My retired organist mother and I just listened and have goose bumps and tears. LOVE the registration he uses as the reedy sound is perfect. And the full organ sound. Absolute bliss!! Thanks for posting this! What glorious music! What a gift from God!
Ah, those French reeds! I get goosebumps every time I listen to this rendition. ( I confess that I had to purchase a woofer booster to my monitor speakers. Now I have to worry about my furniture falling apart!)
La compiutezza musicale, la perfezione melodica e armonica di questo capolavoro eseguito magistralmente e la voce gloriosa di questo mirabile strumento. Grazie.
Il est l'orgue parmi les orgues, ce chef d'oeuvre du Frère Isnard me donne des frissons chaque fois que je l'entends. Merci Pierre Bardon ! Cette magnifique basilique n'est autre que le repos de SAINTE MARIE - MADELEINE il fallait un instrument à la hauteur, c'est une merveille. Et forcément LE "noël provençal" dessus c'ets sublime.
I was allowed to play on this oegan once again this afternoon and more than 50 years after, I played it agzin. I was so stressed by enotion that tears came to my eyes ;;;;; 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🤗❤❤❤❤
Music like this is just pure genius and is just so brilliant. I love it when music like this fills my house during the Christmas season; another reason of many to love the Chirstmas season. :D Absolutely magnificently beautiful! It is the most famous out of all the noels by Louis-Claude Dequin performed by Anothony Newman.
Quando eseguii un concerto d'organo (organo svizzero Metzler) nella chiesa del cimitero teutonico in Vaticano ho messo in programma un noel di D'Aquin , avendo il libro di tutti i suoi Noel.
The phrasing in the last bar of the grand choeur is indeed right. Not many of us have understood how it should be played properly. This may be a good example. Appreciable also the use of unusual registration in the second varied part, to avoid the otherwise monotonous cornet.
Christopher Herrick comes close to Meister Bardon's interpretation of the Daquin set of Noels, playing a fine period organ in Dieppe. But the authority of the Isnard organ in the hands of the Master stands firm.
"C'est notre grand-père Noé, patriarche digne "Que l'bon dieu a conservé, pour planter sa vigne. "Il s'est fait faire un bateau pour se préserver de l'eau: "Ce fut son son son, ce fut re re re, ce fut son, ce fut son refuge "Pendant le déluge."
Sauf que ce Noël s'appelle: BON JOSEPH ÉCOUTEZ -MOI ou QUAND DIEU NAQUIT EN JUDÉE ou QUAND LE SAUVEUR JÉSUS CHRIST . Le Grand-père Noé , c'est arrivé après .
Effectivement cet air a été adapté à de nombreuses versions différentes dont cet air à boire sarcastique: Quand la mer rouge apparut Aux yeux de Grégoire Aussitôt ce buveur crut Qu'il fallait la boire,. ...
Ce Noël fait aussi partie du folklore de Provence et on retrouve exactement la même ligne mélodique dans la danse des Cordelles connue de tous les Provençaux conservant les traditions.Dansée en costume traditionnel c'est une merveille.Quant aux Grandes Orgues de Saint Maximin , c'est une chance inouie de les avoir dans ce si bel état de fonctionnement., un patrimoine extraordinaire à préserver.
Oui, les conceptions de la restauration "historique" ont bien changé depuis l'époque de Norbert Dufourcq qui a supervisé la restauration/ saccage de l'orgue d'Auch par Gonzalez ou celui de La Flêche avec électrification des appels de jeux, extension des claviers et soufflerie à plis parallèles du modèle Cumming, etc. Mais on peut aussi cité les dégâts faits sur les orgues de Provence par Le Docteur Pierre Rochas et son comparse Jean Dunand .
Quelle chance pour Saint-Maximin de conserver un tel instrument ! Il ne sera jamais, au grand jamais, égalé par aucune facture moderne Respectez-le !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love these Noels but the embellishments drive me crazy when I try to play them. This is a beautiful performance. The French Romantic organs are the best.
