’s works for Christmas. ALEXANDRE GUILMANT: La Crèche: Pastorale et Adoration; Pastorale; Noël languedocien; Noël espagnol; “Chantons, je vous prie;” “Le Messie vient de naítre;” “Grand Dieu!” “Allons Pasteur;” "Coeur de Jésus enfant”; Prière et Berceuse; Noël brabançon alla Haydn; Berlioz: Repos de la Sainte Famille; Noël de Saboly alla Mozart; Puer natus est; Noël polonais; “Entends ma voix fidèle;" Finale alla Schumann sur un Noël languedocien$12.98 | | 1850 Callinet Organ in Besançon: Bernard Coudurier Plays
Bernard Coudurier plays at the Madeleine Church in Besançon, France, where Claude-Ignace Callinet built a 3m organ in 1850 that many consider his masterpiece. Now restored and containing 49 stops, the instrument represents the transitional style between the classical organ of the 17th and 18th centuries, and the symphonic organ built by his contemporary Aristide Cavaillé-Coll. Included are a conventional CD and another in DTS Surround Sound for those equipped to play it.MENDELSSOHN: Sonata 6 LISZT: Prelude & Fugue on BACH BRAHMS: Herzlich tut mich verlangen FRANCK: Choral 3
WIDOR: Intermezzo, Sym. 6 GUILMANT: Prelude, Sonata 3 ALAIN: Fantaisie No. 2; Litanies$17.98 |
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Daniel Roth Plays an 1897 Ghys Symphonic Organ
Daniel Roth Plays the rare, intact, and restored organ built in 1897 by Jean-Baptiste Ghys (1840-1923) of Dijon, France. Inaugurated in May, 2005, in its new church home of Eglise Sainte-Chantal in Dijon, the organ was built for a Dijon convent where it was unused for decades and never abused. Ghys, a native of Nukerke, Belgium, apprenticed to organbuilding at age 17 and worked in Brussels and then Paris, entering the service of Joseph Merklin in 1865 and supervised the installation of several organs. During the installation of an organ in Dijon in 1869, he met and then married an organbuilder's widow, producing many fine organs in his Dijon workshop. Only the organ recorded here is known to remain unaltered as built by Ghys. Daniel Roth enthusiastically embraces this 21-rank marvel for a magnificently played and well-recorded program. Click for works by Büsser, Pierné, Vierne, Roth, Franck, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Ropartz and Tournemire on this CD.$17.98 | | Louis Robilliard on Two Cavaillé-Colls
The virtuoso titulaire at St-François de Sales in Lyon, France (where Charles-Marie grew up and his father was organist) and widely known teacher plays major romantic works on the entirely preserved 3m Cavaillé-Coll at St-François and on the newly restoerd Cavaillé-Coll at St-Sernin, Toulouse. VIERNE: Symphony 1 RACHMANINOV: Prelude in f-sharp, op. 23/1 LISZT: Ad nos . . . WIDOR: Adagio & Final from Symphony 8$14.98 |
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Guilmant at the Trocadéro
Now Three Volumes! Peter Eilander creates a series of CDs devoted to the organ sonatas as well as the works that Parisian organist and composer Alexandre Guilmant played in an enormously popular annual series of concerts on the Cavaillé-Coll at The Trocadéro concert hall in Paris, near the Eiffel Tower. The series begun in 1879 included a Handel organ concerto with orchestra and Guilmant's own adaptations of works by earlier composers which he later published in four books with the overall title Repertoire des Concerts du Trocadéro and the subtitle Organ works of early composers published and adapted to modern organs. Eilander plays the works on ideal Cavaillé-Coll organs. Click the headline contents of each volume and to order.
| | Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, Titulaire at St-Sulpice, Paris
Jean-Jacques Grunenwald was Dupré’s assistant organist at St-Sulpice in Paris from 1936 and titular organist 1973-82, following Dupré’s death in 1971. Very well educated, Grunenwald held a diploma in architecture from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and also received first prize in Dupré’s organ class at the Paris Conservatory in 1935 at the age of 24. He made the very first recordings of the complete organ works of Bach as well as DeGrigny and Franck. The works on this CD were recorded in 1981 in stereo at St. Sulpice. Françoise Renet plays the Grunenwald work.$14.98 |
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Cochereau: Liturgical Organist, Improvises at Sunday Masses
Pierre Cochereau, organist of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris 1955-1984, is famed for his improvisations played during Sunday Masses at the Cathedral. Here, stellar examples recorded during Masses between 1973 and 1977 sample four each of Processional, Offertory, Communion, and Recessional improvisations. Not previously released. Click the headline to order.$14.98 | | Ben Van Oosten Plays Lefébure-Wély at The Madeleine
Totally Spectacular! Perhaps the most influential church musician/organist in mid-19th-century France was Louis-James-Alfred Lefébure-Wély who adapted popular musical styles to church organ music. The result was great appreciation on behalf of most church goers, an exploitation of the new musical resources available on the vanguard organs by Cavaillé-Coll and others, and a backlash from those with "better taste." Astride the malestrom was Cavaillé-Coll, remaining friendly with both sides, each embracing his organs. Lefébure-Wély, the best known and most celebrated organist in France, was organist of The Madeleine in Paris in 1847, where the builder had installed Paris’ first new organ in the symphonic style a year earlier. In 1863, Lefébure-Wély became organist of St-Sulpice. On this CD, Ben van Oosten incomparably plays these works on The Madeleine organ, finding infinite opportunities to explore his enormous musicality as abetted by awesome technique. Click the headline for titles and to order.$16.98 |
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Dupré Organ Works, Complete; Ben Van Oosten Plays
Click to see all nine volumes and to order.
| | Mulet, Ravel, & Mother Goose
Mulet & Ravel are played on a organ built in 1925 by the firm of Späth from Ennentach, Germany, with four manuals and 61 original registers now restored. In the resonant church, the ten colorful works comprising Mulet’s “Byzantine Studies” (of which Tu es Petra - Thou Art the Rock - is the most well known) glow in hues drawn exquisitely by Leonardy. Impressionism continues with P. O. Ferroud’s transcriptions for organs of three works from Ravel’s “Mother Goose Suite.”$14.98 |
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Vincent Paulet (b. 1962) Organ Works & Choral Works
Works of Vincent Paulet (b. 1962) seek a new route of expression within modernism, largely rejecting the apparent antagonism of avant-gardism and post-modernism. While freely atonal, his music gradually incorporates elements of an earlier tradition. The relation of time is a key element: listening time cannot be compressed and duration affects the quality of memory. The composer intentionally ended a promising future as a concert organist in 1994 to devote his energies to composition for which he has received many accolades and prizes in international competitions. Véronique Le Guen plays the Pascal Quoirin organ at Saint-Rémy de Provence. The superb Les Éléments Chamber Choir sings as directed by Joël Suhubiette. FOR ORGAN: Salve regina; Ave maris stella; Élégie; Laus FOR CHOIR: De profundis Psalm 129 for mixed choir; Suspiros for mixed choir, tenor solo, string quartet$12.98 | | Guillou Organ Spectacular on 3 CDs
Guillou's Three Most Famous CDs for the Price of One CD This 3-CD set of the famous recordings that Jean Guillou made for the audiophile Dorian CD label are now available at a special price. He plays the famous Fisk organ at Meyerson Symphony Hall, Dallas, with the Dallas Symphony, Eduardo Mata, conductor; the “ikon” organ in the shape of a hand as built by Kleuker for the Alpine church of Notre-Dame des Neiges, and the van den Heuvel organ which he designed as titulaire of St-Eustace in Paris. Click the headline for titles and to order.$15.98 |
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Delvallée Plays Tournemire Sept Chorals-Poèmes
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.$17.98 | | 1899 Henri Didier Organ & Transcriptions
Wolfram Adolph, Organist, is also the producer of CDs on the IFO label, director of the German publisher Schott, and editor of Organ - Journal für die Orgel. He is a pretty good organist, too, playing the glorious symphonic 1899 Henri Didier 3-65 in the magnificently recorded space of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Laon, France, in a Romantic program of little-known transcriptions, including several from two operas by Franck.
