Encountering Aramendi #2513
. . . arresting performances by the superb Spanish recitalist and teacher Loreto Aramendi, for whom the world of the pipe organ is a grand adventure.
Hour 1
CHARLES TOURNEMIRE (trans. Duruflé): Improvisation, Victimae paschali –Loreto Aramendi (1862 Cavaillé-Coll/Basilica Santa Maria del Coro, San Sebastian, Spain) Hydre 2014
JOSÉ BLASCO de NEBRA: Batalla de Clarines. JOHN DOWLAND: Pavana Lachrimae –Loreto Aramendi (1765 Bosch/Parroquia de Saint Andreu, Santanyi, Mayorca) Hydre 2019
FRANCISCO CORREA de ARAUXO: Segundo tiento de quarto tono –Loreto Aramendi (1744 Echevarria/Salamanca Cathedral, Spain) Hydre 2019
FRANZ LISZT (trans. Robilliard): Saint François de Paule marchant sur les flots –Loreto Aramendi (1890 Cavaillé-Coll/St. Ouen Abbey, Rouen, France) Hydre 2017 (huge percussion storm)
CÉSAR FRANCK: Piece héroïque –Loreto Aramendi (1862 Cavaillé-Coll/Basilica Santa Maria del Coro, San Sebastian, Spain) Hydre 2014
Filler – DeNEBRA (see above)
Hour 2
LUIS de NARVÁES: Variations on Guárdame las vacas –Loreto Aramendi (1744 Echevarria/Salamanca Cathedral, Spain) Hydre 2019
JOHANNES BRAHMS: O Welt, ich muss dich lassen, Op. 122, no. 11 –Loreto Aramendi (1862 Cavaillé-Coll/Basilica Santa Maria del Coro, San Sebastian, Spain) Hydre 2014
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS (trans. Robilliard): Danse macabre –Loreto Aramendi (1929-1932 Midmer-Losh/Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, NJ) PD Archive (r. 4/3/24)
GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI: Partita sopra l’aria ‘La Monica’. JAN PIETERSZOON SWEELINCK: Ballo del Granduca –Loreto Aramendi (1765 Bosch/Parroquia de Saint Andreu, Santanyi, Mayorca) Hydre 2019
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF (trans. Vierne): Prelude in c#, Op. 3, no. 2 –Loreto Aramendi (1890 Cavaillé-Coll/St. Ouen Abbey, Rouen, France) Hydre 2017
CÉSAR FRANCK (trans. Robilliard): Rédemption: Interludio Sinfónico –Loreto Aramendi (1987 Kney/St. Thomas Aquinas Chapel, University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, MN) PD Archive (r. 4/13/24)
Filler – TOURNEMIRE (see above)
Loreto Aramendi’s several commercial recordings, double-CD albums produced in a small yet elegant, highly illustrated and documented hard-cover book format, are available through her website.
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