The actual CD-album is difficult to find. It was made in the 90's in a limited edition. Took me quite some time and effort to get it. But a new compilation containing all Noëls was reissued in 2009 (at least I assume it's a reissue, not a new recording, but I may be wrong). It has since been made available for download on iTunes. If you look for "D'Aquin - Noëls pour orgue - Pierre Bardon & orgue de St-Maximin-en-Provence" you should find it.
If you want to play it from sheet music: perhaps you can get a Dover Edition (faksimile reprint of the original Guilmant Archive) In this collection you find this piece.
+Steff2929again Not so difficult because I have The twelve Noëls for organ 5;ls for organ by Louis Claude Daquin were recorded on an LP vinyl twin album recorded by Pierrre Bardon the tenure organist of Saint Maximin historical organ of the Jean Esprit Isnard's organ(1772) at the Pierre Verany editions ;(CA7882x2) Chemin de la Bosque -13990Aix en Provence. The score was the fac simile copy of the original manuscript preseved in the Inguimbertine Carpentras Library collection (Vaucluse,84).
Le superbe orgue Isnard de Saint Maximin la Baume est vraiment l'instrument idoine pour cette musique, au demeurant fort bien jouée ; mais quel est donc l'interprète ?
I just purchased the Sonus Paradisi sample set of this organ for Hauptwerk Virtual Pipe Organ. I would love it if you know what registration was used and could post it here, so I can play it and have it sound like this!
Le Grand Orgue du Basilique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume (Var), France Jean-Esprit Isnard, Joseph Isnard, 1772 - 1774. Composition sonore / Stop List: I. POSITIF 50 notes, C-d3 sans le 1er ut dièse / without the 1st C sharp Montre 8' Bourdon 8' Flûte 8' Prestant 4' Nazard 2-2/3' Doublette 2' Quarte de Nazard 2' Tierce 1 3/5' Larigot 1 1/3' Fourniture III Cymbale III Dessus de cornet V Trompette 8' Clarion 4' Cromorne 8' II. GRAND ORGUE 50 notes, C-d3 sans le 1er ut dièse / without the 1st C sharp Montre 16' Bourdon 16' Montre 8' Bourdon 8' Gros Nazard 5-1/3' Prestant 4' Grosse Tierce 3-1/5' Grosse Fourniture II Petite Fourniture IV Cymbale IV Cornet V Trompette 8' Dessus de Trompette en Chamade 8' Voix humaine 8' III. RÉSONANCE 50 notes, C-d3 sans le 1er ut dièse / without the 1st C sharp Jeux de Pédale: Flûte 16' Flûte 8' Flûte 4' Bombarde 16' 1re Trompette 8' 2e Trompette 8' Clairon 4' Jeux d'écho: Dessus de Flute 8' Dessus de Cornet V Dessus de Trompette en chamade 8' IV. RÉCIT 32 notes, g-d3 Cornet V Trompette 8' Hautbois 8' PÉDALE 32 notes, C-g1 Aucun jeu indépendant Tirasse permanente du 3e clavier / No independent stops Permanent coupler with Résonance Accouplements / Couplers: POS/GO REC/GO Tremblant doux, tremblant fort.
The Noëls are written for harpsichord or organ. If played on the organ, the player is supposed to add the pedal part according to good taste and tradition. Not uncommon in French baroque music.
it's not :) Quand Jesus naquit is, I guess, the original carol, which several composers, Daquin and Balbastre included, chose for basis for their compositions. You can find Balbastre version on youtube played by Michel Chapuis, it's quite different, but the main theme is the same.
Formidable intreprétation, Bravo Monsieur , vous mettez admirablement en valeur ce merveilleux Monsieur DAQUIN, Merci Monsieur DAQUIN pour votre écriture géante, vous faites vivre l'orgue .
The reeds! The acoustics! And a French organ that's actually in tune!