GUILMANT: Sonata No. 2, op. 50
MASSENET: Méditation; Mélodie-Élégie
DEBUSSY: Arabesques 1 & 2; Cortège; Fugue
FRANCK: Prélude and March from the opera Ghiselle; Berceuse; Chanson de l’Hermine and Cortège des Fiancés from the opera Hulda$12.98 |
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Aristide Cavaillé-Coll Anthology
Volumes 1-5 now available. Many organs built by the great Frenchman Aristide Cavaillé-Coll are featured in this fine series from IFO with several organists playing interesting repertoire.
| | François Benoist
Odile Jutten plays organ works of Benoist on the Cavaillé-Coll organ in the Cathédrale St.-Louis de Versailles. Most of the works are from liturgical suites. Click picture for repertoire$17.98 |
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Complete Organ Works of Joseph Jongen
John Scott Whiteley, biographer of Jongen, plays all of the organ works of the Belgian on three organs: Notre Dame de Laeken in Brussels (Merklin/Schyven), York Minster (Harrison & Harrison), and St. Jude’s Church, Detroit (Pilzecker). Click picture for repertoire$29.98 | | The Artistry of Odile Pierre
This 2-CD set pays tribute to the grand artistry of one of France’s great organists, Odile Pierre. Most of the first CD was recorded on the great Cliquot (1790) in the Cathedral of Poitiers and the second in a live concert in 1977 at la Madeleine in Paris.$16.98 |
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French Symphonic Organ Tradition
Swedish organist Marcus Torén (b. 1971), who studied at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, and in Paris with Olivier Latry, Michel Bouvard, and Roland Falcinelli plays virtuoso works from the French Romantic tradition on the 2000 van den Heuvel organ of Katarina Church, Stockholm. The previous organ, destroyed by fire in 1990, was also in French romantic style.$14.98 | | Complete Organ Works of Joseph Bonnet
Student of Tournemire, Guilmant, Widor and Vierne, Bonnet was elected titulaire at St. Eustache, Paris, in 1906 by a jury of Guilmant, d’Indy, Gigout, Vierne and Tournemire. He was renowned as a virtuoso in France, England, and the U.S., where he founded the organ program at Eastman School. All of his compositions date from 1908-13. Frédéric Ledroit plays the Cavaillé-Coll organ of the Cathedral of Angoulême.
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Langlais Les Années 70
Langlais in the 1970s explored several compositional areas including the use of two organs and/or two organists at one organ. Marie-Louise Langlais and Sylvie Mallet play these works, and some for solo organ, on the much admired organs of the Hofkirche in Lucerne, Switzerland.$14.98 | | Fleury, Langlais and Tournemire
Fleury, Langlais, Tournemire were friends and maintained a mutual respect, and their prominence in 20th-century French organ culture is the basis of this program. Tournemire dedicated the Laetare office to Fleury, his assistant. Two organs are played wonderfully by François Lemanissier and they are located in Saint-Lô in northwestern France (Normandy). At Notre-Dame, the Kern firm revoiced the large 1968 Beuchet-Debierre 3m organ in 1987, and Fleury and André Isoir shared the dedication concert. At Sainte-Croix, the 1893 Louis Debierre 2-21 has been restored to its original specification. Click picture for repertoire$17.98 |
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Vierne 24 Pièces de Fantaisie
Bernard Buttman designed the 120-rank (±, with 3 stops at 32' pitch) Klais organ upon which he plays these works in the Audimax concert hall at the Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany.
$29.95 | | Vierne Symphonies 3 & 4: Thierry Mechler, Organist
Symphony No. 3, op. 28; Symphony No. 4, op. 32
Thierry Mechler Plays Vierne on the symphonic Seifert organ (1996, 3-58) at the Church of St. Peter & Paul in Heilbronn.$14.98 |
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Belgian & French
On the Schyven organ in Antwerp Cathedral, described above, Stanislas Deriemaeker plays works composed by Belgians and French composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Deriemaeker was organist of the Antwerp Cathedral for 40 years, 1962-2002, and was the fourth Antwerp Cathedral organist to play the Schyven organ. The first was Joseph Callaerts who was an early student of Lemmens and was involved in design of the Schyven organ. Another Antwerp organist was Clément d’Hooghe, a Dupré student who died young. Flor Peeters, cathedral organist in Mechelen, composed “Abbey Peace” in 1926. His student, Gabriel Verschraegen, was cathedral organist in Ghent and his compositions are inspired by Gregorian chant as in the chorale prelude on the All Saints Vespers hymn. Deriemaeker was a student of Verschraegen at the Ghent Royal Conservatory. Franck may be the most famous of the Belgian composers on this CD. The others all are French. Click picture for repertoire$17.98 | | Boellmann Organ Works, Vol. 1
Helga Schauerte, editor of the new Bärenreiter critical edition of Boëllmann’s works, plays the 1996 Kuhn organ of 62 stops (two 32’ stops in the Pedal) in the Cathedral of Minden, Germany. Her Suite Gothique is fabulous! The album contains both a regular CD and a 5-channel DSR CD, each containing the same program.$16.98 |
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Pierre Schyven
In a competition with Aristide Cavaillé- Coll of Paris, E. F. Walcker of Germany, and Charles Anneessens of Belgium to build the organ for Antwerp Cathedral, Pierre Schyven of Brussels prevailed and completed his largest organ, of 86 stops and 115 ranks, in 1891. Except for one stop, it remains as built and presents a remarkable solidity of sound and finesse in this program which is well selected by Peter Van de Velde, cathedral organist, to demonstrate it. Click headline for repertoire$17.98 | | Favorite Works of Messiaen: Cosmos Consciousness
Jonathan Dimmock Plays 1885 Cavaillé-Coll, Paris. The first two works were discovered in 1997 and date from ca. 1928. Jonathan Dimmock plays them and beloved Messiaen movements from his major works on the 1885 Cavaillé-Coll 3m at Notre-Dame d’Auteuil in Paris. Click picture for repertoire$14.98 |
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Louis Robilliard Concert
Louis Robilliard plays two of the great Cavaillé-Coll organs: Saint-Sernin in Toulouse (1888) and St. François- de-Sales in Lyon (1879) where Robillard is titulaire. His charming transcription of the Pelleas and Meslisande Suite shows great colors of the beautifully voiced solo stops of the Lyon organ.$14.98 | | Cochereau Improvs in Concert
Ave Maris Stella & Noel Improvisations
Cochereau Improvises in Concert at Notre Dame. The Ave Maris Stella versets were realized on 15 August 1970, and the Noël variations on 24 December 1972.$14.98 |
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Alain & Widor in Limburg
Marcus Eichenlaub plays to great effect the 4-88 Klais in the resonant acoustical environment for Limburg Cathedral in Germany. The powerful and versatile organ and these musical hands make a superb combination. Click Picture for Details$17.98 | | Demessieux Plays
The great Parisian organist, disciple of Dupré, has a reputation for musicality and virtuosity made immortal in writings of her contemporaries and via her recordings. Released for the first time on CDs are these concerts recorded in Hamburg, Germany, on the organs of three historic churches: St. Sophienkirche; St. Michaeliskirche; Christianskirche. Click Picture for Details$14.98 |
