Guilmant A. Oeuvres D’orgue Vol 3 Orgue

8 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: Bearbeitungen nach gregorianischen cantus firmi Offertoire sur ‘O filii’ op. 49,
– Deo gratias op. 65, Nr. 58
– Variations et Fugue sur le chant du Stabat mater op. 65, Nr. 13
– Sortie op. 65, Nr. 51
– Geistliche Charakterstücke Choral op. 49, Nr. 3
– Magnificat (Six Versets) op. 41, Nr. 2
– L Crèche (Die Krippe): Pastorale et Adoration op. 50, Nr. 3
– Trois Oraisons (Drei Gebete) op. 94