My retired organist mother and I just listened and have goose bumps and tears. LOVE the registration he uses as the reedy sound is perfect. And the full organ sound. Absolute bliss!! Thanks for posting this! What glorious music! What a gift from God!
la varie musique française dans toute sa gloire et sa puissance
Ah, those French reeds! I get goosebumps every time I listen to this rendition. ( I confess that I had to purchase a woofer booster to my monitor speakers. Now I have to worry about my furniture falling apart!)
J'ai eu le plaisir de jouer sur cet orgue 😍 un pur bonheur !!!! Merci encore à Pierre Bardon !
Mon professeur... Quelle joie ca été d etre son élève
What a wonderful organ. OMG!
La compiutezza musicale, la perfezione melodica e armonica di questo capolavoro eseguito magistralmente e la voce gloriosa di questo mirabile strumento. Grazie.
Il est l'orgue parmi les orgues, ce chef d'oeuvre du Frère Isnard me donne des frissons chaque fois que je l'entends. Merci Pierre Bardon !
Cette magnifique basilique n'est autre que le repos de SAINTE MARIE - MADELEINE il fallait un instrument à la hauteur, c'est une merveille.
Et forcément LE "noël provençal" dessus c'ets sublime.
LOVE this piece, especially on an authentic French organ! SUPERB!!
Pierre Bourdon.... Immanquablement le meilleur pour ce sublime...
Fabulous ... wonderful ... gifted!! English just doesn't have the words to do justice to this masterful recording!
superbe instrument pour la musique française l'orgue Isnar de St Maximin !
C'est Magnifique! Wonderful playing , wonderful sound. The glory of 1772 .
When I was young, I performed it on historical organ.
The registration is awesome in this recording.
I was allowed to play on this oegan once again this afternoon and more than 50 years after, I played it agzin. I was so stressed by enotion that tears came to my eyes ;;;;; 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🤗❤❤❤❤
@@gerardbegni2806Must've been fun! I would love to play a french organ someday...
superbement joué bien dans l'esprit de l amusique dite française
Tres manifique! One can only dream of what it must have been like to have heard it performed by D'Aquin himself.
Bravo !!!! C'est la plus belle interprétation du Noel X que j'ai entendu !!!!! :D
Sublime.La meilleure interprétation que je connaisse
Jolie morceaux j'adore
Music like this is just pure genius and is just so brilliant. I love it when music like this fills my house during the Christmas season; another reason of many to love the Chirstmas season. :D Absolutely magnificently beautiful! It is the most famous out of all the noels by Louis-Claude Dequin performed by Anothony Newman.
Margaret Ricketts I also like the third of his Noëls: En Musette. I recorded part of it if you’re interested.
@@ClergetMusic The Noël Etranger is also very famous :-)
¡Magnifique!
Absolutely beautiful!
This recording has the best sound quality I've heard in a long time, and I listen to a lot of recordings.
At 4:28 that is amazing the organist whacked on full reeds and just went for it! This organ is amazing and beautiful
Also at 1:48 too
Quando eseguii un concerto d'organo (organo svizzero Metzler) nella chiesa del cimitero teutonico in Vaticano ho messo in programma un noel di D'Aquin , avendo il libro di tutti i suoi Noel.
Très joli et bien fait !
FULL VOLUME!!!!
Köszönjük. Szép!
Bellísimo , da la impresión que ésta pieza fue creada para lucir en su máximo esplendor el sonido de cada tubo de éste bello órgano.
The phrasing in the last bar of the grand choeur is indeed right. Not many of us have understood how it should be played properly. This may be a good example. Appreciable also the use of unusual registration in the second varied part, to avoid the otherwise monotonous cornet.
Excellent.
hermoso
I have a cousin that lives in St. Maximin that told to my mother he can look for the possibility that I can play this remarkable instrument.
That drop though ^^
I heard this same song before, but it had a choir singing along with it. I have been trying to find it.
"Noel We Sing" by Robert deCormier -- one of my favorite Christmas carols ever!!
