BOËLLMANN: Prière à Notre-Dame, on Vocalion reed organ скачать в хорошем качестве

BOËLLMANN: Prière à Notre-Dame, on Vocalion reed organ

Léon Boëllmann (1862-1897) studied and later taught at l'École Niedermeyer in Paris, and married the niece of his teacher Eugène Gigout. From the age of 19 until his early death, he was organist at the church of St. Vincent de Paul, in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. This Prière à Notre-Dame (Prayer to our Lady) forms the third movement of his popular Suite Gothique for pipe organ, published in 1895. This arrangement for harmonium was included in "L'Organiste" Vol. 1, published by Auguste Durand in 1911. (Boellmann's Heures Mystiques—Opp. 29 & 30 from 1896—were written for harmonium, and many of the pieces are playable on American reed organs; they are still in print and are well worth finding.) The instrument is a two-manual-and-pedal Vocalion reed organ, built in New York or Worcester, Massachusetts c. 1913. (Those are faux pipes on the façade.) The organ has an oak case, five ranks on the Great, four ranks on the Swell, two pedal ranks and a Zimbelstern! At the time of this recording, it was located in the Lady Chapel of the beautiful San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo church (i.e. "The Mission") in Carmel, California; the organ has since been sold. Thanks to Mike B. for page-turning, and many many thanks to Fr. John Griffin for allowing us to play and record the organ on 28 November 2012. Performed by Michael Hendron.