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Dupré: Organ Music / Alessandro Perin
Brilliant Classics

Dupré: Organ Music / Alessandro Perin

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Composer
DUPRE, MARCEL
Artist
Alessandro Perin
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Apr 23, 2021
Catalog #
BRI95644
UPC
5028421956442

About

The output of Marcel Dupré (1886-1971) is so vast and various that only scholars and fellow organists can expect to grasp its scale. Most listeners require a discerning ear to pull out some of the many highlights. The Italian organist Alessandro Perin has done so here, without confining himself to Dupré’s ‘greatest hits’, the characteristic pile-ups of chorale harmonies and torrents of semiquavers in toccatas and variations that find their natural home on the instruments of Cavaille-Coll as an apotheosis of the French Gothic organ style. Instead, Perin’s selection is more diverse. It begins with the Suite Op.39: four pieces originally written as part of a collection of 12 Studies, though they bear no trace of didacticism. Rather, there is a Lisztian quality of invention to their virtuosity, from the glittering cascades of the opening Allegro agitato to the driving counterpoint of the finale. The four settings of the Ave maris stella chant are progressively more ornate, from a simple statement of the chant over a walking bass, through an intricate Bachian chorale prelude, to a final, brilliant toccata. The ‘old Christmas carol’ featured in Op.20 variations is known in English as Now the green blade riseth: in one of his most justly celebrated works, Dupré treats the theme to a dazzling array of transformations, stretching the organist’s technique to the limit. At the height of the Second World War, Dupré composed the Evocation in memory of his father, and gave its first performance at the Cathedral in Rouen in 1941. Exactly what is being evoked is left to the listener to decide, though only the tender second-movement elegy casts its gaze back with fondness; the strident progress of the first movement seems to reflect the troubled times, and the finale has its own struggles to overcome in a final blaze of C major triumph.

Tracklist 13 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro agitato 03:22
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro agitato
    Duration
    03:22
    Composer
    Marcel Dupré
    Performer
    Alessandro Perin
  2. 2 II. Cantabile 03:53
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Cantabile
    Duration
    03:53
    Composer
    Marcel Dupré
    Performer
    Alessandro Perin
  3. 3 III. Scherzando 02:17
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Scherzando
    Duration
    02:17
    Composer
    Marcel Dupré
    Performer
    Alessandro Perin
  4. 4 IV. Final 04:06
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Final
    Duration
    04:06
    Composer
    Marcel Dupré
    Performer
    Alessandro Perin
  5. 5 No. 6. Ave maris stella No. 1, "Sumens illud Ave" 01:08
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 6. Ave maris stella No. 1, "Sumens illud Ave"
    Duration
    01:08
    Composer
    Marcel Dupré
    Performer
    Alessandro Perin
  6. 6 No. 7. Ave maris stella No. 2, "Monstra te esse matrem" 02:19
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 7. Ave maris stella No. 2, "Monstra te esse matrem"
    Duration
    02:19
    Composer
    Marcel Dupré
    Performer
    Alessandro Perin
  7. 7 No. 8. Ave maris stella No. 3, "Vitam praesta puram" 02:35
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 8. Ave maris stella No. 3, "Vitam praesta puram"
    Duration
    02:35
    Composer
    Marcel Dupré
    Performer
    Alessandro Perin
  8. 8 No. 9. Ave maris stella No. 4, "Amen" 02:09
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 9. Ave maris stella No. 4, "Amen"
    Duration
    02:09
    Composer
    Marcel Dupré
    Performer
    Alessandro Perin
  9. 9 7 Pieces, Op. 27: No. 4. Carillon 05:20
    Track
    9
    Title
    7 Pieces, Op. 27: No. 4. Carillon
    Duration
    05:20
    Composer
    Marcel Dupré
    Performer
    Alessandro Perin
  10. 10 Variations sur un Noël, Op. 20 12:51
    Track
    10
    Title
    Variations sur un Noël, Op. 20
    Duration
    12:51
    Composer
    Marcel Dupré
    Performer
    Alessandro Perin
  11. 11 I. Moderato 08:30
    Track
    11
    Title
    I. Moderato
    Duration
    08:30
    Composer
    Marcel Dupré
    Performer
    Alessandro Perin
  12. 12 II. Adagio con tenerezza 08:34
    Track
    12
    Title
    II. Adagio con tenerezza
    Duration
    08:34
    Composer
    Marcel Dupré
    Performer
    Alessandro Perin
  13. 13 III. Allegro deciso 07:31
    Track
    13
    Title
    III. Allegro deciso
    Duration
    07:31
    Composer
    Marcel Dupré
    Performer
    Alessandro Perin