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Organ and Piano
Jean-Pierre Ferey, piano; Frederic Ledroit, organist at the large organ of the Cathedral in d’Angouleme, play Dupré: Variations sur deux themes, op. 35; Sinfonia, op. 42 Flor Peeters: Concerto for piano and organ, op. 74 Langlais: Diptyque pour piano et orgue, op. 179 Frederic Ledroit: Recifs hâtifs, op. 30$18.98 | | Langlais Improvises
Luckily, many improvisations of those who mastered the skill have been captured in recordings. Through digital mastering the sounds are brought to new life. Two of the improvisations here are played by Langlais at Ste-Clotilde, Paris, one on a small Christensen organ in Germany, and on the Rieger organ (1970) in the Cistercian abbey church in Marienstatt.Luckily, many improvisations of those who mastered the skill have been captured in recordings. Through digital mastering the sounds are brought to new life. Two of the improvisations here are played by Langlais at Ste-Clotilde, Paris, one on a small Christensen organ in Germany, and on the Rieger organ (1970) in the Cistercian abbey church in Marienstatt. Click Picture for Details$14.98 |
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Landale's Franck
Susan Landale plays major works of Franck on three Cavaillé-Coll masterpieces (Saint-Étienne in Caen, Basilique Santa Maria del Coro in San Sebastian, and Saint-Sulpice in Paris). Excellent notes on the organs, stoplists, music, interpretation, and the recording project in English. Click Picture for Details$39.98 | | Leguay Plays Franck at Notre Dame
Jean-Pierre Leguay plays Franck at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, where he is one of the three titulaires. Click Picture for Details$14.98 |
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Elegie: In Memoriam Marcel Dupré
Organist Carolyn Shuster Fournier teams up with acclaimed cellist Julius Berger to record this lovely program in memory of Marcel Dupré. Cavaillé-Coll organs in St. Bernhard, Mainz, and the Reformed Church of Saint-Esprit, Paris. Click Picture for Details$14.98 | | Marchal at Home
Marchal Plays Bach. This unique CD reissues the 1956 stereo recordings made by André Marchal on his 3-28 house organ built by Gonzales. The fidelity of the recording is unusually fine, capturing Marchal’s way with 12 of the Bach Orgelbüchlein BWV 603-612, 614-615 and Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C BWV 564. There are no revelations here for most of us, and the organ is located in an anechoic environment. The CD is a must for Marchal fans, who will revel in his spoken description and demonstration of the organ.$16.98 |
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Marchal’s Early Recordings - At St. Eustache & Goüin Home, 1936 & 1948
The works by Buxtehude, Bach, Blow, Purcell, Sweelinck and Vierne were recorded by André Marchal (1894-1980) in April, 1948, on the organ at St. Eustache in Paris, then a Merklin which had been rebuilt by Victor Gonzalez in 1927-32. In 1936, the Pathé firm released a 12-disc set entitled Three Centuries of Organ Music from which Marchal’s performances of Cabezon, Santa Maria, Landino, and Palestrina are taken. These first recordings of these early works are performed on an organ designed especially for early music and completed in 1934 by Victor Gonzalez at the home of Henry Goüin in Paris. Marchal also demonstrates the organ stop-by-stop, and narrates his demonstration.$16.98 | | Veni Creator: The Complete Organ Music of Maurice Duruflé
Hans Fagius plays the 1928 Frobenius organ of 117 ranks at Åarhus Cathedral in Denmark. “New” Work* Included!$17.98 |
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Alfred Desenclos:
Sacred Choral Music
The sacred music of Alfred Desenclos (1912-1971) belongs to the tradition begun by Saint-Saëns and continued by Fauré. Performed here by the choral group Les Eléments, the Requiem and motets demonstrate eloquent simplicity. Joël Suhubiette conducts and Frédéric Desenclos plays the Puget (1800) organ at Notre-Dame-du-Taur, Toulouse.$12.98 | | Gigout Organ Works, 5 Volumes
Volume 5 Now Available! Gerard Brooks plays the Cavaillé-Coll at St. Ouen, Rouen Eugène Gigout (1844-1925) was organist at St. Augustine Church in Paris for 60 years and a teacher at the Paris Conservatoire. He favored pieces of moderate length and none of his own works exceed about 10 minutes. Many are based on plainchant and modal harmony which he felt to be the true language of church music.
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1857 Cavaillé-Coll - Eschbach Plays in Perpignan, France
Jesse E. Eschbach plays 19th-century organ music composed in France during and after the Second Empire on the glorious and rarely recorded 1857 Cavaillé-Coll, now 4-85 at the Cathedral in Perpignan, France. Click on headline for repertoire.$14.98 | | Cavaillé-Coll Survey on Six CDs
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the founding of the distinguished label, Motette, the firm produces a brand new set of six CDs which survey the organs of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll of Paris. The set includes a book of more than 200 pages describing the organs. Click on headline for a list of organs and organists heard on this set.Regular price: $99.00
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L'Organiste Moderne at the Second Empire
This anthology of French music for liturgical use from the mid-19th century is played on the historic Georges Wenner organ (1870) at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame of Lescar by Georges Lartigau, with works by Guilmant, Benoist, Franck, Lemmens, Alkan, Niedermeyer, Saint-Saens, Chauvet, Loret, Batiste, and Lefebure-Wely. Click the headline for titles and to order.$13.98 | | Great European Organs No. 65
Charles Matthews plays the Cavaille-Coll Organ of La Madeleine, Paris
British organist Charles Matthews, winner of the 1999 Liszt Organ Competition in Budapest, plays the complete organ works of André Jolivet (save an earlier version of Hymne à l’Univers) and fills the CD with works of Jolivet’s 20th-century contemporaries including many interesting and seldom heard pieces.$14.98 |
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Olivier Latry Plays Messiaen
Olivier Latry plays the complete works for organ by Olivier Messiaen on the Cavaillé-Coll organ at Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris. Rave reviews appear in the European organ press for this superlative 6-CD set on the Deutsch Grammophon label.$85.00 | | Gillian Weir Plays Messiaen, Complete
Vols. 5 & 6 Now Available! Famous recordings of the complete Messiaen played by Gillian Weir at Århus Cathedral, Denmark, widely lauded in the organ press, are now issued by Priory as individual volumes (just $12.98 per volume to OHS members). Volume 1 includes Apparition de l'Eglise Eternelle, La Nativité, and Le Banquet Celeste. Volume 2 contains Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité, Volume 3 presents Les Corps glorieux and Messe de la Pentecote, Volume 4 has two works L'Ascension and Livre d'Orgue, Volumes 5 & 6 on 2 CDs contain the entire Livre du Saint Sacrement.
