Ian Tracey & Yan Pascal Tortelier - Guilmant: Organ Symphony No. 2 - Widor: Organ Symphony No. 3 - Franck: Choral No. 2 (2021) [Hi-Res]

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Artist: Ian Tracey, Yan Pascal Tortelier, BBC Philharmonic
Title: Guilmant: Organ Symphony No. 2 - Widor: Organ Symphony No. 3 - Franck: Choral No. 2
Year Of Release: 2000 / 2021
Label: Chandos Records
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks + booklet) [44.1kHz/24bit] / FLAC (image + .cue, log, booklet)
Total Time: 1:11:36
Total Size: 463 / 287 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

1. Yan Pascal Tortelier, Ian Tracey & BBC Philharmonic Orchestra – Symphony No. 2 for Organ and Orchestra, Op. 91: I. Introduction et Allegro risoluto (09:21)
2. Yan Pascal Tortelier, Ian Tracey & BBC Philharmonic Orchestra – Symphony No. 2 for Organ and Orchestra, Op. 91: II. Adagio con affetto (05:59)
3. Yan Pascal Tortelier, Ian Tracey & BBC Philharmonic Orchestra – Symphony No. 2 for Organ and Orchestra, Op. 91: III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace (06:04)
4. Yan Pascal Tortelier, Ian Tracey & BBC Philharmonic Orchestra – Symphony No. 2 for Organ and Orchestra, Op. 91: IV. Andante sostenuto (02:21)
5. Yan Pascal Tortelier, Ian Tracey & BBC Philharmonic Orchestra – Symphony No. 2 for Organ and Orchestra, Op. 91: V. IntermÃ¨de et Allegro con brio (05:03)
6. Yan Pascal Tortelier, Ian Tracey & BBC Philharmonic Orchestra – Symphony No. 3 for Organ and Orchestra, Op. 69: I. Adagio - Andante - Allegro (16:04)
7. Yan Pascal Tortelier, Ian Tracey & BBC Philharmonic Orchestra – Symphony No. 3 for Organ and Orchestra, Op. 69: II. Vivace - Tranquillamente - Allegro - Largo (13:33)
8. Yan Pascal Tortelier, Ian Tracey & BBC Philharmonic Orchestra – 3 Chorales for Organ, M. 38-40: No. 2 in B Minor (13:08)

Performers:

Ian Tracey organ
BBC Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier

The 19th century in France was a heyday of construction for vast new churches and the massive organs that went with them; faith became a public display of allegiance to a particular set of values and a soul-stirring passionate music that went with them. It is, in a sense, unfortunate that the best known of all symphonies for organ and orchestra--the Saint-Saens No. 3--should be atypical, whimsically romantic rather than passionately austere and neoclassical like the Organ Symphonies of Guilmant. His Symphony No. 2 of 1874 harks overtly back to Handel for the passages of virtuoso display and the fugal scherzo. The Widor of 20 years later is far more a work of its time, sounding occasionally a little like Bruckner in its yearning woodwind runs and spiky rhythms. Tortelier has made a specialty of the French music of this period and has the sound down pat; Tracey is an admirable soloist, eloquent as well as virtuosic in the Franck solo that fills out the disc. -- Roz Kaveney

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