Louis Vierne - The Bells of Hinckley - Saint Ouen
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- The final piece in Louis Vierne's 24 Pieces de Fantasie, recorded on the most magical instrument in the world. I didn't see this recording anywhere else and I felt I had to share.
I don't own anything, much less this recording.
Probably the best performance. You feel and see the vast space the bells are surrounded with. The waves of bell sounds which are spreading around are feeling so natural, so huge, so impressive and colossal that it is a real tribute because the speed is perfect!
This combination of instrument and acoustic is unequaled. A memorable performance.
This just fuels further my insatiable fascination for French Romanticism.Truly amazing! I'm learning the piece rightaway!
This is particularly beautiful and moving, as I hear the bells of St. Mary's Church in Hinckley every Sunday evening in my home. Listening to this takes me right inside, from when I was a child.
Une pièce incroyable où tout le génie de Louis Vierne a pu recréer les harmoniques des cloches, leur mouvements, c'est incroyable
This piece, on this organ, in this building is hypnotic. Their is truly nothing like it.
Wonderful music on the greatest organ ever built. Nice pix of St. Ouen, too.
I think this is an absolutely wonderful performance by van Oosten. As usual in his French Romantic recordings, he brings out the mystique, majesty, and uplifting beauty of the music.
My name is Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, King of Kings . Look at my work, ye Mighty ! And despair !!!!
This is wonderful! I always loved Oliver Latry's rendition for getting it to thunder at the end, as the blind Vierne would have experienced it with such intensity, but this has real authority to it. Lovely piece. Thank you for sharing this!
St. Ouen ....his greatest accomplishment. I know, I played it. Incomparable!
Ben .... wonderful!
Splendid work. This piece paints in my mind's eye a picture of sunlight shining upon the earth.
beautiful king of instuments and wonderful music
This is much better than Latry's recording at NDP. At least to my ear. Maybe it's because here we have a Cavaille-Coll still in original condition that is also one of the mightiest ever built on earth.
Un instrument exceptionnel par son song que l'on peut voir qu en Normandie, c'est le plus beau Cavaillé-Coll que j'ai pu voir et entendre
Still my favorite.
Vierne was a supreme melodist. His talent was so gargantuan that it is somewhat outrageous.
Chillingly beautiful!
PS No one mentioned Pierre Labric's magnificent recordings of Vierne made at S Ouen many years ago on LP. Well worth listening to...
Love this recording, this piece. Thank you Ben!
What an exhilarating piece!
I find Oostens playing wonderful. I feel the life in it. He knows how to play these pieces. Latry is a great organist but he takes some stuff way to fast. Oosten to me has made some of the finest recordings I have ever heard. I love his style and he knows how to use the instruments right
From 6.11 - :-D The greatest sound this side of heaven!!!
@advisorC101
I don't think Latry's rendition is bad - Vierne and Latry both offer textbook performances, I think, but in the case of Saint Ouen versus Anything, Anything is bound to lose. This is the kind of music that organ was built to play.
pure magic...
THIS was the final work on my MMus recital on an organ I helped to build in 1st Presbyterian Church, Oakland, CA!
I'm sure it was wonderful, too!
@a55b47
I know, isn't it? I'm so happy I found that picture of the Barker machine in particular.
Complete agreement...
@ wilowthebored: Thank you for posting.
@menschmaschine5
I won't deny that Latry has more personality. I've just listened to his rendition of the piece, though, and personally I still like Oosten's better. Perhaps, in some cases, being somewhat dry and following the score more closely is a better thing than personality. When I hear Latry's recording I hear Latry playing. When I hear this recording I hear the Great Organ of Saint-Ouen playing, not Ben van Oosten.
@Rheinlander95 It's so true. XD The organs he records on are fabulous, but some of them are so conservative. I tend to prefer other's interpretations of the larger symphonic works.
@menschmaschine5, That too.
...but Latry's certainly have more character (even with those awful chamades). I will also give Latry that he made my favorite recording of Durufle's organ catalog ever (on Durufle's instrument, thank god).
