Bruno Mathieu -  Jean Langlais: Suite Médiévale - Cinq Méditations sur l' Apocalypse
Артист: Bruno Mathieu
Альбом: Jean Langlais: Suite Médiévale - Cinq Méditations sur l' Apocalypse , 1996
Издатель: Naxos / 8.553190
Жанр: classical/organ
Формат файла: ape, cue, log, scans
Ссылка: CD
Нахождение: Torrent
TRACKLIST
 1. Suite Médiévale for organ Prelude
 2. Suite Médiévale for organ Tiento
 3. Suite Médiévale for organ Improvisation
 4. Suite Médiévale for organ Méditation
 5. Suite Médiévale for organ Acclamations
 6. Meditations (5) on the Apocalypse, for organ 1. Celui qui a des oreilles, qu'il écoute
 7. Meditations (5) on the Apocalypse, for organ 2. It était, Il est et Il vient
 8. Meditations (5) on the Apocalypse, for organ 3. Visions prophétiques
 9. Meditations (5) on the Apocalypse, for organ 4. Oh oui, viens, Seigneur Jésus
10. Meditations (5) on the Apocalypse, for organ 5. La Cinquième Trompette
SPOILER!
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Jean Langlais
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Jean Langlais was born in La Fontenelle (Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany), a small village near Mont St Michel, France. Langlais became blind when he was only two years old, and was sent to study at the National Institute for the Young Blind in Paris, where he began to study the organ. From there, he progressed to the Paris Conservatoire, obtaining prizes in organ, which he studied with Marcel Dupré, composition, which he studied with Paul Dukas, and improvisation, which he studied with André Marchal.

After graduating, he returned to the National Institute for the Young Blind to teach, and also taught at the Schola Cantorum from 1961 to 1976. However, it was as an organist that he made his name, following in the steps of César Franck and Charles Tournemire as Organist Titulaire at the Basilica of Sainte Clotilde in Paris in 1945, a post in which he remained until 1987. He was much in demand as a concert organist, and toured widely across Europe and the United States.

Outside music, Langlais was a colorful and charismatic character, for many years living with both his first wife and his mistress (later to become his second wife), and fathering a child at the age of 73.

Langlais died in Paris aged 84, and was survived by his second wife Marie-Louise Jaquet-Langlais.

Langlais was a prolific composer, composing 254 works with opus numbers, the first of which was his Prelude and Fugue for organ (1927), and the last his Trio (1990), another organ piece. Although best known as a composer of organ music and sacred choral music, he also composed a number of instrumental and chamber works and some secular song settings.

Langlais's music is written in a late, free tonal style, representative of mid-twentieth-century French music, with rich and complex harmonies and overlapping modes, more tonal than his contemporary and countryman Olivier Messiaen. His best-known works include his four-part masses, Messe Solenelle, Missa Orbis Factor and Missa Salve Regina, and his Mouvement perpétuel for piano.

His other acclaimed compositions include:

* Hymne d’Actions de Grâces from Three Gregorian Paraphrases
* La Nativité
* Chant Héroïque, Chant de paix, and De profundis from Nine Pieces
* Kyrie from Orbis factor
* Les Rameaux (The Palms)
* Incantation pour un Jour Saint (Incantation for Easter)
* Suite Breve
* Suite Medievale
* Trois Méditations sur la Sainte Trinité

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