法朗克:聖詠及大管風琴曲 彼得.沙卡里 管風琴 Petur Sakari / Franck - Chorals et Pieces our Grand Orgue

法朗克: 3首聖詠及3首大管風琴曲
彼得.沙卡里 管風琴獨奏
1880年卡伐葉,柯爾製 管風琴

Still in his twenties, Petur Sakari studied in his native Finland and in Paris and made his recording debut at the age of 18. On his previous disc for BIS, he performed works by five French composers, receiving international acclaim with top marks in Diapason as well as on the Klassik-Heute website. For the present disc, Petur has chosen to focus on Cesar Franck, performing the composer's Three Pieces and Three Chorales 'pour grand orgue' on an instrument perfectly suited to the repertoire. Completed in 1880, the great organ in the Sainte-Croix cathedral of Orleans is a major – and well-preserved – example of the art of Aristide Cavaille-Coll, the same maker who had previously built Franck's beloved organ in Sainte-Clotilde in Paris. ('My new organ? It's an orchestra!' was Franck's verdict.) Together the two gave the French organ tradition a new impetus with Franck laying the groundwork for a French symphonic organ style while Cavaille-Coll constructed hundreds of organs capable of producing a sound that was full, homogeneous and modern.

The Trois Pieces, which closes with the famous Piece heroïque, were written for a Cavaille-Coll instrument built for the 1878 World Fair in Paris. Twelve years later, and only weeks before his untimely death, Franck completed the Trois Chorals. The idea of writing organ chorales was inspired by Bach, but Franck composed them 'with quite a different plan': instead of traditional hymns they use an original, freely composed melody which is gradually revealed 'with great imagination', as Franck himself put it in a letter to his publisher. Both the Pieces and especially the Chorales have become central works in the repertoire of concert organists.