Pulling out the stops [videorecording] : a history of the organ. 3, The Golden Age / directed by Nat Lilenstein ; produced by FR3/RMArts/Tara Productions in association with the Centre National de Cinématographie.
Organists, André Isoir, Gustav Leonhardt ; interviewees, Xavier Darasse, Daniel Birouste ; narrators, Tim Hardy, Peter Marinker, Christopher Scoular. Aspect ratio 4:3. Includes trailer.
Contents:
Xavier Darasse about the organ of Sainte-Cécile at Albi -- André Isoir plays Louis Marchand's Plein Jeu -- Organ pieces by Louis Marchand -- Jean-François Dandrieu : Noël -- Daniel Birouste and Gilles Cantagrel about the organ building -- The pipe-making process -- The wooden parts of the organ -- Dom Bédos de Celles -- The Benedictine abbey in Weingarten -- Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme / by Johann Sebastian Bach -- Bach's Concerto in A minor (after Vivaldi) -- A Christmas carol, In dulci jubilo -- Bach : Prelude and Fugue in E minor.
Summary:
Examines the organ in the first half of the eighteenth century--the Golden Age of organ music. Explores the French and German schools of organ building, and the works of Louis Marchand, Jean-François Dandrieu and Johann Sebastian Bach. Highly acclaimed organists Gustav Leonhardt and André Isoir perform the great masterpieces of this era, while experts explain the mastery of organ building.
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