You should hear The Gregg Smith Singers version of this song.
Christopher Herrick comes close to Meister Bardon's interpretation of the Daquin set of Noels, playing a fine period organ in Dieppe. But the authority of the Isnard organ in the hands of the Master stands firm.
RIP Louis Claude D'aquino.
"C'est notre grand-père Noé, patriarche digne
"Que l'bon dieu a conservé, pour planter sa vigne.
"Il s'est fait faire un bateau pour se préserver de l'eau:
"Ce fut son son son, ce fut re re re, ce fut son, ce fut son refuge
"Pendant le déluge."
Merci pour les paroles! Bonne année 2015! Amitiés, Micha
Sauf que ce Noël s'appelle: BON JOSEPH ÉCOUTEZ -MOI ou QUAND DIEU NAQUIT EN JUDÉE ou QUAND LE SAUVEUR JÉSUS CHRIST . Le Grand-père Noé , c'est arrivé après .
Effectivement cet air a été adapté à de nombreuses versions différentes dont cet air à boire sarcastique:
Quand la mer rouge apparut
Aux yeux de Grégoire
Aussitôt ce buveur crut
Qu'il fallait la boire,. ...
I can read French, but could you provide an English translation?
Ce Noël fait aussi partie du folklore de Provence et on retrouve exactement la même ligne mélodique dans la danse des Cordelles connue de tous les Provençaux conservant les traditions.Dansée en costume traditionnel c'est une merveille.Quant aux Grandes Orgues de Saint Maximin , c'est une chance inouie de les avoir dans ce si bel état de fonctionnement., un patrimoine extraordinaire à préserver.
Heureusement que personne n'a laissé Norbert Dufourcq les faire "moderniser" par son compère Danion!!!
Le talent de PIERRE BARDON y est aussi pour quelque chose dans ce qu'on entend. L'orgue par lui-même , il est muet .
Oui Proulxmontpellier ces deux personnages ont été des calamités absolues pour l'orgue en France
Oui, les conceptions de la restauration "historique" ont bien changé depuis l'époque de Norbert Dufourcq qui a supervisé la restauration/ saccage de l'orgue d'Auch par Gonzalez ou celui de La Flêche avec électrification des appels de jeux, extension des claviers et soufflerie à plis parallèles du modèle Cumming, etc. Mais on peut aussi cité les dégâts faits sur les orgues de Provence par Le Docteur Pierre Rochas et son comparse Jean Dunand .
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Who is playing? This is such a musical performance and I love the registrations!
Quelle chance pour Saint-Maximin de conserver un tel instrument ! Il ne sera jamais, au grand jamais, égalé par aucune facture moderne Respectez-le !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love these Noels but the embellishments drive me crazy when I try to play them. This is a beautiful performance. The French Romantic organs are the best.
except this is not romantic organ
@@geuros I'm aware of that. It's 18th. Century. I was mentioning my preference in periods of organ building.
Awesome! Can anyone point me to the album this version is from?
The actual CD-album is difficult to find. It was made in the 90's in a limited edition. Took me quite some time and effort to get it. But a new compilation containing all Noëls was reissued in 2009 (at least I assume it's a reissue, not a new recording, but I may be wrong). It has since been made available for download on iTunes. If you look for "D'Aquin - Noëls pour orgue - Pierre Bardon & orgue de St-Maximin-en-Provence" you should find it.
If you want to play it from sheet music: perhaps you can get a Dover Edition (faksimile reprint of the original Guilmant Archive) In this collection you find this piece.
+Steff2929again Not so difficult because I have The twelve Noëls for organ 5;ls for organ by Louis Claude Daquin were recorded on an LP vinyl twin album recorded by Pierrre Bardon the tenure organist of Saint Maximin historical organ of the Jean Esprit Isnard's organ(1772) at the Pierre Verany editions ;(CA7882x2) Chemin de la Bosque -13990Aix en Provence. The score was the fac simile copy of the original manuscript preseved in the Inguimbertine Carpentras Library collection (Vaucluse,84).
