Recorded on the 1964 Casavant Organ in the parish church of St-Pascal de Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada

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Recorded on the 1964 Casavant Organ in the parish church of St-Pascal de Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada

Recorded on the 1964 Casavant Organ in the parish church of St-Pascal de Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada

Recorded on the 1964 Casavant Organ in the parish church of St-Pascal de Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada

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20th CENTURY After having freed itself from the heavy hand of opera, Italian organ music became impregnated toward the end of the 19th century with the fascinating universe of timbres offered by newly conceived instruments. The memorable classic approach to organ-building which had reigned on the peninsula up to that time became alchemically fused with diverse phonic characteristics of other European schools (particular the French school), resulting in innovative sound machines which were the creative work of accomplished artisans...

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Recorded on the 1964 Casavant Organ in the parish church of St-Pascal de Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada

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19th CENTURY Collecting and ordering this anthology of pastorales has been like embarking on a journey–by carriage, of course–through the provinces of nineteenth-century Italy. In the background, churches and theatres blend to create an unmistakable landscape of sound, a summary of images evoking this period of Italian organ music...

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Recorded on the 1964 Casavant Organ in the parish church of St-Pascal de Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada

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17th and 18th CENTURY The organ "pastorale", a characteristic presence at Christmastime, developed as a genre intended to evoke and imitate the repertoire of the zampogne or Italian bagpipes. This intentional imitation, evident in the ostinato repetition of short melodic formulas and in the rocking rhythms of a lullaby, is highlighted in the masterful "Capriccio fatto sopra la Pastorale" (from the Toccate d’intavolatura di cimbalo et organo, libro I, Rome 1637) by Girolamo Frescobaldi, the oldest known composition for organ explicitly denoted as a "Pastorale"...

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The present installment of Arturo Sacchetti's encyclopedic Organ History survey for Arts Music drops anchor in late-19th/early-20th-century France. It can be argued that the five instrumental sections from Satie's Mass for the Poor that open this recital lose poignancy when shorn of their surrounding vocal movements, although the organ is a perfect instrument for the composer's quirky, instantly identifiable harmonic language...

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I am at present engaged in the translation of a fascinating article about 19th century French organ music by Joris Verdin for publication in the US. Verdin tries in his article to correct some of the 20th century's misunderstandings about 19th century organ culture, attitudes towards the instrument and its music...

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RCA Victor began recording in multichannel five years before the introduction of the first single-groove stereo LPs in l958. They began using two-channel 1/4-inch Ampex decks but soon moved up to three-channel 1/2-inch models as the Mercury Living Presence label had been doing from the start. The idea was to provide the mixing engineers with more flexibility in preparing the final master for production...

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