Sébastien Melmoth | Hôtel d'Alsace, PARIS | 06/29/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
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At a fraction of the cost, Brilliant Classics has issued this marvelous 3CD set simultaneously with the fine Signum issue [ ASIN B000AOVL4A ] of Vierne's complete Organ Symphonies (1899-1934) as realized on Cavaillé-Coll's magnum opus (1890), the four-manual 64-stop instrument of Saint-Ouen, Rouen.
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Vierne's oeuvre:
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Louis Vierne: Complete Organ Symphonies
Louis Vierne: Symphonies pour orgue
Vierne: Symphony Op.24/Poem Op.50
Vierne: Works for Piano
Vierne: Melodies
Louis Vierne: Mélodies, Vol. 2
Vierne: La Musique de Chambre
Vierne: Symphony 2/Les Angélus
Hahn/Vierne: Piano Quintets
Vierne: String Quartet, Piano Quintet
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An excellent compendium of Vierne's six organ symphonies.
Asterix the Gaul | Pacific Northwest | 03/10/2010
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I am very pleased with Jeremy Filsell's interpretation of Vierne's six organ symphonies. I have heard several versions on the Cavaille-Coll organ at Rouen, but Filsell's precise, yet passionate, performance, especially with the finals, is by far my favourite."
Awesome experience!!
Ken Suetterlin | Marshalltown, Iowa | 07/02/2010
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This album provides an opportunity to hear the Vierne symphonies "all of a piece" as it were. Jeremy Filsell's playing is superb, and of course there is the incomparable sound of the St. Ouen Cavaille-Coll. This is an album that deserves the 'big speakers' if you can get them. Vierne's work is truly representative of the impressionist influence on French organ music. MOST ENJOYABLE. KS in Iowa"
AWESOME ORGAN
Robert A. Rosenblum | 03/15/2010
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Not only is this a complete work, but it is one performed par excellence.
The six symphonies are varied both within and between. The experience is
almost as if you were there in person. This is sheer organ fantasia.