La virtuosité incontestable montre ici comme elle ne suffit pas à donner une âme à cette superbe pièce. Merci à nos contemporains, Olivier Penin par exemple, de nous donner le temps d'aimer la musique plus que la performance.
Fascinating recording! Is this on the organ in its original state or after the Tournemire rebuild? Impressive playing - it’s much straighter and sharper than I was expecting somehow.
Tournemire was responsible for the first rebuild of the organ. Apparently, when he played it for the first time he realised he had made a terrible mistake…
you can admire it now at the "vleeshuis" (butchers' hall) instrument museum in antwerp. tournemire, who received it from the curé of sainte-clotilde, wanted it to be given to his belgian pupil and most faithful friend, flor peeters. his widow alice indeed presented the console to peeters. a great organ player (successor to tournemire at sainte-clotilde from 1939 till 1942) and composer himself, he first kept it in mechelen (malines) and later donated it to the antwerp conservatory, which gave it on loan to the museum.
It's a shame. It seems that because of the confines of the old 78's that it seems rushed. I get the sense that especially in the middle section and the finale, M. Tournemire would have given more time and flexibility to the tempi.
Rushed? Mmm... Franck played his pieces way faster then long thought. See Franck's biography by Faucquet and a discovered letter from Franck dating from around 1888 to an American student of his where Franck writes down the metronome marks for his organ pieces (of course the three chorals were not yet written at that time). But they show great insights in how fast Franck played his own works. Note: Franck told his students to not simply copy his style of playing but find their own way. What a great musician/teacher!
Quasiment un siècle, cet enregistrement est meilleur que d'autres plus actuels.
La virtuosité incontestable montre ici comme elle ne suffit pas à donner une âme à cette superbe pièce. Merci à nos contemporains, Olivier Penin par exemple, de nous donner le temps d'aimer la musique plus que la performance.
Thanks for uploading this historic recording.
Very interesting, thank you for sharing!
Fascinating recording! Is this on the organ in its original state or after the Tournemire rebuild? Impressive playing - it’s much straighter and sharper than I was expecting somehow.
Formidable, en français, and in English!!
WoooooW!!!!!!!!!!!! No way! Really its Mr.Tournemire playing?????
It's a shame that it is no longer in its original state, as important an organ as it is because of Franck.
Huh? What is injured? A memory?
@@sathya999 this organ was destroyed during the 20th century, nowadays it's a terrible instrument
Tournemire was responsible for the first rebuild of the organ. Apparently, when he played it for the first time he realised he had made a terrible mistake…
The only existing photo of the original console in situ!
you can admire it now at the "vleeshuis" (butchers' hall) instrument museum in antwerp. tournemire, who received it from the curé of sainte-clotilde, wanted it to be given to his belgian pupil and most faithful friend, flor peeters. his widow alice indeed presented the console to peeters. a great organ player (successor to tournemire at sainte-clotilde from 1939 till 1942) and composer himself, he first kept it in mechelen (malines) and later donated it to the antwerp conservatory, which gave it on loan to the museum.
There is also a photo of Langlais seated at this console.
Sorry, but that is not the original console, but the one from 1933.
Wonderful!thanks I needed a shower of echte original misticisme francais in these times of false interpret prophetes...
It's a shame. It seems that because of the confines of the old 78's that it seems rushed. I get the sense that especially in the middle section and the finale, M. Tournemire would have given more time and flexibility to the tempi.
Rushed? Mmm... Franck played his pieces way faster then long thought. See Franck's biography by Faucquet and a discovered letter from Franck dating from around 1888 to an American student of his where Franck writes down the metronome marks for his organ pieces (of course the three chorals were not yet written at that time). But they show great insights in how fast Franck played his own works. Note: Franck told his students to not simply copy his style of playing but find their own way. What a great musician/teacher!