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|  NEW! Dupuy (1707-1789), of Toulouse and Saint-Sernin, copied several of his works, thus preserving them, into a manuscript known as Recueil Marcorelles, from which these first performances in 250 years are recorded by the Viva Voce vocal and instrumental ensemble (including organ) directed by Georges Lartigau. The works are Psaume Domine Dominus, noster a Messe, and Motet Exurge Domine | |
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 | | NEW! With the exceptions of Charpentier and Lully, Michel Chapuis plays a program essentially devoted to composers who were also organists at the chapel in Versailles, on the organ that they played: the 1710 Robert Clicquot 4-59, restored in 1995. |
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|  NEW! Bedos Organ Restored! Legendary organist Gustav Leonhardt plays the organ built by Dom Bedos (author of the great book describing 18th Century organ building) at Sainte-Croix in Bordeaux 1748-56. Leonhardt supported its return to Sainte-Croix and restoration as related in the excellent booklet. works by Couperin, Marchand, Muffat, Blow, Fischer, and Kerckhoven. Click ikon for repertoire. | |
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 | | NEW! Champion of historic organs and early music, Michel Chapuis plays the organ in the abbey church of Sainte-Croix in Bordeaux as built by the Benedictine monk Dom Bedos in 1748 and restored and reconstituted from 1985 to 1997 by Pascal Quoirin and his co-workers. Ekaterina Fedorova Colin, soprano, sings the versets for the liturgical suites. Click Picture for Details & to Order |
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 | | NEW! The organ and the church of Saint-Roch, where Balbastre was titulaire 1756-1799, are the venue for this recording by Francoise Levechin-Gangloff of 18 works by Balbastre (1727-1799), who also played for annual 3-month stints at Notre-Dame Cathedral. The works recorded here are not the beloved No�ls, but other works that deserve a hearing. So popular was his playing that he is sometimes credited with creating the organ recital. Click Picture for Details & to Order |
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|  NEW! Michel Chapuis, organ and champion of historic organs and early music, is joined by Ekaterina Fedorova Colin, soprano, for a program which includes Burgundian no�ls, presented here for the first time with texts. The organ, dating from 1768, is a marvelous instrument, almost miraculously preserved as built in this town of Saint-Jean-de-Losne along the Burgundian Canal. Chapuis first recorded it 40 years ago. Click Picture for Details & to Order | |
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 | | In a unique project, organist Michel Chapuis has made three separate CDs, each devoted to one of the three styles for which the 1754 Riepp organ at Dole in France is well suited, especially following modest enlargment in 1787. Click the picture for descriptions of each CD and to order. |
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 | |  NEW! This celebration of the glories of the French baroque and especially works composed in memory of Jean-Baptiste Lully (originally Giambattista Lulli, b. 1632 in Florence, Italy, d. 1687 Paris) explores the gamut from glorious pomp, melancholy softness, to refined mystery on the Isnard organ (1774) at Saint Maximin with the fine playing of Philippe Bardon. The works by Charles Piroye (1668?-1712?), a student of Lully and lifelong organist, are his complete output for organ, including works recently located by Paul Bardon. Click on the headline for more information and to order. |
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 | |  NEW! On the 1797 Henri Clicquot organ at the cathedral in Poitiers, France, Jean-Baptiste Robin (b. 1976, Paris) plays spectacularly. He was appointed titulaire at Poitiers at age 23, having studied with Louis Robillard, Odile Bailleux, Marie-Claire Alain, Michel Bouvard, and Olivier Latry. Click on the headline for more information and to order. |
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|  A Mass, Te Deum, Hymn Iste Confessor, Magnificat for the birth of St. John the Baptist, Motet Exultate Deo, Responses Venient and Manus Meas Marchand at St. Maximin The glorious 1775 Isnard 4m, exquisitely restored by Yves Cobourdin over four years ending in 1995, becomes the ideal vehicle for the informed and informing performance by Bernard Coudurier and his associates as recorded on this brand new 2-CD set. Their fascinating assembly of these pieces into a likely contemporary liturgical context, alternating with plainchant, and freely selecting parts from the five books of music left to us by Louis Marchand, brings a generous vitality so absent from other presentations of these works. A serpent appears occasionally as well. The fine CD booklet discusses the chant text selected, the organ, the works, the life of Louis Marchand, and more. This first class production is a delight. | |
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 | |  NEW! Kimberly Marshall plays some of Bach�s popular pieces juxtaposed with works by French composers which Bach studied. The organ is the Fisk at Stanford University, which was inspired by organs that Bach would have played. The Fisk is also unique in that it incorporates two different tuning temperaments, both of which are heard on this recording. Click Picture for Details & to Order |