Is this the Mensch from the Organforum?
@menschmaschine5. You are fully entitled to believe whatever you wish. Please don't let my rambling get in the way of your views.
@menschmaschine5, Van Oosten is a modern/romantic, Latry is a youthful modern performer. Your tastes are not mine.
@willowthebored
And in some cases, foremost with this organ, isn't that wiser? If a performer has some great insight into a piece that can make it so much better I have absolutely no problem appreciating that on whatever instrument, but since none has made itself apparent here I think it's fair to say that the organ gives this piece its power, not whether it's Oosten or Latry playing.
And, for the record, I do like Latry's rendition of the 5th Symphony better, despite the 'inferior' organ.
@menschmaschine5
Now that is certainly true. I have Oosten's complete Vierne symphonies and the Pieces de Fantasie, and I won't deny that I don't like Oosten's recording as much as even Michael Murray's (which takes the Finale much slower and articulates certain movements, particularly the Fugue and the Allegro Vivace, much better). As for the Piece de Fantasie, I have several of Michael Bouvard's recordings on Saint-Sernin that are better. I'm afraid I haven't heard Filsell's recording...
@willowthebored I see that as a big problem, though. I have Oosten's recording of Vierne's symphonies, and I find the playing incredibly boring, despite the fact that he played on fantastic instruments (including St. Ouen). I far prefer Latry's recording of 2 and 3, despite the inferior instrument, and Filsell's recording of the symphonies at St. Ouen, which is great playing on a great instrument. A great instrument does not always equal a great performance.
@advisorC101 Ok, it just seemed to me that you preferred this rendition solely because of the instrument.
I don't mind Latry either, but I personally prefer hearing it more or less on the same instruments that Vierne did. The only downside I see in Latry's recording is the former Cavaille-Coll of NDP.
But Latry is a supreme organist.
I generally regard Latry as over-rated (especially as an improviser: give me Leguay any day), but in this piece he's unbeatable because he understands the psychology. His dark-hued, deliberately plodding opening perfectly captures the depressive, frustrated Vierne, who, after all, only wrote the work because he was kept awake all night in his hotel room in Hinckley (on a recital tour in the U.K.) by the quarter-hourly chiming of the church bells next door; by comparison van Oosten is positively bouncy! Incidentally: why on earth does this glorious piece continue to get only perhaps one performance for every 50 of the flogged-to-death (and inferior) Carillon de Westminster?
Bombardon32 Because everyone recognizes the Westminster Chimes most likely. I'm very much intrigued by Les Cloches and I have Van Oosten's recording of it; however, I would hardly call it bouncy. Latry and Van Oosten are both fine organists.
+chen0466 You've forgotten the bunch - the Carillon de Longpont, that is absolutely magnificent…
This isn't Latry , its Ben van Oosten.
I must disagree, the Carillon de Westminster is by no means an "inferior" piece of music. You are entitled to your opinion, but not factual-izing an opinion.If you would like to hear another and more-interpretive performance, then try Gaston Litaze's. My opinion: Best one of the lot.
While this performance is great, I agree Latry is unbeatable at this one. Gives me shivvers up and down my spine in the thundering final bars. It must take a lot of physical strength. to depict a bell tower at point-blank range. Vierne is a really fun person to study, too. Thank you for sharing your insights.
Paraphrasing Charlie Chaplain in his 1940 political satire film The Great Dictator: "Heil Hinckley!"
@advisorC101 Yes, it's a much better instrument, but I'd rather listen to the better performance. I have several recordings of Van Oosten, and to me it sounds like he's typing. Yeah, he plays all of the notes, but there's no sense of phrasing or musicality there.
Not so bad, Mr. Oosten. Now if only we could get you off of Prozac so you could shine in your Vierne and Widor renderings.
Listen to his latest Franck recording. The finest on record IMHO
👎what an a**hole!
@advisorC101 Really? In general I find Latry to be a MUCH better performer (i.e. more musical and more interesting) than Van Oosten. Sure, the instrument's better, but Ben Van Oosten's playing is so dry...