Olivier Latry - Bach to the future (2019)

For his debut CD at La Dolce Volta, Olivier Latry challenged himself to record the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. This recording made on the large Cavaillé-Coll organ of Notre-Dame de Paris, which he has been recording for 33 years, raises a number of fascinating questions because, according to Olivier Latry, "you have to feed on the past to project yourself into the world. The future. Recording Bach's work on the great organ of Notre-Dame de Paris is a project that Olivier Latry has been maturing for thirty years. A rather daring bet: "The organ here is a symphonic instrument, gigantic," he says. "But if you compare it to some of the instruments that Bach was able to play, we're far from it. "Far from the account because this approach is" the opposite of that historically informed, "said the musician, well aware of being a little provocative with this album. "I wanted to imagine how Bach's music could pass the centuries beyond all musicological contingencies. "