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French Organ Music / Petur Sakari
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French Organ Music / Petur Sakari

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Composer
DUPRE DURUFLE MESSIAEN TOUR
Artist
Petur Sakari
Format
SACD
Label
BIS
Released
Feb 25, 2014
Catalog #
BIS-1969
UPC
7318599919690

About

The French organ tradition is one of the strongest and proudest in all of 20th-century music, to the point of forming a genre of its own. Standing on the shoulders of predecessors such as Franck and Widor and composing for instruments built in the glorious tradition of Cavaillé-Coll, a group of organist-composers created a number of works central to the organ literature; works which in spite of their great variety combine to form a highly characteristic repertoire. The young organist Pétur Sakari has gathered five such composers on his first disc for BIS, performing their music on the famous organ of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont in Paris. The five composers are all interconnected - Charles Tournemire and Louis Vierne studied together (under Franck), Maurice Duruflé studied under Tournemire and was Vierne's assistant at Notre Dame, and Marcel Dupré counted Vierne (and Widor) among his teachers and himself taught Olivier Messiaen. And although Pétur Sakari hails from Finland, he is also to an extent part of this great tradition, as the student of Thierry Escaich and Vincent Warnier, successors of Duruflé and his wife Marie-Madeleine as organists of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont. Sakari's selection brings together key works such as the hugely taxing Prelude and Fugue in B major by Dupré, Vierne's fantasy on the Bells of Westminster and Messiaen's meditative and atmospheric Celestial Banquet. The opening work on the disc is Tournemire's powerful improvisation on the Easter plain-chant Victimae paschali laudes, recorded in 1930 and later transcribed by Duruflé, whose own monumental Suite closes the recital. Throughout, Pétur Sakari - at the age of only 21 - gives proof of a mastery of the organ and a musicianship which promise great things to come. *playing the great organ of the Saint-Étienne-du-Mont Church, Paris

Tracklist 10 tracks

  1. 1 Choral-improvisation sur le Victimae paschali laudes 10:00
    Track
    1
    Title
    Choral-improvisation sur le Victimae paschali laudes
    Duration
    10:00
    Composer
    Charles Tournemire
    Performer
    Pétur Sakari
  2. 2 V. Clair de lune 09:00
    Track
    2
    Title
    V. Clair de lune
    Duration
    09:00
    Composer
    Louis Vierne
    Performer
    Pétur Sakari
  3. 3 VI. Toccata 04:14
    Track
    3
    Title
    VI. Toccata
    Duration
    04:14
    Composer
    Louis Vierne
    Performer
    Pétur Sakari
  4. 4 II. Impromptu 03:22
    Track
    4
    Title
    II. Impromptu
    Duration
    03:22
    Composer
    Louis Vierne
    Performer
    Pétur Sakari
  5. 5 VI. Carillon de Westminster 06:48
    Track
    5
    Title
    VI. Carillon de Westminster
    Duration
    06:48
    Composer
    Louis Vierne
    Performer
    Pétur Sakari
  6. 6 Le Banquet Celeste 07:43
    Track
    6
    Title
    Le Banquet Celeste
    Duration
    07:43
    Composer
    Olivier Messiaen
    Performer
    Pétur Sakari
  7. 7 3 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 7: Prelude and Fugue in B Major 06:54
    Track
    7
    Title
    3 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 7: Prelude and Fugue in B Major
    Duration
    06:54
    Composer
    Marcel Dupré
    Performer
    Pétur Sakari
  8. 8 I. Prelude 09:43
    Track
    8
    Title
    I. Prelude
    Duration
    09:43
    Composer
    Maurice Duruflé
    Performer
    Pétur Sakari
  9. 9 II. Sicilienne 06:24
    Track
    9
    Title
    II. Sicilienne
    Duration
    06:24
    Composer
    Maurice Duruflé
    Performer
    Pétur Sakari
  10. 10 III. Toccata 08:32
    Track
    10
    Title
    III. Toccata
    Duration
    08:32
    Composer
    Maurice Duruflé
    Performer
    Pétur Sakari