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Messiaen: Livre du Saint Sacrement
The live performance is by Elisabeth Zawadke at the new Goll organ (2000) at the Kulture- and Kongresszentrum of Lucerne. Click the picture for information on the work and to order.$19.98 | | Cathedral Copies Cavaillé-Coll
Copied after the choir organ by Cavaillé-Coll at Saint-Sulpice, Paris, the Oberlinger organ in the Cathedral at Worms sounds wonderful in works by Guilmant, Franck, Widor, Vierne, and Boellmann played by Odile Pierre, titulaire at The Madeleine in Paris. Click the picture for titles and to order.$14.98 |
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Guilmant & Widor in Rouen
On perhaps the most glorious creations of Cavaillé-Coll, at St. Ouen, Rouen, Klaas Jan Mulder plays two of the great organ symphonies, both numbered 5.$14.98 | | Organ Music of Alexandre Guilmant: A New Series on Period Organs
Launching a brand-new series of CDs exploring the works of Guilmant and the organs associated with his music, organists Kurt Lueders, Joris Verdin, and Georges Lartigau play the 1883 Puget organ at the Church of Saint-Amans in Rodez, an instrument, which, standing exactly at midpoint in Guilmant’s 50-year career as an organ composer, met with his hearty approval. Some of his best music in larger forms are drawn from his earliest and latest periods of composition: Morceau de Concert, op. 24; Marche funébre et Chant séraphique, op. 17; Sonate 7, op. 89 Click the picture for titles and to order.
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Grandes Toccatas et Carillons Symphoniques sur La Madeleine
On the Cavaillé-Coll at La Madeleine in Paris, Volker Ellenberger plays thrilling works in the sumptuous acoustics. MULET: Carillon-Sortie; Tu Es Petra NIBELLE: Carillon Orléonais MESSIAEN: Dieu Parmi Nous WIDOR: Toccata Sym. 5 DUPRÉ: Toccata in C-sharp (Finale, Sym. 2); Les Cloches de Perros-Guirec (Suite Bretonne) DURUFLÉ: Toccata (Suite, op. 5); Fugue on the theme of the carillon at Soissons Cathedral Click picture for information$12.98 | | French Symphonic Masterpieces, Hans Davidsson Plays
on the organ newly-built in French symphonic style by the Verscheuren firm at Göteborg University in Sweden. Davidsson, who organized the great organ research and performance institute at Göteborg and also serves as visiting professor at the Eastman School, plays Guilmant, Franck, Widor, Alain, and Duruflé. Click the picture for titles and to order.$14.98 |
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Guillou Toccata & Dupré, Messiaen, too!
Martha Schuster plays pieces of Dupré and his students on the 1992 Rieger organ at the Collegiate Church of St. Mary’s Assumption in Kleve. Dupre: Deux Esquisses & Symphonie-Passion; Guillou: Toccata; Messiaen: L'Ascension Click the picture for more information and to order.$12.98 | | Milhaud Organ Works
George Baker plays the seldom heard organ works of Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) on the 1971 Danion-Gonzalez organ in Chartres Cathedral. Honored with a double Grand Prix du Disque in 1974 when the recording was first released, it is here digitally remastered. Click the picture for titles and to order.$14.98 |
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Dynam-Victor Fumet Organ Works
Dynam-Victor Fumet (1867-1949) was a disciple of Franck, a great improviser and well-known as an organist in France, and less known as a composer. His works are both mystical and highly original, and largely differ from the prevailing structural, rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic influences of his contemporaries Vierne, Tournemire, and Dupré. Frédéric Denis plays the 1899 Henri Didier organ of 3m and 62 ranks, restored in 1987 and tonally intact. Click picture for repertoire$14.98 | | Franck Major Works on 2 CDs,1899 Didier Organ, Torsten Laux Plays
The amazing Torsten Laux plays the major works of Franck on two CDs, available separately, on the fascinating and large organ of 1899 by Henri Didier at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Laon, now entirely restored with all of its original pipes, console, and mechanism, including six Barker levers! One CD contains the Six Pièces and the other the Trois Chorales & Trois Pièces. Click the headline for titles and to order.
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Great European Organs No. 64
Daniel Roth plays the Great Organ of Saint-Sulpice, Paris
Daniel Roth, Organiste Titulaire of Saint Sulpice, performs a program of works by organists who have held this prestigious post. Roth performs on the famous Grand Orgue, which Cavaillé-Coll completed in 1862, incorporating the 5 manual Cliquot instrument that preceded it. Hear works by Nivers, Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Nicolas Séjan, Schmitt, Lefébure-Wély, Widor, Grunenwald, Dupré, and Roth himself.$14.98 | | André Fleury Organ Works in Two Volumes
Linked inseparably to the grand French tradition of the early 20th century by his friendship with the major figures of that era, Fleury composed in a style that combines the musical philosophies of his age but remains largely romantic and symphonic, and distinctive. Two new CDs survey his very accessible and important works, as yet so little known. Organists Frédéric Blanc and Denis Comtet play two very interesting Paris organs in sumptuous acoustics. Click on picture for listings of each CD
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Duruflé's Organ at St-Étienne-du-Mont; Vincent Warnier Plays
At St-Étienne-du-Mont, Maurice Duruflé, as titulaire organist, presided over the rebuilding of the organ in 1956, combining neoclassical stops and colors with the Romantic foundations of the earlier organ. Highly regarded for its musical qualities and for its association with the beloved music of Duruflé, the organ is recorded by the present titulaire, the remarkably talented Vincent Warnier, to show these qualities. Click picture for repertoire$14.98 | | Duruflé at St-Eustache
Bernhard Leonardy plays the complete organ works of Duruflé on the 1989 Van den Heuvel 5m organ of 147 ranks at Saint Eustache in Paris.
