Maxine ThÃ©venot plays the famous Skinner organ at Girard College Chapel in Philadelphia. The organ is the last great instrument built in a superb acoustical space directly under the supervision of

L'orgue Magnifique
- Ernest Skinner
- pipe organ
- Vierne
- Maxine Thevenot
Maxine ThÃ©venot plays the famous Skinner organ at Girard College Chapel in Philadelphia. The organ is the last great instrument built in a superb acoustical space directly under the supervision of Ernest M. Skinner to remain intact, a monument to Skinner's late tonal evolution under the challenge of by-then rival G. Donald Harrison. For this CD, recording engineer Ed Kelly, aided by Mark Willey, recreated and expanded upon the technique Kelly used to create Raven's earlier, landmark recording on the Girard College organ of The Planets by Gustav Holst as transcribed and played by Peter Sykes. The CD booklet includes an explanation by Jonathan Ambrosino of the organ's and building's creation, and an excellent essay on the music by David Gammie.

An admirer of Skinner organs, Vierne wrote to Ernest Skinner in March, 1928, following an American concert tour, "Not a day passes that I don't dream about your magnificent instruments that I played over there; their marvelous touch, their fine tone, their perfect and sensitive action haunt me... I also very often recall the visit to your factory in Boston; what I saw there sends me into rapture..."

LOUIS VIERNE (1870-1937): Symphony No. 3 in F-sharp minor, Op. 28
LOUIS VIERNE: MÃ©ditation (Trois Improvisations)
LOUIS VIERNE: StÃ¨le pour un enfant dÃ©funt (Triptyque, Op. 58)
LOUIS VIERNE: Sur le Rhin (PiÃ¨ces de fantaisie, Op. 54)
MARTIN STACEY (b. 1975): Totentanz (Hommage Ã Petr Eben)*
JEANNE LANDRY (b. 1922): Hesychia*
JOHN BURGE (b. 1961): Dance*
*first recording
Country USA
Brand Zach Top
Manufacturer Raven Records
Binding Audio CD
ReleaseDate 2009-06-09
UnitCount 1
UPCs 034069690926
EANs 0034069690926

Country	USA
Brand	Zach Top
Manufacturer	Raven Records
Binding	Audio CD
ReleaseDate	2009-06-09
UnitCount	1
UPCs	034069690926
EANs	0034069690926

L'orgue Magnifique

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