I'm trying to figure out why there are not more recordings of this absolutely brilliant organist and improvisationalist!! She could produce an outstanding album just based on her absolutely beautiful and fresh improvisations!!! They are modern without getting too abstract and very symphonic. She knows how to play the room's acoustic as well in allowing those gorgeous CC reeds to just bloom. Between her and Daniel Roth, you have have the most amazing assemblage of organists you could ever want!!
Sophie-Véronique, ich könnte diese Ihre Improvisation Tag und Nacht hören und jedesmal 'geht der Himmel für mich auf'. Danke! Sophie-Véronique, je pourrais écouter vos improvisation jour et nuit et à chaque fois "le ciel s'ouvre pour moi". Merci!
When listening to Mme Sophie Veronique Cauchefer Choplin I also think of Mme Jeanne Demessieux. Mme Choplin and Mme Demessieux are my two favorite organists to admire and listen to. I hope that one day like Mme Demessieux, Mme Choplin will give us some written compositions and transcriptions of her fantastic improvisations.
que de regrets de n'avoir pas été présent ce jour là à St Sulpice pour entendre cette sublime musique! merci infiniment Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin pour ce grand moment...
This is the finest and most magnificent improvisation I have ever heard. Sophie is a true master musician. Truly divine inspiration on this piece, building on a theme that rises in a crescendo to an awe inspiring finale. From the reeds on the fifth manual (what a reach!) to having all the divisions coupled together at the end. Love seeing the mechanical action with the keys moving. Her sheer joy at the end knowing that she has created a masterpiece.
You're reading far too much religiosity in to this. They use the Grand Choeur (I) the most because that's where the barker machine is and that makes life much simpler on this instrument.
@@praestant8 You miss Andrew's point. She stated the theme on the Solo, manual V, not the easy-to-reach Grand Choeur (I). It is fun to see all the keys moving when she couples them all together, even if the Barker machine is making it possible to play them.
I listen to this music in loop while working on my computer late in the evening : it gives me the energy and stamina I need ! Thank you so much Mr Pigato for uploading this treasure ! And how lucky you were to attend this for real !
Each time I listen to her I sit in awe of her powers of inspiration! She is more than wonderful! She makes history at the organ! How fortunate her stop pullers are to be near such a dynamo!
I'm every time amazed that some human beings are able to do that and produce such beauty with only their 10 fingers and 2 feet. I'm also amazed that some human minds were able to conceive and build such huge instruments, so well-sounding, for the incerdibly gifted people that produce such wonders for the benefit of mankind.
What can you say, she is the successor of Cesar Franck the one and only true successor! Every improvisation is a gift to all of us, its a shame that since 2017 no more improvisations are shared anymore on youtube! She is without no doubt the best improviser ever since the master.
What are you saying? WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU SAYING? We all know she is the successor of Franck... and the whole academy. You can't hide genius. It has this way for rising up... all own its own. Champagne bubbles only go in one direction. Strait up. Count yourself lucky and forgotten. Names, forms and shadows... follow. Remark upon the occasion and the worship of Trivia. "I like Paris in the Spring time." How about you? Remember. >> ? the marrow. "Alas, alas until the marrow. "
You really should! I was there and met Mme Cauchever-Choplin, who is a very charming and lovely lady! Even though my french was humble, it was a wonderful experience!
Absolutely uplifting. There is no other way to describe it other than the organist's soul was playing that day. She was merely the vessel to bring the divinity into the wonderful sound of all of those pipes.
It isn't just Cavaille Coll heard in this, or in any of his instruments. He kept what came before... Much of Cliquot's voice is heard still at St. Sulpice.
An anointed genius, open to the prompting of the Holy Spirit. One of my teachers said, "one must have the spark." He could improvise a five-voice mirror fugue. Sophie-Veronique has more than the spark: she has THE GIFT. A rare and precious gift from the Almighty, the Lord and Giver of Life. The tune? "God the Omnipotent" - a Russian hymn. "Sto Lat", Sophie-Veronique!
Religious mumbo jumbo. She could be equally as inspired without some "ghost" whispering in her ear. She's simply talented, educated, with a composer's nature and leave it at that.
Il faut avoir de grands bras pour atteindre le V° clavier. Quand au déséquilibre entre une main gauche au Grand-Orgue et la droite sur le dernier. Chapeau pour cette belle improvisation. Dans les cieux, le grand Aristide doit être heureux.
I remember a recital at La Madeleine many, many years ago, when the final (toccata) from Vierne 1 was being played, a couple of minutes before the end, I was thinking to myself 'there's nothing left'. Then tons of upperwork came in... wonderful stuff!!!
Paul Caswell if it were many years ago, then nowadays there's even more to pull (chamades were added in 2004 in La Madeleine, place for them designed from the beginning by Cavaille-Coll but never actually installed till then, as for Saint-Pierre de Neuilly's Mutin-Cavaille-Coll ones, eventually added in 2007)
She absolutely transports me. Does anyone realize that the organ at St. Sulpice has (or had) no swell pedals. But it has tons of couplers. And it is the monster of all mechanical tracker machines. Marcel Dupre loved this instrument. We all love Sophie-Veronique.
It has a swell box - the fourth manual. The swell is operated by the foot lever on the left corner of the console. And there are used "Barker levers" that make the playing easier for organist.
The control for the Recit swell shades is on the RIGHT side (at the treble end of the Pedale clavier). It is a spring-loaded hitch-down lever (or "spoon"). It can be set into notches to hold the shades at half open and fully open. With constant pressure with the foot (either the organist or console assistant), the volume of the Recit can be varied infinitely.
Not a day goes by that I do not listen to this piece. I played this for my boss at the office who can't stand the sound of organs. [His loss] When she throws her head back and smiles, you know she is true inspiration mode. He freaked out over it. Just Sophie in the moment. You don't play an organ better than when in that moment. I should know. I can't play a note, but know inspiration when I see it. St. Sulpice is lucky to have her.
