Tribute to Tournemire #8904
…Tribute to Tournemire
A appreciative overview of the mystical creations of Charles Tournemire, pupil of a successor to Cesar Franck at the organ of the Church of St. Clothilde, Paris.
CHARLES TOURNEMIRE: Te Deum Improvisatio (trans. Durufle) John Scott Whiteley (1960 Harrison-Walker organ/York Minster)
CHARLES TOURNEMIRE: Suite for the Office of Quasimodo Sunday (L'Orgue Mystique, Op. 56, no. 18) Todd Wilson (1971 Danion-Gonzalez/Cathedrale, Chartres, France)
CHARLES TOURNEMIRE: Eli, Eli, Lamm sabachtani (No. 4 from Sept Chorals-Poemes pour les Sept Paroles du Christ) Pierre Moreau (1868 Cavaille-Coll/Cathedrale Notre Dame, Paris, France)
CHARLES TOURNEMIRE: Verriere, from Suite for the Office of Quinquagesima Sunday (L'Orgue Mystique, Op. 56, no. 14) George Delvallee (1859 Cavaillé-Coll/Ste. Clotilde, Paris, France)
CHARLES TOURNEMIRE: Suite Evocatrice, Op. 74 James Kibbie (1983 Petty-Madden organ/Tinity cathedral, Trenton, NJ)
CHARLES TOURNEMIRE: Ave Maris Stella Improvisation-Fantasy Charles Tournemire (1859 Cavaillé-Coll/Ste. Clotilde, Paris, France)
CHARLES TOURNEMIRE: Carillon Paraphrase, from Suite for the Office of the Assumption (L'Orgue Mystique, Op. 57, no. 35) John Seboldt (1927-1963 E.M. Skinner and Aeolian-Skinner organs/Cathedral Church of St Paul, MN)
Tournemire's organ music, all of it inspired by the rituals of the Roman Catholic Church combines moments of ecstatic vision with others of intimate, blissful repose...sweet poetry with blinding revelation.
