I am amazed by your fantastic play. One can only describe it as "noble". I really enjoyed listening and being able to enjoy this wonderful Choral by César Franck in A minor. I find the camera work in the video really wonderful, which plays with the different perspectives. It is wonderful to watch you play. The performance exudes a great calm.
May this organ be roaring again soon! My proposed programme. JS Bach - Fantasy and Fugue BWV542 F Liszt - Fantasy and Fugue on "Ad nos, ad salutare undam" M Reger - Fantasy on the chorale "Straf mich nicht, in deinem Zorn" L Vierne - Symphony III (full) Encores - Improvisatons on given themes
This is the last piece of music composed by Cesar Franck before his fatal accident and he definitely went out in a blaze of glory. While all three chorales possess that majesty of harmony that is uniquely Franck's alone, each one highlights a different musical aspect: The first chorale - melody; the second chorale - counterpoint; the third chorale - rhapsody.
It is a pity that this recording is monophonic, but the performance is impeccable, as usual with Olivier ! I am currently learning this Choral, that I hope to be able to add in my YT channel in some months. In my opinion, it is the most beautiful Franck's piece, which would deserve to be included in the 20 best masterpieces in the organ repertoire ! Dommage que l'enregistrement soit monophonique, mais l'interprétation est impeccable, comme d'habitude avec Olivier ! Je suis en train d'apprendre ce Choral, que j'espère pouvoir ajouter à ma chaîne RU-vid dans quelques mois. Pour moi c'est la plus belle œuvre de César Franck, qui mériterait d'être dans le Top 20 des plus belles pièces pour orgue !
Now, some time after the disastrous fire, what has happened to protect this amazing Organ? So very little news on this particular front has leaked out. I remember the new Console being winched up into position only a short while ago . . . . and the great care that was taken over the humidity and temperature of the whole instrument - how has this been addressed - in short: 'How are things?' It is now 23rd. March 2021.
The organ is being meticulously cared for. Every pipe will be cleaned to remove ash and lead dust and carefully crated along with all of the other components. When the Cathedral is ready, the organ will also be ready!
Claude T.: j'ai particulièrement aimé la régistration de cette pièce de Franck sur un orgue qui est magnifiquement adapté à cette pièce.j'avais l'impression en regardant la vidéo être à côté de toi comme il y a 2 ans .j'espère retrouver ce privilège dans 3,4 ans .Puis-je émettre un souhait : celui de réentendre le 2e concerto brandbourgeois de J.S..Bach que vous avez joué tous les deux sur le même orgue Shin Young et toi , c'était en novembre 2015 sur l'orgue de la basilique St.Christophe à Charleroi.
An amazing interpretation of this wonderful Cesar Franck 3rd Choral Prelude. When the Console at Notre Dame de Paris was rebuilt the Pedal board was not updated to the radiating RCO Pedalboard. I wonder why that was?
It is not an update. It's because historical organs have a flat pedalboard. In music academies or some churches where organ sing, you find a radial concave pedalboard though.
The French rejected Royal Authority in their "Revolution", so no RCO ! However, if French Premier Guy Mollet's suggestion that Queen Elizabeth II should become Head of State of France in 1956 had been enacted, things might have been different for French pedalboards!
Exact, voilà qui est étrange pour un enregistrement très récent, nous sommes habitués depuis quelques temps à de très bons enregistrements, à ND de Paris comme à Saint-Sulpice ou ailleurs, le son doit évidemment primer sur l'image.
This organ is no longer a Caville-Coll. It was Baroqued by Pierre Cochereau and this console installed many years ago. The only original is in St. Sulpice
I realize that I have the tendency to rush the 16th notes in this work, as if I played on a piano. Actually, like with romantic or symphonic pieces, we have to be careful with the tempi if we want to keep the way of playing of romantical time, and consider the reverberation of big churches.
