Prelude, Adagio, and Choral Variations on the theme 'Veni Creator', Op 4, Maurice Duruflé
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2024
- Collin Boothby performs Maurice Duruflé's Op. 4. Recorded 12/14/2018 at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in Houston, TX on the Fisk-Rosales organ.
0:00 Prelude
8:56 Adagio
15:47 Choral Variations
Video post-production by Pat Graham Crowe.
Great performance mister Boothby.
Those strings on that organ are gorgeous
...the best performance I have heard of this work
A very appropriate and magnificent instrument as well which is steeped in the French style. Love the voix humaine in the middle portion of the adagio which imparts a sense of mysteriousness. and of course the build up before the variations was stirring.
Bravissimo!!!
Great performance! This is the closest thing we have to a Cavaille Coll organ here in the US
It's very similar, isn't it
Brilliant reading of one of Durufle's greatest writings! Bravo, maestro!
So articulate, yet flowing beautifully.
FROM MEMORY! Glad I sailed into Boothby Harbor to breathe some misty creative spirit. As the truffle is the diamond of the French gourmet kitchen, so is Durufle the diamond of the French organ console.
Thank you so much!
phantastic art of playing organ. perfect - marvellous - outstanding playing without scores - so amazing brilliant registrations high professional performance! 11/10 points
it was a pleassure to see this vid! please more of this.
A beautifully crafted performance - appropriately restrained and reflective in tempo in the Prelude and you make it look effortless throughout. Fantastic playing!
Wonderful organ and player! Organ venues around the country could learn a lesson on how to replicate these kinds of acoustics.
Great performance. Love the emphasis on the final few chords. Organ sounds amazing too
Absolutely beautiful
Amazing!
Magnificent. Bravo!
Stunning performance!
Awesome performance! Bravo!
I think that deserves a 10, Collin!
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
A superb performance !
Beautiful
Thank you Joe!
That was awesome!
Spectacular handwork/manual management! Beautiful and creative registrations! I'm going to miss that organ.
Nice work! Thanks for sharing your art with us. You're always in calm control of the performance and use an admirably light physical touch that works well on that instrument. I look forward to hearing you play more in the future.
Great performance~!!!!!
This is so awesome!!!!
Thanks Yuri!
Absolutely F#@&*%G Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bravo!!
Very beautifully performed on a stunningly gorgeous pipe organ
It really is! Thank you!
Beautiful foot work 🤩
Very well played, on a fantastic organ as well
Thank you - yes it's a wonderful instrument!
Great skill; immense musicianship; a Durufle special. Rare. And that calm spirit. Personally... wonderful ending; love the shoes - I never polished mine - testament and tribute to my great enjoyment. Subscribed. More to come?
Thank you so much!
Prachtig. Durufle, the most self-criticising composer ever, brilliantly performed. Wonderful!
Thank you kindly!
WOW!!!
Hmmm..... Colin, what does it feel like to be talented AND gifted ? 👍😉🇬🇧
WOW.........
Beautifully done. That is a fun instrument to play, but rather large for the room! lol
You handled it magnificently.
The room was designed for the organ, actually
@@OrganNLou I know, I've played there before. It;s a great organ and room. Nevertheless, 100+ ranks in a room that at most seats a couple hundred is quite something if you don't exercise some restraint.
Durufle perfect
Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)
Prélude, Adagio et Choral varié
*sur le thème du “Veni Creator,”* Op. 4 *(1926/1930)*
_Dedicated to Louis Vierne_
00:02 I. Prélude • *Allegro, ma non troppo*
08:55 II. Adagio
15:48 III. Choral varié • *Andante religioso*
16:54 *Var 1: Poco meno lento*
17:44 *Var 2: Allegretto*
18:14 *Var 3: Andante espressivo*
19:29 *Var 4:* Final • *Allegro*
Colin Boothby, organist
*Shepherd School of Music, Rice University*
*Houston, Texas, USA 🇺🇸 December 14, 2018*
*Organ: C. B. Fisk, Op. 109, 1997*
An organ exactly the same size (64/84) as the Cavaillé-Coll at St-Ouen in a room that size must truly shake the floor. Beautifully done, Collin! One of my favorite pieces.
