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Jean Alain Complete Works for Organ

JEHAN ALAIN: Litanies · Le Jardin suspendu · Petite Pièce · Première Fantaisie · Deuxième Fantaisie · Suite pour orgue · Prélude et Fugue · Andante · Fantasmagorie · Choral Cistercien pour une Élévation · Chant donné · Lamento · Choral Dorien · Choral Phrygien · Aria · Trois Danses · Monodie · Complainte à la mode ancienne - pour que Poucette joue l"orgue de Valloires · Variations sur un thème de Clément Jannequin · Variations sur l'hymne "Lucis Creator" · Deux Préludes profanes · Deux Danses à Agni Yavishta · De Jules Lemaître · Intermezzo · Berceuse sur deux notes qui cornent · Grave · Climat · Ballade en mode phrygien · Postlude pour l"office de Complies

Lars Notto Birkeland, organ The Goll organ (2007) in Fagerborg Church, Oslo

Title

Playing time

1 - Litanies
04:27

2 - Le Jardin suspendu
06:42

3 - Petite Pièce
02:38

4 - Première Fantaisie
04:43

5 - Deuxième Fantaisie
06:55

6 - I Introduction et Variations
08:10

7 - II Scherzo
04:23

8 - III Choral
05:05

9 - Prélude
03:22

10 - Fugue
02:42

11 - Andante
04:47

12 - Fantasmagorie
02:37

13 - Choral Cistercien pour une Élévation
01:32

14 - Chant donné
01:32

15 - Lamento
03:56

16 - Choral Dorien
04:11

17 - Choral Phrygien
03:55

18 - Aria
06:18

19 - I Joies
07:19

20 - II Deuils
12:36

21 - III Luttes
05:31

22 - Monodie
02:36

23 - Complainte à la mode ancienne - pour que Poucette joue l"orgue de Valloires
01:12

24 - Variations sur un thème de Clément Jannequin
05:38

25 - Variations sur l'hymne "Lucis Creator"
04:43

26 - Premier Prélude
03:27

27 - Deuxième Prélude
03:29

28 - I
01:13

29 - II
03:28

30 - De Jules Lemaître
03:19

31 - Intermezzo
06:17

32 - Berceuse sur deux notes qui cornent
02:30

33 - Grave
02:11

34 - Climat
02:59

35 - Ballade en mode phrygien
02:47

36 - Postlude pour l"office de Complies
05:14

It is also possible to but digital music here musikkonline.no

Celebrating 100 years since the birth of the French composer Jehan Alain on February 3rd 2011, Simax Classics is proud to release his complete works for organ recorded at the new Goll organ at Fagerborg church in Oslo. A fascinating experience of this enigmatic musical soul filled with humour, serenity and love.

"How deeply I wish that, in my music, each and every person found his or her own thoughts, and not mine." Jehan Alain (1911-1940) is gaining more and more followers today exactly because his music - like all true art - contains the personal yet common thoughts belonging to humanity.

Short on the life of Alain

Alain"s father was also an organist, pupil of Guilmant and Vierne, and Jehan studied with among others Dukas and Dupré at the conservatoire in Paris. Jehan Alain was in a state of continuous creation all his life - including a multitude of drawings and texts - and left behind more than 140 works of music. He was mobilised for the French army, and died in action in 1940 only 29 years old.

A magical mystery tour...

Most of Alain"s music has remained known only to the few, but his Litanies (1937) is really popular, as is the Trois Danses. The published editions of Alain"s music contain inaccuracies and misunderstandings., so when preparing a recording it is a necessity to do what Lars Notto Birkeland has done here; study in detail the different manuscripts that exist of each work. Alain himself only saw the publication of five of his works while still alive, but the family - in particular his sister organist Marie-Claire - and ardent supporters like Guy Bovet have luckily taken it upon them to make the wonderful art of Alain available.

Lars Notto Birkeland

Birkeland gave his debut organ recital at Oslo Cathedral in 1998 and has since pursued an active performing career, including concerts and touring with the Oslo Philharmonic in Poulenc"s organ concerto and Saint-Saëns"s organ symphony. He has given recitals at many festivals including the Bergen International Festival and Oslo International Church Music Festival. Birkeland received a government grant for artists for 2006-2008 in order to work on the music of Jehan Alain.

Lars Notto Birkeland Jehan Alain

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Release:

31.01.2011
EAN:

7033662013142
Catalog Number:

PSC1314
Price Category:

2CDG

Organ | Complete

“- I Alains «Tre Danser» fikk [Birkeland] vist sine klangfantasi og levende musikalitet. (fra debutkonserten i Oslo Domkirke 1998) [Arvid Vollsnes / Aftenposten]“

“- et fyrverkeri av en innspilling.[...] Birkeland, som er kantor i kirken og i tillegg en priset konsertorganist, løfter alt frem med sjeldent artikulert og inderlig spill i et vell av registre, fra de skjøreste «fløyteduettene» til de mest massive utladningene i alle piper - og det svinger når det skal. [6 Astrid Kvalbein / Aftenposten]“

Dice 6

“- Its presentation and documentation is excellent, the recording is very good, the sequence of works well chosen and the performances all world class. [Dominy Clements / MusicWeb.com]“