Jongen, Joseph

[Alain Maréchal]

I draw this to your attention, daily this week and available to hear again. The format of COTW but only 30 minutes and poorly presented (interruptions of the music). Nevertheless it fits at least five of my own enthusiasms.

https://www.francemusique.fr/emissions/musicopolis/joseph-jongen-bruxelles-en-1939-1-5-33357

[Nevilevelis]

I draw this to your attention, daily this week and available to hear again. The format of COTW but only 30 minutes and poorly presented (interruptions of the music). Nevertheless it fits at least five of my own enthusiasms.

https://www.francemusique.fr/emissio...1939-1-5-33357

Thank you! I am very fond of the Symphonie concertante pour orgue et orchestre. I have Guillou's recording and I see that Latry has recorded it too.

I look forward to sampling the other works in this programme, albeit with interruptions. What an annoying format! Makes one even more grateful for Radio 3 COTW.

NVV

[Alain Maréchal]

Thank you! I am very fond of the Symphonie concertante pour orgue et orchestre. I have Guillou's recording and I see that Latry has recorded it too.

I regret your mention is of celebrated organists whose performances in general I admire but do not like. Guillou's Franck is perverse (and occasionally exciting), I think highly of Latry's dexterity but find his interpretations clinical.

You must (if you will forgive the imperative) hear entire the Virgil Fox recording which is extracted in the programme, purely for the timbres of both organ ( C-C built for the Trocadero) and orchestra.

[Nevilevelis]

I regret your mention is of celebrated organists whose performances in general I admire but do not like. Guillou's Franck is perverse (and occasionally exciting), I think highly of Latry's dexterity but find his interpretations clinical.

You must (if you will forgive the imperative) hear entire the Virgil Fox recording which is extracted in the programme, purely for the timbres of both organ ( C-C built for the Trocadero) and orchestra.

Sorry to cause regret - just mentioning, not necessarily advocating those organists. Just general enthusiasm for the work. The little I heard of Fox's performance was enjoayble, albeit with some problems of ensemble.

[Alain Maréchal]

some problems of ensemble.

In a Parisian orchestra of the period, essential to maintain personal liberty.

I'm pleased you share my enthusiasm for the work, I have been boring others about it* for most of my life.

*also that organ.