Le Grand Jeu: French Baroque Organ Favourites | Chateau de Versailles Spectacles CVS024

Le Grand Jeu: French Baroque Organ Favourites

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Label: Chateau de Versailles Spectacles

Cat No: CVS024

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 28th August 2020

Contents

Artists

Gaetan Jarry (organ)

Artists

Gaetan Jarry (organ)

About

This is a sort of self-portrait of the Great Organ of the Royal Chapel of Versailles, delivering all its aspects, enhanced by the choice of a repertoire emblematic of the baroque era: the major classic French organ works (Couperin, Marchand, Grigny, Corrette) composed to glorify the very specific aesthetics of instruments like that of Louis XIV’s Chapel; but also to reveal its other sound riches, transcriptions of chefs d’oeuvres, from Le Sommeil d’Atys by Lully, to the contredanses of Rameau’s Les Boréades. To add a new dimension to the organ’s sound universe and to enhance its orchestral qualities, modern editing and “re-recording” processes were gently used to serve the superimposition of musical voices, as if invisible hands filled in for the organist in certain works, which are true Proust’s “madeleines” for Gaétan Jarry. He goes all out to play the instrument of Versailles “for the Glory of God and the King”!

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