VIERNE: COMPLETE ORGAN SYMPHONIES


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"the music is presented with exemplary clarity … Vierne is a more important composer than is often realized and I await the remaining issues in this series with interest." -International Record Review, February 2013

"Ross gives particularly fine accounts of these works … the remarkable clarity of the Audite recording, and the excellence of the booklet notes by Rudiger Heinze and Ross himself, will appeal to many keen to investigate this music … I await the remaining issues in this series with interest." - MusicWeb International, Spring 2013

To commemorate the 75th anniversary of Louis Vierne‘s death, the present recording marks the beginning of Audite‘s 3-part complete recording of the composer‘s 6 Organ Symphonies with organist Hans-Eberhard Roß. Recorded at the Goll organ of St. Martin in Memmingen, the recording is characterised by the warm, soft and widely mensurated sound of the organ. Its sound creates unobtrusive power and fullness, making a symphonic effect in the church interior of St. Martin and yet always remaining clear. The polyphonic structures of the works become distinct and the transparency of sound permits fresher tempi than usual – neither of which can normally be taken for granted with recordings of Vierne. The French composer, organist and instrumental pedagogue Louis Victor Jules Vierne was extremely talented and ambitious, but nearly blind. His reaction to virtuoso organ playing, such as that of César Franck, was characterised by bliss and suffering, joy and fear. He studied in Paris with Charles-Marie Widor, who had founded the genre of the organ symphony.

In 1894 Vierne, at the age of only 23, was allowed to represent his teacher in two functions, so that a future full of hope lay before him: at the organ console of the Church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris and in Widor‘s organ class at the Conservatory. But Vierne felt destined for higher things: in 1899 and 1903 he composed the first two (of a total of six) Organ Symphonies that were to lend the genre an unprecedented richness of timbres, mysticism and cyclic architecture. It is with these two works, written during comparatively happy years, that the Audite cycle begins. It will continue with Organ Symphonies 3 and 4, which were written when their creator was established as organist of Notre-Dame – as well as Nos. 5 and 6, when Vierne enjoyed international successes whilst his life became increasingly tragic. Hans-Eberhard Roß is Director of Church Music in Memmingen. He has already made an internationally successful recording for Audite of the complete organ works of César Franck.