Category Archives: Organist

Thierry Escaich

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Thierry Escaich © François GibelliOfficial website:
http://www.escaich.org/en/

YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/escaichthierry
 You can also hear him on Spotify.
Thierry Escaich has been organist at Saint-Étienne-du-Mont in Paris since 1997, having succeeded Maurice Duruflé.


Recordings:

Thierry Escaich: Organ Spectacular (Improvisations)


Souvenirs de l’opus 26 Live
Includes repertoire and improvisations


Thierry Escaich : Esquisses (feat. Eric Aubier, Ensemble Vocal Soli Tutti)
Includes compositions by Escaich for organ, choir, and trumpet with organ. The recording begins and concludes with improvisations.


Escaich: Le Dernier Evangile
This recording contains a work for chorus, organ and orchestra by Escaich and four improvisations.


Escaich: Live Improvisations
Thierry Escaich: Improvisations
Only available as used through Amazon.com. This recording contains fur suites of improvisations for Chirstmas, Holy Week, Pentecost and Assumption. Recorded on the Daniel Birouste organ at St. Pierre de Chaillot in Paris.
There is an earlier release on the same record label where Escaich improvises and plays some of his own compositions at St. Germain-des-Prés in Paris.

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Thierry Escaich
Le Chemin de la Croix, improvisations.
Thierry Escaich, organ. Georges Wilson, récitant (textes de Paul Claudel). Recorded at the Cathedral of Laon, 16 – 17 March 2000. Disque Caliope, 2000, CAL 9523.


Hommage à Pierre Cochereau
Improvisations by George Baker, David Briggs, Thierry Escaich and Loïc Mallié.


Duruflé: Works for Organ & Choir
This recording contains choral works of Maurice Duruflé, along with the Suite, op 5, and improvisations by Thierry Escaich.


Unlimited! (Music for Trumpet and Organ)
While both discs contain music for trumpet and organ, the second also includes several improvisations by Escaich alone.
Videos:
Improvisation sur un texte de saint Paul
Thierry Escaich Improv sur le “Chemin de la Croix” de Claudel – Notre Dame de Paris

Pierre Cochereau

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cochereauPierre Cochereau was organist at the Cathedral of Notre Dame from 1955 until 1984.
Full bio. You can hear him on Spotify.

Many of his improvisations have been transcribed by David Briggs, François Lombard, and a few others and are now available in print through Editions Chantraine.


Recordings:

Cochereau: Improvise sur des Noëls


Cochereau: Improvise en concert à Notre-Dame de Paris


Cochereau: 2 Symphonies improvisées à Notre-Dame de Paris


Cochereau: L’Organiste liturgique


Cochereau: L’Art de l’improvisation


Improvisations sur les thèmes de Pâques


Cochereau, la Légende


Cochereau: Deux grandes Improvisations en concert à Notre-Dame de Paris


Cochereau: Un Testament musical


Les Offices du dimanche à Notre-Dame de Paris


Pierre Cochereau – l’organiste de Notre-Dame


L’art de la Variation – improvisations


Cochereau Joue Cochereau Improvisions 1


Pierre Cochereau – Les Incunables (1955-56)


Pierre Cochereau – 12 improvisations inedites


Pierre Cochereau at Saint Thomas NYC

Videos:
Pierre Cochereau – Sortie – Notre Dame – Audio only

David Briggs

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DavidBriggsDavid Briggs is organist at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. Previously he served as Artist in Residence at St. James Cathedral, Toronto.
Complete bio.

David Briggs has a YouTube Channel. You can also hear him on Spotify.


Recordings:

Sounds French – David Briggs Plays the Organ of Blackburn Cathedral
Includes an improvised symphony by David Briggs as well as two improvisations by Pierre Cochereau transcribed and played by David Briggs.


Sounds Artistic
Includes an improvised suite of dances and Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky.


Organ Spectacular
Includes improvised Prelude, Adagio and Chorale Variations on Ein Feste Burg.


Briggs: Mass for Notre Dame
In addition to the choral music of David Briggs sung by the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge under the direction of Stephen Layton, David Briggs improvised other parts of the traditional mass when the organ would play without the choir singing.


Hommage à Pierre Cochereau
Improvisations by George Baker, David Briggs, Thierry Escaich and Loïc Mallié.

Videos:
Fugue at St. Sulpice
Sortie at St. Sulpice
Offertoire at St. Sulpice
Sarabande Improvisée – St Wenzelkirche, Naumburg

Justin Bischof

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Justin Bischof

Website:
http://justinbischof.com/
Organist, conductor, pianist, coach, producer, educator, and composer Justin Bischof won first prize in the 2000 American Guild of Organists National Improvisation Competition held in Seattle. He received a doctor of musical arts degree from the Manhattan School of Music in 1998 where he studied with McNeil Robinson.

Justin has his own channel at YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ethrec324