Elbphilharmonie Sessions | Anna Lapwood - Maurice Duruflé: Prélude et Fugue sur le nom d’Alain

Organist Anna Lapwood with a powerful interpretation of an organ classic by Maurice Duruflé. Find out more ➡️elphi.me/Anna-...
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Anna Lapwood has more than 500,000 followers on TikTok alone and her clips are clicked millions of times. The young Brit is currently one of the most recognisable faces behind the organ. Invitations have taken her to all the world's great organs, and she regularly sits behind the console as an associate artist at London's Royal Albert Hall.
Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986) is one of the great organists of the last century. He played alongside Louis Vierne at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris and toured Europe and North America as a successful concert organist. His few published compositions are now firmly established in the concert repertoire - in particular his »Prélude et Fugue sur le nom d’Alain« (1942). This powerful-sounding and technically demanding composition is an obituary for Jehan Alain, who, like Duruflé, had been an organ student at the Paris Conservatoire and died in the war in 1940.
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[@HDrees]

Mrs Lapwood ist eine Ausnahme Musikerin. Mit welcher Leichtigkeit sie an die schwierigsten stücke heran geht, hat meinen größten Respekt. Es gibt nur wenige Menschen auf dieser Welt die so ein können an den Tag legen. Respekt....!

[@isaac3009]

Sie spielt fantastisch!

[@user-zz8ds8or3k]

Altogether quite impressive, moreover great legato playing where it matters most (2-against-3 movement) in the utterly demanding fugue ... CHAPEAU !!!

[@ulrike-klaus453]

Ein Grund mehr, uns endlich Karten für ein Elphi-Orgelkonzert zu sichern.

[@nicoheinze7984]

I love the sound of organs ever since, but it took Mrs Lapwood to show me what a range of dynamics an organ has to offer. It is simply breathtaking to watch her in her world of organ... well, "playing" is not the right word, she kind of "lives organ playing". That's unbelievable and wonderful. Thank you so much, Mrs. Lapwood, for sharing these moments with us! 👍 And thanks a million to the Elbphilharmonie for having invited her. 😃

[@utubeorchard]

Amazing step up from The Royal Albert Hall Organ & Video Productions

[@jonathanwetherell3609]

The musical glitterball strikes again!

[@sirvon230]

Absolutely amazing! The clarity of sound brings a new dimension of beauty to this stunning piece!!! Thank you Anna!

[@sorreltiger]

Bravo! This is one of my favourite pieces and this is a wonderful performance. One of the keys to it is how the pulse is maintained so well, even in the complex music at the end. Some players lose this, but not Anna!

[@Ohrwurm86]

Just breathtaking! Great piece of art

[@bruss273]

Magnifica come non mai!

[@richardmartin8443]

I love this!

[@harfenspieler]

Fantastic rendition, careful, treating the piece with the utmost respect while conveying its essence with consequence. Bravo!

[@andre26071955]

Excellent performance, BRAVA!

[@habsman1]

Beautiful and Talented... ❤

[@siraly]

Marvellous! Magnificent! Thank you so much! ❤

[@CTForrester]

Again, knocked it out of the park. Thank you, Anna et al.

[@robertstokely6947]

Superb performance of one of the greats of the repertoire.

[@uthink3]

Amazing! Thank you for sharing.

[@patmcdermott4832]

I believe, in a previous video, Anna said the tablet pages were operated by her moving her eyes/head to turn the pages.

[@user-zz8ds8or3k]

Eye-batting: left = back, right = forward

[@zomthierry]

Quelle magnifique salle de concert....comme la notre à la philharmonie de Paris De plus pour l’orgue, il n’y a pas de réverbération

[@user-zz8ds8or3k]

En plus, c´est vrai: l´orgue et la salle rapellent la nouvelle philharmonie de Paris, avec très peu de réverbération

[@isaac3009]

Mein Gott, so eine berühmte Orgelspielerin und Dirigentin, und die Elbphilharmonie schafft es nicht mal den Acryl-Notenhalter sauber zu machen!

[@ulrike-klaus453]

Meckerer und Besserwisser gibts ja immer. Zu albern.

[@Ian-lx3pw]

A wonderful video. Interesting that the French organist and composer, Jehan Alain, is "Johan" in the video description. I wonder if this is normal German usage; it certainly is not correct in French, or English.

[@ElbphilharmonieHamburg]

Something slipped through in the translation - of course »Jehan« is right in all languages!

