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  • Langlais: Organ Music, Vol. 2

  • Format: CD
  • Release Date: 8/2/2024
Langlais: Organ Music, Vol. 2
  • Langlais: Organ Music, Vol. 2

  • Format: CD
  • Release Date: 8/2/2024
  • Composers: Jean Langlais
  • Label: Brilliant Classics
  • Number of Discs: 5
  • UPC: 5028421963617
  • Item #: 2649109X
  • Genre: Classical Artists
  • Release Date: 8/2/2024
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Blind from the age of two, a prodigiously

gifted student, Jean Langlais (1907-91)

produced an immense quantity of music. His

organ works alone exceed in number those

of JS Bach. Many have hardly ever been

performed. Perhaps not more than half a

dozen works are regularly played or

recorded today, which is what makes this

new complete survey of his organ music so

invaluable, as the authoritative document of

a high point in the distinguished lineage of

the French organ heritage.

The second volume of this complete survey

opens with the third and last of his organ

symphonies, among the most imposing and

yet overlooked of his major works. More

familiar are the Gregorian-inspired Suite

medievale, the Triptyque, and the Triptyque

Grégorien, whose flowing melodies share a

spirit of Catholic mysticism with briefer

meditations such as the Prière des Mages,

the Incantation pour un Jour Saint and the

Palm-Sunday voluntary Dominica in Palmis.

As a collection of character pieces, Mosaique

shows off Langlais's versatility, by turns

solemn and joyful, songful and stormy. This

sheer variety of form alone makes him stand

out among French 20th-century composers

for the organ. Throughout his life, Langlais

wrote in many different styles and, true to his ideal,

still retained the ability to surprise.

This major project has been undertaken jointly by

the Italian organists Giorgio Benati, Fausto Caporali

and Alessandro Perin. Benati is a former student of

Langlais, and Caporali has a string of successful

French organ recordings to his credit. They have

made these new recordings on Italian instruments,

lending Langlais an 'Italian accent' while faithfully

observing his expressive and registration markings in

his scores. Booklet notes for each piece have been

written by Giorgio Benati.

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