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|  NEW! Bruno Morin plays the famous Clicquot organ in the Cathedral at Poitiers to present this music of pageantry. Boyvin Suites on the 2nd, 3rd, and 7th tones; the Lully pieces are transcribed for organ: Cacone de Galat�e and Passacaille d'Armide. | |
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| What music was played on the great Clicquot organ when it was erected in Souvigny in 1783? Found in the gallery there is the score by Jacques-Marie Charpentier (1766-1834), thus providing part of the answer. It is also likely that his father�s music (Jean-Jacques, 1734-1794) was also played. A discussion of this enlightens this most enjoyable, often jaunty, organ music played by organist Jean-Luc Perrot with percussions. The Mass is sung by La Chapelle St-Jean-Baptiste de Lyon directed by Jean-Fran�ois Duchamp. The wonderful organ at Souvigny is beautifully recorded. Click picture for list of works | |
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 | | NEW! Andr� Isoir plays the Lorris organ in G�tinais to celebrate its 500th anniversary in a program of early and Renaissance works. This legendary organist plays this repertoire with great joy and style. Click picture for repertoire |
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 | | NEW! Organist St�phane B�chy plays the 1739 Parizot organ at the Church of St-R�my of Dieppe, exploring unpublished music composed by Michel Corrette at the end of the 18th century and still entrenched in the traditions of the �Grand Si�cle.� |
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 | |  NEW! The 1981 Alfred Kern swallow�s nest organ includes pipes from the Silbermann organ and other previous builders. Marc Baumann plays early French works and later French pieces as well. Click picture for repertoire |
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| The Dom Bedos Organ at Sainte-Croix Abbey in Bordeaux, dating from the mid-1700s, was restored in the mid-1980s after many years of neglect. In a story as complicated as French political history, the organ was moved from its original home at Sainte-Croix after the Revolution and eventually came back home after a tenure at the cathedral in Bordeaux. Francis Chapelet plays French music of the period on the restored organ. Click headline for repertoire | |
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 | | NEW! Renowned master of early French organ music Andr� Isoir plays all of the organ music of Nicholas DeGrigny on the ideal and historic French classical organs by Clicquot at Poitiers and by Isnard at St. Maximin-en-Provence. Click Picture for Details & to Order |
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 | | Nicolas de Grigny published in 1699 a mass and hymns for major feasts of the church year. Bernard Coudurier records them on a superb and large period instrument. |
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 | |  Couperin Mass for the Parishes and Mass for the Convents; Guilain Suites on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd tones are played on the 1736 Moucherel organ at Albi by Bernard Coudurier. |
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|  Existing by 1683 in the abbey church of the town of La Chaise-Dieu along the Loire river in France, this organ played for all of the 1700s and was enlarged at least twice during that century. It was silenced during the Revolution and remained so until 1976! Restored in 1995 by Michel Garnier with new mechanism and mostly new pipes built on Clicquot models, the organ sounds fabulously successful on this superb CD showcasing the remarkable artistry of Jean Luc Perrot (born 1959) who plays works by Jean-Nicolas Geoffroy (1633-1694) which have been arranged into an appealing Suite, an overture by DeGrigny, and his own works in French Classic style: ten Versets altern�s sur la Messe �Orbis Factor,� and Suite � 4 mains pour l�orgue dans le style fran�ais wherein Georges Lartigau lends two hands. Also recorded are four Versets sur l�Ave Maris Stella composed anonymously in the early 19th century. | |
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 | |  The 4-68 organ in pure French Classic style completed in 1991 by Guilbault-Th�rien of St. Hyacinthe, Quebec was a great hit of the 1999 OHS National Convention in Montreal, especially as it was played by Yves-G. Pr�fontaine, who plays period music on this CD. |
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| 17th & 18th Century France Yves Cuenot plays period literature on the 1789 Callinet organ at Notre-Dame d'Auxonne | |
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| Robert F. Bates Plays"> Recorded at Stanford University on the fine, dual-temperament, C. B. Fisk organ of 1984. | |
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| This 2-CD set features music contemporary with Clicqout whose organ from 1783 at St. Mark of Sourvignyin Alliers, France, is almost unaltered. The second CD contains a work by Guy Bovet commissioned for the Souvigny organ. Thilo Muster (a fine Bovet student) is organist. | |
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