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Symphonies pour Orgue
Louis Vierne

Jeremy Filsell

Symphonies pour Orgue

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Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212006320
Catnr: SIGCD 063
Release date: 01 October 2005
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Label
Signum Classics
UPC
0635212006320
Catalogue number
SIGCD 063
Release date
01 October 2005
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About the album

Louis Vierne, one of the great concert organists and composers of the 20th century, is best known for his organ works. In each of the six Symphonies for Organ, Vierne explores a method of generating a symphony from just a few themes. He once stated that he was far more attracted by musical thematicism than by tone colour. Born virtually blind, Vierne showed an early aptitude for music. His works are said to reflect the vast and decorated architecture of Notre Dame in Paris.

Artist(s)

Jeremy Filsell (piano)

Jeremy Filsell enjoys a concert career as one of only a few virtuoso performers on both the Piano and the Organ. He has performed as a solo pianist in Russia, the USA and throughout the UK and has appeared regularly at St John’s Smith Square and the Conway and Wigmore Halls in London. His Concerto repertoire encompasses Mozart and Beethoven through to Rachmaninov (2nd and 3rd Concertos), Shostakovich and John Ireland and in recent years, he has recorded the solo piano music of Carl Johann Eschmann, Eugene Goossens and the two Sonatas of Liszt’s pupil Julius Reubke. In the piano music of Herbert Howells and Bernard Stevens, Classic CD magazine commented that “he does not attract for his virtuosity but...
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Jeremy Filsell enjoys a concert career as one of only a few virtuoso performers on both the Piano and the Organ. He has performed as a solo pianist in Russia, the USA and throughout the UK and has appeared regularly at St John’s Smith Square and the Conway and Wigmore Halls in London. His Concerto repertoire encompasses Mozart and Beethoven through to Rachmaninov (2nd and 3rd Concertos), Shostakovich and John Ireland and in recent years, he has recorded the solo piano music of Carl Johann Eschmann, Eugene Goossens and the two Sonatas of Liszt’s pupil Julius Reubke. In the piano music of Herbert Howells and Bernard Stevens, Classic CD magazine commented that “he does not attract for his virtuosity but for his ability to make the music unfold with irresistible logic and clarity: music-making of the highest calibre.” He is pianist with the London-based Burghersh Piano Trio and performs regularly with Oliver Lewis (Violin), with whom he has recorded discs of Elgar, Ireland, Ferguson and Goossens for Guild. With Michael Bundy (Baritone), two discs of Mélodies by Widor, Vierne and Dupré are due for release by Naxos.
Jeremy Filsell has recorded for BBC Radio 3, USA and Scandinavian radio networks in solo and concerto roles as both a pianist and organist and, as an organist specifically, has a discography comprising over 20 solo recordings for labels Signum, Guild, Gamut, Herald and ASV. Gramophone magazine, writing on the series of 12 CDs comprising the premiere recordings of Marcel Dupré’s complete organ works for Guild in 2000, praised his performance as “one of the greatest achievements in organ recording…Filsell’s astonishing interpretative and technical skills make for compulsive listening … truly distinguished, compelling and unquestionably authoritative performances; Filsell has phenomenal technique.” In 2005, Signum released a 3-disc set on the famous 1890 Cavaillé-Coll organ in St. Ouen Rouen of the complete organ symphonies of Louis Vierne. These were BBC Radio 3’s Disc of the Week in September of that year.
Jeremy studied as a music scholar at Oxford University, then as a post-graduate pianist under David Parkhouse and Hilary McNamara at the Royal College of Music before completing a PhD at Birmingham Conservatoire researching aesthetic and interpretative issues in the organ music of Marcel Dupré. Over the course of his career, he has taught piano, organ and academic studies at Cranleigh, Eton and the London Oratory School, given masterclasses at universities and summer schools in both the UK and USA, served twice on international competition juries and, until recently, held lectureships at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and London’s Royal Academy of Music. He lives currently in the USA and is Principal Organist at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C., one of the largest churches in the world and the flagship Catholic Church in North America.

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Composer(s)

