Briggs & Escaich & Mallié & Baker - Homage to Cochereau |
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Presentation
This year, Cochereau will have passed away 25 years ago. This significant figure of the French Organ tradition, forever recognized as the ’Organist of Notre-Dame’ was not only an unrivalled improvisator of his time. He was also a music school headmaster entirely devoted to the education of young people - at such an extent that he left his health and possibly his life in this activity.
Almost everything has been written about this outstanding figure. As a result, I planned to celebrate this anniversary in a different way. I chose to gather on a single record four musicians belonging to different generations and cultures, and sharing a common wish to make an hommage to Cochereau, each one in his own language.
Those four renowned organists are the Texan George C. Baker, the Englishman David Briggs, finally the French Loïc Mallié and his young fellow-countryman the composer Thierry Escaich.
They will improvise on four instruments having, at a various extent, a relationship with the itinerary of the great Pierre: Saint-Roch and Saint-Sulpice in Paris, Saint-Pothin in Lyons, and of course Roquevaire.
Yvette Carbou
Almost everything has been written about this outstanding figure. As a result, I planned to celebrate this anniversary in a different way. I chose to gather on a single record four musicians belonging to different generations and cultures, and sharing a common wish to make an hommage to Cochereau, each one in his own language.
Those four renowned organists are the Texan George C. Baker, the Englishman David Briggs, finally the French Loïc Mallié and his young fellow-countryman the composer Thierry Escaich.
They will improvise on four instruments having, at a various extent, a relationship with the itinerary of the great Pierre: Saint-Roch and Saint-Sulpice in Paris, Saint-Pothin in Lyons, and of course Roquevaire.
Yvette Carbou
Track list
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David Briggs | Improvisation on “Alouette, gentille alouette” | |
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Thierry Escaich | Improvised Suite: I. | |
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Thierry Escaich | Improvised Suite: II. | |
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Thierry Escaich | Improvised Suite: III. | |
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Thierry Escaich | Improvised Suite: IV. | |
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Thierry Escaich | Improvised Suite: V. | |
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Loïc Mallié | Improvised Suite on the name of Pierre Cochereau: I. Mélodies | |
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Loïc Mallié | Improvised Suite on the name of Pierre Cochereau: II. Coup de vent | |
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Loïc Mallié | Improvised Suite on the name of Pierre Cochereau: III. Couleurs | |
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Loïc Mallié | Improvised Suite on the name of Pierre Cochereau: IV. Joie | |
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George C. Baker | Ricercar on “Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland" | |
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George C. Baker | Berceuse-Paraphrase | |
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George C. Baker | Toccata-Gigue on the Sussex Carol |
Press
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