41. Marie-Claire Alain In Conversation - The Organ MarieClaire Alain has just released her third complete recording of the organ music of J. S. Bach. Martin Anderson asked her why. From someone else it might seem like hubris. http://www.theorganmag.com/articles/alain.html

Web www.theorganmag.com Marie-Claire Alain: Back to Bach Home News Current news News archive ... Policy Statement Marie-Claire Alain has just released her third complete recording of the organ music of J. S. Bach. Martin Anderson asked her why. From someone else it might seem like hubris. Three recordings of the complete Bach organ music from the same musician? Marie-Claire Alain who in any case is the least self-important of women see no reason to apologise. "It's because of the instruments, the instruments above everything else, and the fine state to which they have been restored and the fact that they are now accessible. These recordings uses instruments from Bach's time, and we know that Bach even played some of them it's an extraordinary feeling, to put your hands on the keyboard, knowing that he was there 250 years before you! Rötha, for instance, which is ten kilometres from Leipzig, was a very prestigious place, and Bach certainly went there; Mendelssohn used to go there frequently, too." It is obviously from the presentation of Erato's splendid set that the instruments themselves have been a driving force in the project: they adorn the box, the jewel case, the discs themselves all beautifully designed. Silbermann organs seem to have a very prominent position in the new Bach cycle.

42. Jehan Alain- Bio, Albums, Pictures – Naxos Classical Music. Biography and work for Jehan Alain, Listen to classical music and albums or compositions by Jehan Alain online http://www.naxos.com/person/Jehan_Alain/23996.htm

^ Back to Top ^ Back to Discography The World's Leading Classical Music Group Email Password Not a subscriber yet? Keyword Search in All Albums Biographies Reviews New Releases Artists Composers Labels ... Classical Music Home JEHAN ALAIN Jehan Alain has been called the Grigny of the twentieth century. Fate granted very little time to an artist who died prematurely at the very beginning of the Second World War at the age of twenty-nine, but what richness there is, what maturity in a body of work that includes some 120 compositions written between 1929 and 1939. Jehan Alain was not only an organ composer, as his vocal works, chamber music and piano compositions show, but it remains true that he dedicated to this instrument the most essential elements of his genius. This is not surprising when we remember the origins of the composer and the context in which he came to music. Like Debussy, Alain was born at saint-Germain-en-Laye, on 3 February 1911, into the family of the organist and composer Albert Alain. Equally enthusiastic as an organ-builder, Albert Alain had built in the family living-room an instrument that must have influenced the musical taste of his eldest son, as did the long hours he spent by the side of his father at the organ of the Church of saint-Germain or at the piano of his maternal grandmother, Alice Alberty, an excellent amateur musician who had once studied with a pupil of Chopin. Having quickly understood his son's inclination to music, Albert Alain provided him with the first foundation of the art, before making him take piano lessons with Auguste Pierson, organist of saint-Louis at Versailles.

43. Photos 1 Repertoire. Includes works by Alain, Jehan Albright, William Bach, Johann Sebastian Bates, William H. B dard, Denis Bo llmann, L on B hm, Georg Bolcom, William http://brendaportman.com/rep.html

Repertoire Includes works by: Alain, Jehan Albright, William Bach, Johann Sebastian Bates, William H. Bédard, Denis Boëllmann, Léon Böhm, Georg Bolcom, William Brahms, Johannes Bridge, Frank Bruhns, Nikolaus Buxtehude, Dieterich Callaerts, Joseph Carter, Andrew Childs, Edwin T. Couperin, François Dandrieu, Jean-François Daquin, Louis-Claude Decker, Pamela Diemer, Emma Lou Dubois, Théodore Dupré, Marcel Duruflé, Maurice Farnam, Lynnwood Fletcher, Percy Fleury, André Franck, César Gawthrop, Daniel Gigout, Eugène Guilmant, Félix-Alexandre Hailstork, Adolphus Heywood, Thomas Hovhaness, Alan Jongen, Joseph Karg-Elert, Sigfrid Langlais, Jean Leighton, Kenneth Lemmens, Jacques-Nicolas Liszt, Franz Litaize, Gaston Locklair, Dan Lübeck, Vincent Mendelssohn, Felix Messiaen, Olivier Mulet, Henri Muffat, Georg Ore, Charles Pachelbel, Johann Parry, C. Hubert H. Paine, John Knowles Peeters, Flor Persichetti, Vincent Phillips, Craig Preston, Simon Purcell, Henry Reger, Max Rheinberger, Josef Rorem, Ned Rutter, John Saint-Saëns, Camille

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