Petur Sakari - The Great Organ of Saint-Etienne-du-Mont, Paris (2014)

Tracklist

01. Choral-Improvisation sur le Victimae paschali Laudes
02. Pièces de fantaisie, Op. 53: V. Clair de Lune
03. Pièces de fantaisie, Op. 53: VI. Toccata
04. Pièces de fantaisie, Op. 54: II. Impromptu
05. Pièces de fantaisie, Op. 54: VI. Carillon de Westminster
06. Le Banquet Celeste
07. 3 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 7: Prelude and Fugue in B Major
08. Suite, Op. 5: I. Prélude
09. Suite, Op. 5: II. Sicilienne
10. Suite, Op. 5: III. Toccata

The young organist Pétur Sakari (aged just 21) has gathered five giants of the organ repertoire for his debut disc on BIS, performing on the famous organ of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont in Paris.

The five composers are all interconnected – Charles Tournemire and Louis Vierne studied together (under Franck), Maurice Duruflé studied under Tournemire and was Vierne’s assistant at Notre Dame, and Marcel Dupré counted Vierne (and Widor) among his teachers and himself taught Olivier Messiaen.

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