Lemmens: Organ Works

On this CD:

1. Prélude in E flat à 5 Parties
Composed by Jaak Nikolaas Lemmens
Performed by Jozef Sluys

2. Sonata for organ No 1 "Pontificale"
Composed by Jaak Nikolaas Lemmens
Performed by Jozef Sluys

3. Pastorale in F
Composed by Jaak Nikolaas Lemmens
Performed by Jozef Sluys

4. Sonata for organ No 2 "O Filii"
Composed by Jaak Nikolaas Lemmens
Performed by Jozef Sluys

5. Cantabile in B minor
Composed by Jaak Nikolaas Lemmens
Performed by Jozef Sluys

6. Sonata for organ No 3 ("Pascale")
Composed by Jaak Nikolaas Lemmens
Performed by Jozef Sluys

7. Prière in E
Composed by Jaak Nikolaas Lemmens
Performed by Jozef Sluys

8. Laudate Dominum de caelis, psalm 148, for soprano & organ
Composed by Jaak Nikolaas Lemmens
Performed by Jozef Sluys

9. Fanfare for organ in D major
Composed by Jaak Nikolaas Lemmens
Performed by Jozef Sluys

Tracks:

Son No.1 in d, 'Pontificale': Allegro Moderato
Son No.1 in d, 'Pontificale': Adagio
Son No.1 in d, 'Pontificale': Marche Pontificale (Maestoso)
Son No.1 in d, 'Pontificale': Fuga (Fanfare)
Prld A 5 Parties in E flat (Grave)
Fanfare in D (Allegro Non Troppo)
Cantabile in b (Allegretto)
Son No.2 in e 'O Filli': Prld (Allegro Non Troppo)
Son No.2 in e 'O Filli': Cantabile (Andante)
Son No.2 in e 'O Filli': Fuga (Allegro Con Fuoco)
Priere in E (Moderato Cantabile)
Finale in D (Allegro)
Son No.3 in a 'Pascale': Allegro
Son No.3 in a 'Pascale': Adoration (Andante Sostenuto)
Son No.3 in a 'Pascale': Finale 'Alleluia' (Maestoso Recitando - Allegro)

Customer Reviews:

The founding father of the Guilmant/Widor-tradition.......2002-02-27

The organ works of Lemmens are very interesting for everyone who loves French romantic organ music and who wants to learn more about the Bach-classical-romantic connection. Ben van Oosten is a great virtuoso; the organ is wonderful; the recording is superb (a real MD&G-tradition).

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Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 (Organ") Encores à la française

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Wonderful Poulenc, good solo works
Great performance, great instrument, great music!

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Customer Reviews:

Wonderful Poulenc, good solo works.......2004-03-28

This CD has actually become one of my favorites. In fact, I often bring this out when demonstrating my stereo to guests.

The solo works on the Boston Symphony Hall organ are cleanly played and effectively show the colors of this instrument while also taking advantage of the room's amazing acoustic. Mr. Murray's playing is accurate with much attention to phrasing, however, I personally could stand for more rhythmic flexibility. At times, it seems that he's playing along with a metronome. Still, the first 9 selections give a good sampling of this historic Aeolian-Skinner organ.

However, it is the Poulenc Concerto for Organ and Strings which makes this recording invaluable. Recorded on another large Aeolian-Skinner organ at St. Phillip's in Atlanta, this track features a near-perfect balance between the strings and timpani of the Atlanta Philharmonic, under the direction of Robert Shaw, and the large organ.

The sound-stage in this particular recording is immense and those of you who have invested in high-end audio will be richly repaid when listening to this particular piece at home. The organ has tremendous clarity and dynamic range, the strings are so well-captured that you would swear the players are right in the room with and the timpani strikes have perfect percussiveness, and balance.

In this particular piece, Mr. Murray's playing is anything but metronomic. In fact, he seems to hook into the wonderful lyric qualities of the string parts and presents a very flexible, musical and insightful performance. To me, this is one of the great pieces for organ and strings and he pulls off the challenging organ part with confidence and style.

For those of you who like Poulenc and are looking for a beautiful performance which is well recorded, you can't do much better.

Great performance, great instrument, great music!.......1999-05-08

Albert Schweitzer, writing in 1906, describes the French organ-playing tradition thus: The modern French school is the result of this perfected organ construction....The French organist seeks a quiet plasticity that brings the tone pattern to the listener in all its greatness. It seems to me that the French organist even sits more quietly at his console. With all of them one finds an absolute precision in pressing and releasing the keys, which results in blending and clear,natural phrasing. "Organ playing," Widor once said to me on the organ bench at Notre Dame as the rays of the setting sun streamed through the dusk of the nave in transfigured peace,"is the manifestation of a will filled with a vision of eternity. All organ instruction, both technical and artistic, has as its aim only to educate a man to the pure manifestation of the higher will. This will, expressed by the organist in the objectivity of this instrument, should overwhelm the hearer, so that even the thoughtless hearer cannot escape from it, but even after the second measure grasps and comprehends it whether he will or not..." Michael Murray follows the French organ school teaching to a "T" at the great Aeolian-Skinner organ at Boston's Symphony Hall. The first nine selections were recorded there. The last selection, Poulenc's Concerto for Organ,Strings and Timpani was recorded at the Cathedral of Saint Philip in Atlanta and uses sound itself as an expressive device, offering abundant contrasts, particularly of tone color, as the solo instrument's palette of diapasons, flutes,strings and reeds intermix with each other and with the timbres of the orchestra.

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