Louis Vierne: Complete Organ Works I-X: Organ: Instrumental Work

Transcriptions (1894 / 1901 / 1932) Complete Organ Works 10-New source material incorporatedExtensive trilingual Foreword (Fr/Eng/Ger) with detailed notes on performance practiceComprehensive Critical Commentary (Fr/Eng/Ger)Illustrations and facsimilesLouis Vierne (1870–1937) brought symphonic French organ music to its stylistic climax.Besides being a productive composer he also gained a reputation as a brilliant improviser at his place of employment the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and throughout the world.In 1928 Vierne one of the best-known organists of his day made one of the earliest organ recordings playing Bach works and his own improvisations in Notre Dame.Threeimprovisations released in 1929-30 were transferred to musical notation in 1954 by his pupil Maurice Duruflé. Another previously unpublished improvisation which was recently rediscovered among Vierne's posthumous papers was reconstructed and published in musical notation in 2005 by Duruflé’s pupil Jean-Michel Louchart (b. 1946). These four improvisations join Vierne's transcriptions of works by Johann Sebastian Bach César Franck and Serge Rachmaninoff in this volume bringing our complete edition of his organ works to a close.

Paket Mit 13 Partituren-The six Symphonies represent the most important group of Vierne's organ compositions. With these works he carried on the splendid French tradition of this genre bringing it to its peak. Vierne's compositional models are clearly discernible: primarly Franck and Widor but also Mendelssohn and Schumann. Along with the beautiful melodic ideas in his slow movements and the occasion ally bizarre ideas in his scherzi and intermezzi it is above all his chromaticism that characterizes Vierne's style. The complete edition of his organ works provides a musical text as accurate and authentic as possible: It corrects obvious misprints from the first editions provides commentary onquestionable passages and offers alternative solutions. It is based on the first editions the composer???s manuscripts and lists of corrections from colleagues pupils and present-day interpreters closely concerned with Vierne???s music. All works are also available in separate editions.

Elève de Louis Vierne, Alexandre Guilmant et Charles-Marie Widor, ami de Marcel Dupré, Emile Bourdon fut un musicien complet, dès son plus jeune âge. Composées entre 1926 et 1971 alors qu'il était organiste de la cathédrale de Monaco, ces Six Pièces proviennent de sources différentes et ont été réunies ici après un long travail collectif effectué par l'Association Emile Bourdon. Peu connues du public et des organistes, ces oeuvres sont pourtant remarquables par leur qualité, leur langage très personnel et leur sens aigu de la registration et de la façon de bien faire ' sonner ' l'instrument. Les Six Pièces d'Emile Bourdon sont un vrai trésor musical à redécouvrir et il ne fait aucun doute qu'elles sauront conquérir le coeur des organistes et du public. / Orgue