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Duruflé More Than Complete
Unpublished Work Included! In this new CD imported by OHS, all of the works listed on the CD above are included as well as the previously unreleased Chant donné en Hommage à Jean Gallon.$17.98 | | Vierne Symphony 2
Organist Bruno Morin plays the mostly Cavaillé-Coll organ of Notre Dame d’Auteuil in Paris. VIERNE: Symphony 2, op. 20; WIDOR: Toccata (Sym. 5)$17.98 |
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Louis Vierne Sinfonische Orgelmusik
Symphonic Organ Music
Thomas Dahl plays a new 2-44 organ built by the Winterhalter firm at the Parish Church of Our Lady in Achern, Germany, largely in the ca. 1870 style of Cavaillé-Coll but also incorporating characteristics of the south German romantic organ of the period. The fine sound emanates from a handsome, free-standing case in the West gallery with unusual placement of the Grand Orgue in a very large and handsome case on the gallery rail of this medium-sized church with very fine acoustics. Symphony 4; Aria (Sym. 6); Pastorale, Berceuse (24 Pièces style libre); Prélude, Andantino, Caprice, Marche nuptiale (24 Pièces de Fantaisie)$12.98 | | Tournemire: L'Orgue Mystique Selections, M-B Dufourcet Plays
Parisian organist Marie-Bernadette Dufourcet plays selections from the monumental L’Orgue Mystique on two legendary French organs at La Trinité and Sacré-Coeur. Click picture for selections$29.98 |
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Jean-Pierre Leguay Organ Works,
Pascale Rouet Plays & Leguay Improvises
Jean-Pierre Leguay is a titular organist at Notre-Dame, Paris, and professor at the Dijon conservatory. His written music, like his improvisations, incorporates daring components of the contemporary with classic forms and harmonies. Pascale Rouet performs in the presence of the composer, who improvised at the end of the recording session on the 1995 Kuhn 5-101 in the church of Saint-François in Lausanne. Sonata I; Madrigals II, III, V, VII, IX; Improvisation$15.98 | | Naji Hakim Composes for Organ, for Organ & Orchestra, and for Chorus
Five works for various performing forces are included on this one CD. Te Deum for organ is played by Hakim at La Trinité, Paris. Other works: Hymne de l’Univers for orchestra, Missa redemptionis for mixed choir a cappella Children for mixed choir a cappella, Les Noces de l’Agneau for orchestra$14.98 |
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Women Organists of Paris
Stellar performances by great names among the organists of 20th-Century Paris are gathered on this new CD of excellent technical quality. Jeanne Demessieux plays at La Madeleine, Marie-Madeleine Duruflé plays at St-Etienne-du-Mont, Marie-Claire Alain at St-Croix in Orléans, Rolande Falcinelli at St-Pierre in Angoulême, Marie-Louise Girod-Parrot at Oratoire du Louvre, and Odile Bayeux on the Jordi Bosch organ in Santanyi. Click ikon for repertoire$14.98 | | French Connection: Harold Chaney Plays Widor, Messiaen, Vierne, Duruflé
Harold Chaney plays the large 3m Petty-Madden organ in the grand acoustical space of Trinity Cathedral in Trenton, New Jersey. Click picture for list of works$12.98 |
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Langlais' Last Improvisations at Ste-Clotilde
The last improvisations, all on Gregorian themes, of Jean Langlais (1907-1991) were recorded in 1986 and 1987 on the organ at Sainte-Clotilde in Paris where he succeeded Tournemire as titulaire. Though Langlais lived several years after these recordings were made, he ended his career as a performer in 1987. Click headline for details$14.98 | | Langlais Suites
On an amazing new 3m organ of 44 stops built in French style by the firm of Karl Göckel (of Mühlhausen-Rettingheim near Heidelberg in Germany) at the Holy Ghost Church in Mannheim, Pierre Cogan plays all three of the colorful suites for organ composed by Langalis.$17.98 |
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Cavaillé-Coll in Germany at Osnabrück
This CD is a real winner! The 1898 Cavaillé-Coll at the cathedral in Osnabrück was the first by his firm to be installed in Germany, and it magnificently fills the resonant building with only 18 ranks. Cathedral organist Dominique Sauer plays extremely well to the wonderfully captured acoustical ambiance. Click ikon for repertoire$12.98 | | Lionel Rogg at Victoria Hall, Geneva
Lionel Rogg served on the organ committee for Victoria Hall in his native Geneva following the devastating fire of 1984 and decisively influenced the specification of the new van den Heuvel instrument. He demonstrates it in the Finale of Vierne's First Symphony, the Scherzo from Widor's Fourth, Franck's Choral in b, Bizet's Jeux d'enfants, and Liszt's Funérailles
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Great European Organs No. 58
Gerard Brooks plays the Organ of St. François de Sale, Lyon, France
Gerard Brooks plays music contemporary with and influenced by César Franck on what Aristide Cavaillé-Coll called “the most beautiful and perfect instrument that has come out of my factory to date." The organ was inaugurated by Widor in 1880 at the Church of St. François de Sales, Lyon, where Widor’s father had been organist. Unchanged, it preserves the colorful sounds of the 19th century symphonic organ. Performed are works by Franck and his contemporaries, including Chauvet, Salomé, Bernard, Widor, Rosseau, Libert, and Callaerts.$14.98 | | Bouquet de France, at. St.-Sulpice
On the Cavaillé-Coll at St-Sulpice, Paris, Bernhard Leonardy plays late Romantic and Impressionistic rarities for organ of the Belle Epoque, including all 10 pieces of the Reuchsel Bouquet de France and other composers such as Commette, Mulet, de la Tombelle, Letocart, d'Ollone, Florent Schmitt, and Busser. A most engaging program! Click ikon for repertoire$12.98 |
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Chaisemartin Plays Dupré at Saint-Sulpice
"Rendez-vous à Saint-Sulpice"
Rendez-vous à Saint-Sulpice, a program of music of Marcel Dupré, is played on the famous organ where he was titular organist. Suzanne Chaisemartin, one of his famous students, plays. Recorded in commemmoration of the 30th anniversary of Dupré’s death in 1971. Click for repertoire.$17.98 | | Cochereau Improvs Transcribed & Played by Filsell
Having transcribed for publication several of Cochereau’s thrilling and imaginative improvisations as realized at Notre Dame in Paris and Symphony Hall in Boston, Jeremy Filsell plays them in the grand acoustics of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral on the blazing sounds of the 1967 J. W. Walker & Sons 4-90. Click for a list of the pieces.$15.98 |
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Vierne: 24 Pièces en style libre + Messe Basse + more
Ben Van Oosten Plays 1894 Cavaillé-Coll
3 CDs for the Price of 1 In addition to the 24 Pieces in Free Style, this great new CD set offers several other rarely recorded works by Vierne, all played on the 47-stop Cavaillé-Coll at the Church of Saint-Antoine des Quinze-Vingts in Paris, restored in 1993. Click to see full repertoire$17.98 | | Organ Works of Déodat de Séverac
The Organ Works of Déodat de Séverac (1872-1921), almost entirely forgotten, are resurrected here by Michelle Leclerc and played on the 1885 Cavaillé-Coll organ at Notre-Dame d’Auteuil, Paris. Pieces by Chausson, D’Indy, and Mulet — all contemporaries of Séverac — are included. Click headline for works.$17.98 |
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Jacques Lemmens Organ Works
Played by Ben van Oosten
All three of Lemmens’ organ sonatas and other works are played by master organist Ben van Oosten on the large organ built 1871-74 by the Belgian, Pierre Schyven, for the largest neo-gothic church in Belgium. Lemmens, the teacher of Guilmant and Widor, composed grand and exciting works that united the classically-based Germanic style with Romantic expressiveness. Click for repertoire and further description$16.98 | | Great European Organs No. 52
Gerard Brooks plays the Organ of St. Pierre, Douai France
Discover a little-known Cavaillé-Coll! Built for a Russian conservatory and now located at the magnificent St. Peter's Church at the monastery in Douai in the north of France, it has been recently restored. Girard Brooks plays works mostly by Boëly (including a great thunderstorm piece), also Guilmant, Philip, and Nibelle.$14.98 |
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Tournemire: L’Orgue Mystique, Complete
Charles Tournemire (1870-1939), Franck’s successor as organist at Ste. Clotilde in Paris, composed suites of five organ works for each of the 51 Sunday and Feast-Day Masses in the liturgical year and named the resulting 255 works L’Orgue Mystique. In a series of CDs played on a variety of organs, Sandro R. Müller records the entire L’Orgue Mystique on a series of interesting organs. The series is now up to Volume 8.