Louis Vierne

Louis Vierne was born in Poitiers nearly blind due to congenital cataracts, but at an early age was discovered to have an unusual gift for music. After completing school in the provinces, Louis Vierne entered the Paris Conservatory. From 1892, Vierne served as an assistant to the organist Charles-Marie Widor at the church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris. Vierne subsequently became principal organist at the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, a post he held from 1900 until his death in 1937. Vierne had a life that was physically and emotionally very difficult, with severe spiritual trials that are reflected in much of his music. His congenital cataracts did not make him completely blind, but he was what would be called today 'legally blind.'...
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Louis Vierne was born in Poitiers nearly blind due to congenital cataracts, but at an early age was discovered to have an unusual gift for music.
After completing school in the provinces, Louis Vierne entered the Paris Conservatory. From 1892, Vierne served as an assistant to the organist Charles-Marie Widor at the church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris. Vierne subsequently became principal organist at the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, a post he held from 1900 until his death in 1937.
Vierne had a life that was physically and emotionally very difficult, with severe spiritual trials that are reflected in much of his music. His congenital cataracts did not make him completely blind, but he was what would be called today "legally blind." Early in his career, he composed on outsized manuscript paper, using "a large pencil" as his friend Marcel Dupré described. Later in life, as his already limited sight continued to diminish, he resorted to Braille to do most of his work. Moreover, he was deeply affected by a separation and subsequent divorce from his wife, and he lost both his brother René and his son Jacques to the battlefields of World War I A street accident in Paris caused him to badly fracture his leg, and it was briefly thought his leg would need to be amputated. The leg was saved, but his recovery, and the task of completely re-learning his pedal technique, took a full year during one of the busiest times of his life. Despite his difficulties, however, his students uniformly described him as a kind, patient and encouraging teacher. Among his pupils were Lili Boulanger, Nadia Boulanger, Marcel Dupré and André Fleury Vierne suffered either a stroke or a heart attack (eyewitness reports differ) while giving his 1750th organ recital at Notre-Dame de Paris on the evening of 2 June 1937. He had completed the main concert, which members of the audience said showed him at his full powers—"as well as he has ever played." Maurice Duruflé, another major French organist and composer, was at his side at the time of his death.
Vierne had an elegant, clean style of writing that respected form above all else. His harmonic language was romantically rich, but not as sentimental or theatrical as that of his early mentor César Franck. Like all of the great fin de siècle French organists, Vierne's music was very idiomatic for his chosen instrument and has inspired most of the great Parisian organist-composers who followed him.

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Disc #1
01.
Symphonie 1: I. Prelude
08:05
(Louis Vierne) Jeremy Filsell
02.
Symphonie 1: II. Fugue
05:14
(Louis Vierne) Jeremy Filsell
03.
Symphonie 1: III. Pastorale
07:36
(Louis Vierne) Jeremy Filsell
04.
Symphonie 1: IV. Allegro Vivace
04:22
(Louis Vierne) Jeremy Filsell
05.
Symphonie 1: V. Andante
06:55
(Louis Vierne) Jeremy Filsell
06.
Symphonie 1: VI. Final
06:32
(Louis Vierne) Jeremy Filsell
07.
Symphonie 2: I. Allegro
08:09
(Louis Vierne) Jeremy Filsell
08.
Symphonie 2: II. Choral
07:25
(Louis Vierne) Jeremy Filsell
09.
Symphonie 2: III. Scherzo
04:22
(Louis Vierne) Jeremy Filsell
10.
Symphonie 2: IV. Cantabile
08:22
(Louis Vierne) Jeremy Filsell
11.
Symphonie 2: V. Final
09:01
(Louis Vierne) Jeremy Filsell

Disc #2
01.
Symphonie 3: I. Allegro Maestoso
07:45
(Louis Vierne) Jeremy Filsell
02.
Symphonie 3: II. Cantilene
06:04
(Louis Vierne) Jeremy Filsell
03.
Symphonie 3: III. Intermezzo
04:17
(Louis Vierne) Jeremy Filsell
04.
Symphonie 3: IV. Adagio
07:11
(Louis Vierne) Jeremy Filsell
05.
Symphonie 3: V. Final
06:25
(Louis Vierne) Jeremy Filsell
06.
Symphonie 5: I. Grave
07:04
(Louis Vierne) Jeremy Filsell
07.
Symphonie 5: II. Allegro molto marcato
09:24
(Louis Vierne) Jeremy Filsell
08.
Symphonie 5: III. Tempi di scherzo ma non troppo vivo
04:45
(Louis Vierne) Jeremy Filsell
09.
Symphonie 5: IV. Larghetto
10:32
(Louis Vierne) Jeremy Filsell
10.
Symphonie 5: V. Final
10:38
(Louis Vierne) Jeremy Filsell

Disc #3
01.
Symphonie 4: I. Prelude
07:22
(Louis Vierne) Jeremy Filsell
02.
Symphonie 4: II. Allegro
06:14
(Louis Vierne) Jeremy Filsell
03.
Symphonie 4: III. Menuet
06:57
(Louis Vierne) Jeremy Filsell
04.
Symphonie 4: IV. Romance
08:00
(Louis Vierne) Jeremy Filsell
05.
Symphonie 4: V. Final
06:16
(Louis Vierne) Jeremy Filsell
06.
Symphonie 6: I. Introduction et Allegro
10:25
(Louis Vierne) Jeremy Filsell
07.
Symphonie 6: II. Aria
06:53
(Louis Vierne) Jeremy Filsell
08.
Symphonie 6: III. Scherzo
04:08
(Louis Vierne) Jeremy Filsell
09.
Symphonie 6: IV. Adagio
09:05
(Louis Vierne) Jeremy Filsell
10.
Symphonie 6: V. Final
08:10
Jeremy Filsell
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