Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)/Marcel Dupré (1886-1971)
Sinfonia, extrait de "Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir", BWV 29

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)/Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
Sicilienne, extrait de la Sonate pour flûte et clavecin, BWV 1031

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)/Marcel Dupré (1886-1971)
Prélude en si majeur, op. 35 n° 6

Paul Dukas (1865-1935)/Marcel Dupré (1886-1971)
L'apprenti sorcier

Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)/Louis Robilliard (1939-)
Extraits de "Pélleas et Mélisandre", op. 80

Alexandre Borodin (1833-1887)/Marcel Dupré (1886-1971)
Dans les steppes de l'Asie centrale

Serge Prokofiev (1891-1953)/Jean-Paul Imbert (1942-)
Montagues et Capulets, extrait de "Roméo et Juliette"

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)/Jean-Léon Roques (1839-1923)
Première Arabesque
Deuxième Arabesque

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)/Marcel Dupré (1886-1971)
Variations sur la Cantate "Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen"

Tobias Frank, orgue (Orgue Karl-Schuke de la Philharmonie du Luxembourg)

Orchestrating at the organ’ — Marcel Dupré, one of the legendary personalities in the hall of fame of organ virtuosos, gave birth to this idea. And when twentieth-century virtuosos were underwhelmed by the 88 keys and three pedals that had been used by Franz Liszt, they needed a real cockpit. The console that Dupré created at his four-manual private organ in 1943 makes even captain Nemo’s imaginary console in Walt Disney’s Nautilus (20000 Leagues under the Sea) look rather minimal. The young German organist Tobias Frank presents a kaleidoscopic programme that overflows with energy and features transcriptions by prominent figures of the French organ tradition, recorded at the luxuriously furnished four-manual organ at the Philharmonie Luxembourg (Karl Schuke organ builders, Berlin). Among other works, the disc includes Marcel Dupré’s transcriptions of Johann Sebastian Bach’s ‘Sinfonia’ from the cantata ‘Wir danken dir Gott, wir danken dir’, of Alexander Borodin’s ‘Dans les steppes de l’Asie centrale’, and Jean-Paul Imbert’s ‘Montagues et Capulets’ from Sergei Prokofiev’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’. At times profound and magnificently opulent, at others sensitive and restrained: a spell-binding experience!