[@silvionolle]

I'd love to know about the recording and mixing process behind these outstanding performances. Which microphones are used, how many takes in general, what is done in mixing/mastering...

[@user-zz8ds8or3k]

At least the mikes are fixed, you can see them very well in the video hanging from the ceiling, especially when the video is circling around her ... This is common practice in major concert halls and I suppose those in ElPhi are top-notch 🙂

[@ChristopherDazey]

Anna Lapwood is wonderful. The organ is fantastic. The music is amazing. Unfortunately, I had to stop watching and just listen because the constant camera motion is overwhelmingly disorienting and distracting. If there are more of these videos coming, can we please have more static shots in the mix in the future?

[@user-zz8ds8or3k]

Could not agree more, camera motion is highly exagerrated in this video and only distracts from the fine performance, such a pity ...

[@marcom.]

Mich würde interessieren, wie lange sich Anna in diese Orgel einarbeiten musste. Jedes Instrument ist doch ein Unikat mit vielen Eigenheiten, oder?

[@jonnypiotr2570]

Ja, jede Orgel ist anders. Wenn man z. B. an die großen Kathedralorgeln in Paris, Köln etc. denkt, gibt es dort nochmal mehr register. Ich denke, in der elphi findet sich die Organistin, der Organist relativ gut zurecht. Es ist ein überschaubares Instrument, jedoch in einem ungewöhnlichen Konzertsaal.

[@heikopiano]

In einem Short Video sagte sie, dass sie 6h Einarbeitung benötigte.

[@user-zz8ds8or3k]

Für jeden der sich an größere Orgeln wie diese gewohnt hat reichen ein paar Stunden: hier betrifft es eine sehr moderne Orgel mit allen möglichen digitalen Spielhilfen die es den Organisten sehr viel erleichtern, ihr Konzertprogramm vorzubereiten

[@MarcovanderKolk]

Great light effects, which really add to the performance! Does the organ this by itself or was a light engineer involved?

[@ElbphilharmonieHamburg]

The organ can theoretically do this itself. But in this case, it was done manually.

[@user-zz8ds8or3k]

@MarcovanderKolk Software that makes light react to sound is already old-hat these days, however in several shots one can notice that the control room at the far back of the hall is illuminated: this probably means that (apart from others, also) the light technician (featured in the end titles and most likely sitting in that very same control room) was hard at work during the recording of this video 🙂

[@AndreasHelberg]

Viele Grüße aus dem Schwarzwald ❤

[@gudrunasche9124]

Ich wünschte, daß das Bild sich nicht immer drehen würde. Nur weil es geht, muß man es ja nicht machen. Hin und wieder eine andere Bildeinstellung wäre mir angenehmer.

[@isaac3009]

@@P.Atreides Einmal mit Profis...

[@isaac3009]

Vermutlich gab's zu Weihnachten eine Drohne?

[@bubffm]

Und nun endlich richtige Musik nach dem Einaudi-Gedudel. ❤

[@stephenking7726]

One of my favorite pieces and a great performance. But, I really want to know about using the tablet for organ music. How do you control the page turns? What hardware/software do you use? I'm tired of trying to find creative ways to fit all my music on the stand!

[@marcom.]

Maybe the scoring software turns the pages automatically. It could listen to the performance through the built-in microphone.

[@stephenking7726]

@marcom. That would certainly be nice if it could, but that seems a bit unlikely considering repetitive pieces would be prone to error. I'm guessing it's either a pedal or a quick tap on the screen, but in some organ pieces, that would still be difficult. This piece, for example, would be difficult even with a pedal. Doable, but difficult.

[@MarcovanderKolk]

​​@@stephenking7726ForScore on iPad is what she uses. It recognizes "smirks" and "head turn" from the camera. But it also allows foot pistons for pageturns connected via BlueTooth

[@eliastaglang]

She uses forscore and you can turn the pages with facial gestures as moving your mouth to one side

[@stephenking7726]

@cavaille-coll Interesting! I briefly looked into forScore, but I didn't look closely since I don't generally use Apple products. I may have to look into it further. Thanks for the information!

[@mauriceimhof6774]

Super gespielt aber das Stück passt einfach nicht in die Elbphilharmanie. Dies passt in eine Kirche

[@drbobdrake]

It is one of Ms. Lapwood's favorite pieces to play. Let her decide.