Louis Vierne's Piano Quintet, Op.42

[Rach3]

A chance to hear what I suspect is the rarely played live Vierne Quintet, wonderful , intense work , composed in response to the death at the Front in WWI of the composer’s 17-year old son :

https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_lunch- ... id=2378074

Au Chiemgauer Musikfrühling:

Schumann - Quatuor pour piano en do mineur, WoO 32.
Schumann - Quatuor pour pinao en mi bémol majeur, op. 47.
Vierne - Quintette pour piano en do mineur, op. 42.

Avec le Raro Ensemble

Enregistré le 13 juillet 2018

I have, can recommend, this Brilliant Classics cd :

https://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/class ... et#reviews

[jbuck919]

I cannot get past "connectez-vous," a hideous piece of franglais, but Vierne was possibly the first in a line of organists and organ composers who were stone blind. Here is his most famous work:

[Rach3]

I cannot get past "connectez-vous," a hideous piece of franglais,

This YT will hopefully work better, the recording mentioned in my OP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoxW3V1 ... q7Fo8wL8m8

[jbuck919]

I cannot get past "connectez-vous," a hideous piece of franglais,

This YT will hopefully work better, the recording mentioned in my OP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoxW3V1 ... q7Fo8wL8m8

I must be doing something wrong, because I still can't get to the quintet. However, I adored the art song. (Spleen as you know is untranslatable French and has nothing to do with the body organ.) I didn't know Vierne had it in him, so thanks just for that.

Next week I will be attending the Organ Historical Society convention in, of all places, Rochester NY. I'll probably hear some Vierne. I mention this only because I will be incommunicado with CMG for that length of time. The convention proceeds from one location to another from breakfast until near bedtime five days in a row, without the possibility of a break except for meals. It is exhausting, and may be the last time I will ever do it.

[Rach3]

Next week I will be attending the Organ Historical Society convention in, of all places, Rochester NY. I'll probably hear some Vierne.

You may be interested in this 2018 Proms programme:


https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bbt6bz

From BBCR3:


Another chance to hear Latvian organist Iveta Apkalna making her Proms debut with a programme that includes French 19th- and 20th-century music by Faure, Franck and Widor.
Presented by Martin Handley from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Widor: Organ Symphony No 5 in F minor, Op 42
Franck: Trois Piaces - Piace Heroique
Faure : Pavane (arr. Apkalna)
J.S. Bach: Fantasia in G major, BWV 572
Sir George Thomas Thalben-Ball: Variations on a Theme by Paganini (Study for the Pedals)
Thierry Escaich: Deux Evocations
Aivars Kalejs: Toccata on the Chorale 'Allein Gott'

Iveta Apkalna, organ

Widor's thrilling Organ Symphony No. 5, with its famous final-movement Toccata, offers sprawling, extrovert drama, a mood it shares with prize-winning French composer-organist Thierry Escaich's exuberant Evocations, with their nods to Baroque and Renaissance music.
Works by Franck and Bach's great G major Fantasia, with its 'wonderful variations and foreign tones', complete the programme given on the Royal Albert Hall's famous 'Father' Willis organ.

[jbuck919]

Next week I will be attending the Organ Historical Society convention in, of all places, Rochester NY. I'll probably hear some Vierne.

You may be interested in this 2018 Proms programme:


https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bbt6bz

From BBCR3:


Another chance to hear Latvian organist Iveta Apkalna making her Proms debut with a programme that includes French 19th- and 20th-century music by Faure, Franck and Widor.
Presented by Martin Handley from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Widor: Organ Symphony No 5 in F minor, Op 42
Franck: Trois Piaces - Piace Heroique
Faure : Pavane (arr. Apkalna)
J.S. Bach: Fantasia in G major, BWV 572
Sir George Thomas Thalben-Ball: Variations on a Theme by Paganini (Study for the Pedals)
Thierry Escaich: Deux Evocations
Aivars Kalejs: Toccata on the Chorale 'Allein Gott'

Iveta Apkalna, organ

Widor's thrilling Organ Symphony No. 5, with its famous final-movement Toccata, offers sprawling, extrovert drama, a mood it shares with prize-winning French composer-organist Thierry Escaich's exuberant Evocations, with their nods to Baroque and Renaissance music.
Works by Franck and Bach's great G major Fantasia, with its 'wonderful variations and foreign tones', complete the programme given on the Royal Albert Hall's famous 'Father' Willis organ.

There is a bit of hyperbole in that, as in many program notes. I defy anyone to identify "wonderful variations and foreign tones" in the G major Fantasia. Also, in case you did not know, Widor was Fauré's mentor, not the other way around.

[Lance]

The Vierne along with Reynado Hahn's piano quintet appeared on Hyperion [67258] with Stephen Coombs, piano, and the Chilingirian Quartet, which I enjoyed because of my interest in Vierne's organ music.