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Recorded live at St. Eustache, Paris, in 1993, this CD is issued as a memorial to Marie-Madeleine Duruflé (8 May 1921 - 5 October 1999). Click for repertoire.$14.98 |
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Pierre Pincemaille Plays All Ten Widor Symphonies on Ten Cavaillé-Coll Organs
A unique recording event! Pierre Pincemaille, titulaire of St. Denis Basilica in Paris, records all ten of the organ symphonies of Widor on ten magnificent Cavaillé-Coll organs.$55.00 | | Widor Organ Symphonies played by Herman Van Vliet, 3 Volumes
“. . . this set of Widor symphonies is the clear first choice. . . .Four notable Cavaillé-Coll organs . . . the sound is spectacular.” Anthony Baglivi, The American Organist, Nov.‘98. Order the special sampler for $9.98
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Widor Organ Symphonies Played by Ben Van Oosten
on four great Cavaillé-Coll organs in seven volumes
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Symphonies 5 & 6 are played with breathtaking virtuosity at Notre Dame, Paris, by Olivier Latry.$17.98 |
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Widor Organ & Piano
This premier recording introduces duos for piano and organ.$15.98 | | Jacques Ibert Complete
Philippe Delacour plays the restored organs in St. Maurice Church in Freyning-Merlebach, Moselle, France, where he is organist, in the only CD devoted to the organ works of Jacques Ibert.$14.98 |
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Roth Plays Dupré
Daniel Roth at St.-Sulpice, Paris
This CD offers a cross-section of Dupré’s substantial canon of organ works: Preludes & Fugues in B, a, g, A-flat; two Chorales; two Inventions; Variations on a Noël; Le Monde dans l’attente du Sauveur from Symphonie-Passion, and several more. Click to see entire list.$14.98 | | The Poet and Virtuoso
Louis Robilliard, one of the world’s great organists, who plays two large Cavaillé-Coll organs on this CD in works of Liszt, Mendelssohn, Bach, and Brahms. Super sound!$14.98 |
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Saint-Saëns: Organ Works & Motets
This series of CDs from Hortus collects interesting works in excellent performances in these volumes: Influence of Liszt; Samson & Dalila at Church; and A Wedding, A Funeral, and a Salute to the Holy Sacrament.
| | John Scott Plays Dupré at St. Paul's, London, Vol. 1
John Scott plays well-known and representative works by the French master on the famous 105-stop Mander organ of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London. Prelude & Fugue in B; Esquisse in C; Esquisse No. 1 in e; Esquisse No.2 in b-flat; Prelude & Fugue in g; Placare Christe Servulis; Choral & Fugue; Te Lucis Ante Terminum; Variations sur un Vieux Nöel$17.98 |
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John Scott Plays Liszt & Others
John Scott plays French music and Liszt at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, in a program of technically demanding favorites on the Willis/Mander organ of more than 200 ranks.
MULET: Tu es Petra GIGOUT: Grand Choeur Dialogué
GUILMANT: March on Lift up your heads LANGLAIS: La Cinquiéme Trompette LISZT: Ad nos$16.98 | | Dupré: Stations of the Cross
Françoise Renet, Organist
Stations of the Cross (no narration); Choral & Fugue. Cavaillé-Coll in St-Sernin, Toulouse, France$14.98 |
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Dupré Legacy
John Scott Whiteley plays the Cavaillé-Coll at St. Ouen, Rouen. MARCEL PAPONAUD: Toccata DUPRÉ: Prelude & Fugue in C; Variations on Adeste Fideles COCHEREAU: Symphony VIERNE: Meditation IBERT: Choral sur Justorum animae in manu Dei sunt$14.98 | | Dupré Improvises in Cologne
in 1961 at the largest cathedral in Europe. Hear a four-movement Symphony in D-minor; a Passacaglia and Fugue in F-Minor; and an Improvisation on Veni Creator. This excellent mono CD captures the huge 1956 Klais 4-135.$14.98 |
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Dupré Vespers, Op. 18
Susan Chaisemartin, disciple of Dupré and organist of St. Augustin in Paris, plays the Cavaillé-Coll at Rouen in the beloved 15 pieces founded on antiphons as well as Sept Pièces, op. 27.$14.98 | | Langlais Documentary
In an interview conducted in Vienna in English in 1982, Langlais talks for 50 minutes about Vierne, Widor, Dupré, Messiaen, and Tournemire, and then plays for 25 minutes in 1982 at the Augustinerkirche in Vienna, including an improvisation. Imported by OHS.
Interview in English
LANGLAIS:
Chant héroïque; Double Fantaisie; Complainte de Pontkalleg; Improvisation on Veni Creator and Salve Regina$15.98 |
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Labounsky Plays Langlais Organ Works in 12 Volumes
Ann Labounsky‘s devoted aspiration to record the complete organ works of Jean Langlais has met with universal praise for the results. Volume 9 of an anticipated 12 volumes contains Thème Libre, Trumpet Tune, Cinq Méditations sur l’Apocalypse, Four Postludes, Trois Offertoires, Mosaïque Vol. 2, Suite in Simplicitate Click for more information and all CDs in the series
| | Langlais Plays Langlais at St. Clotilde
Langlais plays his own compositions at St. Clotilde, where he was titulaire as were Franck, Tournemire, Dubois and Pierne on the famous organ known to them all. Recorded in 1978.
Hymne d’Actions de Grace from 3 Paraphrases grégoriennes; Mors et Resurrectio; La Nativite; Pasticcio; Legende de St.-Nicolas; Plainte; Chant Héroïque; Chant de Paix; De Profundis; Mon Ame Cherche Une Fin Paisable; Kyrie Orbis Factor; Imploration pour la Croyance$14.98 |
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Langlais Plays Langlais, Vol. 2
Jean Langlais plays three of his works at Notre-Dame, Paris, in 1975, 1977, 1981. Excellent recorded sound and magical performances.
Huit Chants de Bretagne
Trois Esquisses Gothiques
Offrande a une ame$14.98 | | Chaisemartin: Hommage to Jean Langlais
Suzanne Chaisemartin plays the Cavaillé-Coll 3-75 at St.-Augustin in Paris, where the electropneumatic action of the Pedal division and much of the 1868 Peschard/Barker organ was retained by Cavaillé-Coll in the 1897 rebuild, restored in 1988. Imported by OHS.
LANGLAIS: Te Deum No. 3 from Trois Paraphrases Grégoriennes; Neuf Piéces, op. 40; Poem of Happiness; Poem of Peace; Rhapsodie sur deux Noëls No. 5 from Folkloric Suite, op. 77; Kyrie and Gloria from Livre Oecuménique, op. 157; Huit Chants de Bretagne, op. 181; Offertoire No. 3 from Trois Offertoires$15.98 |
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Chaisemartin at American Cathedral in Paris
Suzanne Chaisemartin plays the organ built ion 1887 by Cavaillé-Coll with 45 stops, since rebuilt. Excellent sound and acoustics.
