12 PIECES CHOISIES POUR ORGUE
AUTEUR: ALEXANDRE GUILMANT 1837-1911
STYLE: Classique
NIVEAU: 3me Cycle
COMMENTAIRE: With their clear formal design and their manageable demands on technique, these pieces reflect Guilmant’s basic precept of creating works for church and concert performance.
Stylistically, they are noteworthy for their evocative and confessional mood and their straightforward, highly melodious workmanship.
The first four-piece cycle might be termed a “Gregorian Suite”; the second is a Christmas suite with Chorale, Magnificat and La Crêche . The Trois Oraisons can be regarded as Guilmant’s swan-song: here the composer expressed his spiritual concerns, creating a transfigured idiom for the organ in a meditative and improvisatory vein while ingeniously blending Wagner’s tonal language with Lisztian intimacy.
CONTENU: Allein Gott in der Höh' sei Ehr
- Valet will ich Dir geben
- Aus tiefer Noth schrei' ich zu dir
- Chorals et Noels op. 93 :
- Nr. 1: Was Gott thut, das ist wohlgethan
- Nr. 2: Noel pour le temps de l'Avent
- Nr. 3: Choral: Nun lob', mein Seel', den Herren
- Nr. 4: Noel Alsacien
- Élévation ou Communion dans le style de J. S. Bach op. 65, Nr. 43
- Sortie dans le style de Bach op. 65, Nr. 38
- Marche sur un thème de Haendel op. 15, Nr. 2
- Paraphrase sur un Choer du Judas Macchabée de Händel op. 90, Nr. 16
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