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The name of Louis Vierne (1870-1937) will be associated with organ music immediately. As did quite a few other 19th-century organists/composers he used the instrument as a means to perform ‘symphonic’ music. The scope in this respect was greatly enhanced by the new organs built at the time, for instance by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll. Composer: Louis Vierne Artists: Hayo Boerema Online purchase or streaming (Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, Deezer): https://www.linkfire.com/ More Information: https://www.brilliantclassics.com/articles/v/vierne-complete-organ-symphonies/ Some years before graduating from the Paris Conservatoire with a coveted first prize in 1894, Louis Vierne was serving as an assistant to his teacher, Charles Widor, both at the Conservatoire itself and at the Church of Saint-Sulpice. Both in teaching and composing he upheld and developed the heritage of the French organ school, which was maintained by his students such as Henri Mulet, Marcel Dupré and Nadia Boulanger. In 1900 he won the most coveted post of all as titulaire at Notre-Dame, placing him in charge of the instrument which had already attained iconic significance as the masterpiece of its designer and builder, Aristide Cavaillé-Coll. In developing beyond Franck and Widor the genre of the symphony for solo organ with the superb sextet of works recorded here, Vierne was inspired by the orchestrally conceived instruments of Cavaillé-Coll. He created whole new families of stops and voicing and coupling mechanisms that allowed an organ to imitate virtually every instrument of the orchestra. This enabled composers to write for the organ as if it were a symphony orchestra. Vierne’s six symphonies attracted admiration from the unlikely quarter of Debussy, and they exercised a formative influence on the young Messiaen. All six symphonies are cast in minor tonalities, with an expressive key signature of cavernous Gothic gloom periodically illuminated, especially in the finales, by brilliant shafts of light, and by flowing currents of melody in the gentler Andante movements, swirling like incense in the heavy air. Hayo Boerema recorded this newly released set of the complete symphonies on the superb Marcussen-built organ at the main church in Rotterdam, the Laurenskerk, where he has been organist since 2005. In 2009 he received the silver medal from the Société Académique des Arts, Sciences et Lettres in Paris in recognition of his achievements in performing and promoting the masterpieces of the French Organ School. Tracklist: Symphony No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 14: 0:00:00 I. Prélude 0:08:31 II. Fugue 0:13:45 III. Pastorale 0:21:05 IV. Allegro vivace 0:25:45 V. Andante 0:32:40 VI. Final Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 20: 0:39:22 I. Allegro 0:47:00 II. Choral 0:54:59 III. Scherzo 0:59:07 IV. Cantabile 1:06:46 V. Final Symphony No. 3 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 28: 1:14:53 I. Allegro maestoso 1:22:00 II. Cantilène 1:27:56 III. Intermezzo 1:32:14 IV. Adagio 1:39:54 V. Final Symphony No. 5 in A Minor, Op. 47: 1:46:15 I. Grave 1:54:19 II. Allgro molto marcato 2:03:19 III. Scherzo 2:08:23 IV. Larghetto 2:19:48 V. Final Symphony No. 4 in G Minor, Op. 32: 2:30:50 I. Prélude 2:37:28 II. Allegro 2:43:26 III. Menuet 2:51:32 IV. Romance 3:00:58 V. Final Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 59: 3:07:03 I. Introduction allegro 3:16:18 II. Aria 3:23:20 III. Scherzo 3:27:53 IV. Adagio 3:37:03 V. Final Social media links: Instagram: https://www.linkfire.com/ Facebook: https://www.linkfire.com/ TikTok: https://www.linkfire.com/ Spotify Playlists: Brilliant Classics Spotify: https://www.linkfire.com/ New Classical Releases: https://www.linkfire.com/ The Best of Liszt: https://www.linkfire.com/ The Best of Bach: https://www.linkfire.com/ Most Popular Piano Music: https://www.linkfire.com/ Beautiful Classical Music: https://www.linkfire.com/ Classical Music For Dinnertime: https://www.linkfire.com/ Thank you for watching this video by Brilliant Classics, we hope you enjoyed it! Don’t forget to share it and subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.linkfire.com/ And visit our channel for the best classical music from the greatest composers like: Bach, Satie, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Chopin, Haydn, Ravel, Debussy, Verdi, Vivaldi, Handel, Brahms, Liszt, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff, Wagner, Strauss, Handel, Dvorak and many more! We upload complete albums, music for relaxing, working, studying, meditating, concentrating, instrumental music, opera, violin, classical piano music, sonatas and more!