GUILMANT: Sonata No. 3 SAINT-SAËNS: Prelude & Fugue No. 3 in E-flat, op. 99 PIERNÉ: Prélude, Cantilène, Scherzando, op. 29 LÉONCE DE SAINT-MARTIN: mvt. 2 Aria fr. Symphonie Dominicale DUPRÉ: No. 1 Ecce Dominus veniet and No. 6 Lumen ad revelationem from Deux Antiennes, op. 48
TOURNEMIRE: Improvisation No. 3 Te Deum FRANCK: Fantaisie in C$14.98 | | Alexandre Guilmant Organ Works in 8 Volumes
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Alain Series in 3 Volumes
JEHAN ALAIN (1911-1940) composed brilliantly for the organ during his brief life, cut short by war. This series features the organ with which he grew up in his home, played by Marie-Claire Alain, Guy Bovet, and Yves Rechsteiner.
| | More Cochereau Improvs Reconstructed
François Lombard has painstakingly transcribed three of Pierre Cocherau's famous improvisations for this recording: 15 Versets on Ave maris stella; Introduction, Choral & Variations on O Filli et Filiae; Sortie sur Adeste Fidelis. Lombard plays the 1870 Cavaillé-Coll at the Church of St. Peter in Calais, France. Sheet music of these transcriptions is listed under Cochereau in the Sheet Music department on this website.$14.98 |
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Cochereau's Earliest Recordings
Boston's Symphony Hall & Notre Dame, Paris
Cochereau’s earliest recordings at Notre Dame in Paris and his 4-mvt Symphony improvised at Symphony Hall, Boston, for the Aeolian-Skinner King of Instruments series are combined in a 2-CD set. The Notre Dame sessions from 1955, preserve the sound of the Cavaillé-Coll unaltered since Vierne left it 18 years earlier.$24.98 | | Cochereau: A Musical Testament
This 2-CD set documents 25 improvisations on the Gospel according to St. Matthew as realized by Cochereau at Notre-Dame in Paris on five consecutive Sundays ending March 4, 1984, the day before Cochereau’s death.$24.98 |
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Cochereau: The Art of Improvisation
The famous improvisations realized by Cochereau at recordings sessions in 1977 at Notre Dame (and which have been transcribed to sheet music) are now available on CD!$14.98 | | Cochereau: Two Grand Improvisations
Two Grand Improvisations: a Suite of Dances and a Prelude, Adagio, and Chorale Variations, were recorded at live recitals in 1970 and 1974. Spectacular!$14.98 |
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Cochereau Retrospective
Cochereau was the great organist of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris 1955-1984. The recordings on this 3-CD set are taken mostly from live concerts and masses, mostly at Notre Dame.$34.98 | | Cochereau at Cologne
This live performance of Cochereau at his best was recorded in excellent stereo sound at a concert in the magnificent cathedral at Cologne, Germany, on May 30, 1972, by the West German Radio. DUPRÉ: Prelude & Fugue in F-minor MESSIAEN: Apparation de l’église éternelle COCHEREAU: Improvised Symphony on Veni Creator$14.98 |
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Cochereau’s Composed Works
François Lombard plays the Symphonie and Pierre Pincemaille plays the other works.$14.98 | | Cochereau Christmas Improvisations
These festive improvisations were recorded at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris at Christmas services 1968-1973 and at one private concert held there in 1971 with famed titular organist Pierre Cochereau at the console.$14.98 |
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Great European Organs No. 48
Gerard Brooks plays the Organ of St. Ouen, Rouen in France
Brooks plays the famous Cavaillé-Coll in an unusual program of mostly early 20th Century French composers who were either students of 19th Century greats or entirely original.$14.98 | | Liszt Complete
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Liszt at St-Sulpice
$14.98 | | Vierne Organ Symphonies
Now 4-CDs for the Price of 2 Ben van Oosten plays Louis Vierne’s six organ symphonies on three Cavaillé-Coll organs: that of 1880 in Lyon at St. François-de-Sales (3-45), of 1890 in Rouen at St. Ouen (4-82), and of 1889 in Toulouse at St. Sernin. Includes a 48-page booklet on Vierne, the symphonies, and the three organs. Splendid sound and fine playing.$35.98 |
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Cochereau & Baker Play Vierne: Messe Solennelle & More
VIERNE: Messe solenelle for 2 organs and 2 choirs at Notre Dame, Paris. Pierre Cochereau, grand orgue, with the cathedral choirs and Jacques Marichal at the choir organ. Also, Cochereau plays VIERNE: Verset Fugué sur In exitu Israël; Allegretto, op. 1; Communion, op. 8; Triptyque, op. 58. George Baker plays on the Cavaillé-Coll at St. Ouen, Rouen: VIERNE: Prelude in f-sharp; marche Triomphale du centenaire de Napoléon VIERNE: 3 Improvisations transcribed by Duruflé: Marche épiscopale, Méditation, Cortége (formerly Vol. 4 of Vierne L’Oeuvre d’Orgue Integral)$14.98 | | Vierne
24 Pieces de fantaisie
Ben van Oosten plays 24 Pieces de fantaisie complete on the fabulous Cavaille-Coll organ at St. Ouen in Rouen.$35.98 |
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Baker Plays Vierne: 24 Pièces de fantaisie
George Baker recorded the complete 24 pieces on the largest unalterd Cavaillé-Coll, the fabulous organ at St. Ouen in Rouen, in 1994.$24.98 | | Baker Plays Vierne: 24 Pièces en style libre
24 Pièces en style libre are played by Dr. George Baker on the Cavaillé-Coll at St. Ouen in Rouen. The set also includes Prélude funèbre, op. 4; Messe basse, op. 30; Messe basse pour les défunts. op. 62$29.95 |
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Latry Plays Vierne: 24 Pieces de fantaisie
Vierne: 24 Pièces de fantaisie (including Carillon de Westminster, Fantômes, Marche nuptiale, Gargouilles et chimères, Naïades, Clair de lune, etc.) are definitively played at Notre-Dame by Latry who corrects errors in the score (as later published in Latry’s article in The Tracker 38:2) and annotates in the CD booklet the registrations which use Cavaillé-Coll stops known to Vierne when he composed these works, 1925-27.$24.98 | | Vierne: Symphonies 2 & 3
Olivier Latry plays the 145-rank, 5m organ of Notre Dame, Paris$17.98 |
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Daniel Roth Plays Vierne Symphony 3
Daniel Roth plays the Cavaillé-Coll at Saint-Antoine des Quinze-Vingts, Paris. VIERNE: Symphonie No. 3, op. 28; Prélude Funèbre, op. 4; Pastorale, Scherzetto, Arabesque (24 Pièces in style libre)$14.98 | | Olivier Latry Plays Duruflé
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Messiaen Complete Organ Works in Six Volumes
Hans-Ola Ericsson plays the beautiful Lulea Cathedral organ in Sweden.
| | Michelle Leclerc Plays Demessieux
Répons pour le Temps de Pâques; Andante; Te Deum; 12 Chorale Preludes and DUPRÉ: 3 Preludes & Fugues in B-flat, f, g, Op. 7, on the rebuilt Cavaillé-Coll organ at La Madeleine, Paris, where the composer was organist 1962-68.$14.98 |
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Louis Robilliard Plays Franck Complete
Having played the unaltered 3m Cavaillé-Coll at St-François-de-Sales in Lyon since 1974, Louis Robilliard records this Franck cycle on that organ at on the restored Cavaillé-Coll at St-Sernin in Toulouse.$39.95 | | Demessieux Plays Franck
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Langlais Plays Franck
$24.95 | | Franck L’Organiste, in two Volumes
Franck: L’Organiste, Vol. 1 Philippe Delacour plays the colorful organ built by Didier for a church in Moselle in these first five mature organ suites by Franck, comprising 35 pieces primarily intended for use in church.
