Dupre - Organ Music Vol.1
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95644
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 9th April 2021
Contents
Works
Evocation, op.37Pieces (7), op.27
Variations sur un vieux Noel, op.20
Versets (15) pour les Vepres du commun des Fetes de la Sainte-Vierge, op.18
Artists
Alessandro Perin (organ)Works
Evocation, op.37Pieces (7), op.27
Variations sur un vieux Noel, op.20
Versets (15) pour les Vepres du commun des Fetes de la Sainte-Vierge, op.18
Artists
Alessandro Perin (organ)About
Instead, Perin’s selection is more diverse. It begins with the Suite op.39: four pieces originally written as part of a collection of 12 Studies, though they bear no trace of didacticism. Rather, there is a Lisztian quality of invention to their virtuosity, from the glittering cascades of the opening Allegro agitato to the driving counterpoint of the finale.
The four settings of the Ave maris stella chant are progressively more ornate, from a simple statement of the chant over a walking bass, through an intricate Bachian chorale prelude, to a final, brilliant toccata. The ‘old Christmas carol’ featured in the Op.20 Variations is known in English as Now the green blade riseth: in one of his most justly celebrated works, Dupré treats the theme to a dazzling array of transformations, stretching the organist’s technique to the limit.
At the height of the Second World War, Dupré composed the Evocation in memory of his father, and gave its first performance at the Cathedral in Rouen in 1941. Exactly what is being evoked is left to the listener to decide, though only the tender second-movement elegy casts its gaze back with fondness; the strident progress of the first movement seems to reflect the troubled times, and the finale has its own struggles to overcome in a final blaze of C major triumph.
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