Dear Monsieur Vexo - It's a great pleasure to hear you! Great French school, great French tradition! I wish you can bridge these three or four years artistically well until to the inauguration in Notre Dame - I wish you very much! - In the spring of 1971, when I was seventeen, I was allowed to visit Marcel Dupré in Meudon, Boulevard Anatol France - this visit turned all my thinking about the organ on its head. A few weeks later Dupré died on the high festival of Pentecost, as Madame Joanne Dupré later wrote to me. I also have met several times Mons. Gaston Litaize in Vienna, St. Pöten (Metzler) and Millstatt (Marcussen), who comes from the Nancy area. - I wish you continued success - I will come to visit you in a cathedral one day. - Best regards from Vienna! Helmut
dominello frescobalino That is amazing that you got to meet Dupré just a few weeks before he died- I believe he was truly the Paganini of the organ, and a genius composer as well as a great virtuoso despite suffering from arthritis in his later life. It is no surprise that meeting him changed your perspective on the organ- I think it would be a life changing experience if I ever had the chance to meet him which I would give almost anything to have the privilege of doing. It is also amazing that you got to meet Gaston Litaize- he played a very important role in shaping the career of organists such as Olivier Latry.
Pour une fois le tempo n'est pas trop rapide ! Contrairement à Cochereau qui jouait cette pièce plus vite mais avec un orgue sans doute beaucoup souple que cet orgue de Nancy. Bravo ! Et tout par coeur comme l'exigeait Dupré !
L'interprètation et enregistrement plus grand de cette oeuvre, joué sur une orgue absolument magnifique (malgré les transformations pendant les années de 60, c'est encore presque aussi bon que les grandes orgues de Saint Sulpice et Saint Ouen). Johann Vexo est un virtuose d'orgue formidable.
Cela fait plaisir d'entendre un jeune organiste jouer ce chef d'oeuvre de Marcel Dupré. La traction mécanique ne facilite pas les choses, mais l'interprétation est splendide, notamment la tenue du tempo, sans raideur.
Dupré based this piece on the Gregorian chant ''Adore, Te Devote.'' (He specifically mentioned this in the score.) It's actually really similar to "Holy, Holy, Holy,'' now that you mention it.
