Tournemire ends this weeks CE

[ardcarp]

We don't often get to hear Tournemire's oeuvres, it seems. This ends CE from York:

Fantaisie (L'orgue mystique: Epiphania Domini) - Tournemire

[Serial_Apologist]

Messiaen's stylistic forbear, in many respects.

[Don Petter]

We don't often get to hear Tournemire's oeuvres, it seems.

Perhaps since he became non-U?

A favourite of mine, nonetheless.

[Vile Consort]

His organ music is quite stunning.

David Titterington (re)introduced it at the St Albans festival by having the improvisers play 20 minutes of pieces from L'Orgue Mystique in the quarter finals. Thanks to his trying to cram a quart into a pint pot, we were still listening to it at going up to 11, having started at 7.30. To be honest, I could have listened all night.

I find some of the pieces send me into an almost trance-like ecstatic state. Apparently he sometimes had the feeling when improvising that he was watching someone else play. Quite extraordinary.

[BBMmk2]

At the church(where I go quite irregularly), we have the fantastic organist D'Arcy Trinkwon. He had introduced me to this composer, of which, I have the utmost respect for.

[Keraulophone]

Paraphrase-Carillon (L'orgue mystique, Op. 57, VI) - what an ending! (The rest of it's wonderful too!)