Thank you - it's quite something in the room, that's for sure!
Nice organ, but absolutely no comparison to St Ouen. St Ouen has a massive sound, filling a big cathedral and can top many organs with much more stops in sound and power. Especially for the US: you don't need 200 ranks. St Ouen is enough to manage the biggest organ works. And than that sound....
The organ here is too perfect. Too clean. It's not the French way.
@@juergen07091973 The St-Ouen organ sound is in part due to its perfect acoustic location in the middle third of the end wall of a space the size of Notre Dame. However, the St-Ouen 32' Contrebombarde has a massive sound that often overwhelms the keyboards and needs to be used sparingly. The "French way" is a bit problematic because Cavaiilé-Coll often used much of the previous organ to cut costs, so every organ was different, and some were more successful than others. The Fisk-Rosales at the Shepherd School is of equal size in a much smaller room that has been specifically engineered for it. Too perfect? To me the sound is impressive. And, being in a music school, it has to serve the works of many composers not in favor, and some not yet born, in 19th century France. Trinity Wall Street here in NYC, with a portfolio estimated at $2B, is installing a Rosales/Glatter-Götz instrument which shows a lot of confidence in Rosales.
@drbobdrake I love Colin's performance too. I also find the instrument a stunning testament to modern organ building - and that modern builders can still build spectacular instruments.
I appreciate that some folks may have strong ingrained preferences for their favourite organs in their favourite churches.
What if this beautiful Fisk-Rosales was placed in St Ouen in a hypothetical world?
What if Durufle grew up in America with this beautiful American instrument. And imagine this....a French Inspired American organ...on which everything worked - without fail.
I would imagine he'd be grateful and happy that the organ was fully functional.
And I thought about the 'French Way'
And what that further entailed.
An organ teacher 30 years ago put on a recording of French romantic organ music for me....recorded on a French organ. I thought I was hearing full swell and reeds 'celeste' (a sound not so celestial). I have perfect pitch (but didn't need it to determine the organ was not in tune). I had wondered over the years if out of tune French organs were just a normal thing (being a professional organist never having played a French organ).
With all due respect to traditional instruments: I would be very interested to see such a well built American instrument - transplanted into a French Cathedral - and see if the congregation responded well to the sound. I suspect there would be few complaints.
@@shkiwi1978 I recently had the privilege of hearing the St. Eustache titulaire Thomas Ospital play and give a master class at The Brick Church in NYC. He claimed the huge Van den Heuvel organ at St. Eustache was in terrible shape and that he was convinced that when it was built the pipes “were just thrown in there.”
He compared the huge space of St. Eustache with the dry sanctuary of The Brick Church and said it was the only thing that made the Van den Heuvel listenable. Recent recitals on the Van den Heuvel show the organists wearing vests and mufflers and the organ reeds are noticeably out of tune. So, yes, it would be interesting to hear, say, the huge Brick Church very-French Casavant transplanted to St. Eustache.
Ospital also mentioned that the recently refurbished St. Sulpice needed some work. No doubt St. Ouen does. People have complained that the bellows cannot support a tutti, but one is probably paying more attention to the magnificent 32’ Contrebombarde than to a bending of pitch.
St. Eustache now has a campaign to rework the 1989 Van den Heuvel and build a new choir organ. It will be interesting to compare the new with the old if they are successful.
I wish that more organ schools had flat pedalboards as opposed to AGO standard. I have noticed that the pedaling is slightly different (at least for me) when playing flat straight pedalboards. Wish I had played this lovely instrument and studied here.
Echoklaviatur divine
I'd commend you on the registration but there probably isn't a bad sounding combination on the whole instrument!
Great playing!
Thank you for listening - it's a wonderful instrument for sure.
Sorry l mean prelude op. 5
Anybody came from Netflix webserise “Move To Heaven "?
Adagio so beutyful like op. 5 toccata etc, but a bit annoying in the end
But this is op. 4. If listeners were to just listen without the mind noise traffic of what it reminds them of, or what is "wrong" with the performance, and just focus on what IS there (in this case a beautiful performance on a beautiful instrument, of a beautiful piece of music) there is then more space for enjoyment...
Bravissimo!