Alexandre Guilmant - Marche sur "Lift up your Heads" op. 15

[@jmdujardin]

grande performance, au service d'une composition somptueuse d'Alexandre Guilmant, que j'apprécie énormément. Et cet orgue s'y prête bien. Grand merci à vous !

[@jmdujardin]

je reécoute, avec très grand plaisir, je ne me lasse pas. Merci, c'est grandiose et magnifique.

[@53651171]

Love your playing and Your beautiful hands! Thank you for sharing this exquisite piece, played from your Italian heart, written by a Frenchman, based on a German‘s tune, who composed it in England! Thank you, Massimo, I’m your fan!

[@nikolasbolognesi9500]

Suonata divinamente bravissimo Massimo!

[@samshearman5251]

Beautiful piece played very well!

[@CarlBowlby]

Great, great performance! Especially with the ‘Meno Mosso’ section, and the very difficult pedaling part with all those sixteenth notes. I haven’t attempted to play it myself yet, though I have the score. It seems daunting. However, I must at least try it and see if it’s easier than it looks on the page. Reminds me a bit of Franck, but not quite so many notes in the chords like in this Guilmant version. Great job!

[@marknightingale4530]

brilliant

[@projectorgans7338]

I want to share with anyone reading my thougths about this piece: Guilmant did not write this. In my opinion this score is a modified american edited version of the original piece. In fact, the are too many difficult passages (which are unusual for Guimant, who is really careful to make the organ sound properly), there are many pedal octave doublings and gigantic chords which do not add a single interesting note to the harmony (again, unusual for Guilmant and showing more pianist than organistic writing). Plus, I found an american edition of Guilmant's Sonate 1 and at the beginning the pedal notes are doubled (while the author wrote them single in the french edition). Concluding: I think that someone this added many (too many) notes to this piece while editing to make it more difficult and more demanding. And, in the meanwhile, less suitable for french organs (because very high notes both for pedals -F4- and keyboards -G6-)! That's it...

[@davebarclay4429]

If you are pointing the finger at Dr William Carl, who was Guilmant's American editor, it is highly improbable that he would have made significant editorial changes to Guilmant's music without the latter's knowledge and agreement. Carl studied with Guilmant in Paris, they became lifelong friends (Guilmant's son, a professional artist, even painted Carl's portrait!) and Carl founded the Guilmant Organ School at First Presbyterian Church NYC. You may well be right about the differences between the French and American editions of some of Guilmant's organ music but it is almost inconceivable that any editorial alterations by Carl weren't sanctioned by Guilmant himself.

[@michelsauzier1144]

who cares ?! This site is about music, not musicology...