Franck: L'Organiste, Vol. 2 Philippe Delacour plays the 1908 Rickenbach organ (restored in 2001) of 22 ranks in the tiny village of Ettendorf (pop. 800) in Alsace. Works include 8 pieces each from Suites in F, F-sharp, G, and A-flat$14.98 |
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The French Harmonium
$14.98 | | Boëly at Saint-Maximin
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Adolphe Marty
Adolphe Marty (1865-1942), a blind student of Franck, became organist of the important Saint-François-Xavier in Paris. Marie-Thérèse Jehan plays the restored 1896 Cavaillé-Coll in Saint-Sever.$15.98 | | More Alexis Chauvet
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René Vierne
$15.98 | | Impressionism and the Organ
Titular organist at La Madeleine for over a decade and professor organ in Rouen and Paris, Odile Pierre develops an interesting theme on the 1857 Cavaillé-Coll in the cathedral at Perpignan, France. Tonally but not mechanically restored, the organ retains the 15th-century case and early facade pipes (the larger 24’ basses are of rounded wood covered in tin foil). This CD was produced by great admirers of this organ who dealt with its unrestored condition for the recording. Click ikon for repertoire$15.98 |
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Marie-Louise Langlais Plays
On Pierre Cochereau's residence organ, now in the church at Roquevaire and comprising 72 stops as combined with the church's original organ of 1826. FRANCK: Choral III in a PIERNÉ: Prélude; Cantilëne from Trois Pièces TOURNEMIRE: Choral-Poeme on Eli, Eli, lamma sabacthani LANGLAIS: Te Deum; Poeme Evangelique (La Nativité); 3rd Symphony$14.98 | | Vierne at St. Denis
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Joseph Bonnet
$16.98 | | A Restored Callinet
Replacing an organ destroyed during the French Revolution, Joseph and Claude-Ignace Callinet built a new organ in 1837 for Notre-Dame Church in St. Etienne in the Loire Valley. Now completely restored, it is the ideal vehicle for music which bridges the gap between classical and romantic styles, played with great style by Jean-Luc Perrot. Click picture for repertoire by composers Baille, Beauvarlet-Charpentier, Fessy, and Daussoigne-Mehul.$13.98 |
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Alexandre Boëly
$14.98 | | Sacre Coeur, Paris
VIERNE: Messe Solennelle for 4-part mixed choir and two organs
MULET: Tu Es Petra; TOURNEMIRE: Prelude et Fresque
HAKIM: The Embrace of Fire$14.98 |
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Sacre Coeur Live
$15.98 | | The Heroic Organ 1888 Cavaillé-Coll Restored
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Klaas Jan Mulder at St. Sernin, Toulouse
plays the recently restored 54-stop 1888 Cavaillé-Coll in the magnificent church. Works by Saint-Saëns, Franck, Guilmant, Prokofiev, Alain, Dupré, Andriessen.$14.98 | | Cavaillé-Coll at Rouen
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A Great French Organ in England
$14.98 | | Charles Marie Widor Vol. 5: Symphonie Nr. 5 and Nr. 10
Daniel Roth plays the Cavaillé-Coll organ at Saint Sulpice, Paris, where he has been titular organist since 1985.
Symphonie Nr. 5 f-moll op. 42/1
Allegro vivace
Allegro cantabile
Andantino quasi allegretto
Adagio
Toccata (Allegro)
Symphonie Nr. 10 "Romane" op. 73
Moderato
Choral (Adagio)
Cantilène (Lento)
Final$14.98 |
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Daniel Roth Plays Franck on 3 Cavaillé-Colls: 3 Volumes
Daniel Roth plays organ works of Franck on the Cavaillé-Coll organs of Saint-Sulpice, Paris (1862); Santa Maria del Coro in San Sebastián, Spain (1863); and Saint-Etienne Cathedral in Saint-Brieuc, Bretagne, France (1848).
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Hans Fagius convincingly plays these delightful works on the beautiful 1976 Marcussen at St. Jacob’s Church, Stockholm.$17.98 |
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Langlais at the Madeleine
Langlais at La Madeleine François-Henri Houbart, titular organist of La Madeleine in Paris, plays the 1845 Cavaillé-Coll / 1957 Rœthinger-Boisseau / 1971 Danion-Gonzales / 1988 Dargassies 4-82.$17.98 | | André Fleury
The rebuilt 1743 Riepp of Dijon Cathedral where Fleury was organist for 23 years is played by his successor, Maurice Clerc.$12.98 |
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Organists of the Madeleine, Paris
Organists of the Madeleine in Paris number ten since 1845 when Cavaillé-Coll installed a large organ. François-Henri Houbart plays works of his famous predecessors.$17.98 | | Hakim Rhapsody
Naji Hakim at Sacre-Coeur, Paris, on the Cavaillé-Coll, playing his own works.$14.98 |
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Liszt at Notre-Dame, Paris
Titulaire organist Jean-Pierre Leguay plays the 1867 Cavaillé-Coll in Notre-Dame, Paris.$12.98 | | Gigout at Notre Dame
Jean-Pierre Leguay, one of the three titular organists of Notre Dame, Paris, plays Gigout and Vierne on the recently restored/rebuilt organ in this OHS import.$14.98 |
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The First CD from St. Denis!
Pierre Pincemaille, organist of St. Denis since 1988, plays works by Franck, Boely, Saint-Saens, Alkan, and Chauvet on the 1841 Cavaille-Coll.$17.98 | | Scène pastorale et Orage
Marie-Louise Jaquet-Langlais played the splendid but rarely recorded 1880 Cavaillé-Coll 4m at Orléans Cathedral in 1982 for engineers using state-of-the-art equipment for LP releases. Now, the full fidelity of the sound (including the awesome effect of the original “Thunder Pedal” (“Orage”) on the organ) can be heard as never before on either a superior DVD-Audio disc (must be played on a DVD-Audio compatible player) or on a conventional CD.
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Gregorian Chant & Grand-Orgue
Marcel Dupré: Les Vêpres de la Vierge, Op. 18
Philippe Lefebvre performs on the renowned Cavaillé-Coll organ at Notre-Dame de Paris. Lefebvre performs in alternatum with the Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge, under the direction of founder Mary Berry. Organist David Hill improvises a quiet accompaniment on the orgue de chœur.$15.98 |
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