Here is the sheet music: ks.imslp.net/files/imglnks/usimg/9/9c/IMSLP129838-WIMA.d568-Daquin_Noel_10.pdf
Le superbe orgue Isnard de Saint Maximin la Baume est vraiment l'instrument idoine pour cette musique, au demeurant fort bien jouée ; mais quel est donc l'interprète ?
Pierre Bardon 0:05
@@Steff2929againLe titulaire donc. Merci beaucoup, j'ai été distrait !
I just purchased the Sonus Paradisi sample set of this organ for Hauptwerk Virtual Pipe Organ. I would love it if you know what registration was used and could post it here, so I can play it and have it sound like this!
Registrations for 18th-century organ writing were fairly well standardised. Get yourself a decent edition of the Noëls and all will be there to see!
Specifications of the organ?
Le Grand Orgue du Basilique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine,
Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume (Var), France
Jean-Esprit Isnard, Joseph Isnard, 1772 - 1774.
Composition sonore / Stop List:
I. POSITIF
50 notes, C-d3
sans le 1er ut dièse / without the 1st C sharp
Montre 8'
Bourdon 8'
Flûte 8'
Prestant 4'
Nazard 2-2/3'
Doublette 2'
Quarte de Nazard 2'
Tierce 1 3/5'
Larigot 1 1/3'
Fourniture III
Cymbale III
Dessus de cornet V
Trompette 8'
Clarion 4'
Cromorne 8'
II. GRAND ORGUE
50 notes, C-d3
sans le 1er ut dièse / without the 1st C sharp
Montre 16'
Bourdon 16'
Montre 8'
Bourdon 8'
Gros Nazard 5-1/3'
Prestant 4'
Grosse Tierce 3-1/5'
Grosse Fourniture II
Petite Fourniture IV
Cymbale IV
Cornet V
Trompette 8'
Dessus de Trompette en Chamade 8'
Voix humaine 8'
III. RÉSONANCE
50 notes, C-d3
sans le 1er ut dièse / without the 1st C sharp
Jeux de Pédale:
Flûte 16'
Flûte 8'
Flûte 4'
Bombarde 16'
1re Trompette 8'
2e Trompette 8'
Clairon 4'
Jeux d'écho:
Dessus de Flute 8'
Dessus de Cornet V
Dessus de Trompette en chamade 8'
IV. RÉCIT
32 notes, g-d3
Cornet V
Trompette 8'
Hautbois 8'
PÉDALE
32 notes, C-g1
Aucun jeu indépendant
Tirasse permanente du 3e clavier
/ No independent stops
Permanent coupler with Résonance
Accouplements / Couplers:
POS/GO
REC/GO
Tremblant doux, tremblant fort.
Diese Zungen sind echt der Hammer - die stehen den Clicquot-Zungen nicht nach!
The scores which I have show no pedal parts for nearly all the Noel's. When were they added? Was it because we don't like it if it is not bombastic?
The Noëls are written for harpsichord or organ. If played on the organ, the player is supposed to add the pedal part according to good taste and tradition. Not uncommon in French baroque music.
I agree.
@@Steff2929again As François Couperin stated: use one's own good taste.
Beautiful playing, but the registration of the pleno sections seems far FAR too heavy in contrast to the lighter sections.
Classical French reed chorus: nothing to match it in the whole world 🙂. What you heard in the pleno sections was absolute heaven.
I agree.
It's Balbastre. Quand jesus naquit...
it's not :) Quand Jesus naquit is, I guess, the original carol, which several composers, Daquin and Balbastre included, chose for basis for their compositions. You can find Balbastre version on youtube played by Michel Chapuis, it's quite different, but the main theme is the same.
Non, il est de Claude DAQUIN mais effectivement BALBASTRE en a composé un sur le même thème.
It's D'Aquin: I own a facsimile of the first edition!