Messiaen at St. Sernin: Dieu Parmi Nous
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- Опубликовано: 4 мар 2010
- Jean-Claude Raynaud performs Messiaen's "Dieu Parmi Nous" from "La Nativite du Seigneur". Recorded on the Cavaille-Coll organ of St. Sernin, Toulouse, in 1967.
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..I love the fact he lets this work "breathe" in the right places. To hear int in these acoustics is tremendous
Fantastic performance. The organ had a marvellous tone colour which today has gone.
Jean-Claude Raynaud was (is?) one of the finest organists on this earth. A pity that only a handful of his recordings from the 1960s are available to us.
Grandioze muziek op een grandioze wijze uitgevoerd op een grandioos Cavaille Coll orgel!
Merci bien Jean-Claude Raynaud, Olivier Messiaen et Aristide Cavaille Coll.
This instrument was indeed modified, by Puget in the 50's. Unda maris, Clarinette and that sort of stops went out and was replaced with the usual array of Fourniture and Cymbale etc. It's that instrument we are hearing on this recording. It wasn't restored to original condition until 1992-96. Messiaen was indeed in favour of the modern elements added to older instruments, so it fits this piece of music. But in my opinion it sounds better now.
I'm aware now that there is a certain controversy over that 'restoration' - in that the building's acoustics were spoiled by the scraping of plaster from the walls, and the organ had to be revoiced to regain its former power.
...well, considering that the instrument M. Messiaen performed and composed at was rebuilt twice, first by by Pleyel and later Beuchet-Debierre, it had more contemporary tonal resources than the original CC instrument of 1869. M. Messiaen cites the organ of Ste Trinite as one of the influences on his compositional language. This is not to say that an older "pure" CC organ is inappropriate, just that the resources M. Messiaen had at his disposal had a different tonal "palette".
@stylusfantasticus - what are you talking about? It's never been altered in any way, only restored exactly as it was in 1888.
Le pressage approximatif de ce disque ne permet part de rendre toute la beauté des sonorités de Saint Sernin avant la restauration des années 90 ; des fonds qui soutiennent les anches dès le E3 sans se mettre à gueuler dans l'aigu : c'était ça l'essentiel à préserver dans cet instrument ; dommage !
L'interprétation du "Dieu parmi nous" est très honorable.
@stylusfantasticus - I also don't think it's that great a performance. Too fast for my taste, feels rushed in places. Ian Ball's performance is the benchmark for me.