tjwmason
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Thu Aug-11-05 12:12 PM
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My new C.D.s arrived - YAYS |
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Earlier this week I was bored at work and so got a tiny bit of retail therapy with a couple of C.D.s and they arrived this morning - so I'm now playing them after getting in from work.
C.D. 1
The Choir and Organs of Westminster Cathedral
Messe solennelle by Louis Vierne Tantum ergo - Vierne Ave Maria - Vierne
O Salutaris hostia - Marcel Dupré Tantum ergo - Dupré Ave Maria - Dupré Laudate Dominum - Dupré
Messe à deux chœurs et deux orgues - Charles-Marie Widor Tu es Petrus - Widor Tantum ergo - Widor Surrexit a mortuis - Widor
C.D. 2
The Organ of Westminster Cathedral
Symphony No.5 - Charles-Marie Widor Mystique - Widor Marche pontificale - Widor.
I'm therefore in a rather overly splendid mood.
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Thu Aug-11-05 12:16 PM
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1. I'm not familiar with those composers, |
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but I'm sure they are good if you like them. Enjoy!!:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:
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tjwmason
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Thu Aug-11-05 12:30 PM
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2. They're part of the modern French organ school |
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Edited on Thu Aug-11-05 12:31 PM by tjwmason
Which I absolutely love to bits.
Widor is the earliest being born in 1844 (died 1937), the school still lives on with Naji Hakim (the organist of La Sainte Trinité in Paris) among others, still composing and performing. It's greatest flowering (to my mind) was during the interwar years of the early 20th century.
Perhaps its greatest figure is Olivier Messiaen - I regard him as the greatest composer of the 20th century, in many ways he is only partly within the school as he reaches far beyond it as well.
Edit fingers went a bid mad
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Thu Aug-11-05 12:34 PM
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3. Dupre was Messiaen's organ teacher |
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and the guy who told Messiaen "Listen to the birds! They are great masters!"
But you probably knew that already.
Me, I'm feeling a Debussy jones coming on...
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Thu Aug-11-05 12:43 PM
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4. It was an incredibly close-knit group |
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X taught Y taught Z &c.
What I find most astonishing is that several of the most famous were blind!!!
The bird-song transcriptions of Messiaen are stunning (in a philosophical sense) - at the time most music was become more divorced from the natural-world, yet his belief in the naturalness of music drove him almost not to compose but simply to reflect the natural world and its music.
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