Frédéric Blanc: Cochereau and the French Masters

Saturday, September 28, 2024
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3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. | Saint Thomas Church

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Frédéric Blanc, Titular Organist of Notre Dame d’Auteuil, opens the 2024-2025 Concerts at Saint Thomas season with a musical tour of the French organ masters of the 19th and 20th centuries, with a particular focus on Pierre Cochereau, whose centenary year we celebrate in 2024.

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Ouverture improviséeFrédéric Blanc (b. 1967)
L'orgue mystique, Fantaisie from "L'ÉpiphanieCharles Tournemire (1870-1939)
La vallée du Béhorleguy, au matin from Paysages EuskariensJoesph Ermend-Bonnal (1880-1944)
Prèlude in E-flat minor, Op. 5Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)
Two Pièces (1924)Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)
Carillon de Westminster, from ‘24 Pièces de Fantaisie pour orgue’, Op. 54, no. 6Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
Prèlude from Triptyque (1932)André Fleury (1903-1995)
Toccata on Placare Christe Servulis, from Le Tombeau de Titlouze, Op. 38Marcel Dupre (1886-1971)
Versets de Vêpres (1963)
i. Fond d'Orgue
ii. Récit de Cornet
iii. Molto lento - Strings
iv. Final - Tutti
Pierre Cochereau (1924-1984)transcr. Jeanne Joulain
Triptyque Symphonique improviséeFrédéric Blanc (b. 1967)

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